Win a copy of “Old World” – tell us about your favourite civ from “the old world”

By | April 20, 2022

Old World, the current game of Soren Johnson’s studio Mohawk Games, has already some following here, but we got asked if we cannot increase it here in the forums.
Soren has contacted Thunderfall, and asked if we could help him, and we are happy to do so. Their publisher Hooded Horse has provided us with 5 keys for Old World (including the new addon “Heroes Of The Agean”, which we are free to use for a little competition here.

Since we know you like discussing civs, we ask you:
What is your favourite civ from the old world?
Just tell us which ancient civ from the old world (Europe, Asia, Africa) do you like best.
This civilization doesn’t need to be in the game already. If you like any of the ingame civs best (Rome, Greece, Egypt, Carthage, Babylon, Persia, Assyria), then tell us. If you like any other best (may it be Scythia, Sumeria, or any other), tell us. You would like to have any added? Tell us!
Among all entries, we distribute:

  • 3 copies of Old World in a random draw
  • 1 copy for the best entry
  • 1 copy for the best joke entry (excluded from random draw)

The deadline for entries is May 10.
We will announce the winners on May 14.
Only one entry per participant will be considered.
This little competition is run in parallel in the forums and on Twitter and all entries will be pooled.
We reserve the right to disqualify any entries.

Please comment in the main thread here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/win-a-copy-of-old-world-tell-us-about-your-favourite-civ-from-the-old-world.676457/ or in any copy of this thread in the main Civ forums.

Old World is currently available on the Epic Store, but will become available on May 19 on GOG and Steam.

Tuesday 18:30 CEST: Live stream of Old World – Heroes Of The Agean

By | April 18, 2022

Coming Tuesday at 18:30 CEST there will be a live stream of the new Old World addon “Heroes Of The Agean”. The live steam will come from the Value Foundation, which is a Dutch non-profit organization focused on disseminating knowledge with the help of games.

The live stream will be on Twitch (in English), under https://www.twitch.tv/valuefnd

Wishlist Old World on GOG: https://www.gog.com/game/old_world

Wishlist Old World on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/597180/Old_World/

Buy it already in the Epic Store: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/old-world

Play the new Civ3 “Game Of The Month” #159/186

By | April 17, 2022

It’s now been more than 20 years, but we still play it: Civ3! And therefore you also get again 2 different version of the “Game Of The Month”.

Our users Piu Freddo and Captain_Jack have again put together 2 challenges for you.

For the players with the “Play The World” addon you get GOTM186: You play as Korea on a standard map with 80% ocean on Monarch level. You get raging barbarians as well. For all the details, please have a look at this thread: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/gotm-186-korea-monarch-discussion-and-spoilers.676081/

For players with the “Conquests” addon you get the COTM159: You play the vikings on a standard size archipelago map with 80% water on emperor level, but also with roaming barbarians. Also here, please check the related thread: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/cotm159-scandinavia-emperor-discussion-and-spoilers.676080/

For both you have until June 30 to submit your final savegame.

Old World expansion: Heroes Of The Agean – First look

By | April 14, 2022

And there is a first video out about the early access of the new Old World expansion “Heroes Of The Agean” by Mohawk Games.

Discuss this expansion in our forum here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/old-world-expansion-heroes-of-the-agean.676299/

Old World update #88

By | April 14, 2022

Mohawk Games, the publisher of Old World, has released the latest update for their game. This update includes balance changes, new events, and more. You can discuss all these changes in our forum here.

Mohawk games also recently announced the release date on GOG and Steam, together with an expansion, which will be on May 19!

Wishlist Old World on GOG: https://www.gog.com/game/old_world

Wishlist Old World on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/597180/Old_World/

Buy it already in the Epic Store: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/old-world

Anno 1800 free to play until May 19 (and sale)

By | April 14, 2022

Anno 1800 is currently available to play for free in the Ubisoft store until May 19.

Anno 1800 is a real-time historic strategy builder, set in the year 1800, and well worth a look.

GreenManGaming and Ubisoft. At Ubisoft the main game is discounted to 19.80€ (and appropriate discounts for the gold and complete edition). At GreenManGaming the main game is slightly cheaper at 17.03€, and various DLCs are discounted too.

Play the new Civ4 “Game Of The Month” #233

By | April 13, 2022

And it’s again time for the “Game Of The Month”, and it’s again time to see if you can pick up the challenge and play better than anyone else!

This time you play as Ramesses II of Egypt on a standard size archipelago map on Immortal level. There are no barbarians, but no goody huts either. You have until May15 to finish this game.

For all the remaining information and the savegame please check the thread for the “Game Of The Month” 233 here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/news-botm-233-ramesses-ii-starts-april-12-2022.676276/

FreeCiv: New version 3.0 and updates

By | April 12, 2022

FreeCiv 3.0 has been released in February, and recently also the patch 3.0.1.
As many of you know, FreeCiv is a free, open-source Civ game, inspired by Civilization 2. The recent change in version number has also changed the rules. The default rules are now closer to Civ3 than to Civ2, see https://freeciv.fandom.com/wiki/Civ2civ3 .

FreeCiv 3.0 can be downloaded free of charge here: http://freeciv.org/download.html
The current install should run on most modern operating systems and also all halfways modern computers.
Follow the FreeCiv Twitter account for more new.

Discuss FreeCiv in our forum here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/freeciv-new-version-3-0-and-updates.676319/