The CivPlayersLeague is organizing a tournament this weekend, on Saturday January 15 at 14h central European time (8 AM east coast, 2 AM west coast). 6 teams of 2 are battling for world domination, with each team consisting out of one female and one male player, to encourage more women in gaming.
If you want to know more about this tournament, check the website or the discord server.
Amplitude has announced the first DLC for Humankind. The Cultures of Africa DLC will add one new African culture per era along with new events and wonders of the world. Releasing on 20th January, it is available for pre-order at 10% discount.
The new cultures in order of the eras are the Bantu, Garamantes,Swahili, Maasai, Ethiopians and Nigerians.
For the rest of the details, please check the thread in the forum: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/first-dlc-for-humankind-cultures-of-africa-announced.674896/#post-16208284
Original announcement: https://www.games2gether.com/amplitude-studios/humankind/blogs/796-cultures-of-africa-dlc-available-for-pre-order
And it’s again the time for the Civilization 3 “Game Of The Month”! Find out if you’re better at achieving world domination than anyone else!
For people playing with the addon “Conquests”, there is the COTM #158. In this game you play the Maya on a standard size continents map on deity level, with some more modifications to the game as well. You have until March 31st to finish this game.
All details for COTM158: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/cotm158-maya-deity-discussion-and-spoilers.674662/
For people playing with the addon “Play The World” we have the GOTM #185. In this game you play the Vikings on a standard size continents map as well, but here on regent level. You have also here until March 31st to finish this game.
All details for GOTM185: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/gotm-185-scandinavia-regent-discussion-and-spoilers.674666/
Mohawk Games, the creators of Old World, have released a new patch for their game. This patch includes again bug fixes, changes to balance and more events!
Full change log: https://mohawkgames.com/2022/01/07/old-world-update-81/
Discuss the patch in our forum: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/old-world-patch-81.674862/
Our user blake00 has again been very active and produced a new video! In this video, he showcases/reviews the FreeMars project. FreeMars is a freely available version of our beloved Colonization, but this time set on Mars. The goal is the same as in the original Colonization: Build up your colonies, and declare independence from the motherland (earth, in this case). As also in Col this involves settling new colonies, diplomacy with other colonies, building units, producing goods, and trading with earth. The game itself is too a good part finished, but certain things are still in a development stage. Blake shows though that it is playable and can be finished. So if you’re a sci-fi fan, and you like Colonization, have a look at this ;).
Discuss this video in our forum: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/civ-video-series-ep-02-colonization-hd-tour.673998/#post-16206911
TurnBasedLovers have published an article, anticipating new turn-based games for January 2022. This article includes not only strategy games, but also RPGs. Most interesting for us civ-fanatics are probably Expeditions: Rome, which is a group-based RPG set in Roman times and Warriors: Rise To Glory, which is a turn-based fighting game set in a pseudo-Roman setting.
For the whole list please read the article at TurnBasedLovers.
New year, new “Game Of The Month”! The team has again put something together to challenge you directly at the beginning of the year!
This time you play as Hammurabi on a standard size fractal map on Noble level. You have until February 3 to finish this game.
All details can be found here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/news-botm-228-hammurabi-noble-starts-3-jan.674742/
The Twitter user paisley_trees, who is a history reseacher at Yale, has put our attention to this letter, which was sent by Süleyman the Magnificent to Dom Joao III of Portugal, who are both leaders in Civ6.
This letter actually concerns a trade agreement between both countries. Both Ottomans and Portugese had some confrontations regarding the domination of the Indian Ocean. After multiple failed confrontations from both sides, Süleyman the Magnificent wanted to make peace, and suggested a trade: They wanted 250 000 kg of pepper in exchange for 5-15 years of peace and 3 800 tons of wheat.
The Portugese made a counter offer, 125 000 kg of pepper in exchange for at least 15 years of peace, 7 600 tons of wheat, free passage for trading, and a demand to the Ottomans not to construct galleys suitable for the Indian Ocean.
The relevant letter here is Süleyman The Magnificent addressing Joao’s last request, rejecting it, and asking again for the first terms.
The whole letter is sadly not freely available, but most of it (without further discussion in the research paper) can be seen for free on the first page, and it is possible to download it after a free registration.
You can find this letter here: https://www.jstor.org/stable/41104901