Recent content by z2316

No matter how brilliant he was, he ultimately destroyed his own country. That disqualifies him from being considered one of the world's great leaders, IMO.

There's already been a few threads about the whole Cyrus versus Aramaic thing. There's also been some discussions about how other leader are represented (for example references to Napoleon using the informal 'tu' as being a bad translation). I think there's a lot of funny stuff to discuss...

What if you could make *any* ship nationality-less, turning it into a privateer.

How about the fact that cities and archers can fire at a nearby sub? Once again submarines are broken (they've always been broken, except in Civ 4). I actually had a submarine killed by a crossbowman!

Ditto! The designers showed some serious guts by making this game, perhaps so much that they crashed in a hayfield with some of the maths and balancing. Nevertheless, I like the combination of new concepts and the coming back to old concepts (dropped in civ 4) which make them game a...