Recent content by Popish Frenzy

Was thinking about the never ending wide vs tall debate and it occurred to me that one way to differentiate between the two would be to have a tech and civic propagation mechanic. Once a tech or civic is researched it would spread like a pantheon/religion across your empire from the city of...

The Hakkapeliitta (and most cavalry of the period really) also fought like this, firing their pistols as they charged the enemy. Remember being disappointed the unit in the game didnt reflect this, its even described as 'ranged then melee' in its civlopedia entry :) hmm, I wonder if the pistol...

Yeah, cavalry represents the mounted infantry of the late 19th century (notwithstanding that they fire from horseback) specifically american civil war era which is an odd choice historically but i guess is there to appeal to the US market. Lancer again is strange pick as they only saw a brief...

The new 'WW2 Infantry' in Gods and Kings should be called Motorised Infantry and have a movement of 3. Its movement animation could be a convoy of military trucks while its attack animation would be as normal (Panzer General did something similar). This would fit neatly as one of the key changes...

Actually one of the features ive missed most from civ 4, it gave the game a feeling of scope and grandeur that i think civ 5 sorely lacks. It was only UI feature i know but civ 5 just feels like playing on a map while civ 4 felt like playing on an actual world. I hope they expand on it in an...

From what ive read in previous threads, Darius is speaking aramaic which was the lingua franca of the Achaemenid Empire and the language that Darius himself spoke. Of course that still leaves open the debate about whether its better to be authentic or representative with the leader languages. I...

Maybe there's a way of determining which files the steam patch updates and then just putting those on a usb and overwriting them into the civ directory. Also if thats possible, someone with civ 5 could potentially send him the files in an email or some such.

If you have civ 4 installed you can copy the leonard nimoy sound files into assets/sounds/speech/english of civ5. It worked for me in the demo so i'm assuming it'll work the same in the full game. You'll also have to rename or move the Morgan Sheppard sound files and then rename the nemoy one's...

Actually hadnt looked at the lancer's picture properly, had assumed they represented renaissance cavalry like the Gendarme whose armour was pretty much immune to longbow fire. But in any case wasnt thinking clearly since anti_strunt was actually talking about the stakes longbowmen planted in the...

Not to worry, I didnt think you were being arrogant. I agree fans which place high demands on realism should probably not expect a mainstream game like civ to cater to them out of the box. Moding and slightly nicher games like EU are their best hope. But even so I dont think they shouldn't be...

To clarify my position. I think that a lot of the time when you have a thread on these forums arguing that such and such feature/ability/unit etc should be made more 'realistic' people tend to interpret the motivation behind that as 'i want civ to be a history simulator' however my impression is...

ooo i like:D..to the Modmobile!

So from your post, its ok to argue 'from a standpoint of what is realistic' so long as you're just using that as shorthand for what breaks your sense of immersion. Now i dont doubt there really are some few people who actually think civ should a 'historical simulator' but i think the reason i...

Well historically firearms replaced bows* for number of reasons but as has already been mentioned, probably most important was that training men to use firearms was significantly cheaper and quicker. Unfortunately in Civ muskets cost the same to recruit as xbows/longbows at 120 hammers, while...

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