Signs that you're a Civ Junkie

[spellman]

Really? I thought they were mostly used because they were available. You might have an axe for farming/forestry/etc, so you could fight with one without being a full-time fighter. A sword is only good for killing people, so you'd only have one if you were rich and fought a lot.

I also thought, though, that serious military forces relied mostly on missile weapons, spears and lances, and formation fighting. Sword and axe and such are mainly only good if you're in single combat, which professionals avoid.

I'd be interested if you can prove me wrong, though! Can you recommend any reading for me?

Mostly right.

More professional standing armies were more heavily trained in swords and spears. See ancient China, Romans, etc. But during the medieval periods when you conscripted large masses of peasants you gave them formations of spears, halberds, and ranged weaponry (everyone uses a bow to hunt!). Then the special elite forces got swords, maces, flails, or axes and training so they could take down people in the melee. Especially since, as noted, a sword was extremely effective but only as a luxury killing item. But later when armor became plate again Axes and other heavy weapons came back in vogue due to their penetrating power even amongst knights. Swords became poking weapons instead of slashing ones, and still retained due to history their noble stature.

Then we got gunpowder and could take you down, armor or no armor, from ridiculous distances.


Back to the normal topic:
You're playing board games and realize Civ is a worker-placement game.

[Bigger]

yeah I did a little research to back up my comment and couldnt find it I think I might have picked up that tidbit from civlopedia, to be honest.

[pindicator]

yeah I did a little research to back up my comment and couldnt find it I think I might have picked up that tidbit from civlopedia, to be honest.

I think using civilopedia as a reference is a pretty good sign

[Molach]

• You toss and turn, unable to go to sleep. Suddenly you know why: You forgot to attach the save after playing the turn in PBEM.
  
• You are offered a promotion at work. You turn it down, because you believe in saving promotions
  
• You are offered a promotion at work. You think it carefully through, then decline because you have too many PB and PBEMs going on right now in your life.
  
• Whenever you engage your 'real' friends in conversation when out drinking beer, and they ask how it's going, you're barely restraining yourself from explaining, carefully and in great detail, how you are building a secret army of cavalry and spies to conquer some third-world country who are still fighting with longbows and arrows.
  
• You spend more time reading about other people playing the game than playing it yourself.
  
• You lay awake nights saying 'thank you Sid!'
  
• The 1st 'most visited' site when you open a new tab is the tracker to your PBEM.
  
• The 2nd is Civstats with your PB details.
  
• The 3rd is Realms Beyond.
  
• Distant 4th is google
  

[TheHumanHydra]

• Whenever you engage your 'real' friends in conversation when out drinking beer, and they ask how it's going, you're barely restraining yourself from explaining, carefully and in great detail, how you are building a secret army of cavalry and spies to conquer some third-world country who are still fighting with longbows and arrows.
  

* Whenever you engage your friends in conversation, you do not restrain yourself and do explain carefully and in great detail all your Civ military plans to them for the better part of an hour.

* You then become suspicious that they are secretly the opponent you are planning on attacking and you just gave all your plans away.

* You attempt to find Sullla's academic papers on the internet to see if they are any good (semi-excusable since I am a history student).

[BaII]

The 1st 'most visited' site when you open a new tab is the tracker to your PBEM.
The 2nd is Civstats with your PB details.
The 3rd is Realms Beyond.
Distant 4th is google

* You attempt to find Sullla's academic papers on the internet to see if they are any good (semi-excusable since I am a history student).

Your most watched videos on youtube are Sullla's Civilizaton videos.

[TheHumanHydra]

The 1st 'most visited' site when you open a new tab is the tracker to your PBEM.
The 2nd is Civstats with your PB details.
The 3rd is Realms Beyond.
Distant 4th is google

* You attempt to find Sullla's academic papers on the internet to see if they are any good (semi-excusable since I am a history student).

Your most watched videos on youtube are Sullla's Civilizaton videos.

* They're the only videos you watch on Youtube.

[WilliamLP]

Your most watched videos on youtube are Sullla's Civilizaton videos.

* They're the only videos you watch on Youtube.

The videos Youtube recommends are all from Sullla, TheMeInTeam, and Chris67132.

[TheHumanHydra]

I didn't know about that Chris guy; thanks, William!

[antisocialmunky]

I just realized that I was the one who made BaII's avatar lol.