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The Civilization 5 Gods and Kings official website went online. There Firaxis offers a list of Civ5:G&K previews, tells us what new civilizations are in the game. There the Civ5:G&K leaders welcome us in their native tongue (at least I hope so). We get some bits and pieces of information about the addon. We learn about 52 new achievements in Civ5G&K. We can download wallpapers, and avatars, definitively something we have to add to Apolyton. And we can preorder Civilization 5 Gods and Kings.

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Religion In Civilization 5 Gods and Kings

Religion is one of the main features that God and Kings on Civilization 5. Religion was in Civilization 4 and even so it was intended to go into the original Civ 5 it was omitted from the game, as Apolyton found out. Now with Civilization 5: Gods and Kings, religion returns.

Religion does not just return, but returns in a new form to Civ 5. In Civ 4, it just flavored the game the benefits the various religions game very similar. In Civ 5: G&K, religion is modular, it is based on building blocks: The Beliefs.

The Beliefs group into four categories, the Pantheon Beliefs, the Founder Beliefs, the Follower Beliefs, and Enhancer Beliefs. The Pantheon Beliefs are basic Beliefs and constitute a pre-religion. The pre-religion can be turned into a full religion by adding a Founder Belief. A Founder Belief can be added by a Great Prophet. Founder Beliefs only benefit the founder of a religion. To a religion two Follower Beliefs can be added. Follower Beliefs benefit anyone who follows the religion. And finally an Enhancer Belief can be added, to enhance the spreading of the religion.

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Gods and Kings adds 9 new Civilizations to Civilization 5. Additionally, it adds Spain from paid downloadable content (DLC). Each Civilization as two Unique Item that can be built. The first item is a Unique Unit (UU), the second item is either a Unique Unit, a Unique Building (UB), or a Unique Tile Improvement (UI). There 12 new Unique Units, 3 Unique Buildings, 1 Unique Tile Improvement, and 2 unknown Unique Items.

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Gods and Kings adds 9 new wonders to Civilization 5, it adds 1 new national wonder, and 1 new natural wonder. Additionally, it changes a wonder.

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New Buildings

Gods and Kings adds 13 new buildings to Civilization 5. At least 3 of the 13 buildings are Unique Buildings (UBs). This means they can only be build by one specific civilization.

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The Civilization 5 addon Gods and Kings adds 27 new units to the game and changes the combat system. Here are the details:

Combat System

• All unit values were completely revised.
• More early (WW1) aircrafts.
• Naval units have been split into two types: Naval melee and naval ranged units. (Ed Beach)
• Melee ships can pillage or capture cities. (Ed Beach)
• Embarked units now have Defensive Embarkation.
• Embarked land units can be stacked with naval units. (Ed Beach)
• Units have now 100 hitpoints instead of 10, so that the combat system can be better fine tuned. (Ed Beach)
• The damage a unit makes has been increased from 4-8 to 24-36.
• So far 2 units could destroy a unit of equal strength, now 3.5 units are needed to destroy a unit of equal strength.
• This makes it more difficult to defeat cities and units.
• Catapults for instance can now survive a melee attack.
• The AI (artificial inteligence) can compose its armies better.
• The AI can plan and execute sea invasions within 10 turns instead of 50-60 turns.
• Completed the Archer upgrade path: Archer -> Composite Archer -> Gatling Gunner -> Machine Gunner (added) (Ed Beach)
• After a promotion a unit's health is only restored up to 50%.
• No penalty in combat on plains.

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Bengt Lemne from Gamereactor has interviewed Ed Beach the gameplay designer of Firaxis for the Civilization 5 addon Gods and Kings. They were talking about religion, diplomacy, and combat in Civ5:G&K. Here is the video of the interview and a transcript, which has been edited for style and clarity:

Bengt Lemne:
Gods and Kings, I just got a demo, and I thougfht it is similar to the press release about it: A new expansion, they are writing about religion for Civ5. For me it's not a huge deal, because I played religion in Civ4. But vow, when I saw the demo, that's gonna change the game as I play it, completely.

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Apolyton has missed the release of Civilization V: Gods and Kings, and with us the rest of the world except the guys from squidoo. If we believe them than Civilization 5: Gods and Kings "was released June 19 in North America and June 22 internationally." (Emphasis by me). So that was last year or what! ...

Apolyton is counting down to the release of the Civilization 5 expansion Gods and Kings in America on June 19th 2012. The expansion is released in Europe on June 22nd 2012.

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