seasnake
Conquistador
Persia, Russia and Japan have incredibly useful looking abilities. Songhai, not so much. Golden Ages already rock, to have them longer and improve your units is way useful
Siberian Riches
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Aramel
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Where is the forum people are asking questions at?
King Jason
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Where would you get that impression? You haven't been listening to 12agnar0k again have you?
Lol yeah I think I was mistaken, it does seem units do less damage to other units when low on health.
People really shouldn't listen to me.
*adds japan to play list.
Suicidal nutjobs just don't know when to fall down and die, they will still run at you screaming after having thier legs chopped off. Sounds fun.
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Not to mention I will play Russia quickly too, double Iron and Horses and then Double Uranium for the latest stage, & a production bonus on strategic resources now that is a lovely ability. My advice, (and something quite a few articles mentioned) don't upset the russians!!!!
The Leviathan
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Still a little disappointed that Siberian Riches or the Russian power has nothing to do with expansion. I still think the coolest idea that I heard for their powers was making theirs the opposite of India's power
King Jason
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there's no civ that has an "expansive" power, really.
alanthreonus
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I believe that unhappiness from population is higher than the unhappiness from number of cities, so that's why India's power works. Would having a bunch of really small cities that you can't afford to grow be any fun anyway?
And these powers seem really strong compared to some of the others we've seen. I wonder if these are final.
The Liberty Social Policy branch is really the "expansive" power, at least in the early game.
King Jason
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Yea? and there are duplicates of many civ powers found in the social policy tree too, Furor teutonics is replicated in the honor tree to some degree, as is the egypt one, I'd be willing to bet commerce increases ship movement, etc etc...
I didn't say there aren't expansive powers found elsewhere, I said there aren't any civs that have them. Which is odd, that there's no civ that has expanding it's empire as a strength.
True. There are some civ that have abilities that provide more benefits to a larger empire, Rome, Arabia and France for example, but we haven't seen any that have an ability that is beneficial to actual expansion, like cheaper Settlers or Workers. We'll have to see if that is a balancing issue, considering that city states take up space as well so there is less room for cities (standard map has 8 civs and 12 city states IIRC).
I'm curious as to how River Warlord calculates the strength of the embarked unit. I doubt that the boat strength is equal to the unit strength; otherwise Classical units would be too powerful (11 for embarked Swordsmen vs. 6 for Galleys) and Modern too weak (50 for Tank vs. 100 for Battleship). Maybe it goes up with techs/eras?
bjbrains
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Hmm, thanks for posting this, sorry if I came off as aggressive before, I've just seen too many fakes during game releases. There's some really cool stuff going on here. River Warlord doesn't do rivers, but it does really reflect on Askia/Songhai history.
Thyrwyn
Guardian at the Gate
Go, go Mr. Darius of Persia: Golden Ages last 50% longer; during a Golden Age, units receive +1 movement and a +10% combat strength bonus.
It might not work out too bad from a realism perspective. Before the invention of the broadside tactic, most naval combat was done by boarding, and boarding a ship with a Roman Legion on board can't be much fun. After the introduction of cannon on board ships, merchantmen were no match for dedicated warships. In the game, from Frigates onward, ships have significantly higher strength than land units from the same era.
What seems to go up with techs/era/policies is the defence strength of cities. I have seen a screenshot with size 2-5 cities with over 50 strength for a civ in the Future era.
Made me think of the Black Knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKhEw7nD9C4
Mercade
the Counsellor
Monty Python's Holy Grail comes to mind.Edit: Didn't see Craig123's yet when I posted, but indeed.
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