I played Civ for the first time last year. It was addictive as everyone will tell you but the general consensus seems to be that 6 was a bit of a letdown for long time fans of series?
Interested to see what people think of the new one.
Interested to see what people think of the new one.
My personal opinion is that even though the initial releases are a bit... empty, they introduce core mechanics that are (imho) fundamental improvements (e.g. no death stacks in Civ V, districts in Civ VI).
I don't think combat "realism" is something Civ strives for, you might be better suited playing Total War if you want to micro-manage battles and the composition of your forces (which is tonnes of fun and I enjoy).
But on the topic of realism, it's not exactly realistic for an area to hold an arbitrary number of troops.
No hate to Civ IV though. Baba Yetu.
I don't expect it to be a war simulation but it should at least be somewhat grounded in reality.
On D-Day the allies used 7,000 ships to land 130,000 on 5 beaches in a day. 850,000 troops and 150,000 vehicles within a few weeks. If they had more ships and troops to send, they would have used those too. I don't know what the upper limit would have been, but even the US, which was producing as much war material as the rest of the world combined, was not capable of producing troops or equipment that wouldn't fit on the battlefield.
So, yeah I will stick with IV for now :)
Will definitely try out VII when it comes out though, can't wait.
(I personally prefer 4, because I don’t like one-unit-per-tile and because I feel like 4 had the best mods)