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What is your favorite Civ to play?

I think objectively the Ottomans are the best. With their Industrious and Scientific nature and the Sipahi, they take the cake. A close second would be Scandinavia on Island maps, with Byzantines. Persians and Romans being a distant third. I will also accept China in 3rd place because despite their unique unit being kind of trash, they have good Civ bonuses

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u/FalloutLover7 — 6 days ago
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Not able to build railroads?

I’m not able to build railroads for some reason. I have discovered steam power. I have traded steam power to other civs I see they are building it

u/CuriousHedgehog8107 — 5 days ago
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Does "sentry" apply the same defensive bonus as "fortify"?

I was always under the impression that "sentry" and "fortify" are exactly the same except that "sentry" wakes the unit if an enemy is adjacent. I remember reading it somewhere a long time ago. Now I ask AI and it tells me the defensive bonus is not applied to "sentry". The wiki doesn't mention anything about a defensive bonus for sentry.

If you know the answer to this question please let me know where this info can be found. Thanks!

Edit: u/damo13579 got the info from the editor help file: "The sentry ability allows a unit to wait in specified tile until a foreign unit enters a square adjacent to it. Note: unlike the fortify unit action; Sentry does not confer any bonuses to defense or offense."

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u/MarsssOdin — 7 days ago
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Before and After

I played the WW2 Pacific Scenario on Monarch and won as America by turn 42, but then decided to go all the way to see how long it would take me to defeat every Japanese City. Needless to say, I used the "Bad Truman Strategy" to help me win. LOL. This scenario is my favorite of all time and is one of the best ever created/designed in the Civilization series. It's perfectly balanced, with different civs to play as depending on your strategy or interest in history. IMO, there's always something rewarding after winning this scenario, like a feeling of triumph from overcoming the odds to beat the AI. Overall, a 10/10 experience.

u/jshep358145 — 8 days ago
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AI Pompeii settled next to volcano

Is the AI programmed to settle Pompeii next to a volcano for historic accuracy? Or did I just get lucky in finding this Pompeii location? (By the way, this one fared better than the original Pompeii; I left my settler there to see the eruption, and nothing happened to the city.)

u/No-Ruas — 13 days ago
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Looking for more modified civ3 vanilla units or units in that same style.

I like the civ3 unit models. On civfanatics there are a lot of talented creators but very few keep the vanilla style of units.

Is there maybe a list of modified civ3 units or a list of all custom units that approach the civ3 models?

An example would be this corvette made from the privateer. (I made another post about that).
https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/corvette-sailing-warship.41545/

edit: or this Old Guard unit which is a modification of a unit from the napoleonic scenario: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/old-guard-infantry-march-20-2005.114788/

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u/MarsssOdin — 10 days ago