Recent content by gornard

The exception being 'Neo Tokyo' for japan. Heres a list of pre dlc city names in case someone doesn't want to look up the file http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/12274/for-civ-v-where-can-i-find-a-list-of-city-names-used-by-each-civilization

people are obsessed with disparaging the longbow whenever it comes up in games, but few of the other unique units would hold up any better under intense scrutiny. Why would red coats be such a better idea? They were just British army regulars, and their quality in battle fluctuated wildly from...

You can attack ground targets with fighters, its the top icon on the action panel on the left (looks the same as for bombardment). They do a strafing run, but its pretty powerful.

The scenario is virtually the same as the one in one of the previous civs (III?). Civ Vs mechanics are much better suited to it though. It is a bit annoying that they went for historic names for some and got inexplicably lazy with others. Another thing i miss is the little bit of history you...

I'm not the best player, i find prince easy enough and king pretty challenging. But I'll give you my tips anyway: -First city. I like to try and get to the medieval age pretty quick, the tech tree allows you to do this without too much trouble. First of all i build a scout, then a worker...

king - large - and random everything else. i find king pretty tough and huge maps crash and slow down alot for me. Oh yeah i usually have 18 civs and high number of city states

It's clear why they did it, if you shop around online you can get most PC games for a huge discount these days. The major retailers just needed an incentive to make you pay their price. I got my hard copy for less then 30 sterling (27?). It wouldn't be fair to those people did pay extra if they...

Its hard to make a unique national ability but keep the game balanced, i like rome's one though, it symbolizes in vague terms what was one of their unique traits in reality. i.e. the ability to export roman culture through imitation of rome. Its this homogenization that made so many conquered...

Maybe part of the reason the AI doesn't declare war so much on island maps is because its borders are almost never adjacent. If there are one or more on an island they will probably fight it out, but across oceans they generally don't care. Proximity seems to be the prime cause of war in civ v.

There's a number of historical situations where transport boats where built or bought in situ. In game terms it is something less to worry about and transports could rarely hold up to combat ships in later periods. As for the archery comment, its an abstraction and not really the most...

Why do you think china would be full of neofacists and radicals? and why do you think they would cause a world war? There are plenty of educated countries with fringe parties, but they usually don't gain any purchase without some form of social pressure or friction. There are belligerent and...

too late. Not that that is unusual, it unfortunantly seems like a right of passage for most world powers at some point in their history. It seems like a demographic shift combined with a loosening on the top that makes it seem like theres a gradual shift to a more representative china. Its...

It's easy to think of china as a continuous entity, but china has changed character as much as those states in Mesopotamia or india. Rulers often look for a sense of historical continuity (excluding communists) so the rhetoric always suggests that their nation has been around forever, the...

Sorry if this has come up before. Does anyone have any idea how accurate the leader languages are out of interest? Does suleiman speak ottoman turkish or just modern turkish for example? The english dialogue from washington and elizabeth is a bit dry, but the other leaders sound pretty good by...

The german legal consideration is probably the main reason, but theres also the question of taste. Theres plenty of world war 2 games out there, this is about civilizations. If you had to choose a leader to represent germany as a civilization, bismark is probably as close as you are going to...