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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 5422030" data-attributes="member: 8158">I've now played two incomplete games of Civ. In both cases, we've had about five hours to play. Nobody's pre-read the rules or cards or anything, because there's a nasty tendency to lose in interest in a game where it feels like one player knows all the secrets and tricks. Merric makes a lot of good points, as usual. I would say that Rome is better-positioned to win culture, since they simply move up the culture track rather than gain three culture which they then have to spend during city management. And they get it whenever they build a city or wonder in addition to grabbing a hut or village.I found that I was on my way to winning an economic victory without making much of an effort. Our group has fallen in love with Code of Laws, so the first four battles you win (probably against barbarians) nets you gold. I had eleven by end of game, and three techs that would let me crank out 1 gold per turn each. It seemed too easy, but that might have been just luck-of-the draw, since I also had three gold from great people and two from lands.The combat confused us. We thought combat bonuses (from barracks, great generals, etc) actually added directly into combat strength for each unit. Way overpowered. We figured out better eventually. "Combat bonus" is kind of misleading--I'd have preferred something like "strategic advantage" or something like that, which conveys the proper implication that they're supplemental in nature. I like that a player can set himself up to minimize his losses by setting up new fronts rather than attacking. That way, you can conserve forces for a more important fight ahead. And armies are the cheapest thing to build in the game, so you can crank them back out without trouble.There's other stuff that's not crystal clear either. For instance, the Pottery tech has a +1 something on it that isn't clearly defined in the rules as far as we've found. I believe it's supposed to be culure event hand size.The important thing to me is that there are a variety of strategies and the different feel to play without some being out-and-out better than others. Overall, great game.</blockquote>

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