And also for Civ6 we get an interesting new “Game Of The Month”. The team has put together a new challenge, to find out who is the best civ player among the fanatics!
In this game you play as Phillip of Spain on Prince level on a continents map. Due to Halloween you also get zombies, and you should strive for domination victory. You have until December 1 to finish this game.
You can find all the details here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/news-6otm-122-announcement.673978/
The “Game Of The Month” team has prepared again an interesting game for you this month! Can you beat everyone else, and be the best Civ-fanatic around? You can find out now!
In the current Civ4 GOTM you play as Zara Yaqob of Ethiopia on a fractal map on prince level. You will need to strive for a spaceship or a cultural victory. You can try this until maximum December 1.
Find all the other details here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/news-botm-224-ethiopia-prince-starts-1-nov.673878/
The three hundred-and-ninety-third episode of PolyCast, “Of Portugal and Feitorias“ is now available for streaming on polycast.civfanatics.com. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus, Stephanie “Makahlua”, Phil “TheMeInTeam”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan”. Topics for this episode include:
Forum Talk
– 00h01m51s | Sid Meier and Bruce Shelley’s 2018 Speech to GDC
– 00h07m26s | How Hard-coded is the Opening Gambit
– 00h17m49s | The Difficulty Poll.
Senate
– 00h25m07s | Portugal Strategy Guide
PolyCast is a bi-weekly audio production recording live every other Saturday at 12 Noon US Eastern Time throughout the year, in an ongoing effort to give the Civilization community an interactive voice.
The Civilization VI Anthology is currently discounted on Steam, with the whole bundle including expansions and DLCs for 39.78€. Check it out on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/21432/Sid_Meiers_Civilization_VI_Anthology/
Mohawk Games, the creators of Old World, have released a new patch. This update most critically contains 12 new tracks for the Old World soundtrack, composed by Civ music legend Christopher Tin, who created the award winning Civ4 title track “Baba Yetu”, as well as the Civ6 soundtrack.
You can find the soundtrack on various platforms, namely Youtube, Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and Artist Store. You can find all the links here: https://christophertin.lnk.to/OldWorld
If this was not motivation enough yet for you to buy the game, Old World is on sale with a 10% discount in the Epic store, bringing the price down to 29.69€! You can find the sale here: https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/old-world
For the rest of the Old World patch notes, please read here: https://mohawkgames.com/2021/10/29/old-world-update-76/
Discuss the soundtrack and the patch in our forum here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/old-world-soundtrack-by-christopher-tin-patch-76-october-28.673931/
Humble Bundle has a 25th years Aspyr deal: Pay at least 10.13€ for 8 different games. The main interest for us CivFanatics is Civ: Beyond Earth, with the other titles e.g. Borderlands or Bioshock Infinite are less interesting, while still excellent. The price of 10.13€ still beats the regular Civ:BE price, so this is worth having a look.
Find the deal here: https://www.humblebundle.com/games/aspyr-25th-anniversary
Thomasz Zych, or Titos2k on Twitter https://twitter.com/titos2k , has drawn all the Civ2 units in a very nice style. He has uploaded them to his website, https://rysownik.com/illustration/civilization-2-units/ , and you can find a high-res version of the drawings also here https://rysownik.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/fullset-2.png .
He has also published an article on medium about his experience drawing these units. Read it here: https://medium.com/@titos2k/few-lessons-learned-after-civ2-units-project-97f7ce63aa64
Discuss these drawings in our forum here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/marvel-at-tomasz-zychs-civ2-unit-drawings.673910/
Most people are aware of the extensive modding capabilities which there are in Civ. Starting from Civ2 we had great scenarios, space and fantasy mods, everything what you can imagine.
But did you know that you could already mod Civ1? Our user blake has made a compilation of the available mods and scenarios for Civ1. He uploaded 11 scenarios from Civ1 to our database. The list includes a Rise of Rome and a WW2 scenario, an earthmap, a Dune scenario, and some user made fantasies.
If you are curious about the Civ1 mods, have a look at his thread here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/civ1-scenario-mod-preservation-project-log-11-processed.672488/
You can also find his video series here and everything in our download database for Civ1 here.