Recent content by frizzy

If true, that means units in a tile fight together with combined abilities, instead of one unit fighting at a time while the rest watch. That could be better and more realistic, depending on how they implement it.

Don't like what I'm seeing about ranged attacks. Guess it depends on how big a hex is, though. But if archers and catapults have ranges of 100 km, that is teh stoopid. Definitely not more realistic.

It doesn't take a violent storm to sink a galley. Any storm will do, and shipwrecks due to storms were very common in the ancient Mediterranean. It was not safe. Plenty of examples in the Bible and other ancient literature of the Med. Being in shallower water than the open ocean was...

What Soundwave said. Real-life economic cycles are not random and unpredictable. Real-life Civs that handle their economy like AI and noob Civs get caught in these cycles, but that doesn't mean they're random. If, in Civ, you build bazillions of units, run high-maintenence civics...

Crossing the Atlantic involves going through the RL equivalent of "ocean tiles," and Columbus and the Spanish did it with galleons and caravels just like in-game, so I don't understand your complaint with respect to your example. I never understood what a "sea" tile was supposed to be in...

I didn't know that. IRL, ships being attacked near the coast are at a disadvantage, so it doesn't make sense, except perhaps inside cultural borders for the reasons you gave.

Settle in place. Happiness, river, food, gold, chops - what's not to like?

You might want to first discover a habitable planet there, before going to all the trouble.

OK, but has Disney made a movie about him?

So don't stage it there. Just let Jamaica give a fraking damn and know what Bobsleigh is.

Exception: Jamaica

I don't hate GA's. I like them in the game, and I like the culture bomb. In my humble and subjective opinion, it's worth a little too much. But that's - obviously - debatable, of course.

I don't know. I haven't played those. Hardcore wargamers that have tend to disparage Call of Duty as being an arcade game, FWIW.

I hesitate to answer, because most of the games I've played are so old. They don't make many wargames anymore; people are more interested in shooters and RTS. :old: Battlefront makes and markets several wargames. My favorites are their Combat Mission series. It's a tactical game, so not...

Culture isn't "by itself" in the game. That's the fundamental point you're missing. For instance, you mention religion as a "power factor" that translates into military and economic power. Well stated. So why aren't you seeing the obvious in-game analog? Religious buildings generate culture...