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Don’t forget the base game should be free today on Epic Games Store
Free is free but imo the game is so much better with mods it's not even funny. Same for V. So in that respect it's still better to just buy it on steam for workshop support.
What mods do you refer to and what do they do?
Feel free to have a look through the workshop. A lot of it is subjective and meant to be tailored to your preferences.
Someone else wrote a list some time ago if you want inspiration (https://www.reddit.com/r/civ/comments/a5taoh/what_are_your_favouritemost_essential_mods_for/ebp62et/).
They are missing pandemicHas anyone tried Apocalypse Mode yet? It's either going to be terrible, or hilarious, or both.
I bought the frontier pass. Should get time to explore tomorrow. Interested to see what new dynamic this brings to the game.
Had a few games with Maya (restarted the first couple to get used to it), it's really weird without the bonus housing. I'm constantly running into housing issues without rushing a builder straight away to get some farms up and running, and one game I had next to no farm land which killed my population growth. Their UU is brilliant though; very strong. The UB is awesome too as most of the time I could pump out an observatory in about 4-5 turns. Trying to get the placement right can be problematic, but if you can get some mountains, plantations, and city centre bonus you're racking up 10 science per turn just from a basic observatory with no library.
I do not believe you get mountain bonuses with the Maya for the UB. I read your post and had to check, but unless the help is wrong the bonuses are gone. Still, I have managed to put one between two plantations and 4 fields...
Yeah, you're right, just double checked in game (my bad). Still, you can get some really sizable Science bonuses quite early if you can get them next to a bunch of farms/planations. I'm still finding that I keep having to push housing and it takes away a lot of the advantage that Maya gets. Anyone else had any luck getting around the housing issue with Maya? Even the Granary only gets you so far.
Had a quick game with Gran Colombia so far, and they are ridiculous. Ejercito Patriota needs a major nerf; being able to upgrade a unit and then move/attack is powerful enough, but also getting a global +1 movement to all units is insane. Then around turn 60 I got my first Commandante General, which gave an additional 1 movement and +5 Combat Strength to all units within 2 tiles, and then an extra +4 Combat Strength for melee and anti-cav... I had 41 strength Warrior's at Turn 60 that have 4 movement points, which is just absurd. if I had Iron available at that point I would have had 57 strength Swordsman.