A royal could still belong to a family - probably does if that’s not your starting leader. If you have e.g. a Queen and a Chaldean husband, he could head the religion that Chaldeans follow.
Leaders, courtiers and family heads can never be religion heads. Also not children, as with most positions.
Ok, the reason I bring it up is for me Dido’s brother often rolls head of Carthaginian Paganism right at the start of the game, and I was curious if that was was only possible becuse no family had converted yet. Also, I guess an heir could in theory be a head then? Could they inherit their way to Pope-king?
If you build a shrine early, Dido’s brother is probably the only viable option. He’s not a family head, and he’s an adult. The families may not have converted yet, but they may also not yet have characters that are old enough anyway, with the game’s preference for > 25 leaders.
There won’t be any pope-kings, if a religion head becomes the leader then they’d stop being religion head immediately.
Thanks, good to know.
plz fix ur gaem:
:)
-Tom
P.S. I love that it takes an order to hold a city site! I was astonished to see the AI actually move an army off a city site in one of my games. I figured he just needed the army elsewhere. But now I know he might have also needed the orders.
That’s for South Asian expansion pack ;)
DO WANT
-Tom
Man, I would love that. Please consider doing the eastern and central/southern African content as well. :)
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Question: How does redraw techs cards work? (If you have the oracle or certain leader types you can redraw cards). I’ve never actually used it before.
In particular if you have a bonus card and you redraw cards is the bonus card gone for good or is it reshuffled?
It just occurred to me that if you have two bonus card, redrawing may be a good away of avoiding losing one.
Follow on question Is there any penalty for redrawing tech cards?
“Redrawing” is the same as putting all your cards in the discard pile and follows the same rules as that.
Have you considered making the animation you developed for the tech deck tutorial part of the game when a tech has been researched? I would love to see the movement of the cards:
I don’t remember exactly what the tutorial animation shows, but I do remember it being similar to what I just wrote. The point is, I find myself trying to figure out which cards went where after a tech is researched, because the movement of the cards weren’t shown to me. Then again, perhaps I’m alone in feeling this!
BTW, is the discard pile shuffled as soon as the draw pile is empty, or only when a card draw is requested while the draw pile is empty?
If you hover over the button to open the tech screen it will give you a tooltip with where all the cards currently are. At least some of the time, it doesn’t always seem to work for me.
I’m pretty sure that the discard pile only shuffles when a card draw is requested while the draw pile is empty.
I love the animation idea though, particularly if it’s optional.
It is only shuffled when it needs to draw a card and the draw pile is empty.
Melee siege weapons - what are everyone’s thoughts?
After playing a long game with Assyria on a medium sized coastal rain basin map, I’ve decided I really dislike their unique units and all other melee siege units, primarily due to how absolutely slowly they trundle across the map.
Once in place they can be devastating, but due to their lack of movement and the inability to build or use roads in enemy or newly captured (anarchic) territory, they usually arrive on the scene well after the city has been captured.
What am I missing?
I used the onager a fair bit in my last campaign I just finished and like the damage they do but as you say they are rather slow to get on scene, but the range they fire from is quite handy and since I staged my army next to the civ I was about to attack the travel speed being slower wasn’t really an issue.
So I guess my take is I wouldn’t try and bring them into play as the battle proceeds but instead get them positioned prior to starting the engagement.
Onagers are great, but @davehemke is talking about Assyria’s unique units. The battering ram and siege twoer are melee units, so you have to roll them up to go toe-to-toe with their targets.
Cities with defenses powerful enough to warrant battering rams and siege towers? :)
But, yes, in my main Assyria playthrough, the battering ram gets to stay home as a garrison. Obviously not its intended use.
-Tom
The assyrian tower tanks really well. I didn’t check the stats but it seemed to shrug off hits. It’s probably a tier up from normal. Like getting a war elephant at the start when everyone is on slingers/archers
I believe this was raised upthread, but I don’t think it was answered. Here’s the contextual tooltip for adding a general to a unit:
Why is the tooltip saying it must be of a “different family than [the unit’s family]”? Because if you hover elsewhere for a tooltip, it explains that the opposite is true. A unit will only accept a general from its family or Tribe, with the exception of your nation’s leader, who can become General of whatever he or she wants. Is it just a typo or is it trying to explain something I’m not understanding?
-Tom
The tooltip is a bug.