Beyond the Sword Fact Sheet

[Robert]

I think that civ3 had the same William (the Silent, the first stewart) as the civ4 picture shows.

Willem van Oranje (William of Orange) is thé Dutch Father of the Fatherland. I think the 2nd choise could only be Wilhelmina.

[Shrapnel12]

Is there any specific info on High Powered Artillery? Is this just a beefed up version of Artillery? I'm hoping there will be something interesting about this. New units can be cool, but it will be a bit boring if all that's new is a higher strength rating.

[Flhaus]

Originally posted by Xorbon

Purina Pet Food Co. : provides an extra luxury resource to cities with a majority middle/upper class with access to horse; provides an extra food resource to cities with a majority of lower class citizens with access to horse

Sick sick sick...I love it!

[Jaybe]

Shrapnel12, we have a graphic and we have a name -- what else could you want?

With the graphic I presume it's going to have a movement of 2.

[Alexander I]

New BtS preview at EuroGamer. Identifies Gilgamesh and Justinian as new leaders, among other things.

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=76804

[Common Sensei]

Originally posted by Alexander I
New BtS preview at EuroGamer. Identifies Gilgamesh and Justinian as new leaders, among other things.

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=76804

I see he erroneously mentioned Tokugawa as a "new" leader in that same sentence along with Gilgamesh and Justinian. Think it was a slipup when meaning a second Japanese leader?

Also, it confirms that random events can be turned on or off.

[Thedrin]

I see he erroneously mentioned Tokugawa as a "new" leader in that same sentence along with Gilgamesh and Justinian. Think it was a slipup when meaning a second Japanese leader?

No. In the interview on the next page those three leaders are mentioned along with Sitting Bull.

[Alexander I]

Originally posted by Common Sensei


I see he erroneously mentioned Tokugawa as a "new" leader in that same sentence along with Gilgamesh and Justinian. Think it was a slipup when meaning a second Japanese leader?

Also, it confirms that random events can be turned on or off.

Must be some kind of slip-up. Tokugawa's been in since vanilla.

[Xorbon]

It looks like the Byzantines and Sumerians will be in, unless Justinian is just another Roman leader and Gilgamesh is a Babylonian leader - though that would be stupid since it would exclude them from being leaders of Byzantium and Sumer in a future expansion.

[Alexander I]

Originally posted by Xorbon
It looks like the Byzantines and Sumerians will be in, unless Justinian is just another Roman leader and Gilgamesh is a Babylonian leader - though that would be stupid since it would exclude them from being leaders of Byzantium and Sumer in a future expansion.

IMHO, there are plenty of better options for other Roman and Babylonian leaders than those two anyway, Marcus Aurelius and Nebuchadnezzar to name one of each off the top of my head.

[Adm.Naismith]

Originally posted by Ennet
Summary of new information(i think most of this should be new):

There are colonies splitting from their motherland to form new civilizations.

Sounds great! Splitting countries is an old request, since Civ III list...

[LDiCesare]

On the Apolstolic Palace from eurogamer:

But with the Apostolic Palace, one of the things you can trigger is 'don't go to war with me' - so you will literally make sure that they'll take their weapons and put it behind their back - all the way until they discover communism.

This means the Palace may very well be hyper powerful when warmongers are nearby. I wonder if you can change state religion to bypass such constraints.

[Thedrin]

Probably - the diplomatic agreements that are made available with the Apostolic Palace have only ever been mentioned in connection with civs of the same state religion.

[JackRudd]

Originally posted by Martinus
Any guesses on what their traits are going to be? I would like Willem to be Financial/Creative and Suleyman Industrious/Organized, personally (both great combos, that were removed in Warlords - originally they were held by Catherine and Napoleon, respectively).

Napoleon has never been Ind/Org. In vanilla, he's Agg/Ind, and in Warlords, he's Cha/Org, his old trait combination having been reassigned to Stalin. Ind/Org is, for both vanilla and Warlords, the trait combination for Franklin Roosevelt.

[onodera]

http://media.pc.ign.com/media/896/896712/img_4570331.html

Giant Death Robots?