And it’s again time for our next Civ6 “Game Of The Month”, where you can show us that you’re best at civ-ing!
This time you play as Gorgo of Greece on a standard-size TSL Europe map on King level. As additional challenge you have to go for culture victory, while the AI is not restricted and can beat you in all other categories. You have time until March 13 to finish this game.
You can find all the details here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/6otm128-announcement.675328/
Robert Zubek, the author of the book “Elements of Game Design”, has written a blog post about the tech tree differences between Humankind and Civilization 5. He first talks about the tech tree as a game mechanic device to simulate progress, and afterwards talks about the differences between the two games, mostly that Humankind’s tech tree focuses way more on warfare than the Civ5 tech tree, while omitting other fundamental achievements of humanity.
An excerpt:
“In this tech tree, the arts and sciences are simply not a part of the model. They don’t exist in the game world, they can’t be researched, they’re not part of human history at all. Instead, war technologies are first-class innovations, and must be researched in order to progress through history.
This is a very martial view of history, of what kinds of human developments are worthy of rememberance.
But this isn’t the only way this could have played out. For instance, if we look at another game like Civilization 5 (which was a clear inspiration behind Humankind), its tech tree is very different. All the items I mentioned as missing, the various arts and sciences, show up there.”
You can read the full blog post here: http://robert.zubek.net/blog/example-humankind.html, and discuss it in our forum here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/robert-zubek-humankind-and-the-rhetoric-of-tech-trees.675499/
(The picture is availabe under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0, from Humankind Wiki: Technology)
And right after Valentine’s day it’s again time to give Civ4 some more love! You have the chance of a new game, this time with Sitting Bull on a heavily-edited standard-size great plains map on emperor level. You get some extra-time, and can finish this game until March 29!
For all the infos, please see here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/news-botm-231-sitting-bull-emperor-starts-feb-15.675324/
TurnBasedLovers have again published a new article (together with a video) about some of the most interesting games for 2022. The list includes this time mostly RPGs, but there are also 2 games potentially of interest for us CivFanatics:
Read the whole article at TurnBasedLovers here.
SEGA has released the latest part of the Total War series, Total War: Warhammer III.
As in with other Total War games, it has a strategic map, but real time battles on a separate map. It’s not set in a historical setting, but rather in the Warhammer fantasy universe.
More info: https://www.totalwar.com/blog/total-war-warhammer-iii-faq/
The game costs 59.99€ (Epic Games Store; Steam).
Discuss the game in our forum here.
Mohawk Games, the creators of Old World, have released the latest patch for their game. This update includes balance changes, new events, and more. For the patch notes please see here, and you can discuss them in our forum here.
It’s currently again sales time, and many titles of our most beloved game series are on sale!
Thanks to our user Gelion for notifying us :).
XCOM2 is currently for 1 day free-to-play. In case this might give you the taste of the franchise, you can now also get it for cheap! Until February 24, you can get: