Civilization V: Brave New World

Started by CoyoteSeven, November 20, 2013, 07:43:46 PM

CoyoteSeven

Who else has been playing the new Civ expansion? A friend gifted it to me via Steam and I've been playing it ever since... perhaps playing it a bit TOO much. I'm sleep deprived right now, lol.

I got the G+K expansion as well, so I'm getting to see everything they've changed in BNW. I particularly enjoy the new tourism aspects. That's especially fun if a civ you have cultural influence over is itself experience excess unhappiness. That gives a good chance that at least one of their cities will actually defect to your side. I'd kinda missed that feature from Civ 4.

Beyond that, I just love making pretty civs. I downloaded a mod that shrinks the size of the units in the game so they don't look so much like giants trampling through cities. I also found a mod that lets you use the Austrians' "diplomatic marriage" to city-states from any civ in the game. I found another mod that lets any civ use terrace farms, though you still need to get the Inca DLC for that.

saipaman

I've been playing it since it came out.

General Idiot

I got it right when it came out, when they accidentally put it on sale with everything else Civ 5 related. It's pretty good.

saipaman

Gods & Kings changed the game enough that I can no longer consistently win on the Warlord setting.

SerialBeggar

Do the expansions include the base game or would I need to buy them all?
Teams are the number one killers of Soloists.

General Idiot

No, they don't. What you want is the Gold Edition, which includes the base game, Gods & Kings and I think all the DLC. Then just buy Brave New World on top of that and you'll have everything.

SerialBeggar

Teams are the number one killers of Soloists.