Recent content by kryat

England, especially Vicky has been my favorite go to builder civ. Their real UU are the military engineers who they can pump out and spam water infrastructure like nobody’s business. It’s essentially like being able to buy aqueducts, canals, and dams wherever you need them. This can supercharge...

The history on this one is actually pretty amazing. Cyrus tried to get Tomyris to agree to a political marriage to absorb her clans into his empire. She saw through and declined. He responded by attacking. But he did it by first leaving a camp unattended with large barrels of wine after hearing...

Mods, feel free to merge this if there’s a more appropriate thread. While everyone here is debating about policy cards, AI, 1UPT, I’m here instead wondering about how the humble border system could be overhauled, and maybe some diplomacy overhaul thrown in. Let’s recap what the border...

That’s a really impressive performance out of Australia! They weren’t nearly as effective in my game, finishing with only 3 cities. Era score can be a huge driver for score as well. There’s several good sources… railroads, canals, tunnels, space, power, green energy, strategic resource use...

I just finished Emperor with Dipomatic at T270. Similar to UWHabs, I went Dance and Work Ethic and meeting houses. Don't sleep on Maui for seeding water resources to ping your stave churches. Thor's Hammer is good for building, so my cities were filled with wonders, including all that gave...

I really like Age of Steam Victoria. It always feels nice when your cities can make whatever they want. She loses a bit of direct military might and colonization capability exchanged for just sheer productive power. I loved the GS changes to England and this just synergizes so well. Man, what a...

I’d personally love a bonus like all naval melee ignore walls, but also take 50% more damage from ranged units.

I’m not sure that even in Civ 1-5 there was a consistent Caesar. I think they bounced between Julius and Augustus, and we at least have one of those now.

I want to know how many channels Harald can pick up with that antenna Also, does it seem like he’s been hitting the gym since 2016?

Without knowing anything about this myself, I’m going to guess that it’s Qin’s alternate persona that can convert barbs. It doesn’t really nerf zombies. It’s just one leader ability is not really threatened by them.

FWIW, Korea’s ability in V was even more boring than Sejong’s here, and more push next turn to win. +2 science for every specialist….

Unless I’m mistaken, it only counts culture coming from adjacencies, not culture from other sources like Nan Madol.

I really like the look of Sejong and Ludwig. Sejong gets lots of mini Apollo missions, turning Korea’s leader bonus from an entirely flat, passive bonus to something that’s an engaging puzzle to solve. Bigger risks, bigger rewards. Korea remains top of the science tier list, but is now...

Sejong’s ability seems like it could be quite strong. On most civs, only getting double would be pretty underwhelming. However, Korea always has such absurd science output this could be huge. Like they’ve been talking about this will take a little more effort to juice, but it reminds me of the...

The reference to patron of the arts makes me wonder if he is going to get Great Musician points. He did have a private concert hall for Richard Wagner in Neuschwanstein.