Recent content by Kaiser Mac Cleg

To be honest, I'm really annoyed at the inclusion of the HRE. I don't see why a loose confederation of city-states and duchies deserves to be represented by a civilization. Also, why is Charlemagne their leader when he was in command of the Frankish Empire, before the HRE even existed? To me...

I'd also like to see Charlemagne and Barbarossa in - I think there's a shortage of Middle-Ages leaders and I want a nice, generic king for my scenarios. However, on the poll I voted for Charlemagne and Hitler. I know it would be controversial, but Hitler was, undeniably, a important leader for...

I'd like to see guerrilla warfare in the game. You could have units invisible to your enemies under certain condition - when they are on a forest tile, perhaps? And use them to pillage improvements and harass enemy armies before retreating. I'm not quite sure how terrorism would work though, and...

Plus I don't think that the Celts were meant to represent only Ireland, Wales, Scotland and Brittany. Lets not forget that the Gauls were Celts, and there were several Celtic-Germanic peoples. It seems to me that in Civ4, the Celts are a Civ that are meant to represent all the European peoples...

Sorry, there seems to have been some misunderstanding here. I wasn't trying to say that The Byzantine and Ottoman empires were exclusively eastern European civilizations, although the Byzantine heartland was around the Aegean. The point I was trying to make was that eastern Europe has not been a...

That's who I would place them with as well. Charlemagne is obvious...when he and the pope founded it, the Holy Roman Empire was practically the French Empire anyway. I'd also put Barbarossa with the Germans because at his time, the Holy Roman Empire was predominantly Germoan

Poland had great significance in the Middle Ages, as did Austria in the 19th century. Not to mention the Byzantines and the Ottomans. To say that there are, and have been, no significant countries in Eastern Europe is, quite frankly, wrong. I'm from Wales so I have no nationalistic agenda here...

The Good 1. Graphics. My Radeon x300 card works properly again! Huzzah! 2. The sheer butchery on the battlefield. It's beautiful. 3. The inquisition is suitably terrifying. 4. The non-clone armies. 5. Videos...although they are nowhere near as good as the Shogun videos. The Bad 1...

I can't see a Pacific Total War working for the same reasons as an Americas: Total War. There simply weren't enough states to use, or big enough armies. You'd be using tribes and chiefdoms and passing them off as civilizations...But then, that's only my opinion. I find it very unlikely it'll...

Javelins and fire arrows usually work. My second choice of unit would be light cavalry or horse archers, which I would use to draw the elephants away from my main army.

I wouldn't want Sports to work like religions, but an Olympic Games type event in the modern age like posted above wouldn't be too bad. There were periods when in certain nations sport harldy existed for the common people though. In Europe in the Middle Ages for example, so having sports working...

That's an idea that occured to me. Why not have a leader-couple? You could have Ferdinand & Isabella for Spain, Theodora & Justinian for the Byzantines... But back on topic, It seems to me that Civ4 desperately needs some more Middle-Ages leaders. How about Charlemagne? Barbarossa?

Well said Lance! Sorry, but this ongoing rant about Austria is beginning to annoy me. Firaxis should be looking for new CIVILIZATIONS, not european nation states or empires that existed for a century or so. Austria, for me, is essentially another state that has German culture, or at least...

The civs I'd like to see included would be Ethiopia/Axum because of it's long history and with the excuse of filling up the African continent and then either Poland or the Hittites. The former because of the lack of eastern european civs in-game and the latter because of it's ancient history and...

I believe that there should be more religions avaiulable in Civ4. Zoroastrianism is an obvious choice, but I'd like to see the Roman/Greek Polytheism in the game as well. It's all very well saying that Hinduism could represent it, as that is Polytheism as well, but the two religions are very...