Old World update #108

By | May 10, 2023

Mohawk Games, the developers of Old World, have released the latest update for their game. This update includes, among other things like bugfixes, a new desert map scripts, as well as AI and memory improvements. Discuss this update with us here.

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

FreeCol v1.1.0 released!

By | May 8, 2023

A new version of FreeCol, the free and open source interpretation of Colonization, has been released! This new version includes new music tracks, new hill and mountain graphics, reduced computation time for the AI, and many more things!

Download the new version here, and discuss it with us here!

Play the new Civ5 “Game Of The Month” #220

By | May 7, 2023

As every month we got a new game for you! In this Civ5 “Game Of The Month” you play as Maria Theresia of Austria on a standard size fractal map on deity level. You need to go for a domination victory, and must prevent any other civ from achieving another one. You have until May 31 to bring the Habsburg’s back to glory again.

For all info please see this thread.

Ara: History Untold’s Living World – Roads

By | May 6, 2023

The developers of Ara: History Untold have published a new blog post about the update on their roads, to make them more lively and organic looking. You can find the screenshots here, and discuss them in our forum here.

Civ IV HOF Update

By | May 5, 2023

The Civ4 Hall Of Fame has again gotten an update! New players have been inaugurated in our everlasting Hall Of Civ Fame!

Congratulations to Peteyboy for the highest score of the update with a Small, Epic, Monarch, Domination game for 128,048 points.

SittinDown was the most active player during this update, submitting 4 games.

tsvyatkov was the most active player during this update, submitting 4 games.

Firmlife got a number 1 position with a 700 BC, Small, Epic, Monarch, Domination game for 115,186 points.

A new G-Major is now also available. This time we want you to play a tiny marathon game on Prince level, playing as not-Inca and going for a space victory (among other restrictions). For more information please see here.

Tacticon 2023 from May 11 to May 15!

By | May 5, 2023

The information for the next Tacticon is out!
The Tacticon is an online strategy convention, which features talks (about e.g. the Art Of War), streams, new demos for interesting strategy titles, and also sales.
This year 100+ titles will be present, including Endless Dungeon, and many others.
The sale will include interesting titles like Timberborn, Lords of Rigel, Terra Invicta, the Wandering Village, and also again many more.

Tacticon is organized by FireSquidGames and HoodedHorse, who also published Old World (so we do expect Soren Johnson to be present too).

You can find the Tacticon press release here, the website here, and the steam event (which will list the sales) here. You can also obviously discuss the Tacticon with us in our forum here.

New Civ5 “Hall Of Fame” challenges

By | May 4, 2023

Here at CivFanatics we have the long tradition of the “Hall Of Fame”: You can submit us your played savegames, and if you make a high score in a certain category, you will be listed in our “Hall Of Fame” (certain rules apply though).

The team has now put together 2 new challenges, for you to master: The G-Major CXXXIII and the G-Minor CCVI.

The G-Major CXXXIII requires you to play with the BNW expansion. We are looking for a game on a tiny map with tilted axis on Emperor level as Siam on epic speed, with a cultural victory. For more information please see here.

The G-Minor CCVI also requires BNW. We are looking for a game on a small inland sea map on quick speed on King level as Babylon. This time we want to have a diplomatic victory. For more information please see here.

Raffle: Win a copy of PocketCiv!

By | May 2, 2023

As you know, we like a game called “Civilization”. Sometimes we also like some other games, but even better if they also have a “civ” in it! Recently we stumbled upon the game “PocketCiv“, thanks to their Twitter account. As you can guess from the title, it’s a neat and small civ-like game, staying more in the ancient setting and based on the boardgame of the same name. It’s overall not as big as our beloved Civilization, but more focused. It’s a pocket version, if you like ;).
BMCGames, the devs of PocketCiv, noticed that we noticed them, so they came over to CFC and offered us a few keys to hand out to our members.

We are therefore doing a small raffle, but you need to tell us one thing:
We know that you like adding things to Civ, like more nations, leaders, wonders, etc. Now tell us one thing, which you would like to have less of in Civ, and win one out of 3 copies of PocketCiv. Let us know here.
The raffle runs for 7 days, afterwards the winners will be determined by a random roll.

Please note that the game is in early access and might still change. Please also note that the guys bribed us with a few steam keys for the CFC staff too.