Civilization Thread!

[Benji]

Poland can into space! I finished a Poland game I started a while back last night. Byzantine looked like they might have a shot at culture victory but I managed to take their cap and crippled them. By the end pretty much everyone hated me and Hiawatha because we were bros tearing it up, and despite his also dominanating he never looked like winning.

[Benji]

This game is so weird sometimes. I got gifted a Norwegian Ski Infantry as Polynesia and managed to get the enter snow tile achievement via that. Nothing says "snow" like Honolulu.

[MDK]

They have mountains in Hawaii

[Benji]

Kamehameha is waaaay OP on archi maps. I basically got 90% of the goody huts in this game, and he seems well suited to pretty much every victory condition. Weird, because he's always last in games against him.

[9 to 5]

He is great, the first Civ I played as and still my fave.

[Mick]

A lot of Civs are cheap if you now how to skew the terrian the right way; I always hate people showing off pics of their Awesome game, only to see that they're pulling some kind of BS, like Venice or England on archi, where you'd really have to go out of your way to lose.

[9 to 5]

Or if they have certain mods.

[Mick]

Like what? . The Infograph showing people's relationships? That game-breaking extra-religions mod?

[Sousa]

Right, like those two things that are cheating.

[Mick]

Right, like those two things that are cheating.

http://youtu.be/ejvyDn1TPr8

[Maxx]

[Sousa]

There is something immensely satisfying about sweeping an entire continent in two turns.

[Mick]

It always bothers me when you have another Civ with their backs to the wall, and you offer peace, even with generous terms, and they absolutely refuse. It's like.."do you people want to die?!" I had thi sone where Catherine just refused to accept peace, until she had lost all her cities on her mainland, left with just one crappy island city. She accepted peace.

Then the Danes came in and gave the coup de grace.

[Mick]

[Benji]

Persia is another boring one. Spamming happiness is kind of fun, but it's just not my kind of game to focus so strongly on that. My people tend to be moderately satisfied with me, not happy, dagnabit.

[Sousa]

Oh my god I love Persia so much. Stringing Golden Age after Golden Age and just watching your dudes run all over the map is so great. Get the Chicken Pizza, get a ton of artists, and then just pop them all when you're good and ready.

[Benji]

Why is it that I spend entire games basically gifting people stuff, protecting them from bullies, and generally being a nice guy, but when I kill their bully suddenly I'm the devil? I really despise the warmongering mechanics in this game.

[Mick]

Happens in real life!

US: "HEY GUYS WE TOOK CARE OF SADDAM!"
World: *DENOUNCES US*
US: "......."

[stokeriño]

That does slightly gloss over the bit where they lied about their reasons and then went ahead and invaded after the UN told them not to.

[Mick]

But they kept us as hosts