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Question about apostles that have concurrent Proselytizer and the Translator promotions: Do the effects stack? Does the apostle eliminate 75% of the existing pressure and have 3x religious spread strength with each charge?

Civ AI would have to do one or more of the following in order to pass a Turing Test: 1. Send the wrong unit from A to B. 2. Fortifying or deploying a unit and then forgetting about it. 3. Sending a unit on a multi-turn movement and forgetting why you sent it there once it arrives. We have all...

Civ IV seems to be the standard by which all other versions are measured. I have played every version of Civ except for IV. Darn, it looks like I missed a good one, eh?

Always on? None. Monopolies and Shuffle most often. Zombies and Apocalypse, never. The rest are only occasional, and all modes (including "none") are situational depending on the civ I'm playing and the victory type I think I'll pursue. This brings up a question: Playing a civ that's strong on...

Shuffle on since it came out because it's interesting. Secret Societies once. Meh. Didn't do anything for me. Apocalypse, not yet, probably never.

Well, I finally got in 2000 hours of Civ6 gameplay. So, what else am I going to do with this achievement except to talk about it? At about 300 hours of gameplay, I began keeping notes on my games, mostly just to keep track of the civs that I've played and the civs that I have played against...

Barbs make horrible neighbors. To paraphrase a line in The Terminator: "Listen, and understand. [They are] out there. [They] can’t be bargained with. [They] can’t be reasoned with. [They don't] feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And [they] absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead."

It can take me a month sometimes to finish a game, so I haven't had that many next-door neighbors to compare. But it seems to me that, compared to Civ 5, the Civs in Civ 6 are a pretty homogenized lot -- no one really stands out. In Civ 5, I remember playing as the Aztecs just so that I wouldn't...

The waltz was considered "riotous and indecent" [citation needed but check Wikipedia, knower of all things] over 200 years ago. Actually, this is more of a dance preference, like the Twist, Line Dancing, Breakdancing, but you gotta have music to go with it.

Yes! Hulk smash!

Anyone old enough to remember the gas crises of '73 and '79 can tell you the importance of strategic resources. Even more scary is the present day scarcity of rare earth metals upon which many of our electronics depend. I think it's great that Civ is finally making us think more holistically...

Phoenicians. TSL Earth. This is a "burner" game, keepin' it simple just to learn all the new stuff going on. Sumerians, Ottomans, and the Norwegians to my north and east. Before I can explore too far, Krakow decided to be part of the Ottoman Empire. Goodbye Poland. No civs in Africa, so I've...

You have raised her well.

The waiting. The waiting. First it was weeks. Then it was days. Now it is mere hours. But WAIT!...I have to work tomorrow. Can't play until I get home at 3:30. Arrgh! Cue the 70's Heinz Ketchup comercial and Carly Simon's song "Anticipation": Anticipation, anticipation Is making me late Is...