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    Political views in Civ 5 and it's expansions?

    Just checked, you're right. I should read more carefully.
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    Political views in Civ 5 and it's expansions?

    - I tried to say associating Universal Healthcare with communism is a conservative u.s. American idea (at least in recent politics). - The Washington behavior was mostly from the AI behavior charts. He looks to be more on the peaceful side there. - It was mostly people opposing piety that...
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    Political views in Civ 5 and it's expansions?

    Hi everyone, I just did read some Brave New World threads and I can't help but think a lot of design choices in this game and it's expansions are more political than it's predecessors. The most glaring is associating Universal Healthcare with communism (really a conservative u.s. American...
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    Why not Hannibal??

    The Barkid family even minted coins with their Faces during their time on the Iberian peninsular, usually a previlige for rulers. You must mean the second Punic War, Carthage was razed at the end of the third Punic War, Hannibal was long dead before it started. I know I'm being off topic...
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    Thanks Thal

    Yes, that makes sense. Before you edited your post, you pointed out the special role of rationalism in western europe (and therefore partly the US, but since many people fled there from religious persecution the case is a little different, but this would go beyond the scope of this discussion)...
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    Opening strategies - what do you beeline?

    This is what works best for me as well (playing Rome on King, cheaper aqueducts and libraries accellerate this further, legions help protect and build infrastructure) to the point I think it's overpowering other strategies.
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    Thanks Thal

    I just played some long games using your patch, thanks a lot for all your work and effort! The game has been improved in too many ways to name them all. There are some things mechanical and some points from my personal view as historian that I'd like to share: As a historian giving the USA a...
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