Stolen Pixels #233: The Wonders!
These are the other Wonders of the Civilization world.
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These are the other Wonders of the Civilization world.
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Stolen Pixels #233: The Wonders!
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Are they really? I was trying for a cultural victory as Napoleon in Civ V, but got slaughtered by Germany. What really sucked was that I only had 3 cities (small civilisations in the higher difficulties at least, I can assure you, are not a viable strategy, as far as I can see), whilst Bismarck had, and I am not making this up, 17 cities. And they were the only ones I could see. There is no way one civ should be able to control that many cities without serious consequences.Double A said:
Still, I love it, and I think all I have to do is find the time to try some new strategies.
Civ 5 being a wonder fits perfectly in the context of civ 5 the game. Afterall, most of the wonders in that are surprisingly boring and not worth building.
It's weird how humour of this type just doesn't work when it praises a game I've come to loathe so badly.
It's weird how humour of this type just doesn't work when it praises a game I've come to loathe so badly.
France gets unique musketeers AND infantry. Tell me that's not overpowered.Andronicus said:
edit: Also, Bismark probably didn't have a lot of happiness, and if they were won by conquest, possibly not a lot of gold, assuming he kept all the units. And if not, his core cities are probably populated by three people and a mule.
Eh, maybe. He threw quite a lot at me, and he had quite obviously funnelled all his reasearch into military-based techs; he was using cannons when I'd barely just received Pikemen. I was aiming for the more economy and culture-based techs though, so that's understandable. I focused so much on trying to keep my productivity and culture up, I avoided building more cities as they'd just cost me, but in retrospect I can see that having a lot of cities means more opportunity to build things like temples, and especially extra military units for if I get attacked.Double A said:
I could go on about tonnes of things I could have done to improve, but I won't bore you (any more) with my ramblings. Incidentally, I never got to the "overpowered" French units before I was consumed.
Gah, I really want to play this game now. Five weeks of CIV comics have sparked a civilization hunger inside me.
I will play this game, however having only just discovered the Rise of Mankind Mod for IV (I'm a bit slow, so sue me) it might be quite some time in the future.
Not to sound like... a douche... but... it's entirely possible to win with just one city. You just need to be really focused.Andronicus said:
Also, temples don't cost too much. And there's also that nice National Epic you can get for building monuments in all your cities. That's always nice to have.
That's not overpowered.Double A said:
Sure, it's good for a late-ish game military focus, but a lot of other civilizations get buildings that are usualy useful from the day you get them till the game ends.
