Recent content by The Leviathan

The only thing I really miss about Civ IV's wars was the ability to quickly create loads of drafted troops by sacrificing happiness/population and gold. I also miss the events in the late era that created troops around the city/capital. It really gave wars a sense of mobilization and...

Mexican-American War

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I just wish they would go all the way and flesh out the future era.. Instead of adding a few joke units to the very end of the game.

Why add a new and completely unnecessary game mechanic when you can simply fix the AI's calcuations?

You've never played Civ with a good human player then

Artillery accounts for the vast majority of casualties in "Modern" warfare.

Am I missing something here? I thought Firaxis said that religion would affect diplomacy until ideologies (order, autocracy, etc) came into play?

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In a world where the Holodomor, Gulag labor camps, and the Great Leap Forward don't constitute genocide....

and which buildings do you tend to build in your specilized cities (GP farms, production cities, gold cities) I'm trying to move up to difficulties atm and I'm having the same exact problem as I had with higher difficulties in Civ IV. I build too many buildings and I have a complete crap...

This I honestly like the concept behind Social policies, but the way their applied to the game is awful. I honestly believe that picking social policies shouldn't be absolutely permanent. There should be some sort of revolution function that refunds your points at a cost, whether that cost be...

Why You would still have to pay for an expansion pack

Glad that Scandinavia is finally getting some love I think I might rename the Danish Civilization to Denmark-Holland or Kalmar Denmark though simply because it seems more encompassing and representative of Scandinavia. (and sounds cooler)

Harun-Al Rashid led a huge prosperous empire during it's golden age of art, culture, and trade while Saladin is almost inseparable from the crusades and his wars against the west. If anything Firaxis chose Rashid in order to represented the Arabian empire at their culturally height and not as...