Next week Sunday at 2 PM CET the CivPlayers league will have a 6 player match, with commentary in French and English. We’re hoping again for a great match! Join us for the discussion here.
Today another interesting indie game has been released: Pax Augusta.
This seems to be a city builder set in ancient Rome, similar to older games like the Caesar series.
As usual, you need to build housing to finally erect big monuments. You can also trade with your neighbours, as story mode exists, but also a free building mode.
The game is currently discounted, for 19.99 instead of 24.99.
You can discuss Pax Augusta with us here.
Approximately 3 years ago it was announced that various developers who previously worked on Civ and XCOM have formed a new studio called BitReactor.
Today it was announced by EA that BitReactor is working on a turn-based Star Wars game called Zero Company.
Right now there is not much information known, the official description is the following:
“The upcoming turn-based tactics game puts you in command during the Clone Wars.
Recruit an unconventional team of operatives and deploy them on missions unlike any other in the galaxy far, far away in Star Wars Zero Company!
The newly announced single-player turn-based tactics game, developed by Bit Reactor in collaboration with Respawn Entertainment and Lucasfilm Games, will share the first details about the game currently in development with attendees at Star Wars Celebration Japan.
Here’s your exclusive first look at Star Wars Zero Company and just a few members of the elite squad under your command.
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Stay tuned to StarWars.com for more details about Star Wars Zero Company after the panel at Star Wars Celebration Japan, on 4/19 at 4:30 PM JST!”
You can discuss this new game with us here.
This Thursday Firaxis will be hosting a “feedback event”: During this day, the official discord will all be about a specific question, which beforehand will be announced. The devs will be looking for specific feedback, which should be taken into account for the future development of Civ7. For this Thursday, they would like to know how the scout on autoexplore should behave. You want to discuss? Join us in this thread here, and join on Thursday the official discord here.
Our user evonannoredars has been playing around with the ingame console and a mod, and has produced some very interesting (but not pretty), but also some really pretty screenshots. Take a look here, and see if you can try it yourself!
The Civilization IV Hall of Fame has been updated – 6 games were accepted since the previous update.
Congratulations to Wednesday for the highest score of the update with a Large, Marathon, Deity, Space Colony game for 3,425,186 points.
Alexfin and ruff_hi were the most active players during this update, submitting 2 games.
Only one player was brave enough to take on Deity this update:
Wednesday – 90 AD, Large, Marathon, Deity, Space Colony game for 3,425,186 points.
​New Number One Entries:
Only one player gained a number one position this time:
– Alexfin with a 920 AD, Standard, Normal, Chieftain, Cultural game for 62,118 points.
– Alexfin with a 660 AD, Standard, Normal, Settler, Cultural game for 51,107 points.
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Gauntlet Updates
The gauntlets are specific settings, which we’d like you to challenge this month. Please check the following 2 gauntlets:
– G-Major 193 – Cultural, Emperor, Ancient, Huge, Marathon, Continents, India
– G-Minor 281 – Diplomatic, Noble, Ancient, Standard, Normal, Pangaea, England
The CivPlayers League is organiying this Sunday (April 13th) a big match, at 8 AM CEST / 2 AM EDT, with some of their best players. The full game is expected to last 10h, and you can watch it on Twitch either here or here, and discuss it with us here.
And we didn’t forget Civ4, you also get a new challenge this month! For this round of the “Game Of The Month” you get a savegame where you play as Willem of the Netherlands on a standard size “Big & Small” map. The difficulty level is Noble, but you also have raging barbarians and an extra strong Barbarian unit. The deadline to send in your game is May 4. For more information please check this thread.