Inkulinati – When Dogs Had Swords – released today (February 1, 2023)

By | February 2, 2023
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A strange curiousity in the world of turn-based games has been published: Inkulinati.
This game is set in a medieval setting, drawn like medieval paintings, and features turn-based battles with all kinds of animals-gone-knight figures.
This game is not a 4X, and features exclusively battles in a crazy medieval world. It might be of interest for some of our tacticians, who like unconventional settings.
The video above is a review from TurnBasedLovers, and you can also read a review from GOGConnected here, which concludes with:

But I wasn’t counting on how strong the actual strategy game is. This is the first release from Yaza Games, but they seem like a team with some fresh ideas and the vision to implement them. Daedalic Entertainment publishes a lot of novel strategy titles that fail to hold your attention for long. Inkulinati earns its place in your library with its depth.

Inkulinati is currently discounted, down to 22.49.

Let us know here in this thread if you have it, and how your opinion from a civ-fanatics point of view is.

PCGamer: Civ 6 streamer figures out how to win without founding any cities in ‘extremely impressive’ video

By | February 2, 2023
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Twitch streamer boesthius has taken up a very special challenge: Play as Qin, and don’t settle any cities. This was obviously a crazy and tough game, but he succeeded! This has even caught the attention of PCGamer, who wrote an article about this here.
A blurb from the article:

The whole video is worth watching. Boesthius made the challenge look easy, but it really wasn’t, it required speed, knowledge of the game, and more than a little luck. It was so formidable, in fact, that the official Civ 6 YouTube account even commented “ok I’m not gonna lie this was extremely impressive” under the video, while the rest of the comments are split evenly between amazement at boesthius’ feat and horror at his apparent masochism.

So… what do you think? Crazy? Interesting? Are you up for the challenge? Discuss with us here.

Civ4 Hallf Of Fame update

By | February 1, 2023
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The Civilization IV Hall of Fame (a collection of the best user played Civ4 games for any setting) has been updated – 6 games were accepted since the previous update.

Congratulations to @Peteyboy for the highest score of the update with a Standard, Normal, Noble, Domination game for 138,767 points.

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

No player was brave enough to take on Deity this update.

Congratulations to NickTrofimuk for winning G-Minor 268 with a date of 1580 AD.

​** New Gauntlets Starting **

G-Major 185 – Domination, Monarch, Ancient, Small, Any Speed, Pangaea, Egypt (check options)
G-Minor 269 – Space Colony, Warlord, Ancient, Standard, Normal, Terra, (check options)

PolyCast 411: We Left the Ladder In, Right?

By | February 1, 2023
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The four-hundred-and-eleventh episode of PolyCast, “We Left the Ladder In, Right?“ is now available for streaming on ThePolyCast.net. This episode features regular co-hosts Stephanie “Makahlua”, Phil “TheMeInTeam”, and Jason “MegaBearsFan” with guest co-host TheChrisD. Topics for this episode include:

News
– 00h01m56s | Solium Infernum, A Turn-Based Strategy Game in Hell
– 00h09m40s | From Alpha Centauri to Beyond Earth
Forum Talk
– 00h22m30s | SteamDB Developments Hint at New DLC for Civilization VI.
Senate
– 00h31m00s | Passing on Great People in Civilization VI
– 00h41m54s | What’s Up with Warrior Monks?

NOTE: This Episode was recorded on October 22, 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.

Explorminate: Rob’s Look at 2022 and 2023

By | January 31, 2023
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Rob from Explorminate has written a view back onto 2022, and an outlook for 2023. While he has some contenders for best game of 2022, like Warhammer: Total War, or the Humankind expansion “Together We Rule”, he is not satisfied with any bigger release last year, and puts his hopes for 2023. For this year, he is looking forward to the next Galactic Civilizations 4 update, as well as new games like Terra Invicta (although that has been released already), Age Of Wonders 4, and some games of big interest for us, like Ara: History Untold and Revival: Recolonization.

What are your potential highlights for 2023, and do you agree with Rob? Let us know here.

Ara: History Untold Developer Diary: City Layouts

By | January 30, 2023
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The developers of Ara: History Untold have posted 2 in their dev blog, talking about city layouts. They describe the difficulties of having procedurally generated city layouts, which also need to look appealing. Initially they cities appeared like pizzas, with repetetive sectors. They seem to have fixed this problem by definiting some basic layouts, from which the game further builds on. For all the information please read the dev blog here, and discuss this update with us here.

Play the new Civ5 “Game Of The Month” #218

By | January 29, 2023
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Now you have the chance to not only try the GOTM 217, but we already also give you the GOTM218! In this one you play as Montezuma of the Aztecs on a standard-size small continents map on Emperor level. The scrambled continents map pack is a requirement for this GOTM. You have in total until February 28 to bath the world in blood. For more info, please see this thread.

Old World update #104

By | January 25, 2023
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Mohawk Games, the developers of Old World, have released the latest update for their game. This update includes, among other things, bug fixes, AI changes (e.g. optimization for spreading religion) and a balance change to give you a better chance to start with horses in the surrounding. Discuss this update with us here.

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