Civilization IV

[FriarFritz]

So, does anyone else on the Shard play this amazing game? I'm afraid I'm not very good; I can beat Noble, but I can't really handle Prince.

[BreezeCauthon]

No, but I play Civ VI.

Well, not often. But I own it.

[FriarFritz]

Have not played Civ VI. I own the vanilla version because of Epic Games' free game every week thing. I'm not so happy about de-stacking units, cos it makes the military aspect too slow and involved. And apparently the AI can't handle it.

That's one of the great things about Civ IV; the AI is slightly competent. They still cheat at higher levels, but it's my understanding that going from IV to V or VI, you can basically move up at least one difficulty level.

[Dunkum]

After playing a ton of civ v, where cities can defend themselves without units, and where there is no unit stacking, I have a ton of trouble going back to 4 - i end up wiht wildly underdefended cities and get slaughtered.  I do miss general-led units, though all of mine seemed to get rambo-ed by some random enemy spearman left over from the early game.  pretty sure ive had tanks killed by  macemen and a helicopter killed by a pikeman before.

[BreezeCauthon]

What I'd really recommend is Age of Empires. Those games are wildly brilliant. Civ is great and all, but honestly I think I've been spoiled for strategy games by AoE.