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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, what should do in this situation? I was going to upload screenshots, but I could not figure out how to take screenshots in Civ V, as I know Steam uses f12 but that's the Civ V quick load function, so I don't want to mess with it. Anyway, I'm Babylon playing on an immortal pangea map...

I'm about to start a new game as Sweden and I was wondering what sort of strategy would work the best for them. I remember hearing somewhere that a good strategy would be to become friends with an alliance of civs and fighting a continuous war against the enemies of that alliance to build up...

So I've never done a really effective early rush strategy before. What would you guys suggest for a good rush? What civ would you use for that? I typically find that I can't get the wars started very well until the medieval age, after the libraries and national college really start kicking in to...

I was just playing a standard speed game on a large map and time just seems to move so fast! I've barely conquered one or two of my nine AI opponents and I'm almost at the industrial era already. I only had enough time to use/build only one or two of my unique units (Legions and Ballistas) and...

Hey guys, I just have a few random questions that I wanted to get your thoughts on, some specific questions and some more general things. 1) As the Inca, when/where do you build Terrace Farms and when/where would you prefer to mine your hill tiles instead? Does it depend on the other tiles...

Hey guys, this Korea/Ancient World DLC Pack is on-sale at Amazon for like $3.74. Is this a good price for this? Is it worth it for three new wonders and a new civilization? Is Korea interesting to play as? Do the new wonders add a lot to the game...

Hey, when is it a good idea to take an opposing civ's capital to eliminate them from the game? I know, when you are trying to do a domination victory, it is probably a good idea, but what about for the other victory paths like culture or science? I'm in a game as the Mayans and the only other...

Hey guys, I haven't posted here in awhile, but just started back up with Gods & Kings again. I won my first game in G&K with the Byzantines on one of the easier levels (Warlord or the one lower than that) with just one city to keep culture costs down and got an easy (like no AI ever even...

Hey everyone, I made an account here couple years ago but never posted before. Just got Civ V in the Steam sale this summer, and I got a few questions. Now, I can win on Warlord and Prince pretty easily, but still have some kinks to work out before moving on to King. I've been able to do a...

I've gotten back into Civ IV again, or at least am trying to. Whenever I enter a game in Beyond the Sword, my scout and settler units are not there, or at least the images are not. I can still make a city and move my units and everything works, but I cannot see where my units are. I've managed...

Okay, let me get this straight. There are several "combinations" of discs that you can use for different versions of the game, right? For example: Civ IV Vanilla Disc = Original Civ IV Well, this one is fine. When you add Warlords, everything seems okay: Warlords Disc + Civ IV installed...