and they've added the new inexplicable feature of having to embark and drop 1/3 of their movement speed to cross straits/fjords/other narrow bodies of water that they can cross in a turn. they also still have the inexplicable Civ 4 features of having unlimited range and being unique among air units in that they're able to conquer cities by their lonesome.

but longswordsmen can still damage helicopters, and I can't imagine spearman/tank encounters will go any differently. in the run-up to the game's release (and, in fact, stated explicitly in response to a question at the PAX demo I went to) it was said that spearmen can't destroy tanks any more. this makes it really difficult to tell how good a '+1 Production for every Sea Resource being worked' or a '+1 Food for Sea tiles' building will be for you. janky shit: - from the 'Change Production' pop-up, you can't see yield icons (unless you turn them on across the map), you can't see which tiles are being worked, and you can't see a list of other buildings in the city. however, there are a LOT of things that are janky and/or outright buggy about it, in grand Firaxis tradition.

Civ 5 is the best goddamned Civ game ever I've already spent 12 hours playing it, and I can see myself spending hundreds more.

Great general civ 5