Kull’s Civ Call To Power 2 Apolyton Edition Cradle 3+ Upgrade Project

By | December 16, 2023
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Other than the occasional tinkering with the Apolyton Edition of Call To Power 2 there’s not many CTP fan projects still going these days. However long time Civ community member Kull has been working over the last year or so on making the popular Cradle 3+ mods compatible with the Apolyton Edition of CTP2 while also making a huge amount of bug fixes, new gameplay improvements and even new custom terrain/city/unit graphics & animations. Recently he’s been posting about adding new custom wonders that appear on the surrounding city map titles (Civ6 style). There’s no playable release yet but any lurking CTP fans can find more links, pictures & info here.

Play the new Civ6 “Game Of The Month” #173

By | December 16, 2023
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New (mid-)month, new Civ6 game, just in time for the Christmas holidays! This time you play as Gorgo of Greece on a standard size pangaea map with low sea level and low resources on Emperor level. You also get some disasters and corporations, and you need to win via a culture or diplomatic victory. You can take this challenge until January 15! For more information please check this thread.

Humankind: George Sand update announced

By | December 15, 2023
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Amplitude Studios have announced an upcoming update for their game Humankind.

This update will come with a lot of rebalancing, new modding tools, more map generation options, the possibility to have a culture more than once in a game, and many more things!

For the full information, please read the thread in the forum here.

New Old World DLC announced: Wonders & Dynasties!

By | December 15, 2023
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Mohawk Games, the developers of Old World, have announced a new DLC, called “Wonders & Dynasties”. This DLC will add 30 new leaders, 8 new wonders, and probably a lot more things. The DLC is scheduled for January 11. Discuss this DLC with us here.

For the already regular players, a new update, #117, has been released. This update contains e.g. changes to the competitive mode and the loading screens. You can check the full update here.

Old World is currently available in the Epic Store, on GOG and Steam.

Millennia Developer Diary – Ages Part One

By | December 14, 2023
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We got another developer diary from the new Paradox game Millennia!
This time the diary is about the ages in Millennia. The age system is somewhat comparable to Civ3, as there are defined ages, which can be unlocked by more things than only technologies. The first player entering a certain age will have the option to chose from a historical age, from an alternative timeline age (e.g. steam punk age), or they might trigger a crisis age (like probably the dark ages). If a player enters one of the first two, they will stay locked for everyone, but you can get out of a crisis age by triggering one of the others. After each alternative age you have to play a historical age though, to keep the timeline a bit on track.

For some more insights please check this thread.

Next Civ6 Monthly Challenge: Seven Seas

By | December 12, 2023
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Firaxis has put the next monthly challenge online: This time you are playing as Hadrada (Konge) on a large island plates map with a high sea level and high rainfall. You may chose between Prince and Emperor difficulty, and the necessary DLC is for you available for this challenge even if you have not bought it.

This challenge runs from December 12 to January 9.

Come discuss with us here.

New Civ5 HOF gauntlets

By | December 8, 2023
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While the general Hall of Fame is an ongoing competition, we like to run time-definite competitions between updates that we call Gauntlets.

For december we got again two new ones, one major, one minor:

For the G-Major CXXXIX, you need to play as Harald of Denmark on a small shuffle map on Immortal level, and you need to win via a science victory. The deadline is December 31, and you can find more information here.

For the G-Minor CCXII, you can play as any leader on a tiny small continents map on chieftain with quick speed, with some defined competitors (see thread) and a diplomacy victory. Also here the deadline is December 31, and you can find more information here.

Support the CivGive charity event 2023

By | December 7, 2023
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The CivGive is a charity event, organized by various Streamers around TheCivShow.

In 2021 the team managed to raise $42 000 for extralife, and $25 000 were matched by 2K Games, in 2022 the aim was $75 000, which was nearly reached.

So this year, it is time again: On December 17 is the big, big, big live stream, with 10 known streamers participating. The goal this time is $50 000, of which nearly 8% have already been raised. All donations will go this time  to GamersOutreach, a foundation which tries to light up the lives of hospitalized children by giving them the option to play.

The following streamers will participate in this giant MP match:

The event is hosted by TheCivShow.

We hope that also CivFanatics will do their share to reach the 50 000 , and we hope that this will again be an enjoyable event!