Civilization V!!

[Kekvit Irae]

Meh. Not interested. It's just yet another update to the Civ series.
If they came out with Alpha Centauri 2, THEN I would be interested.

[Aemilius Paulus]

If they came out with Alpha Centauri 2, THEN I would be interested.

You know they will never be able to make a worthy successor to that one.

[al Roumi]

Meh. Not interested. It's just yet another update to the Civ series.
If they came out with Alpha Centauri 2, THEN I would be interested.

You know they will never be able to make a worthy successor to that one.

If only they'd bloody try!

[Scienter]

Farewell, sleep. It was nice knowing you.

I stayed up late so many nights playing Civ IV. Hopefully V will be as much fun!

[al Roumi]

hmmm. It's not much to go on but looking at those screenies in the OP's link remind me of land combat in Pirates! I hope CIV V doesn't go down that route... Pirates land combat was fun enough but way too cheesy a mini-game for what I would like from CIV.

I found it easier to suspend belief of what was happening on the small scale of battle tactics when an army was in a stack. Not getting that involved, beyond some broad maneuvres (what ground to occupy, which units to lead the attack with) reinforced the higher level strategy aspect of the game. War in CIV has, for me, been more about production, tech and supply than anything to do with micro-managing battles & tactics. Ok, what has been before need not be the way of things to come but... it is kind of a defining feature of the game for me. I can imagine large scale war getting really tedious if you have to organise a battle line each time. In some respects it could be too much like TW, but not zoomed in low enough perhaps.

[Ser Clegane]

As they are already switching to hex they could use something similar to SSI's Panzer General. Straight forward enough to not distract too much from the main elements of a typical Civ game but still good tactical fun (at least IMHO)

[TinCow]

One major benefit to a switch to hex is that we no longer have to worry about the 'fat cross' for city placement. Presumably cities will just work 2 concentric rings of hexes, which is a lot easier to figure out on the fly.

[rajpoot]

I never liked Civ 4's battles......seemed too much like rock paper scissor stuff to me.......all you did was just make as many units as possible and keep making them until you win...

I remember one game where I had atleast 10 ICBMs in each of my city's....still couldn't defeat win.