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And you won't even see antiquity sites in locations where you can't dig. So, for example, you won't see them in a civ that has closed it's borders with you. Or an allied civ. So in some cases, the hero relic might be somewhat nearby, but not visible.

Eleanor says "thank you!"

Gorgo is interesting in marathon games with zombies. Cultural yield from kills are tripled. Civics costs are tripled. But there are a lot more opportunities for kills. I would need to go back to be sure, but I suspect I averaged 15 culture per turn in fro kills over the ancient era in my...

I almost never do, either. I think it's popular with some domination-focused folks as you can get more done with your military, particularly in the ancient era. You can conquer more before your opponents get walls, for example. Before zombie mode, I only played marathon when playing as French...

Warriors and archers do fine (as long as you use good defensive terrain). By the time zombies are tough enough to give them problems, you can upgrade to swordsman and crossbows. My culture games don't last long enough to need to go past those 30 in marathon mode. Through most of ancient era...

Gorgo is kind of fun at marathon speed with zombies. Very fast political philosophy is possible with a pretty mediocre starting location.

Himiko with envoys but no faith would still be situationally useful, so that makes a lot of sense.

I don't know... I would be going for a quick culture win and probably settle Kilimanjaro for ridiculous capital growth. Science bores me as long as monopolies give ridiculous tourism bonuses (please, please hit this much harder with the nerf bat. Much, much harder. I'll enjoy the fast wins in...

They would still be really terrible. There are global resources (generally the ocean stuff) and there are continental resources (each continent has 4 (or 5?) unique resources). generally, it's nearly impossible to get 60% control of a global resource. You need, say, 14/20 turtles. But the...

As someone who goes for culture victories pretty much every game, I think zombie mode is going to be enabled every game. It does have some downsides - maybe need an extra military unit or two around. Eleanor is less able to do her thing if the AIs can't expand at all... Still working out the...

Broken record, but I wish we had more visibility into the formula. This is all new Portugal content, so the formula did get tweaked. 5 opponents (6-armed snowflake map - naver played it and it feels like Portugal can abuse it - they can). Resource screen says none of the AIs have any of the...

Turn 123 cultural win with Portugal on deity. Being able to buy ampitheaters, arch museums, and archaeologists (most of them anyway) is pretty powerful. As expected, Kumasi can generate huge bonus culture with them. And the tourism modifier from monopolies is still way too much. Oh, and...

I should just stop tryijng to speculate what the real formula is, cuz I don't know. I know I got +22% in a huge (11 opponents game) with a 2/3 monopoly. THen I got a second 2/3 monopoly and it went to 44%. That all implies 1% * number of resources controlled * number of AI opponents without...

This feels like another Kupe. Doesn't matter what victory condition you are going for, as long as you have decent water, the trade route benefits are insane and make the game easy. I have a turn 100 +297.4 culture/turn (and +577.4 gold/turn) game going. Does it matter what the other figures...