Merchant of Venice replaces a Great Merchant for them, so you can have as many as you can generate from pumping out Great People. They get three free ones pretty fast if you go Liberty - one at Optics, one for Collective Rule policy and another for finishing Liberty.Oooh, but don't they only get two merchants of Venice? One in a certain era and one from the liberty tree? Not sure though, when I played Venice I wasn't generating great people all that fast and fell to Genghis & Hitler pretty quickly.
Civilization V
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Man of Honour
They're just like great people. So you don't get them much early on, but once you get a few wonders that boost GP generation, you can get loads of them.
The AI when playing as Venice will have all the city states before the end of the game >_>
edit; Flibby ninja'd, a thousand curses.
The AI when playing as Venice will have all the city states before the end of the game >_>
edit; Flibby ninja'd, a thousand curses.
shame you can't choose where your cities are, though. :/
Man of Honour
Yep. Venice aren't good for domination victory with their cities being all over the place.
They could be depending on how you played it, I mean having your cities splintered around the map can be an advantage if you can be efficient enough to get each and every city as high pop + hammers and focus on military/science buildings. You can get out some pretty big armies like that around the map to take multiple cities per turn or so. Not sure how well that would work with Venice though as they can't control what is built but can buy...
Worked fantastic with Napoleon before his nerf.
Worked fantastic with Napoleon before his nerf.
Yeah I'd say so. You can get it for about £13 from GMG with their GMG30-LY2G6-UKDYY voucher if you're interested.
Thanks, yep that's what's been tempting me. I'm guessing the price will drop fairly quickly as they tend to do, but not sure I can wait.
Soldato
In BNW Petra doesn't give +1 gold for desert tiles, but it does give a free caravan. I guess it would balance out, but the +1 gold would look nice on the tile yields
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Down to the person really. Anno is real-time, Civ is turn-based. I personally prefer Civ although Anno is still enjoyable.
Soldato
Apples and oranges. I've only ever played a little bit of Anno but imo in terms of enjoyment Civ 5 wins every time but as I said I've not played that much Anno.
Soldato
Same here with my first attempt at BNW using Shoshone. I'm so far ahead of everyone in 1250AD, more than double the score of 2nd place and triple the score of 3rd, I'm thinking of quitting. Very powerful starter, almost feels like cheating!
Bought it. Worth it just because it includes the Gods & Kings dlc.
Ughhh, wish they'd do something to speed up the time it takes to process turns end game. I had the game won for all intents and purposes at 3PM yesterday (all but 2 civs submitted to my tourism level) the remaining two don't have anywhere near the culture to defend against it but since they were relativity late discoveries in the game for me it takes time. Went to bed at 10:30 and still hadn't officially won.
Soldato
Not being able to trade different types of Great Works is a real bugger when trying to get the theme bonuses. I have loads of artefacts but I need art .
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Tell me about it. It's quicker with my Haswell build but still, the last 50 turns especially are horrendous.
I don't even understand why it happens since the AI doesn't seem to have a much larger military force compared to early game... what's making turns sooooo long?