As every month, you get a new “Game Of The Month”!
This time you play as Nader Shah of Persia on a standard size continents map on deity level. For an additional challenge the disaster intensity is set to 2. You also need to go for a domination victory, and prevent all other civs from achieving one of the other victory options. You have until June 15 to not only conquer Greece, but also the rest of the world. For more information please see this thread here.
We are all eagerly waiting for Civilization 7, so we cling to every piece of information we can get.
Our moderator Eagle Pursuit has written down a short analysis of a recent fiscal report of Take2, and there is some chance that we will not get it before the middle of 2024. The fiscal report outlines various details, including which already released games will bring the most influx of money, as well as newly released games with big potential. The latter list names known sports games, as well as a new IP, but no Civilization title. From this information we infer right now that the next Civ title will not come in the fiscal year 2024, which ends in April 2024. This is an unconfirmed analysis, and also these plans do change, so nothing is sure yet, although we do think there is the possibility that this is indeed the case.
Today, Sega has announced the newest title in the Total War franchise, Total War: Pharaoh.
Fans of the series will not be suprised: Total War: Pharaoh continues with everything what belongs to Total War, so a turn-based overview map and real-time battles. The game will have 8 playable factions, of which Egypt, the Hittites and Canaanites are already known. The game will come in 3 different editions, on different price tiers, of which the last will already include 3 DLC factions and a DLC campaign. There are also pre-order bonuses, and a physical edition will come as well.
Total War: Pharaoh is scheduled to be released in October 2023.
For further information, please see the following links:
– https://pharaoh.totalwar.com/news/announce-faq/
– https://store.totalwar.com/en/total-war/total-war-pharaoh
Discuss the newest title with us here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/total-war-pharao-announced.683855/
The four-hundred-and-fifteenth episode of PolyCast, “We Lost the Game“ is now available for streaming on ThePolyCast.net. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus. Stephanie “Makahlua”, Phil “TheMeInTeam”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan”. Topics for this episode include:
News
– 00h04m06s | Leader Pack 3: Rulers of China Release and Patch Notes
– 00h22m25s | Aspyr Announces Mac and iOS Delays.
– 00h25m26s | Small Update to Civ VI for Nefarious Reasons.
– 00h35m25s | Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri Fan Remaster Project.
Forum Talk
– 00h45m27s | Spiffing Brit vs. God.
– 00h49m37s | Which Chinese Leader is More Gamebreaking?
– 00h53m39s | National Park Outline Aesthetics Poll
NOTE: This Episode was recorded on January 28, 2022.
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 four-hundred-and-fourteenth episode of PolyCast, “Nerve Staplers are NOT Still in Vogue“ is now available for streaming on ThePolyCast.net. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus. Stephanie “Makahlua”, Phil “TheMeInTeam”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan”. Topics for this episode include:
Intro
– 00h01m47s | What Tech or Wonder Quotes Would You Like to See?
News
– 00h04m45s | Leader Pack 3: Rulers of China Announced for Jan 19.
– 00h10m45s | Turn-Based Lovers Posts A New Review for Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri.
– 00h26m44s | FreeCol Reaches Version 1.0.0.
Forum Talk
– 00h29m32s | whiteandnerdytv’s Great Commanders Reaction and Analysis video is Discussed.
– 00h33m19s | Opinions on the Scory Victory.
Research Lab
– 00h39m34s | Ideas for New Victory Conditions, Forum Thread
– 00h49m04s | Ideas for Negative Civilization Traits
NOTE: This Episode was recorded on January 14, 2023.
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.
AI, in the form of image generators and large language models, are currently the hype. And ChatGPT has now also finally arrived for Civ fans! FCiv.net (an offshot of FreeCiv) has announced today that they have incorporated ChatGPT into their diplomacy engine.
Will we now see leaders realistically talking too each other? Or an AI, which will end a trade agreement in the next turn? It will be interesting to see how the current AI developments can improve Civilization!
The Tacticon is over, and besides many sales, there were also many interesting talks! They are now also available on youtube, the playlist is here. Talks include, among others, “The Art of War: Applying philosophical principles to modern strategy games” (panel includes Soren Johnson) and “Heroes at war: the role of key characters in strategy games” (panel here includes also Leyla Johnson).
If you want to discuss Tacticon with us, then click here.
And we got again a new “Game Of The Month” for you! In this Civ5 GOTM you play as Wu Zetian on standard size oval map on Prince level. You have to go for a science victory, and must at the same time prevent all other civs from achieving another victory. You have until June 15 to lead China into the space age! For more information please click here.