Japan has absolutely NO economic or cultural bonuses. Most of the other Civs should be able to be ahead of Japan in one category or the other if they play properly. Japan might be great at taking out his nearby neighbors, but on a large map I see him falling way behind lots of other civs towards the late game, and as Greg pointed out, bring a lot of siege against Japan to pick them off before they even get to use their bonus.
Japanese units always fight at full strength?!??
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jagdtigerciv
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Erhm. Most samurai became privileged aristocrats and their fighting style became increasingly showmanship and individual dueling that was impractical on any battlefield (or against another non-samurai for that matter). In contrast to say, a European knight, they were not capable warriors for all practicality.
SeismoGraf
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Hmm... I read that the average weight of a simple byrnie (chain mail) with short arms is about 15 kilograms. Then, how can a knight wearing full plate armor not be slow?
hardcore_gamer
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I think I remember reading a article on cracked where they mention this. I don't remember the name of it, but they did say that knights could actually move fairly easily in their armor.
Because while armour did weigh some, it also granted very efficient protection.
However armour distributes the weight over the body, and a trained man-at-arms (who would be in good shape) wouldn't be extremely hindered. Especially considering the fact that plate armour itself was impervious to swords (IE a sword stab to an area not covered with plate would wound, but a stab or cut hitting the plate itself wouldn't cause as much as a scratch).
stealth_nsk
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No, all units.
Thyrwyn
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The Samurai comes with Shock and generates more great generals...in addition to always fighting at full strength 
I am NOT going to be happy if I start near Japan. Not happy at all. . .
I am NOT going to be happy if I start near Japan. Not happy at all. . .
VikingMaekel
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Bushido (the full strenght attack skill) is the Japanese Special Ability
The Samurai as a UU has the Shock promotion immediately and improves the chance of generating a Great General when winning fights
QFT. Civ is game. It may be a game based on and drawing inspiration from history, but in the end Civ is a turn-based strategy game, not a simulation of real history.
If you want a simulation game, go play Paradox Games like Victoria 2 and Europa Universalis 3, they are both excellent, if vastly more complicated than Civ and covering a smaller period of time.
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Anyone else feels the tech progression is just too fast? there should rarely be 2-tech level gap (level refers to his samurai vs. musketeers = 1 level gap; samurai vs. riflemen = 2 level gap).
Yup, but thats the same for all modes of civ, the first mod I shall be making is my Super Marathon mod - name is a work in progress - which will extend the marathon length by about 20-40 times...
A bit over the top I know, but it's how I play civ 4! I like to have extended battles in each era and like to really appreciate each new tech before moving on to the next!
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Perhaps Greg was spending all of his resources creating units to stall his own demise and could not spare as much resources towards research as Napoleon?
Also, don't forget that more cities mean more population and more population means more research and unless I am mistaken there were plenty of things that hinted that Napoleon had more cities then Greg.
Mustakrakish
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Before the samurai war part, they talked about how low-tech units cannot destroy high-tech units (mathematically impossible, no less). Yet the samurais did beat the
Haven't you watched "The Last Samurai"?
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Greg was falling behind in the tech tree but he was playing of immortal, besides he did research gunpowder eventually, and he stil built sowardsman and upgraded them to smaurais.
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I kinda skipped through some of the video#2, I know he started the fresh game on Immortal but the saved game - was it played on immortal as well?
And how can 1 civ be 3x higher in score than any other civ. In Civ4 its always a pack leading and some stranglers but I have never seen 1 civ towering above others (especially on supposedly Immortal difficulty).
In the live stream, I noticed when Greg attacked with a wounded warrior, his strength was listed as the same as it was when it was not wounded. Here's the screenshot:
This leads me to believe that unlike Civ 4, unit strength is not reduced when wounded.
My theory is that the Japanese power simply means that the unit fights as if it has full hit points, although at the end of combat any damage it it takes will still be subtracted from the actual hit points it had remaning.
This leads me to believe that unlike Civ 4, unit strength is not reduced when wounded.
My theory is that the Japanese power simply means that the unit fights as if it has full hit points, although at the end of combat any damage it it takes will still be subtracted from the actual hit points it had remaning.
