uh, guys...

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Make them all freaky blonde barbies, conquering outer space w/ skinny racism...

[Ben Kenobi]

The solution is to have actual waypoints. I should be able to cluster groups and have them go where I want them to go. Like Paradox...

[AAAAAAAAH!]

Stacks of doom usually reign supreme in Paradox games.

[Wiglaf]

Why did they get rid of the planetary council? Does EA own the rights to that too?

[Lorizael]

So that they can add it in a DLC, duh.

[Guynemer]

Didja get that thing I sentcha?

[Wiglaf]

The orbital layer may let players skirt around the one-military-unit-per-tile rule, but it doesn't solve a lingering problem this rule created in Civilization V and its expansions: the AI. While this rule did create some interesting new strategies for players, the game’s AI had trouble executing those same strategies with any consistency. As an example, I often saw the AI push its archers to the front line, ahead of their sword-wielding brothers in arms, only to get slaughtered. When asked about this, McDonough explained, "We've had the opportunity to do a great deal of work and learn from the successes that Civilization V had with its AI to make AI suited for [Beyond Earth]. We’re confident it’s going to do a great job. We’re working hard on it and the war simulations we’re running in our test games are already pretty crazy and fun."

What a useless and phony individual. Why is he running the show? What the **** is a "war simulation? Is he referring to playing the game? Is there that much of a shortage of honest and intelligent lead developers?

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

And why aren't our brave Washington politicians DOING anything about it?

[Lorizael]

What a useless and phony individual. Why is he running the show? What the **** is a "war simulation? Is he referring to playing the game? Is there that much of a shortage of honest and intelligent lead developers?

I agree. I'd be cumsploding right now if he'd said, "Yeah, we're pretty sure the CivBE AI is going to be just as ****ty and we anticipate dozens of patches to fix this critical design flaw."

[Wiglaf]

We're a long way from Soren Johnson giving a Google Tech Talk on AI work using Civ 4 as a case study, people. A LONG. WAY. LONG. WAY. LONG

[kentonio]

Stacks of doom usually reign supreme in Paradox games.

Uh what? Attrition stops stacks of doom being all powerful in Paradox games.

[Ben Kenobi]

Stacks of doom usually reign supreme in Paradox games.

Not when there's attrition.

[AAAAAAAAH!]

Uh what? Attrition stops stacks of doom being all powerful in Paradox games.

They did in EU2 where armies didn't reinforce themselves for free. In a game like EU3 you pretty much have to keep your forces together and try to wipe out enemy regiments so they won't get reinforcements.

[regexcellent]

The only strategy games I've played that don't massively favor stacks are Hearts of Iron and Wargame, due to flanking bonuses (and massive stacking penalty in HoI)

[AAAAAAAAH!]

Hearts of Iron still has stacks of doom in air and naval combat.