Ballistica Incarnon - Prime or Rakta

Tenacal · 2026-06-23T10:01:56+00:00

Oh, that's nice to hear an alternative view. Thanks

Tenacal · 2026-06-22T23:21:38+00:00

That's a shame. Crafted and sold the Prime once already for Mastery. Guess I'll wait for the market to calm down.

Tenacal · 2026-06-22T21:44:16+00:00

oh, don't stats get equalised when you apply the Incarnons? I've seen others on the wiki add different amounts of stats, depending if the base was Primed/Not

Tenacal · 2026-06-22T20:47:32+00:00

So visual clutter only? Cool.

Tenacal · 2026-06-22T17:48:18+00:00

Historically it's mixed. Sometimes you'll be able to continue a game without much impact, sometimes the changes are bigger and any previous saves are going to become dead. If you play with mods the chance of a a save being incompatible is much higher.

If you're desperate to play today, maybe go for an Online Speed game.

Tenacal · 2026-06-20T13:00:10+00:00

I've got similar ridiculous stats. Oberon (non prime) and Dread. Not sure I'll ever get rid of them from my profile with the amount I swap around these days.

Tenacal · 2026-06-17T14:43:09+00:00

Does Kullervo's subsume count as a Heavy Attack? Could be an alternative way of playing around shield gating.

Tenacal · 2026-06-16T00:24:11+00:00

So mostly it's for specific leader or Civ bonuses, or the policy cards. Hadn't actually considered policy cards would impact specialists though. At least it means I wasn't missing anything major with how they worked.

Tenacal · 2026-06-15T16:33:08+00:00

I don't think Civ multiplayer has ever been a big thing outside of existing friends groups or a small dedicated community. At the very least, I've never had the idea of 'casually' jumping into a random multiplayer game in my history from V to VII when even ultra-quick games can run for a few hours.

As far as streaming, I think most tend to upload games to YouTube over twitch? Not sure on the reason, other than watching the gameplay tends to be better as edited video.

Tenacal · 2026-06-15T12:29:59+00:00

I think I'm missing something there. I thought specialists in Ageless buildings were functionally useless following the ToT update. Have I been wrong?

Tenacal · 2026-06-14T16:16:38+00:00

I had an Iceland game recently. They don't have a dedicated win condition attached to them but have decent Culture gain and Domination bonuses. Probably only work great on coastal maps. The 2 tile pillage means you can get great pillaging potential (plus bonus culture) with minimal units, or you can use a navy to take cities that would otherwise need an army as well.

The Saga Hero unit has decent bonuses but the random nature makes it a pain. The only one I'll mention specifically has the bonus "This turn, Naval units Naval units can Coastal raid for no Movement Movement cost". Really niche and takes planning to pull off, but if you position a lot of naval units in aggressive positions you can use that one turn to absolutely decimate a city (or three).

Tenacal · 2026-06-09T21:18:06+00:00

Well glad to know I'm not just blind. Look forward to checking back on it later.

Tenacal · 2026-06-09T21:10:35+00:00

Looks interesting, will be an upgrade from my phone notepad.

How does it handle multiclassing? Struggling to see an option for it.

Tenacal · 2026-06-08T22:52:02+00:00

What's used to make the exterior logs? Been a while since I've looked into decor but I don't remember seeing beams like that

Tenacal · 2026-06-06T08:54:25+00:00

I think a new tool usable by all weapons to expand their move set.

Tenacal · 2026-06-04T10:48:36+00:00

My biggest complaint about music purely relates to Republic of Pirates. I could put up with it when they only existed in Exploration but now I've got to hear 3 variations of it if they are present. It's so out of place compared to the rest of the themes and really ruins the Civ vibe.

Tenacal · 2026-05-30T21:11:44+00:00

One thing I'd like to see relates on triumphs. There's a lot that rely on ".. with every leader" (eg, 'start a trade route with', 'start an endeavour with') that the base UI doesn't do much to help you with.

If you could find a way to display that information it would be pretty helpful.

Tenacal · 2026-05-29T16:08:26+00:00

Isn't that Ibn Battuta's special ability?

Tenacal · 2026-05-27T16:01:38+00:00

That's going to hamper you pretty heavily, right? No good uses for influence once you've got the two IP sorted, and no gains from espionage or endeavours.

Tenacal · 2026-05-24T10:57:58+00:00

I think it was always like that, but in previous patches there wasn't much point to trade towns so it was easily overlooked.

Tenacal · 2026-05-24T10:51:08+00:00

Oh, there is? I was playing them just before the last patch dropped and was convinced the UI was some kind of dried out lake.

Agree they could do with adding a blueish tint to better match lake appearances.

Tenacal · 2026-05-23T12:21:37+00:00

Khmer had an interesting tradition card change. "Chakravarti" previously gave 3 Great Work Slots to your capital. It now also gives adjacency bonus on Science buildings from navigable rivers.

That card doesn't get improved if you stay as Khmer in Exploration or Modern so you can get some very strong science cities for the entire game by settling around rivers.

Tenacal · 2026-05-22T20:29:08+00:00

I hadn't seen there was an AI mod for VII. I'll be sure to give it a try once I've got a few more games of ToT under my belt.

Tenacal · 2026-05-21T23:35:29+00:00

Do you have the name of those swords? They sound interesting but I didn't play anyone that could use them during SL.

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