r/OldWorldGame

I've been battling Hatti for like 15 years. They were "weaker" than me, and now they're "much weaker" than me. Still, every turn two fresh units show up from somewhere each turn to kill one or two of mine. All this while Persia, next to them, is supposedly also at war with them.

I haven't taken ONE city. As far as I can see, there's no end in sight.

FMPOV priests seem like the weakest urban specialist, especially considering how late temples typically come.

As an apprentice, they only give +1 happiness. As an elder this increases to +2 happiness and +1 training per citizen.

The +1/+2 happiness isn't very powerful. While happiness level is important, that +1/+2 happiness needs to accumulate for many turns before it makes a meaningful impact on the happiness level. Since this specialist is so late-game, that +1/+2 happiness won't have time to do much.

That said, the temple itself is a really strong building. Anything that gives orders is strong. And when you consider Jebel Barkal rushes with Persia/Assyria, it makes sense that a strong priest specialist would make Jebel Barkal very oppressive.

What do people think of this specialist in general? Does anyone preferentially build this specialist? Is anyone able to make use of the +1 training per citizen?

Shope Shope always goes so hard for me.

Hi all, one question, I've bought the base game, and I am on year 103 from a 200 year game, today I've bought all DLCs, should I restart? Or should I finish and then start a new game? Thx!

Old World update #148 released!

🙏Changes to Religion founding requirements

🤝Improvements to Influence Mission events with negative outcomes

🐛Fixed memory leak

Patch notes can be found at https://mohawkgames.com/2026/07/01/old-world-update-148/

I'm a newer player to the game, and I think I understand most of the basic mechanics (training vs science vs civics, different houses, etc). But I can't figure out religion.

- How impactful is it?

- Should I embrace another leader spreading religion into my cities or is there some kind of penalty for me or benefits for them?

- Are there downsides to building shrines if I'm going to eventually get a state religion?

- Is a state religion better than paganism?

- Do the cult shrine things you get from events/story bits have a negative effect?

Unrelated to religion, I had a few other questions:

- What is the best build order? I've typically let the default settler be built for an early second city, and use an early builder to get a farm resource up (like barley or wheat), then I'll usually build another settler or military unit depending on my training vs food yield. I'll often go for an early farm/camp/mine specialist for the extra yields to those as well. Depending on the shrine adjacency bonuses I'll get some of those down fairly quickly too.

- I keep having issues with family houses getting pissed off and rebelling, even when I'm trying to keep their cities close together, appease them with resources they like, appointing them to positions, marrying into their families, etc. For whatever reason they just hate me. Is there a downside to picking just one family and running with them? I know you don't get the house bonuses from the others but is this a poor choice overall and why?

- Is Carthage just awful? I've tried several times to play Carthage and the idea of buying tribal units sounds fantastic so I can focus on things like culture, science and gold. But every time I play them I feel I have to leave a unit nearby the tribal areas to see the units so I can actually buy them (unless there's another way that I'm not aware of). I also only get a few units and none of them seem to be particularly great. And arguably the biggest issue is that to expand you're likely gonna have to wipe out those little tribes anyway, making her ability seem even worse.

- What wonders are worth it? The Oracle seems pretty awful compared to many others. The ones I've prioritized in my few games (with many restarts, usually because I learned something new) are the Necropolis, Hanging Gardens, Maseum, and Petra. Are these ones bad and which ones am I missing out on?

- What maps are your favorites or the best ones to learn on?

- Are the city projects worthwhile? Like the council, forum, festival, etc? Are they a one time boost or continuous?

I've played quite a bit of Civilization games (4 through 7) and some other games as well, so I understand a lot of the 4X mechanics, but each one has their own flavor, and this one in particular has a lot of moving parts.

Thanks!

Greece - No events.

Anyone having any luck with this one?

I think I can do it, just not fast enough...

Which is the same reason I probably won't beat Usain Bolt in the 100 metres.

Obviously no point getting Exploration and not much point for scout harvesting.

I've tried twice and it's just fighting off barbarians while Persia or Assyria steam roll everything.

Last week's Ruthless Ai was more fun.

As title.

I've done the Pausanias and Persian routes so far, and in both cases it's gone basically identically:

• a couple scripted rebels

• a regular stream of rebels entirely localised at the Antipater cities

• around turn 60 Alexander dies, Cassander shows up, I kill a bunch of his soldiers, a whole blob of them spawn by Aigia, I have the scripted "win".

Notably in neither of these does the Intrigue tree ever come close to finishing, nor does the Influence that I'm building up on the Athenian and Antipatrid cities ever actually do anything, which is an issue cos those two have the achievements.

Are said achievements even possible, and if so is anyone who's managed to do so willing to explain how? Does the choice of murderer (Pausanias/Persians/Olympias) make any difference?

Does anyone know how to mod the families in the game? Life of me I tried and no changes I made would appear. I just want to not reset the map 100x to find what I want is all

Edit : To be more clear. Im looking to mod the preset families of the different nations, say change Rome and make the fabius instead of champions be artisans. Also how to change the color of the family as well. So instead of one of them being red make it green. I want to learn how to do that since trying it didnt yield any results for me based of the changes I made. It seems to be different from stellaris which I can mod fairly easily so its throwing me for a loop trying to do this. Thanks for any help you guys can give. I tried the mods that add them all but I dont like the set up of it. It has the names of the type of family so traders, but will have patrons instead because of the family line up already. On top of that theyre all the same red color.