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Well this is fun. I've got a resource-poor start, so I was thinking in the long term I might have to borrow their city and steer it towards those nests, when suddenly... Thats one neighbour who's not going to be much thread in the long run then. Spoiler tag added

I haven't really seen anyone mention this, besides some off hand comments about how people never build them... well, you should! They're pretty much must have for me now in certain places. First off, the 20HP heal is PASSIVE, meaning you can move, shoot or do whatever you like, and it'll heal...

Over the course of the average game, even while attempting to stay faithful to one affinity most people will end up picking up a few levels of the non-dominant ones. Any reccomendations or experiences with this to incorporate into tactics? I'll usually end up getting Harmony 1 as a byproduct...

I thought this might be worth some further in-depth discussion, as I was a little unsure particularly where the highest end stuff will fit into our strategy when its available. The information is best collected in Arioch's fantastic site at...

It makes me pretty mean, but some of my favourite games have come when I've ended up 'borrowing' a bonus from one of my unwitting neighbours. Cities will come and go, but I'll always remember the one where I managed to get both Polders AND Terrace Farms within its radius - and even a...

I'm in the middle of my most epic civ game ever right now, thanks to the new G&K mechanics, but one curious aspect my game has taken on made me think this might be worth a new thread instead of just piling it into the first impressions one. I picked Russia, and decided that with lots of...

Haven't seen this specific topic yet, so for the benefit of us Europeans anxiously awaiting Thursday midnight, how about some discussions of the wonders added and changed by G&K? I assume Hagia Sophia is changed since Pisa now gives its previous bonus, but what to? Off the top of my head I'd...

I've been giving this some thought - from the very first mention of Polders, I was sarcastically jumping in going yay, extra bonuses when I plunder them :lol:. But quite a few of the new civs will actually be a bit different to play against, and offer a couple of unique bonus oppertunities...

Inspired by a start I just had that was very rich in both wine and incense, I was giving some thought to various parts of the pantheons/founders and follower beliefs that would work well in tandem. Normally, Goddess of Festivals and Monasteries would be pretty weak, but in a scenario like that...

As the title says, while running Educated Elite so that my city-state allies would occasionally grant me great people, the very first one that I got... was a Khan! Since there's a 1 in 6 chance of it, I guess it must happen quite a lot now! To top it all off, the icing on the cake is... I'm...

It seems minor and trivial, but my favourite new feature of Civ 5 is... that units keep their unique abilities when upgraded. For things like Jaguars to keep their jungle bonus and +2 healing all the way up to Mech Infantry means I get really attached to them! It adds a great fun little extra...

I tried to put up a glowingly positive post a while back, but the board ate it :rolleyes: But now I've been playing more, its even more true. I'm absolutely adoring this Civ so far, I think that the framework its laid down to be built upon over the years is absolutely incredible. I've played...

Sigh. For some unknown reason, whenever I go to play the game, it leads me to this, broken screen. I can only click the DX9 option. Then of course when I click on the DX9 option, it resizes my screen and wont let me change the settings from minimum and from that resolution. Any way of trying to...

I was taking a look at the unit list, and it seems that pretty much every single unit from Industrial age onward requires first Oil, then Aluminium. It just seems a bit odd... early game you'll have your basic army, but supplement it with Iron-based elite units. Late on though, your entire navy...

Its been said that barbarian units keep tech with the tech leader, and we all know by now that there are two abilities that can switch them to your own side. But from what we've seen, the barbarians dont have warriors or spearmen - they had Brutes. Similarly if barbarians were going to persist...