Most of the depth is gone? Game seems dumbed down

[MantaRevan]

No, when CiV came out there were two choices:

Build as many cities as you can because global happiness was broken and there was no reason not to ICS.
Beeline to Horse riding and spam horsemen because combat was broken and there was no reason to attack a city with any other unit.

Vanilla lacked any challenge or strategy until it was heavily patched, I have no idea what OP is smoking.

Neither of those were terribly good strategies. In vanilla, the happiness penalties were harsher than they are in G&K, making rapid expansion much much harder than it is now; and horsemen were only really good for killing ranged units. They received a penalty to attacking cities(and still do), which basically meant that you couldn't use them to take cities, not making them very useful, as 75-ish percent of the combat is besieging cities.

 

[gunnergoz]

Don't feed the trolls, my pappy always said to me.

 

[Securion]

I dont know if OP is making some sort of joke im not getting, or if its just plain irony?
But saying that BNW compared to Vanilla is "dumbed down" is like saying rain is pretty dry these days. Weird stuff. Doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

 

[The_J]

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