Eh, the problem is that god games like this always have to focus on a few angles or risk making a tedious game no one will ever play outside of a few nerds. I

Eh, the problem is that god games like this always have to focus on a few angles or risk making a tedious game no one will ever play outside of a few nerds. I liked Civ(1, 2, uh.. 3 and 4 I think)because it felt like a good balance of strategy, discovery, and turn-based action. Actually I was hooked by Civ I because it was like nothing I'd ever played before, having missed out on Empire. The closest thing to it I'd played at the time was Dan(i) Bunton's Modem Wars on c64/128.