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Harald pep talk: Real line: Sá mun hafa sigr er merkit er fyrir borit. In game translation: He must gain victory before whom the banner is borne. Literal translation: He will have victory that the banner is borne before. In game translation is pretty accurate, only the word order is slightly...

I found it. Interestingly this is the only Harald quote that's completely different from its given translation. Þú ættir þig eldinum eiga stjórna er þú hefir kveikt. Ne-he-he-he... Nei! Hann er þér of mikill! You suppose you are to control the fire you have started. No-ho-ho-ho... No! It is...

Greenlandic Norse died out 5-600 years ago and left no descendants. The closest living language to ON is Icelandic and Faroese is also pretty close but not so much as Icelandic, likely because the Faroese were forced to write only Danish for 300 years. That being said Icelandic and Old Norse...

Mikill skipaafli... þat er fagur sjón. A great force of ships... that's a beautiful sight. As usually the pronunciation is only slightly modified modern Icelandic. This is probably the worst offender yet though.

Ferk að sitja sáttr einherjum saman í Valhöllu, meðan þú herkir hér. I'll go to sit pleased together with einherjar in Valhalla, while you toil here. Again tried to be as literal as possible while still making sense. Also not quite sure how "fara" is conjugated but I think it's "ferk" instead...

Great a new line Ah, sjór þinn er varnarlaus, vinur minn. Árás væri auðveldaverk. Ah, your sea is defenseless, my friend. An attack would be an easy task. Here again they mess up the pronunciation by being too modern. Edit: Should note that their translation is a lot "better" while mine is...

Haraldr speaks Old Norse although the pronunciation is a bit too modern (Icelandic) at times. Haraldr Sigurðarsonr stendr fyrir þér. Aldregi var víkingr slíkr lands né lagar. Hahaha, ertu hræddr? Harald Sigurdson stands before you. Never was there such a viking of land or sea. Hahaha, are you...

My personal biases are showing as I'm not a fan of Denmark's playstyle. I prefer harder hitting, more direct aggression or naval combat for plain steam rolling. I agree that thematically it fits great and I have no complaints there, it's just that I don't like playing them. I do love Harald in...

Iceland here, represented under Denmark as Reykjavík is the 14th city on the Danish city list. (Couldn't it have been just a tad higher up? and above the Faroes? and why isn't Tórshavn a city instead of "The Faroes"?) Anyway, obviously Iceland is not going to be its own civ but it would be nice...

That was probably an exaggeration on my part but hospitals are still great. It has not been improved since G&K and still gives a clean +5 food bonus. However that is in my experience usually a net 50-500% food bonus and lets you grow a lot faster or focus more on specialists. And the extra...

England is a flexible civ but imo their best suited for just straight up domination. I usually take tradition and set up fairly small by the coast and use their devastating UU's to wage wars from the medieval era and up, winning by a domination victory. The spies are good for either stealing...

At this stage in the game you should have your victory plan somewhat planned out so here are rough guidelines for each victory condition: * If you're going culture archaeology is absolutely paramount in addition to radio. And now in BNW you'll need to snatch refrigeration and radar as soon as...

Oh, of course, forgot about the no terrain defence bonuses for cavalry but the Kasbah is effectively a fort is what I meant, I know you can still build regular ones if you happen to want them outside of a desert.

Wow, I had no idea the Kasbah replaced the fort. This makes berber cavalry even more ridiculous as defensive units. 50% bonus in desert, 25% in your lands and 50% from Kasbah (which should be on almost all of your desert tiles) gives a total of 125% bonus which is absolutely insane. They...

You were definitely very lucky but nevertheless I have to hand it to you that that was an impressive game.

I feel like it would nerf patronage to uselessness. I honestly don't think it's a problem that city states are so many. It creates interesting interactions when you can threaten and kill city states that are allied with other players and when you want to protect your own. With 3 or 4 I feel like...

Uhm, yeah. The AI has no sense of risk assessment when it comes to aircraft positioning as far as I can tell. They just dump everything in one city hoping it will survive. Aaand of course since humans are not stupid (well most of them anyway) they just nuke/snipe that city ASAP.

Not strictly speaking new as can be seen on the Join Date but I've been a lurker. I started civ with Civ Rev and moved on immediately to civ V. I've since bought civ IV but V is my bread and butter. I have discussed civ a lot on other forums but everyone knows that CivFanatics is the civ forum...

I must agree, except when you want aforementioned frigates. Pikemen are now stronger than swords and only one tech ahead, siege units don't require iron anymore (maybe that was a vanilla patch, I can't remember), and muskets are only one tech ahead of longswords. Although as someone said you can...

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