Sid Meier's Civilization the Board Game?

[Jac de Molay]

60 bucks too... :eek!: Not exactly chutes and ladders, is it? I've heard some early reports that the games take a VERY long time, much longer than six to eight hours.

Strange, but I saw another game in a DandD shop called Civilization that looked to be from europe.

[War4ever]

this is the new civ game? not the old one right?

and fleets? and armies? seems so uncivish to me ?????

[MrWhereItsAt]

Well some friends and I have been playing it with slightly changed rules to reduce some of the random effects at the start of the game that can be game-breakers. We finally made it to the modern era (after a few games of early endings), and we found our game is missing the SETI project wonder. Can anyone out there tell me what it does?

[Sikander]

Originally posted by neonext

armies and fleets? tech cards? i don't think we're talking about the same game...

Yea, I'm talking about the old Avalon Hill game called Civilization. It came out long before Sid made Civ 1 for the PC. It's not a bad game btw. IIRC they put out an advanced version of it later, but I never played that one. The game mentioned in the first post of this thread is also called Civilization, but it is a spin-off of the computer game we all know and love.

[Lord_Davinator]

hmm...
I'm a big fan of risk... I wonder how you play this board game.... can't have any of hte city improvements n workers... or can they? they they do.. damn me but I think they should provide a palm pc to remember everything...

[asleepathewheel]

Originally posted by DetroitDave
60 bucks too... :eek!: Not exactly chutes and ladders, is it? I've heard some early reports that the games take a VERY long time, much longer than six to eight hours.

60? Hah. I saw it in a local mall's kiosk for 90. too expensive for my tastes.

[JanB]

I am expecting that the game will take a long time to play especially at first as I get familiar with the rules etc. I thought that I might start the game and come back to it at intervals as I can't see being able to devote eight hours to it at one go; hubby may begin to feel neglected! Hopefully I have a table big enough to put the board on + all the bits and pieces. I don't think that I can spend eight hours at a time crawling around on the floor!

Did anyone get a signed copy? Now that would be something!

[Robert]

But it sounds interesting that they have already decided to make an expansion pack; or at least most likely.

where did you read about that?
what kind of expansion pack will that be? Multiplayer?

[asleepathewheel]

Originally posted by CyberShy

But it sounds interesting that they have already decided to make an expansion pack; or at least most likely.

where did you read about that?
what kind of expansion pack will that be? Multiplayer?

Can they release patches for board games?

[JanB]

All that money I'm paying, it had better not need a patch!

[MrWhereItsAt]

Originally posted by CyberShy

where did you read about that?

The manual has little blurbs at the top of the pages, and one of these states they have an expansion pack in the works - no idea what it would include though.

what kind of expansion pack will that be?
Multiplayer?

[Jonny]

Originally posted by MrWhereItsAt
Well some friends and I have been playing it with slightly changed rules to reduce some of the random effects at the start of the game that can be game-breakers. We finally made it to the modern era (after a few games of early endings), and we found our game is missing the SETI project wonder. Can anyone out there tell me what it does?

Oddly enough, my game is also missing the SETI wonder card.

[MrWhereItsAt]

I wonder what it does.....

[HolyWarrior]

Civ boardgame info

Click here for pictures.

Download the manual in Adobe format here.

Here is a copy of the tech tree . BTW, there is no SETI wonder on there that I can see.

Here's the map

[MrWhereItsAt]

Thanks HolyWarrior! Interesting about SETI - it is mentioned as a Wonder you get with Computers (IIRC) -I can check when I get back on the 5th. It would make the tech too expensive if it didn't have something like a Wonder accompanying it, so perhaps they removed it and like idiots didn't adjust the tech card before release.