Civilization IV

[stoutfellow]

Just a few quick notes gleaned from my latest round of Civ IV playing:

• The new Great People system is excellent. I haven't really found much use for Great Merchants as yet, but Great Prophets, Great Scientists, and Great Artists are all extremely useful, and Great Engineers are absolutely wonderful - in more senses than one.
• When you're playing one of the Mongol leaders - either Genghis or Kublai - and you can't find horses anywhere, it kind of cramps your style.
• I love the Philosophical, Spiritual, and Industrious traits; I can make use of Organized, Creative, or Aggressive leaders; but the proper use of the Expansive and Financial traits still eludes me.

Comments

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

Frame it this way: whatever you're trying to build, it'll go a lot more quickly if you've got an Engineer available. (The Wonders of the World that you can build range from actual buildings like the Hanging Gardens, to hypothetical future constructs like the Space Elevator, to metaphorical "wonders" like Rock and Roll. No, I don't understand that one either.)

The Great Wall was one of the Wonders in earlier versions of the game, but has been dropped from version IV.