Recent content by Sir Parsifal

After testing a few things out, tried out the Shoshone, worked my way through one bad period, and I'm working on a trade route empire. Couple things I noticed: I asked Portugal (my best friend) not to settle by me, because I noticed they had a settler heading for the spot I wanted. They...

It's the FINAL COUNTDOWN! Sorry, couldn't resist.

I have two things on my schedule for the next 24 hours: a paper route, and Brave New World. I also have 1600 jelly beans. This could be interesting.

PC Gamer review. Which seems to show that the Fountain of Youth has been replace by the Source of the Nile? Or maybe Source of the Nile is scenario-specific.

If the increase doesn't apply to puppet cities, Venice keeps looking better and better.

Same here. Pre-ordered on the seventh of June, still no pre-loading for me yet.

I am very, very pleased to see such unhappy AI.

According to this this MadDjinn post, Liberty's finisher is no longer a free Great Person. So Venice won't be able to get two Merchants of Venice from the Liberty tree.

Shoshone start with Pathfinder. That should make Shoshone quite powerful. Also, Barbarian Horsemen.

Wait a second.. Observer. Observer mode in Multiplayer. Multiplayer scenarios. This screenshot makes me quite confident that scenarios are multiplayer-compatible.

I tried thinking of a good Pathfinder rush strategy, but then that quickly devolved into a theme song for the rush, and that turned into a 'My Little Shoshone' song. The lyrics of which I am rapidly making up in my head, scarily enough. But anyway, Pathfinder rush with some terrain-ignoring...

Is that a Merchant of Venice icon I see up there at Yerevan?

Venice had an obscene amount of gold and gold per turn in that screenshot.

Changes to existing civs: Arabia has +50% range on caravans and double religion spread on trade routes.

Not to mention that the Native Tongue promotion seems to carry over on upgrade.