New Sid Meier Civilization Boardgame

[Anonymous]

Did anyone else see the ad for the new Sid Meier's Civilization Boardgame in the latest CGW? (The NWN cover).

I have to admit that it looks really cool. The 3D playing pieces should be painted (or colored, at least... that "beige-ish" color they have is really bland), but apart from that, I really want to pick it up in September.

Remember too many all-nighters in college playing Avalon Hill's classic Civ boardgame, but this Civ boardgame looks to be just what its name implies: a boardgame version of the computer game. Didn't think it could be done, but impressive.

Once I buy it, then I'll just have to find some people to play against, else it's just going to be a nice addition to my bookshelf.

[Anonymous]

BTW... forgot to add the link...
http://www.eaglegames.net/

[Tyjenks]

Thanks for the link. Not much info at the site, but hopefully the closer they get to the August release date we can find out more. I agree, surely they are going to paint those.

Looks interesting.

[Alan Au]

Yeah, but how long does it take to play a game? SMC and its variants take a LONG time to play, and that's with a computer players taking pretty quick turns.

- Alan

[chet]

That really is an ugly map.

I wonder if it will have those nice Sid touches, like have you edit a text file every time you want to change the dice you are throwing?

Chet

[Tyjenks]

AoM (http://www.eaglegames.net/news/pr_12.html) is getting some of that huge gameboard port market, too.

[Jakub]

As long as it doesn't include any "brilliant features" like strategic resources (come on, admit it, the horse was your favorite!), I just might pick it up.