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I am deeply confused by the Royal Library. It is supposed to be a sort of extra Barracks if filled with a Great Writing. But it is almost impossible to get one before Renaissance, especially if you try to play early Warmonger. So, is the Royal Library nothing more than a Library with some...

I just think that, like a lot of people here, I have an unreasonable interest for certain small points of the world history, and a huge ignorance about much broader things. It so happens that "wars of religion in France during that particular century" falls into my tiny knowledge garden ! Take...

Finally! Damn, I was almost done with my current game... No DLC with this one? But... I wanted to give you my moneyz, Firaxis!

No, because Richelieu, Mazarin and Louis XIV's main objective was to shoot down the very catholic house of Austria (Spain), and they did so by helping the protestants in the Netherlands and Germany. They were men of the catholic church, but they allied with heretics (outside of France) to beat...

I love Polynesia because they offer a kind of play nobody really can offer. Of course, they require you adjust your setting to them (nobody would ever play Polynesia on a Great Plain map) but then the game will resemble nothing else, provided you don't only focus on exploring the oceans, but...

If only Richelieu or Louis XIV had read the same history books as you...

Does Legendary start gives you many more luxuries around your starting point? Or does it put many more luxuries around ALL THE PLAYER's starting point? I'm not sure if I want to give the AI even more bonusses than it already has... Or maybe it's a way to make it more challenging, I don't know.

I remember in the Vanilla days a great thread about when to build a road between your cities, how to place them in an efficient way, and at what point they would cost more gold than give back through trade network... I can't find it now, and I don't know if the math have changed in G&K for this...

My relationship with CiV is a bit particular because of Civ IV: like everyone (I suppose?), I love BTS and it stayed high in my list of favourite games for several years, but I also remember that I had a lot of issues with Civ IV when it was released. I couldn't tell now if vanilla naked IV was...

To me, the real question is how Piety will work along with Culture. If Temple is now a religion building, what does it mean for Culture ? Is the progression Obelisk=>Opera House ? Or is Temple a mixed building, giving Culture as well as Piety, meaning you'll need Obelisks in your cities if you...

Good episode, thanks! As for the achievement thing, I got my "won in Deity" achievement in the first week of the game, when the companion cavalry was unstoppable (start game => open science screen => click on "horseback riding" => wait a few turns => win). The patches changed the game so...

If siege weapons are less effective against units, what happens to the Hwacha? Is it unaffected by that, or has it been made totally useless?

... and as someone who will buy both on release, it's a damn great news ! I'll have time to discover Diablo along with my friends, and when the group will start collapsing because of conflicting schedule and level discrepancy, CiV will be there to blackhole my free time again.

It depends on how the CS receive their new exclusive resource. If it's something intangible (like films in Civ4) that disappears if you conquer them, that wouldn't be very useful. But if it were a resource like the others (for example some luxury that always appears on the hex where a CS is...

1) Espionage. I hated it in Civ IV, but the new one seems totally new, so I have high hopes. If it's a way to gather more information on the opponent, FINALLY, it will fix my biggest problem with CiV. I hate not being able to know beforehand if an enemy civ believes this or that city-state is...

Maybe the huge number of new units for the extension also counts the units only for a scenario? If this one has its own tech tree and its own units, I can see how we end up with almost 30 new units... It's a bit misleading, but since I like scenarios with their own tech tree, I won't complain!

Thanks, mr Sarmatian! I wonder how the changes to the City-states will affect the UAs of Alex and Ramkhamhaeng. Probably Alex will still be as dominant as ever, since his UA works regardless of the type of city-state (as long as the new quest system doesn't change too much). But...

Long time lurker here, decided to join finally, hope it's OK to start a new thread already? Apologies in advance if not. I was surprised of the precise amount of new content announced, especially this part: "27 new units, 13 new buildings". We have 9 new civilizations, they will probably...