PolyCast 407: They Deleted Our Topic!

By | September 9, 2022
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The four-hundred-and-seven episode of PolyCast, “They Deleted Our Topic!“ 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
00h01m00s | Flooding in the US

News
00h03m30s | UnCiv Released for Mobile Platforms

Forum Talk
00h07m52s | Should There Be A Minimum City Revolt Time?
00h15m31s | What Exactly Is A Civilization?

Senate
00h23m11s | Which Policy Cards Do You Use In Your Games?
00h38m00s | Choral Music, Jesuit Education, or Work Ethic?

Outro
00h44m25s | Revisiting the Deleted Topic

NOTE: This Episode was recorded on August 27, 2022. This is the last back episode in the queue, and regularly scheduled releases will continue starting next Saturday.

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.

Humble Bundle: Get Civ6, the XCOM titles, Railroad Tycoon titles, and more, for 15.98€

By | September 7, 2022
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The Humble Bundle currently has a sale for all the big 2K games.

Most interesting for us are obviously Civ6, but as strategy gamers here we probably also fancy all the XCOM titles as well as Railroad Tycoon titles. This bundle also contains other titles of extremely high quality, e.g. the Bioshock collection or Mafia collection.

To get Civ6 and all the other titles you need to pay at least 15.98€.

You can find this sale here, and discuss it with us in our forum here.

Humankind: Together We Rule expansion

By | September 7, 2022
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Amplitude Studios, the developers of Humankind, have announced the first expansion to their game! The expansion focuses on diplomacy, and will introduce diplomats, spies, embassies, a world congress, and more.

The “more” also obviously includes new cultures, to be specific: Sumerians, Han, Bulgarians, Swiss, Scots, and Singaporeans.

For more information you can read the official announcement here, or check the thread in our forum.

Thanks to our member Saxo Grammaticus for this notification.

Old World 20% off on Steam until September 12

By | September 7, 2022
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Old World is on sale! The base game currently costs 31.99€, with expansion 35.98€, and there’s also a pack of the publisher Hooded Horse, which includes Clanfolk (a colony builder) and Nebulous (a 3D space strategy game), for in total 71.96€. This sale goes until September 12.
And there’s obviously also the demo, in case you’re undecided.

Discuss this sale with us here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/old-world-20-off-on-steam-until-september-12.678840/

Play the new Civ4 “Game Of The Month” #241

By | September 6, 2022
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Another month, another “Game Of The Month”!

This time you play as the Inca on a custom standard size map without world wrap on deity level. You need to go for domination or conquest victory, and you have until September 27 to pacify this world!

This game is part of a double to see if the Inca or Rome perform better. Next session you will play the same map as Rome.

All info: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/news-botm-241-clash-of-the-titans-part-1-deity-starts-august-23rd-2022.678550/

Explorminate: Our Favorite 4X Games in Development in 2022

By | September 5, 2022
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Explorminate, a website dedicated to 4X, strategy and tactic games, has published a list of interesting games currently in development.
Most of these games are also interesting for us Civ-fanatics, and have been mentioned here on CFC before.

The list:

  • Spellforce: Conquest of Eo
  • Master of Magic (reboot)
  • Alliance Of The Sacred Suns
  • Revival: Recolonization
  • Ara – History Untold
  • ZEPHON

Ara – History Untold might be the most obvious Civ contender, as it’s a historical turn-based 4X game, but also Revival: Recolonization is interesting, as it is basically a post-apocalyptic Civ.
For more details please watch the video or read the article here.

Discuss this article and video in our forum here.

PolyCast 406: It’s A Lot Better Than Watergate

By | September 5, 2022
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The four-hundred-and-sixth episode of PolyCast, “It’s A Lot Better Than Watergate“ is now available for streaming on ThePolyCast.net. This episode features regular co-hosts CanusAlbinus, Phil “TheMeInTeam”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan”. Topics for this episode include:

News
00h02m25s | Twitter Post Sparks Beyond Earth 2 Rumors
00h12m39s | xBox Patch for Civilization VI Released
00h16m04s | Vote for Civilization 1 and 2 for Good Old Games
00h18m22s | PolyCast Season 1 Uploaded to the YouTube Channel

Forum Talk
00h19m23s | Coastal Flooding and Flood Barriers
00h36m49s | Basil II Has Become Unpopular

Miscellaneous
00h47m31s | Door Monster Worker Video

NOTE: This Episode was recorded on August 13, 2022.

Discuss: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/polycast-406-its-a-lot-better-than-watergate.678798/
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

Play the very first Old World “Game Of The Month”

By | September 4, 2022
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CivFanatics has a long standing tradition of the “Game Of The Month” (short: “GOTM”), where a team of fellow Civ-fanatics organizes new, challenging savegames for the community, to compete against each other. The goal here is not only to beat the game, but then to afterwards compare your approach to the approach of other players, and see who scored best. We have done this so far for Civ3 to Civ6, and these “Game Of The Months” are still running.

Old World is a very civ-inspired game with some following among the civ-community. Our member Ozbenno therefore decided that we should try here a “Game Of The Month”, and after some organization with Mohawk Games we are finally there:

The first “Game Of The Month” for Old World!

In this game you play as Egypt on medium size continents map with four opponents on the difficulty level “The Strong”. You can get the download here, and you have 1 month time (until October 3) to finish this game and post your savegame in the dedicated thread.

Good luck to everyone :).