Watch strategy legend Sulla beat the Civ4 AI… again!

By | August 6, 2021

Sulla, our renowned Civ4 master strategist, is currently fighting the finale of the 6th season of his AI survivor series. If you want to see how he’s doing right now, join him on Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/lcsullla . For more information about his AI survivor series, check out his home page https://sullla.com/civ4survivorindex.html

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Play the current Civ4 and Civ6 “Game Of the Month!”

By | August 6, 2021

The “Game Of The Month” is a traditional effort of the Civ community, to provide a new challenge each month. Our GOTM teams create each time a save game, for which you have the goal to outcompete everyone else at CFC in winning. Can you show us that you’re true civ-fanatic, and beat everyone else?

Check out the ongoing GOTMs:

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Check out Venus!

By | August 5, 2021

The European Space Agency had 2 missions arrive in the recent days at Venus, Solar Orbiter and BepiColombo, together with a Japanese JAXA mission, Akatsuki, see ESA information here https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/ESA_gets_ready_for_double_Venus_flyby .

But Civ-fans can already be far ahead, and explore Venus themself! We have maps for Civ3 and Civ4 of Venus, based on previous scans of the Venus surface. Check them out!

There are also more maps of foreign planets in our downloads section (e.g. Mars), have a look at them too :).

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Offworld Trading Company Free on Epic (Jul 15 – Jul 21)

By | July 15, 2021

Epic Games offers one or two free games every week. From July 15th to July 21st, you can get Soren Johnson’s Offworld Trading Company for free. Check it out!

EDIT (7/22): This offer is no longer available.

PolyCast 386: Machine Learning

By | June 29, 2021

The three hundred-and-eighty-sixth episode of PolyCast, “Machine Learning“ is now available for streaming on polycast.civfanatics.com. This episode features regular co-hosts Stephanie “Makahlua”, Phil “TheMeInTeam”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan”. Topics for this episode include:

Forum Talk
00h01m29s | Civ VII could Make It’s A.I. Smarter and How fixing the A.I. should be easy
00h37m41s | Firaxis’ “Impossible Save” is not-so-impossible.
00h43m05s | Outbreak of mange
Senate
00h47m46s | Why did the April patch buff tanks?


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; sibling show ModCast focuses on Civ modding.

PolyCast 385: Perverse Incentives

By | June 19, 2021

The three hundred-and-eighty-fifth episode of PolyCast, “Perverse Incentives“ 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:

News
00h02m23s | Civilization VI Anthology released
00h09m56s | Firaxis Leader Royale
Forum Talk
00h25m18s | How Does Civ VI compare to Civ V?
00h47m46s | History simulator or game?


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; sibling show ModCast focuses on Civ modding.

Soren Johnson’s Old World Full Release Coming July 1

By | June 10, 2021

Civilization IV’s lead designer Soren Johnson’s historical epic strategy game Old World is set to release on July 1 on Epic Games. Discuss the game with your fellow fanatics in the forums here.