Larsenex
King
Greetings!
I am closing very fast on a culture victory with Germany. I am on a HUGE map with 9 other civs (epic speed). I wanted to see what it was like to play both Germany and not go for a Science. Here are some observations and notes. I set the distance of all majors from me to 15 instead of the default 9. Game felt GREAT and distance from my neighbors was good enough for both (Aztecs and Scythia) to leave me alone for a good part of Ancient and Classical eras. If they are close they will war, otherwise they were busy expanding. And expand they did, both empires had 5 cities with the extra room modded in!
Game is fun, hands down Fun. I feel the price paid (60 USD) was worth it. If you are on the fence, don't let the neg review sway you. Get the game and lose an entire weekend like I did!
I am closing very fast on a culture victory with Germany. I am on a HUGE map with 9 other civs (epic speed). I wanted to see what it was like to play both Germany and not go for a Science. Here are some observations and notes. I set the distance of all majors from me to 15 instead of the default 9. Game felt GREAT and distance from my neighbors was good enough for both (Aztecs and Scythia) to leave me alone for a good part of Ancient and Classical eras. If they are close they will war, otherwise they were busy expanding. And expand they did, both empires had 5 cities with the extra room modded in!
- The Hansa is Amazing and it easily one of the best unique buildings of all the Civs. Production is everything and the Hansa can fix just about ANY problem you have because it makes things happen!
- Naval warfare while lacking is fun. I have seen England create fleets and escort her armies to my shore thinking I would be like overrun and such. I wanted to see her do it so I let her.
- Now that I understand how Tourism and Culture work, this type of victory is cool but really only requires me to build Theater districts and run great person cards. Its not very 'interactive' but can be ok if you want a 'slower paced' game.
- There is a snowball effect as you get better policies which double tourism of great works like music or tourism in general from trade with other civs. This speeds up the win and is ok but again really a 'hands off' type of game.
- Resource distribution even on 'plenty' is the suck. (5) oil on the ENTIRE huge Map!! While I had 5 Uranium in my empire alone and 3 of which I had under an existing mine..Booya!
- Early game warmongering is fun. Nothing going on in late game I think due to the penalty.
- Babylon loves to have an ally and it was me! This and the warmongering penalty I am pretty sure kept everyone from DoWing me late game, even though I was rude and demanded things and put troops on borders!
Game is fun, hands down Fun. I feel the price paid (60 USD) was worth it. If you are on the fence, don't let the neg review sway you. Get the game and lose an entire weekend like I did!
