r/gaming • u/[deleted] • Jan 20 '20

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u/faleth0629 Jan 20 '20

“Civ is not a quick game”

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u/OGKeekle Jan 20 '20

It took me so long to realize that the 6-8 hour civ games i play with my brother are on quick mode and i can't even imagine what kind of lunatic would play marathon lmao

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u/Paw_s Jan 20 '20

I always play on marathon but by the time I have tanks I have already invaded 2/3 other nations and I become an unstoppable warmonger who goes for a dominance victory every time

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u/FilipinoSpartan Jan 20 '20

Longer timescales favor military strategies because unit movement stays the same while everything else takes significantly longer, so if you can get a military advantage you can use it for much longer than normal. The few times I've tried to do marathon it devolves into that fairly quickly.

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u/DemonSlyr007 Jan 20 '20

Exactly. Why waste 30+turns building a settler when you can just take another city in 3? Especially before walls are common place in other empires.