Jesse Smith interviewed by Gamespot (about Warlords)

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by monkspider
Ah, it appears that cities now use distinct tile graphics for mediteranean/east-asian civs. Nice touch.

Though it would suck if, like in Civ2, India got East Asian city graphics.

[Bill3000]

Originally posted by LordShiva


Though it would suck if, like in Civ2, India got East Asian city graphics.

http://indiansareasian.com/

[JimMac]

Originally posted by monkspider
...The expansion pack will include the final patch release for Civ IV.

I take it that means there will be a further Civ IV patch, and not simply that Warlords will include 1.61?

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Bill3000
http://indiansareasian.com/

Noooo!!!! It's been my life mission to convince people that Indians aren't Asians... We have our own (sub) continent, d@mmit!!

[Adagio]

Ok, now I've finally read the interview, not much news, but as I expected

The Great Wall (?) in the screenshots looks interesting

[drsparnum]

Bill3000 makes a point. I'm sold.

[monkspider]

Hey, looks like a bunch of new screenshots up at IGN too, including a couple portraying what has to be the new Warlord unit!

http://media.pc.ign.com/media/818/818084/imgs_1.html

[Imran Siddiqui]

I thought this screen from Gamespot was interesting as well:



It appears Donghai is building a unit called a Polearm II. Now, it may be cleaned up later (since it is an alpha build), but new unit?

[Imran Siddiqui]

From IGN:



Look on the top left... looks like the Greek Warlord.

[MasterDave]

This is a guess, but that first screenie is more likely from a scenario, where there would be a progression of similar tech units (similar to the different kinds of Praetorians in the Fall of Rome scenario in Civ3 Conquests).

[Imran Siddiqui]

Yeah, but we don't have a Polearm in CivIV... unless they changed the name of the Spearman.

[Solver]

You'd expect scenarios to have some different units, wouldn't you?

[Ijuin]

I would like to know how the Great Wall works. From the looks of it it establishes itself along your cultural borders as of the turn of its construction, but what benefits does it give?

My choice on benefits would be for it to give a 50% defender bonus for anybody attacking across it, and it would take a unit's full turn to cross it even with roads (representing how the Wall was intended not so much to keep enemies out as to keep them from being able to run away as the Chinese armies pinned them).

[Older than Dirt]

Obviously, the Great Wall will give +3 gold per turn due to tourism.

[Strategist83]

Wrong. It yields +4.5 to blisters. It's called the GREAT wall for a reason. One heck of a long walk.