In need of strategic info and advice

[BWardly]

I'm in the midst of a war of attrition that neither whipping nor drafting will get me out of - with my roommate for the Civ play (errr, install) disc!! :mad:

Here's the situation - one of my roommates from last year borrowed my Civ4 disc after I had stopped playing, and "neglected" to return it to me after he moved out. Demands for its return have not been fruitful.

Fortunately, one of my roommates this year has become a good friend, and he happens to have the game. So I borrowed his play disc when I got back into it this month. The downside to this is that it led to a situation like that Simpsons episode where Bart wants to play Milhouse's game Bonestorm, until Milhouse is caught up in a plastic cup in ball game, which leads Bart to want to play that instead...."Don't be a cup in ball hog!!". My rekindling of interest in the game has proven contagious.

Anyways, this means I only have sporadic access to the cd. While this might be good for my productivity, it is not expediting my Epic11 progress. So I'm trying to decide if I should buy another copy of the game used or something. The alternative would be to get Warlords now or wait for BtS, but only if I can still play vanilla Civ4 using the expansion cd (this I don't know).

So thus I come to my questions (blame my longwindness on being uber-bored at work):

1. I know that all you need in the disc drive to play the expansion is the expansion cd, but does that allow you to play the vanilla game as well? Or do you need to swap to that?

2. From what I've heard BtS will contain all of the gameplay changes that Warlords has, with the exception of the scenarios. How fun are the scenarios? Worth getting Warlords for? Or should I just wait for July?

thanks

[sooooo]

1. I know that all you need in the disc drive to play the expansion is the expansion cd, but does that allow you to play the vanilla game as well? Or do you need to swap to that?

2. From what I've heard BtS will contain all of the gameplay changes that Warlords has, with the exception of the scenarios. How fun are the scenarios? Worth getting Warlords for? Or should I just wait for July?

thanks

Your answer to (1) is that no, you cannot play vanilla civ with the warlords CD. To (2), I would say the scenarios alone are not worth the price of a warlords CD. So my advice would be to buy a cheapo replacement vanilla CD from ebay or something (to play the vanilla RB events here), don't buy warlords and wait for BTS.

[BWardly]

Thanks sooooo! If I'm going to buy a replacement vanilla disc then I'm not likely to bother getting Warlords AND BtS. The only thing that looked compelling in Warlords was the Barbarian scenario.....

[Sullla]

Thanks sooooo! If I'm going to buy a replacement vanilla disc then I'm not likely to bother getting Warlords AND BtS. The only thing that looked compelling in Warlords was the Barbarian scenario.....

sooooo is right; I'd also advise getting a cheap copy of Civ4. Even after Beyond the Sword is released, it's quite possible that we'll continue to run some events on the original version of the game, just to mix things up. Since Beyond the Sword will contain all of the content in Warlords, it's definitely not a good purchase right now.

Unless you REALLY love those scenarios.

[Speaker]

Unless you REALLY love those scenarios.

Or unless you REALLY want to support Firaxis.