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This emphasizes the need of reconnaissance if one of your soldiers has iron but no horses, the makeup of your army will be dramatically altered.

This makes city governments significant (because they can supply resources) and makes fighting over a resource a valid justification for conflict. Iron, horses, uranium, and other resources must be acquired, and not just from one source! Every kingdom used to discover at least one iron, horse, or oil deposit, but today various deposits have varying amounts.įor example, I can secure an iron mine that only provides me 2 iron (therefore only allowing me to have 2 troops that need iron!) Alternatively, buy a large one that’s worth $6. I can’t emphasize how important it is to have limited resources. Instead, you’re forced to specialize your towns depending on the terrain they’re surrounded by and their location on the map in relation to your adversaries. Now, it’s not worth it to build a granary & library & monument & temple & barracks in every single city as that would take far too long.

It used to be every city would have the same basic composition of buildings and some would even max out all the possible buildings you can build.

If your citizens start clamouring for whales or wine or silk it’s worth going out and trying to secure that resource just to make them happy. Once your empire is unhappy your production drops dramatically. No longer can you let your small cities wallow because unhappiness isn’t affecting your big production cities. It’s a fantastic gameplay enhancement to make it science-independent. Securing a gold or silver mine, therefore, is a big plus for your empire (and taking out your enemies is a great strategic move). This means you don’t just construct roads everywhere because you want to save money on upkeep, making a strategic transportation network crucial to a successful empire (in Civ 4, you’d just build a road on every single tile). You may purchase plots of land, units, city states, and trade technologies outright. Civilization V is a more deeper, more challenging, and better game than Civilization IV, and here are some of the areas in which the franchise has progressed.