Warlords has gone gold

[pholkhero]

notice that charismatic is changed ~ only +1 happy, but you also get one with Monument (the generic replacement of teh old oblelisk?)

and it looks like protective, too.

ooo...univ of sankore ~ +2 to religious (and not just Jewish?) bldgs ~ not bad...nice if paired with Spiral Minaret

i also welcome the inclusion of the 2 new units. trebuchets could stand to have maybe 6 str, but the boni it recieves are nice compensation. and triremes ~ sweet! an A T T A C K ship, nice little option there.

all in all, i am anxiously awaiting the expansion to throw water on the game and freshen it back up for me

edit: i'm not sure if the Generals will be overpowered as their generation is tied to XP pts gained, and it doubles everytime ~ i can't see more than 3 or 4 being generated. Still, though, use those 3 or 4 in a SoD with 50 units each time for the extra XP. THAT would be powerful, but i cna't see that being allowed. perhaps it only affects a limited number of units??

[Coolhand]

Read the IGN preview and I am looking forward to trying the expansion as I love the regular game.

[Justus_II]

Russia: Russian Research Institute, replaces Library
+2 free Scientists

Perhaps the best new building 2 free Scientists that early are great.

I looked at the IGN article, they list the Institute as follows:
Russian Research Institute, replaces Laboratory
+2 free Scientists

So if it replaces Laboratory, I don't think it's too unbalancing, a couple free specialists in the late game seems reasonable.

[Rowain]

I looked at the IGN article, they list the Institute as follows:
Russian Research Institute, replaces Laboratory
+2 free Scientists

So if it replaces Laboratory, I don't think it's too unbalancing, a couple free specialists in the late game seems reasonable.

Ah then they have changed it. When I looked it said Library. (i simple copied their text). Later I heard on Civfanatics that it should read Observatory.Now it is Laboratory. If it is Laboratory it is for sure not unbalancing just a nice little Bonus.

[Rowain]

And some more clarifications from the Author of the IGN-Article (taken from here )



Barracks give now only 3 XP; Stable is a new building available with HBR adding 2XP for mounted Units stacking with barracks so va city with barracks and Stable builds 5 XP mounted Units and 3 XP Footsolidiers.

The 20 XP from the GG becoming a Warlord are distributed to those Units in the same tile (= if there are 2 Units each one gets 10 XP )

[cynyck]

Anyway maybe I'm strange, but this is the one I think I'm looking forward to most:

Incan Terrace: replaces Granary
+2 Culture

An elegant multi-purpose building.

"Aztec Sacrificial Altar, replaces Courthouse, -50% anger from sacrificing population."

Oh my. Although it would be nice if it came earlier in the game, this is going to result in an abundance of lashings.

[VoiceOfUnreason]

Hold off on speculation until the release date? Where's the fun in that?

To add some signal - I'm forced to admit that I haven't been able to work out what "-25% XP for promotions" is going to mean in a game based on integer math.

Is there an SDK release that coincides with Warlords?

[Rowain]

To add some signal - I'm forced to admit that I haven't been able to work out what "-25% XP for promotions" is going to mean in a game based on integer math.

As far as I could gather it means they get Promos at 2/ 4 / 8 XP each which is the reason why barracks will only give 3 XP in Warlords.

Edit: guess that they are rounding down.

[Shaihulud]

Right, despite being 14 and poor I've managed to pre order it . Expect to see some reports of personal games when it's released!

[Compromise]

This question didn't seem worthy of a new thread, and it seems relevant to the RB crowd since the RB games--at least for now--are still to be played under v1.61.

Is there a way to have both CIV 1.61 and CIV/Warlords installed on the same computer? That way, you can experiment with the new without disposing of the old.