The ranges of combat missions aren't clear. Aerial combat isn't much better, animations for the planes don't play properly. Likewise their 'goto' commands break when they embark, often leading to a huge build up of units on the wrong coast. Not cool if you come back to a game after a long break. it's a bit like the Total War series, where you have the remember where your units are.

Civ V has a really annoying habit of 'losing' units. That is of course if your units don't get lost on the way. Capture all the enemy capitals and you win the game. Many such mods can be paired together with this mod as the base for an excellent gaming experience. It acts as the base and support for other mods like Communitas enhanced gameplay mod. Combat is better, but the dumbing down of naval invasions means it's really easy to snatch the enemy's capital from sea. Communitas AI And Tools mod is the best Civ 5 mod which has offered some utilities and interface tweaks to the superb video game. You even get those little perks like lower upgrading costs. With their crazy intelligent mod, there are so many things you can get the game to do. A well-known modder called WaterZer0 found a way to fix this and bring balance to the game. Civ V doesn't even have this - it's more like a 'Conglaturation!, you have completed a great game' screen, and that's it. The AI on Civilization VI can be a pain at times.

The end screens on Civ IV were short little movie, depending on which victory you attained. On normal it was a bit better, except there's no way of telling if your neighbours are happy with you, so it's easy to descend into bloodshed if you're not disciplined. City-states make ridiculous demands eg 'build a road to my town (on the other side of the planet) and they get really old really fast. Marathon is simply too slow (my rig exceeds recommended specs and hasn't crashed once). I like to play Huge, Marathon, Earth maps because of the 'epic' feel. I've played through two full games now, one marathon and one normal. The only people who don't think that this is major dumbing down of the series obviously just don't 'get' strategy games. The short of it is: if you have, and like Civ IV BTS, then don't bother. This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.

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