I’m now starting to get a better feel for Civ V. Basically, expand slowly and plan for the unhappiness that will come with building new cities/conquering others. Unfortunately I didn’t get the expansion, so I don’t have the option of religion, so just have to settle for circuses, colosseums and courthouses. I’m also playing the Mongol scenario which is a great one in learning how to handle unhappiness, although I’ve had to restart that scenario countless times and am still yet to win in 100 turns on Prince difficulty.
I also finished Space Marine single player on normal. It was quite enjoyable, especially zooming around in the overpowered jump pack. I might have to give multiplayer a go sometime.
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Anyone else go “wtf?” when they realised that the end boss fight was a series of quicktime events? Regardless, I quite enjoyed the single player game and they have built it up well for a sequel. I wonder whether in the next game we will be controlling a Librarian? Would be cool to be able to play as a non-space marine race though…