Will there ever be a Civ V 'war academy'?

Like the one we have for Civ IV? I remember when I first bought Civ IV and came here to discover the war academy which taught me so much about how to play.

Granted, I no longer really need a war academy, but I think it would be a great idea to have one for newer players, and even veterans like me, because frankly we can all learn and benefit from this

 

I was thinking the same thing. Hopefully there will be more strategy guides once (or if) the game eventually settles a bit, and stops being radically nerfed with each patch (which results in old strategies becoming obsolete).

 

As said, will probably come when the game settles down and gets a few major patches.

 

civ 5 is not civ 4, civ 5 is more simple, with less decision making, and depth so I doubt there will be a need for a war academy.

 

There are enough paths through the game to make a war academy.

 

yeah, its only chess as opposed to go, there's no need for strategy

 

There is the Civ5 - Strategy Articles section under the Civ5 Strategy and Tips section which is pretty much the same thing

 

Nonsense. Civ 3 got a War Academy, and it's miles behind Civ 4 or Civ 5.

 

It definitely needs one. Like it or not, it'll be around for a while. And it'd be handy to have all the info around in somewhere organized (that gets updated for each patch)

 

War academy will both emphasise for strategic moves when you fight and how you can get T units, U population, V wonders, W techs (and which ones), X cities and Y buildings in Z turns giving this or that to be able to do this or that later, etc.

Lot of possibilities and explanations needed for such things. We defenitively need a war academy. Maybe they wait for a more stable game because patches can drastically change these strategies.

 

I dont even think you played civ 3 when it came out the game was ten times better than civ 5 for its time.

 

Hmmm...
0.17
0.20
0.62
1.135

We've already got quite some major patches. How many more do you expect to come to save the game?

 

Rule 1 of Academy: Tech to horse, acquire horse resource while teching, use horse everywhere.

Rule 1 of Academy: Tech to longsword, acquire iron resource while teching, use longswords everywhere.

Edit: Now longsword wil lbe nerfed

 

the Civ5 War certificate, maybe...

Academy is too much of a word for this game...

 

agreed we dont need an academy for this game, its really simple if your low on happyness just build a happyness building want more stuff just go to war and puppet, oh and hit next turn alot.

 

Doesn't seem to me like the targetted audience for Civ 5 is the kind that likes to, you know... read and learn and other things like that.

Maybe a 3 minute YouTube video tutorial... should be plenty to beat CiV's AI... make sure it has some pop or r&b music in the background to keep the target audience focused.

 

awsome post I agree.

 

This forum really needs a +1 feature.

The worst part is, it seems the developers really intended for it to be this way.

 

Oddly enough, I've occasionally noticed that that the numbers viewing "Civ 5 Strategy and Tips" here" has been not much higher than that viewing "Civ 4 Strategy and Tips". And the gap appeared to be closing. I just checked before posting this and for the first time that I've noticed, the numbers viewing Civ 4 Strategy is actually higher than that for Civ 5 !!!!

This does objectively imply that Civ 5 is far simpler than Civ 4 as you'd assume there are many more people playing Civ 5 at the moment. I only player a few hours of 5 before passing it up, but I never felt the need to check out strategy. Unlike 4 where I spent many hours reading all the discussions on different strategies and how all the elements related in a way that they just don't in Civ 5.

This is both the strength and the weakness of Civ 4. A game that requires such studious effort to win on any level past Noble (TBH, I couldn't beat it on Noble without swotting up!) perhaps just isn't deemed acceptable to todays low attention span market.

 

Considering it was 10 times worse than Alpha Centauri, which was released before it, you may wish to amend that statement.