Monthly Archives: October 2025

New Civ7 civ guide: Tonga, and update about naval battles

By | October 30, 2025

Today Sara gave us more information about the remaining civ for the “Tides of Power” DLC: Tonga. Tonga is an expansionist and diplomatic civ with a starting bias for coast and tropical tiles. They obviously get boni related to coastal tiles and exploration, such as their scout being able to enter directly ocean tiles without taking any damage.… Read More »

Old World update #140

By | October 30, 2025

Mohawk Games, the developers of Old World, have released the latest update for their game! This update includes a re-balancing of leader archetypes, adding of a new map bin, improvements to the MP setup, changes to the UI, bugfixes and more. Discuss this update with us here (and read the full list of changes too). Old World is… Read More »

New Civ Game Guide: Republic of Pirates

By | October 29, 2025

After Sara gave us some details yesterday about the new leader Edward Teach from the upcoming Civ7 “Tides Of Power” DLC on Monday, today we got information about the new Pirate Republic civ. The “Republic Of Pirates” is an economic and militaristic civ, which cannot build any settlers, but must capture them. Via civics, UUs and UBs the… Read More »

Civ7 First Look: Introducing Edward Teach

By | October 29, 2025

After the announcement yesterday for the upcoming free DLC on Monday, Sara has come by today to give us some more information. She has shared the first look for the new leader, Edward “Blackbeard” Teach. He is a militaristic and economic leader with a coastal starting bias. His special ability is all about plundering and being a proper… Read More »

Civ2: Heroes of Might and Magic 2 Scenario Mod

By | October 28, 2025

Years in the making CivFanatics user Blake00 has gone public with the v1.1 release of his & user MetroPolis’s Heroes of Might & Magic 2 total conversion scenario modpack for Sid Meier’s Civilization 2. Since Sept was the 30th anniversary of Heroes 1 he also made his HoMM1 graphics addon pack available earlier than planned too. Almost every… Read More »

Civ7: Patch 1.3 coming, and free DLC “Tides Of Power” next week

By | October 27, 2025

We do not know the release date of Patch 1.3 yet, but the release of the DLC “Tides Of Power” is November 4, and it will be free for all players until January 5. The patch might include an option to keep playing your civ (might, because changes are not sure yet), and will come with a range… Read More »

25 years of Civfanatics – a retrospective – UPDATE: Also Civ4 anniversary

By | October 25, 2025

Time flies, when you’re playing civ, and the same applies when you are browsing the forums! Today is one of the days which can be considered the birthday of Civfanatics, and we turn 25, which is in the age of the internet nearly biblical. For this occasion we have written a retrospective, which hopefully includes the most interesting… Read More »

1492 – Colonization of the New World – Public Demo & New Trailer!

By | October 19, 2025

We recently posted the exciting news about the new and very Sid Meier’s Colonization like game on the way called 1492 – Colonization of the New World. Well now they’ve released a new trailer and their first public demo on Steam for fans to try out! Have a go, let them, and also us, know what you guys… Read More »