Recent content by Zigzagzigal

I suspect there'll be two main changes: Mars projects moved to the future era Power as a prerequisite for space projects. If power is important to scientific victories, it means you have a few more counterplay options available - using Spies to destroy dams, tactical bombing of power-heavy...

Hooray, I win! I thought Hungary would be first because: They seemed like one of the less likely civs to lean heavily on new mechanics; Rise and Fall's First Looks started with civs that lightly touched on new mechanics (Korea with governors, Netherlands with loyalty) and announced civs with...

One advantage to this system over Civ 5's city-state bribing is that you are handing money to a competitor, rather than essentially taking it out the game. That means that if favours have a reasonably high cost, putting yourself ahead in the diplomatic game will mean putting your competitors...

A couple of thoughts not already mentioned: Recon and siege units don't currently have policy cards boosting their production. Either adding new cards or changing existing ones are possibilities. Personally, I'd make production-boosting military policy cards work on units of earlier eras as...

Given that these governments will be arriving in the late-information era, it'd make sense if they had bonuses directly related to victory. Here's a possibility based on the apparent leak of what the governments are and what they aim for: Corporate Libertarianism - Reduces the cost of...

Given the context of this bit of text in the Gathering Storm announcement, I think it can be ruled out: The phrasing clearly links new uniques to new leaders/civs. That being said, it would be interesting if it was the case that a reworked civ got a second UU (e.g. Spain getting a Tercio UU as...

I don't particularly think the Spec Ops needs an upgrade, though given its placement on the tech tree, a final upgrade does have a reasonable chance of happening. Carriers have a bit of a better chance of receiving an upgrade, especially considering there's only one unit of its class right now...

It's possible that a Sipahi UU would replace a new generic renaissance-era cavalry unit, which would increase the odds of it appearing via a technology rather than civic. That being said, it could be interesting to have both UUs arrive via civics just to shake up the first few eras of preparation.

That's true, though given the unverified leak of which leaders we'll see, I think it's unlikely. Giving a civ a second UU is essentially giving them a military bonus, and I'd expect an alt-leader for England to push in a different direction to Victoria. Meanwhile, France would likely be in the...

There's 9 new UUs for 8 civs, so someone's getting two UUs. I think it's the Ottomans - one screenshot seems to show a Sipahi UU, and there's already a Janissary model. With those aside, here's some guesses for the 9 non-uniques: Explorer (medieval-era recon unit, probably has passive bonuses...

I'd say beyond Gathering Storm there's an opportunity to improve the religious game; right now it's a bit one-dimensional (get faith, spam units, spread religion). Plus, a third expansion would get us to the nice round number of 50 civs. That being said, GS is a lot bigger than I was initially...

I have the feeling hills start biases can act as a kind of nudge towards mountains seeing as hill-heavy regions are often found near them. Hills start biases are still not that common, though - Greece and Korea get all hills but snow ones in their start bias, while Russia gets both flat and...

What I'd like to see is Danish Melee + Gunpowder units having access to a Coastal Raider-style promotion line (gold from attacking cities, possibly a city attack bonus too if that's not OP.) That way, Denmark becomes more fun to play, and can keep up with other warmongerers. But, that's just...

I'm a bit worried all these coastal startbiases are diluting the likelihood of getting a coastal start. It's kind of troublesome for example if you're Carthage and you lost out on such a start because of Korea and Spain. Maybe a system should be in place to set down major Civs before City-States...

I made a list of possible Civs. There's 11 here, to get it down to 9, take out Italy and Mali (to avoid overlap.) Bulgaria (Interesting regional power few know about) Hittites (Present in Civ 3) Italy (Post-Roman Italy lacks representation. I know there's Venice, but what about the rest...