We start the month of December with a special game for Civ6: The Krampus game. You play Frederick of Germany on deity level on a standard-size … crazy map. With all game modes (besides barbarian clans) on. You need to go for a science victory, and you have until January 14 to finish this game.
For all details, please see this thread.
Firaxis has officially announced the 2nd pack for the Leader Pass: The Great Commanders. This pack includes Nader Shah of Persia, Tokugawa of Japan and Suleiman the Magnificent of the Ottoman Empire. This pack will be released on December 15 2022.
For the ongoing discussion, please see here.
The four-hundred-and-tenth episode of PolyCast, “Geese Are Nasty, Nasty Birds“ 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
00h01m45s | Christopher Tin’s Lost Birds Released
00h07m36s | Anton Strenger at GDC, Presentation
Forum Talk
00h23m33s | Should You Build Railroads?
Research Lab
00h32m08s | How Would You Design a Nomadic Civilization?
Misc.
00h52m53s | Barbarian Clans Video from Door Monster
Outro
00h56m19s | Birds
NOTE: This Episode was recorded on October 8, 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.
On December 8 to 12 the TurnBasedFest will be happening: A showcase of turn-based games of all kinds (strategy, RPG and others). Various developers and other content-creators will be around, showing their games, of which more than 300 will be featured. A steam sale for many of the featured games will be happening at the same time.
So if you don’t know what to buy yet for Christmas, or you want to have a look beyond Civilization (not sure why you would do that though), then this is again the time!
For more information you can also follow TurnBasedThursday on Twitter, also with the hasthag #TurnBasedThursday. And obviously we also have a forum thread for this event, see here.
The first Civ6 GOTM after the “Leader Pass” release directly gives you a challenge with one of the new leaders! This time you play as Saladin of Arabia on a standard size hot and wet wetlands map on King level. You need to go for a science victory, while preventing all other civs from achieving any type of victory.
You have until January 1 to strive for scientific hegemony.
For all other details, please check this thread.
Firaxis has released the official leader cards for Julius Caesar and Abraham Lincoln. The former you can see above, whereas the latter you can find in out thread here.
Today Firaxis released its major new game of the year: Marvel’s Midnight Suns. Midnight Suns is a tactical turn based game, similar to the XCOM franchise, but set in the Marvel universe, featuring various Marvel heroes like Blade or Doctor Strange. The game has so far received extremely good critiques, with 83 points on MetaCritic, so good that even Forbes is reporting about it. Websites rating the game well include IGN, GameInformer and GamesRadar.
Feel free to drop by in our forum and discuss Midnight Suns with us here.
Another news story has also come up: 2K and Firaxis have made it possible to fulfill the wish of a dying fan, to play Midnight Suns before its release. You can read the full story here and discuss with us here.
The developers of Ara – History Untold (another hot Civilization contender) have made today two announcements:
You can read the whole blog post here, which also contains the links to the developer diaries.
And come over to this thread to discuss this game with your fellow civ-fanatics!