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Is there a way to beat a rock-band driven victory other than simply racing it? I just lost my Khmer session to Kongo despite having three times their tourism output because they got rock bands up sooner and spammed them - I was actually trying to win with religion so wasn't making many of my own...

A couple of days ago a Civ VI game froze on me - after restarting I found the game was lagging, to the extent that there was a noticeable delay when clicking units and movement was slow and jerky. Multiple new games and restarting the game had the same issue, and it wasn't solved with either...

Just had a very strange situation arise: my spy completed a Great Work Heist mission in Sparta the turn the city was captured by Arabia. As a result he fled to my capital, Xi'an. Unfortunately the mission was a failure and he was captured ... in Xi'an rather than Sparta, by Qin Shi Huang (me)...

I have an odd bug when trying to load the game - as soon as I click 'play' and the option shows to play either Beyond Earth or the 'AMD Mantle' (whatever that may be). I select the first option, the box disappears, and nothing happens. Then, a few seconds later, the option box reappears again...

Anyone playing this, and if so any advice on how to, well, do so? I've gone for about a week trying the same setup vs. the AI (which ought to be a predictable and so fairly easy opponent) on Standard difficulty, and have lost every game comprehensively, as well as every multiplayer match in...

http://www.pcgamer.com/review/total-war-rome-2-review/2/ It actually sounds as though most of the changes are likely to prove disappointing - I was actually holding out particular hope for the politics element that the reviewer slams. I'm also not enthused by the changes he praises - it...

Someone mentioned achievement ideas for getting the 'wrong' victory type for an ideology. What other missing achievements are missed opportunities, would you say? I'll start: Horse Trading: Pass a World Congress motion with help from another civ, having obtained their vote in exchange for a...

Last I heard, Rome 2 was set for an October release, and Steam gave its release date as 2013. I've noticed that this release date is now gone from Steam - does anyone know if the release has been pushed back, or if Creative Assembly/Sega is no longer committing to a 2013 release date?

Several sites have reported that new DLC appears likely from the ten achievements added to Steam for this game: http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/10/17/achievements-hint-at-upcoming-xcom-dlc-possible-spoilers/ I wonder what form this DLC is likely to take based on these clues? With the tenuous...

I've noticed this much more in G&K than vanilla, and it's really starting to annoy me. The city governors (set to "default focus" by, um, default) are constantly rearranging my population on food-gathering duty, and I often only notice when I see my production time for whatever I'm building goes...

Okay, so I've mentioned a couple of times that I find AI Attila to be a disappointing opponent. However in my newest game (Emperor, Korea, Shuffle) he seemed a genuine threat and I left the game last night on a cliffhanger - he had a row of four battering rams, plus supporting Warriors...

As I put it to a friend, in G&K the diplomacy is still crazy, but in a different way. Some strange cases I've come across: - Renewing deals. The AI will now remember and renew deals whenever they expire or lapse. But it will do so regardless of any context - it will offer you the same deal...

Has anyone else had issues with achievements not being awarded when they should be? In my last few games I've discovered Australia in the Polynesian scenario, won a (multiplayer) game as Ramkhanhaeng when I didn't previously have the Siam achievement, and just played a game where, as Darius...

Last night I got a communication from Isabella I hadn't seen before, asking me to show compassion for her weak civ. Her status read "Afraid", with the neutral tip "they are in fear of our great power" as well as the usual covetous red modifier. This was pretty close to the start of the game; I'd...

A few times in my latest game I've seen notifications that CS X or Y has declared war on someone, without any apparent change in their alliance status or in the wars their friends are involved in. But most bizarrely of all, Kuala Lumpur (allied with me at the time) was bought by Mongolia, who...

Since this topic has been banned from the Rants thread, starting a new thread for my reply: Sorry, but this illustrates a bias in your perception rather than an explanation for the difference in perspective. On a three-civ island, it is far less realistic than the Civ V approach to have a...

It seems I'm not the only one who'd like scenarios introduced for the main-game civs (and also Babylon), so I wonder what ideas people would have for them. The key things that seem to be required are: The protagonist civ has to be at a disadvantage (e.g. Korea), and/or may have been a...

Looking down the list of Civ-specific achievements (other than 'win game as X'), I can't see one for Siam - is this is correct? If not, does anyone know what the Siam national achievement (now I've finally got Three Musketeers... - and, somehow, the Danish achievement in the same game)?

For me, one of the best aspects of Civ is finding resources during early-game exploration - and indeed starting a new game to find what you have near your starting location. I've noticed that in Civ V there is a severe case of resource clustering - in one game an area will have nothing but...