That’s not to say I’m always the leader of a bloodthirsty gang of militant murderers in Civ V, but I do enjoy building and deploying armies now. I just didn’t like unit stacking very much. Then Civ V happened and I realised none of that was true. I had raised my people to be the benevolent and meek inheritors of the Earth. They built cathedrals but they were not dedicated to a vengeful God but to beauty and the power of the human spirit. Judging by how fast my cities were growing, they were lovers as well. I imagined my citizens were paragons of virtue, living in a utopia built upon respect for all nations and people. I’d always thought I was just a benign ruler who didn’t want to be responsible for bloodshed.
Even better than science.Ĭivilisation V was the first game in the series to really make the military appealing to me. When culture came along in Civ III, it was one more bar I was happy to fill up. I build a few glorious cities and I watch those lovely beakers full of science stretch across bars until I discover yet more glorious things to put in my glorious cities. It’s a template that I took with me through the series. I tried to be just like the real Romans but with a twist. I played on the Earth map, because I wanted to warp our reality not a random one, and I was the Romans. I’ve since discovered better ways to indulge those particular urges but I’ve never stopped playing Civ. Rather than being a simple strategy game, it seemed to be an alternate history creating device. I’m not sure if I remember the details of that screenshot exactly but I do know it was the first time I became aware of the game and all the mad possibilities locked inside it. I’ve been a fan of the series since I first saw a screenshot of a newspaper saying “The Zulus have invented gunpowder.” It feels like that was around 1842 (the screenshot, not the invention) but careful research tells me it was 1991. And I play Civ V a lot.Ī brief and personal history of Civilisation. The mod has been available and actively updating for almost a year now by my reckoning and it is currently the only way I play Civ V. A game that is conveniently 75% on Steam this very weekend. Instead, this is a remake of the game Firaxis released. They describe the mod as a total conversion but that doesn’t mean it gives you fantasy units, adds magic or allows the use of Achron-style time travel (which I now want, mod community). The team, led by Markus Beutel, have looked at Civilisation V, stripped it down and rebuilt it from the ground up. Civilisation V NiGHTS is such a thing, born perhaps equally out of admiration and frustration. Sometimes the work that goes into a mod is breathtaking.
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