That's an interesting analogy.
I was giving CIV4 BTS a go again earlier this week and I do still prefer that version of the game. I intensely dislike civ5's city/tile/economy thing. For me, the strong focus on building cities around resources from civ4 was a very positive step forwards from civ3. Civ 5 has basicaly gone back to the city-spam of civ3
I do think the military is improved but I'm kind of ambivalent about the city defense of civ5. Hexes I could take or leave.
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