[PC]Civilization V coming!

[The Brain]

Should I get this crap?

[The Brain]

Oh wait, they used Erik XIV to model Gustavus Adolphus. I don't think they want my money.

[Viking]

I'm the romans fighting the mayans on a wide front on a pangea continent. He is larger and ahead in tech. I have garrisoned my frontier towns with trebuchets and have a fortress where our road networks meet.

My religion is christianity (I am rome after all) with Godess of Love, Pagodas and Mosques. Now that I'm producing shitloads of faith my religion grants each of my towns 4 happiness, 4 culture and 5 faith.

For all my CivV experience I'm now in the situation where I can't use up all my happiness in population. Happiness is no longer my limiting factor, but rather I have to balance my need for money, food and production in running my empire. All of a sudden the game no longer boils down to maximizing the use I get out of one factor (happiness) and now I am forced to balance.

I love this expansion.

[Darth Wagtaros]

There a steampunk mod or one that combines dungeons and dragons and the ACW?

[FunkMonk]

I'm the Ottomans on a Continents map. Spawned on a large island off the coast of a large continent. After setting up a few cities I captured the city-state Lisbon and renamed it Porkchopograd since the damn eggplants gave me a rough go at first.

Since then I founded the religion known as Timmayism and my armies of Trebuchets and Janissaries have spread the word of Tim onto the continent, capturing Vienna with its spearhead units of Seedy's Coppas and Ed's Waffen SS. Additional reinforcements in the form of Marty's Men, Timmay's Brigade, and Berkut's Band are en route across the Errant Sea to join the rest of our armies as we prepare to backstab our Spanish ally Isabella and throw her into my harem pit. The forces of "LOL can I be: Ottoman Empire" are irresistable.

I like the game so far.

[mongers]

I should build a new pc so I can play this.   

[Kleves]

What's the penalty if one of your cities follows a different religion from your own?

[Kleves]

Hm. Saving the game during a late-game war seems to fuck the game up. 

[Viking]

I maximized population growth with my aztecs in religion and now have a 50% extra population growth where I have rivers or lakes. They spawn like fucking Rabbits. I take back what I said about not needing more happiness, I need more happiness.

[jimmy olsen]

I'm the Ottomans on a Continents map. Spawned on a large island off the coast of a large continent. After setting up a few cities I captured the city-state Lisbon and renamed it Porkchopograd since the damn eggplants gave me a rough go at first.

Since then I founded the religion known as Timmayism and my armies of Trebuchets and Janissaries have spread the word of Tim onto the continent, capturing Vienna with its spearhead units of Seedy's Coppas and Ed's Waffen SS. Additional reinforcements in the form of Marty's Men, Timmay's Brigade, and Berkut's Band are en route across the Errant Sea to join the rest of our armies as we prepare to backstab our Spanish ally Isabella and throw her into my harem pit. The forces of "LOL can I be: Ottoman Empire" are irresistable.

I like the game so far.

What are the tenets of this religion?

[FunkMonk]

I'm the Ottomans on a Continents map. Spawned on a large island off the coast of a large continent. After setting up a few cities I captured the city-state Lisbon and renamed it Porkchopograd since the damn eggplants gave me a rough go at first.

Since then I founded the religion known as Timmayism and my armies of Trebuchets and Janissaries have spread the word of Tim onto the continent, capturing Vienna with its spearhead units of Seedy's Coppas and Ed's Waffen SS. Additional reinforcements in the form of Marty's Men, Timmay's Brigade, and Berkut's Band are en route across the Errant Sea to join the rest of our armies as we prepare to backstab our Spanish ally Isabella and throw her into my harem pit. The forces of "LOL can I be: Ottoman Empire" are irresistable.

I like the game so far.

What are the tenets of this religion?

[Octavian]

So I ended up buying this and the game of the year edition. Haven't really played CIV since CIV I and II.

Couldn't get into III and IV which I own

Started on a giant earth map with true locations with egypt.

Like it so far!

[Tamas]

Had a tech victory on King as Carthage.

I think I like the diplomacy. You can get a real working friendly relationship going, but if your friend becomes desperately locked up in options, they will backstab you. So, the AI at least tries playing to win which is the right thing for it to do.

Also I should have screenshoted my impressive Maginot line I formed against this unpredictable friend of mine. 5 or so forts, two of them great general built to grab some resources, stacked with infantry and machine guns, with a couple of reserve units behind them, and 2 hexes from the forts a line of artilleries (3 spaces long range to hit the attackers on my turn!) with a couple of anti-air units to offer AA protection. 

Also it was fun to watch tw neighbors fight. Heavy use of arty, air power, and mobile SAMs. Altough the AI doesnt like to disband sailships.

The game is clearly better with the expansion. I am not sure if it is there yet, but it is fun

[Darth Wagtaros]

Does teh expansion make it mroe interesting? I tried the vanilla Civ V out again the other night, got to Medieval Period with India on archipelago.  Was kinda interesting, but slow moving.

[Tamas]

Does teh expansion make it mroe interesting?

IMHO yes. Not dramatically, but clearly. I am starting to see a sparkle of life in the gameplay, something which was badly missing in vanilla.