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Hello, Civ Fans! I am a student and scholar of Classics (the study of ancient Greek and Roman civilization), as well as a longtime fan of the Civilization series. I've recently published an article on the Classics blog Eidolon about the identity of Alexander and the Macedonians, as portrayed in...

Hey, strange issue came up today: started BNW and the menu text isn't showing up correctly. The buttons just say things like "TEXT_KEY_something" on them. I verified the game cache, and it redownloaded some files, but this did not fix the problem. Note: I did recently move the game files from...

After reading a few threads about the possibility of going Piety as a first policy, I played about 40 turns with the Mayans using that strategy. So, here's what I did and you can check it out in the attached save. I went took piety as my first social policy. I built a scout first, then a...

How has the great person mechanic changed in BNW? IIRC, Gods and Kings/Vanilla worked like this: you ran specialists or built wonders, got the GPP, and when you got to 100, you got a GP of that specified type, and then, the next GP requires 200 points], and it all continued from there. And, I'm...

Hey MadDjinn, is it now possible to win a culture victory with a wide empire, or at least more than four cities? You had six or seven cities with Portugal and it looked like you still might have been able to win culturally, if you were not focusing on a diplo win.

Although I like the concept of tying certain wonders to certain social policy trees, I feel as if they've gone in the wrong direction with the choices of the wonders/trees. The Pyramids, thematically, are all about an elite aristocratic class creating a huge monument for themselves; this fits...

Huh. The opener lets you build the Louvre? I mean, I get the whole archaeology/exploration getting you artifacts to put in a museum concept but the rest of the tree gives you no archaeology benefits at all. I just hope that the Louvre isn't so important for a cultural victory that you'd have to...

I don't know if anyone has mentioned this yet, but I really hope they'd change Rome's unique abilities in BNW, though I highly doubt it. Greece and Rome, are my absolute favorite ancient civilizations, but I've always been slightly disappointed by how they appear in Civ V. Rome is pretty bland...

My other vote was for the Inuit, since this not the most likely civ thread but the most wanted civ thread... The Inuit would be great for snow and ice regions, but it would require a massive terrain-related overhaul, like not making snow and ice worthless, so we'd need more food and production...

Literature, at least from the West, is pretty easy, though of course we do need works from other cultures as well that are not part of the "western culture" thing because civ has always done that with wonders (though the technological progression and cultural assumptions of eras has a bit of...

Seems to me that America, given the improved culture victory of BNW, should really get a big change to their UA. It should be for an aggressive culture game, maybe even with a strong economic element that works well somehow with the Freedom ideology to match the whole American dream/capitalism...

No, the idea is that people with access to herd animals have the option to become nomadic. Once you are nomadic, you might then develop into one of the well-known civs that fit the nomadic type. Your civ does not become nomadic because you are the Huns, Mongols, Sioux, etc; instead, your civ...

Wow, well if you don't mind my asking, what books have you published? Would I be able to find them in a bookstore or on Amazon.com? I am in college now and hope to get a degree in classics myself, so it's very interesting to run into someone with a similar background (I suspect many other civ...

Yeah, that is probably true. The stuff you've suggested in this thread does require some balancing with how the civs were in reality. Too much of the matching civs to reality would damage the gameplay, where Mongols will NEED horses to match history, whereas here we might see changes in the...

Okay, so let me test out some combinations of possible civs and starting locations, see how effective it works at modeling the different variations between civs and different strengths of particular civs. I think I like the idea that even the same civ can evolve in different ways depending on...

Excellent, wonderful ideas here. Now, I do have some questions regarding the first of your posts. So, am I correct in saying that we do not choose civs to play as before the game starts? We start, check our surroundings, see what resources/environment we have, choose our unique traits...

I haven't played this scenario yet, but MadDjinn's Russia LP is making me think it might be a good idea. But before I do there are a few questions that I'd like to ask about how it works... 1) What should I expect regarding turn times? My computer can handle a large map pretty well but...

Isn't there a movie called Attila out there as well? If they're a super famous historical figure, it shouldn't be too hard, like Augustus or Washington, but I'm not sure about Wu Zetian or Ramkhanghang or some of the lesser known (at least to the movie industry) leaders.

This post refers to Gods and Kings, right? There are a few inaccuracies in this article, but the one that I noticed was that in the liberty tree, republic and collective rule have been switched as a balance change in the expansion, so your strategy on liberty needs some revision. Also, make sure...

The prophets are always of your religion that you founded, but missionaries and inquisitors are of the dominant religion in whichever city you buy them in. So you can use your prophet to restore your original religion, but beware of missionaries or inquisitors, since those will be following the...