Persona Packs

Teddy Roosevelt (Rough Rider) – Leader Bonus: Roosevelt Corollary – Bonus unit strength on home continent, Bonus envoys to city states you have a trade route with, Rough Rider Unit (New Frontier Pass exclusive)
Teddy Roosevelt (Bull Moose) – Leader Bonus: Antiquities and Parks – Breathtaking tiles adjacent to either a Natural Wonder or a Mountain receive +2 Science. Breathtaking tiles adjacent to either a Wonder or Woods receive +2 Culture. All tiles in a city with a National Park are +1 Appeal.
Catherine De Medici – Leader Bonus: Magnificence Catherine – Improved luxury resources get bonus culture if next to Theatre Squares or Chateaux. May initiate the Court Festival project – Bonus culture and tourism based on bonus luxury resources.

Secret Societies Game Mode

When unlocked you will be a unique Governor with four bonuses. You can not change a Secret Society once you have chosen it. AI’s are friendlier to Civs of the same Secret Society.

If you don’t unlock a Secret Society first, you can unlock them through diplomatic levels with a Civ that has already unlocked it.

Any unique Secret Societies building will replace and Civ unique building.

Secret Societies

Hermetic Order:
Initiation: Reveals Ley Lines on the map that give bonus adjacency to districts. (unlocked by finding a Natural Wonder)
Ritual: Allows you to build the Alchemical Society Building a replacement for the University +Great Engineer points, +Great Merchant points, +Production +Gold (unlocked by entering the Medieval Era)
Indoctrination: For every Great Person Ley Lines get +yield of that Great Person (Generals and Admirals give science) (unlocked by entering the Industrial Era)
Master Plan: Unlocks Occult Research, a city project that requires the Campus district. It provides Gold while active. When completed, it grants Great Merchant, Great Scientist, and Great Engineer points. It also grants Science for every Ley Line in the city (unlocked by entering the Atomic Age)

Owls of Minerva:

Initiation: +Economic Policy Slot, bonus envoy at the end of a trade route mission (unlocked by sending an envoy to a City State)
Ritual: Can build the Gilded Vault Building a replacement for the Bank, Give adjacency bonus in culture as well as gold and bonus trade route if you also have a Harbour (unlocked by entering the Medieval Era)
Indoctrination: +Wildcard Policy Slot, +Spies, +Loyalty, +Amenities spies are in home territory (unlocked by entering the Industrial Era)
Master Plan :Whenever an offensive spy mission is successful, you also gain half of the Gold, Faith, Culture, and Science that the targeted city earned that turn. Earn 3% of your Gold treasury as Gold per turn (up to 1000 Gold per turn). (unlocked by entering the Atomic Age)

Voidsigners:

Initiation: Can build the Old Gods Obelisk, Replaces the Monument, +Faith, +Great Works Slots (unlocked by finding a tribal village)
Ritual: Cities get +Gold, Science and Culture equal to 20% of their per-turn Faith Yield (unlocked by entering the Medieval Era)
Indoctrination: Unlocks the Cultist Unit, purchased with faith, can reduce loyalty in foreign cities with charges, generates Relics of the Void (unlocked by entering the Industrial Era)
Master Plan: Unlocks Dark Summoning a city project that provides lots of Faith while active and raises the power of Cultists on completion (unlocked by entering the Atomic Age)
Relics of the Void: A Journal of Next Year’s Dreams, Chorus of the Drowned, Foundation Stone, Fragment of Akkorokamui, Fungal Spore, Instructions for the Kumanthong, the Book of Dead Names, The Loveless Ones, Vessel of Nyarlathotep

Sanguine Pact:

Initiation: Grants a Vampire Unit in your Capital. (unlocked by destroying a Barbarian Camp)
Ritual: Grants a Vampire Unit in your Capital. Can build Vampire Castles (up to 4). Give defence, bonus yields (from surrounding tiles) and can teleport units between them in later eras. (unlocked by entering the Medieval Era)
Indoctrination: Grants a Vampire Unit in your Capital. Vampires intimidate adjacent units, lowers pillaging cost. (unlocked by entering the Industrial Era)
Master Plan: Grants a Vampire Unit in your Capital. Player can airlift between Vampire Castles. (unlocked by entering the Atomic Age)
Vampire: +combat strength from adjacent fallen enemies, don’t die but retreat with 1hp that needs to be healed (but if you kill them in their castles they die for good).

You can only have up to 4 Vampires and 4 Vampire Castles (unlocked with each Governor Bonus)

New District

Diplomatic Quarter – Grants Diplomatic Favour from Delegations and Embassies, +1 Envoy if built next to the City Centre, Spies have reduced effectiveness on this and adjacent districts, can only build one per empire.

Consulate: +Influence Points per turn, reduces spies effectiveness in this city and cities with Encampments
Chancery: +Influence Points per turn, bonus science when you capture/kill an enemy spy

Envoy Bonuses Changes:

At 1 Envoy, you get +1 yield in your capital and on matching Tier 1 buildings. At 3 Envoys, you get +2 yield on the Consulate and matching Tier 2 buildings. At 6 Envoys, you get +3 yield on the Chancery and matching Tier 3 buildings.

UI

Added information to the Espionage pop-up that calculates mission success probabilities.

August Update

Map Generation

Natural Wonder Picker – In the World Generation page you select which Natural Wonders can and can not appear.

Game Mode

Tech and Civic Shuffle Mode

This will hide the locations of each tech and civic as well as randomising the prerequisites.

Balance Fixes

Map Changes

Forest & Jungle Fires will burn longer.

Civilization Changes

Scotland – The Golf Course gives a bonus Amenity

District Changes

Government Plaza:

Foreign Ministry gives 3 diplomatic favour/turn as well.
Grand Masters Chapel now also gives +5 faith/turn

Theatre Square:

Gains major adjacency from Entertainment District and Water Park

Unit Changes

Naturalist: re-balanced in line with Rock Bands

Amenities System Changes

Revolt is now at -8 or less
Ecstatic is at +5 of more

Negative penalties are harsher (but revolt isn’t as harsh)
Free amenities for city are gone.Palace gives 1.

Byzantium and Gaul Pack

Out in September

Byzantium

Civilization Leader: Basil II
Leader Agenda: Divine Guardian Likes civs following the same religion
Civilization Capital: Constantinople
Civilization Bonus: Taxis Combat units and Religious units get a combat bonus for each Holy City Converted to Byzantium’s Religion. Byzantium’s Region is spread by defeating enemy units. Bonus Great Prophet points in cities with a Holy Site.
Leader Bonus: Porphyrogénnétos. Cavalry units do full damage against cities following the same religion as Byzantium.
Unique Unit: Dromon – bonus range and attack than the Quadrireme that it replaces
Unique Unit: Tagma – Bonus combat or religious attack to units next to it, replaces the knight.
Unique District: Hippodrome Replaces the Entertainment District and is cheaper to build. Bonus Heavy Cavalry unit for each district and building constructed.
Rivers: Meander River, Prut River
Cities: Thessalonica, Adrianople, Nicaea, Antioch, Nicomedia, Trebizond, Ancyra, Edessa, Sinope, Amaseia, Cherson, Dyrrachium, Nicopolis, Seleucia, Iconium, Melitene, Bari, Dorylaeum, Amorium, Koloneia, Tyana, Attalea, Sebasteia, Theodosiopolis, Mesembria, Arcadiopolis, Mount Athos, Dorystolon & Zara

Gaul

Civilization Leader: Ambiorix
Leader Agenda: Scourge of Rome Likes civs with militaries with numerous units. Dislikes those with few units.
Civilization Capital: Aduatuca
Civilization Bonus: Hallstatt Culture Mines provide a major adjacency to all districts, Mines give a culture bomb to unowned tiles and bonus culture. Districts do not receive a bonus for being next to each other and can not be built next to the City Centre
Leader Bonus: King of the Ebrones – Building Military units gives you a culture boost, bonus to melee combats strength for neighbouring units.
Unique Unit: Gaesatae – Replaces the Warrior, Bonus to combat strength when attacking higher tech units and district defences, costs more to build.
Unique District: Oppidum – An Industrial Zone replacement that comes earlier in the Tech Tree and has the ability to do a ranged attack. Unlocks Apprenticeship when the first is built.
Rivers: Aisne River
Lakes: Lake Neuchâtel
Mountains: Cévennes & Eifel Mountains
Cities: Bibrax, Noviodunum, Samarobriva, Durocorteron, Ratumacos, Tervanna, Bagacum, Divodurum, Alesia, Avaricum, Lisieux, Lutetia, Lugudunon, Cenabum, Meledunum, Turones, Autricum, Bibracte, Darioritum, Uxellodunum, Gergovia, Vesontio, Brenodurum, Crociatonum, Agedincum, Limonum, Andematunnum, Condate, Aregenua, Anicium & Ruscino

New Game Mode

Dramatic Ages – There is only Golden and Dark Ages. You get access to new policy cards that replace dedications. Bonus Era Score is add to Loyalty pressure it can also cause cities to immediately rebel. You will lose at least one city per Dark Age (never your capital) and they will work with those from the least loyalty pressure up.

Georgia – You can now use Dark Ages policy cards during a Golden Age, an extra Wildcard Slot

Wonders

Biosphère – Increases appeal on Marsh and Rainforest tiles, [GS] Boosts power and Tourism. [Van & R&F] Bonus science for Marsh, Rainforest, or Woods tile.

Statue of Zeus – Grants 3 Archers, 3 Spearmen, and a Battering Ram. Bonus to production of Anti-Cavalry Unites. Must be built on flat land next to an Encampment with a Barracks. + Gold.

New Map Script

The Highlands – dominated by hills and mountain ranges with large lakes rather than oceans or seas

City States

Venice Replaces Antioch, keeps its bonus

October Update

Pirates Scenario

1-4 players and can be played on a custom built map, or a random map script over 60 turns

You play as one of 4 different Pirate Factions, each with an Active and Passive Ability:

Dread Pirate – Active: Walk the Plank – Immediately sinks a badly damaged ship +5 Movement +5 Combat strength for 5 turns; Passive: Fightn’ is what we do Best – +Gold when any unit engages in combat
Privateer – Active: Bring Her Home – You can capture a badly damaged ship and turn it over to your patron for +100 gold and +5 Infamy; Passive: Letter of Marque – you can see all ports owned by your patron and gives you a bonus to pillaging trade routes
Swashbuckler – Active: Tack Into the Wind – A significant temporary movement boost; Passive: Sailing the Open Seas – you get infamy for revealing more hexs of the map
Hoarder – Active: Chain Shot – Can temporarily anchor another unit in place; Passive Mine! Mine! Mine! – Lowers unit maintenance, gives bonus to buried treasure, and bonus interest on their gold reserves

There will be 4 civs battling along with you

British – Port Royal, Nassau, Eleuthera, Grand Bahama, Nevis,
Spanish – Nombre de Dios, Rio de la Hacha, Maracaibo,
French – Petit Goave, Tortuga, Florida Keys, Leogané,
Dutch – St. Martin, Curacao, Saba, St. Eustatius,

Treasure Fleets – every few turns a treasure fleet from one of the above will leave from a random port with great riches but also heavy defence

Buccaneers – Replace barbarians, spawn from Buccaneer Camps which can be pillaged but if you do they spawn an Infamous Pirate

Units:

Brigantine
Galleon
Shore Party
Sloop
Treasure Escort

Relics:

You can find Relics in the game that can be used like policy slots to improve you Pirates

Blackbeard’s Short Fuse – Naval unit attacks reduce enemies movement
Captain William Kidd’s Journal – 50% chance of finding an additional Treasure Map when visiting a Tavern
Crates of Rum – +Gold Per Turn
Dowsing Rod – Every Ship can see the Closest Treasure in 20 Hexs
L’olonnais’ Cutlery – Gain gold based on the combat strength of your defeated units
Singing Topmen – Reduces maintenance

Ships Special Abilities:

These are used in lieu of being able to use cities like normal

Capture Boat – Consume Crew to capture a heavily damaged ship and add it to your fleet
Careening – uses up all available movement to heal the ship (the more movement points the more healing)
Visit Tavern – next to a port you can use this to recruit crew and discover a new quest

Score:

The winner of the scenario is the one with this highest score, which is based on how well you did Fighting and gaining treasure and infamy.

Balance Changes

Recruit Partisans Espionage Mission – Now Pillages the Neighbourhood, and only spawns anti-cavalry

Game Speed Scaling – more features (like Favour cost) now scale with the speed

AI Behaviour

City Defences – Repairing City Defences is now more important to the AI

Diplomatic Favour – decreased its value to the AI

Districts – Civilizations without a Religion Focus will be discouraged from building Holy Sites over other districts first

Wonders – Increased the value of some world wonders (the Oracle and The Pyramids) for the AI to build

Babylon Pack

Babylon

Civilization Leader: Hammurabi
Leader Agenda: Cradle of Civilization – Likes civs who build every type of district. Tries to build all of them himself.
Civilization Capital: Babylon
Civilization Bonus: Anuma Anu Enlil – Eurekas provide the full tech, but you only make 50% of the available Science each turn
Leader Bonus: Ninu Ilu Sirum – When you build a type of Specialty District for the first time it comes with the tier-1 building, all other Districts give a free envoy when built for the first time.
Unique Unit: Sabum Kibittum – Bonus movement, sight, and damage against Cavalry units, but weaker than a normal warrior in base melee strength. Unlocked from the start of the game.
Unique Building: Palgum – Bonus housing and production. All freshwater tiles gain bonus food, must be built next to a river. Unlocked at Irrigation.
Rivers:
Lakes:
Mountains: Zagos Mountains
Volcanoes:
Cities: Opis, Karkar, Mari, Malgium, Rapiqum, Kar-Shamash, Mashkan-Shapir,

City States

Anshan – Science (replaces Babylon)
Ayutthaya – Cultural – Gain Culture equal to 10% of the construction cost when finishing buildings
Chinguetti – Religious – International and domestic Trade Routes receive Faith for every follower in this city, of your founded or majority religion.
Johannesburg – Industrial – Cities receive Production for every improved resource type. After researching Industrialization, it becomes Production.
Nalanda – Science – Can build the Mahavihara which gives bonus science and housing and must be built on flatland and not next to another Mahavihara. Gives bonus faith if next to a Holy Site, and bonus Science if next to a Campus
Samarkand – Economic – Can build the Trading Dome which gives extra gold, more gold if next to Luxury resources. Bonus gold on Trade Routes for each Trading Dome in a city. Can not be built next to another Trading Dome.
Wolin – Militaristic – Receive Great General points when a land unit defeats a civilization or City-State’s unit and receive Great Admiral points when a naval unit defeats a civilization or City-State’s unit

Great People

Beatrix Potter – Great Writer – Creates The Tale of Peter Rabbit & The Tailor of Gloucester
Dandara – Great General – +5 Combat Strength and +1 Movement to Industrial and Modern era land units within 2 tiles. Retire effect: Create Warrior Monk with 1 promotion.
Dimitrie Cantemir – Great Musician – Pesrev Adjem Yegiahi, Prince of Moldavia & Uzzusule Beresvan
Hanno the Navigator – Great Admiral – +5 Combat Strength and +1 Movement to Classical and Medieval era naval units within 2 tiles. Retire effect: Create a naval melee unit with +2 Movement.
Gabriela Mistral – Great Writer – Creates Lecturas Para Mujeres (Books for Women) & Sonetos de la Muerte (Sonnets of Death)
Hasegawa Tohaku – Great Artist – Creates Pine Trees, Maple Tree & Birds and Flowers
Himerios – Great Admiral – +5 Combat Strength and +1 Movement to Medieval and Renaissance era naval units within 2 tiles. Retire effect: Grants 1 promotion level and +25% combat experience to a military naval unit.
Ibn Fadlan – Great Merchant – +1 Trade Route. Trade Routes to City-States gain +2 Faith.
Ibn Khaldun – Great Scientist – Chosen Campus gains 2 Housing and 1 Amenity. Increases non-Food yield benefits of Happiness in your empire by 40%.
Imhotep – Great Engineer – Grants 175 production towards wonder construction, doubled if the wonder is from the Ancient or Classical Era.
Kamal ud-Din Behzad – Great Artist – Creates Battleground of Tumir and Egyptian King, Yusef and Zuleykha & Timur Granting Audience On The Occasion Of His Accession
Kenzo Tange – Great Engineer – Grants Tourism in each of this city’s Districts equal to its adjacency bonus (halved for Gold).
Margaret Mead – Great Scientist – Greats a large Science and Culture Bonus
Matthew Perry – Great Admiral – +5 Combat Strength and +1 Movement to Modern and Atomic era navel units within 2 tiles. Retire effect: Grants enough Envoys to become Suzerain at selected City-State. This removes all other Envoys.
Rumi – Great Writer – Creates Divani Shamsi Tabriz & Masnavi
Scott Joplin – Great Musician – Creates The Entertainer, Maple Leaf Rag & The Easy Winners
Shah Jahan – Great Engineer – Grants Production towards wonder construction, capped at half of your current treasury. Then reduces your Gold by twice the amount of purchased Production.
Stamford Raffles – Great Merchant – Activate in a City-State to absorb it into your empire. [+10 Loyalty in R&F + GS]
Trưng Trắc – Great General – +5 Combat Strength and +1 Movement to Classical and Medieval era land units within 2 tiles. Retire effect: Permanently reduces your empire’s War Weariness by 25%.
Tupac Amaru II – Great General – +5 Combat Strength and +1 Movement to Modern and Atomic era land units within 2 tiles. Retire effect: Grants a Musketman in each of the target city’s indefensible and undefended districts.
Valmiki – Great Writer – Creates The Ramayana and Yoga Vasistha
Wassily Kadinsky – Great Artist – Creates Composition 8, Blue Rider & Red Square
Zhang Heng – Great Scientist – Triggers Eureka for Celestial Navigation, Mathematics, and Engineering. If these Eurekas are already triggered, instead completes the techs.
Zhou Daguan – Great Merchant – Activate in a City-State to gain 3 Envoys there.

Heroes & Ledgends

Add new hero units that act like playable great people but much more powerful. You discover heroes by exploring the map, city state diplomacy, or undertake the Heroic Tails projects in one of your cities.

Heroes can then be recruited by performing the city project in any city with a monument, but you have to act quick because other civilization might be after the same hero. When a hero dies for the first time, they leave behind two great works that can be added to a monument.

Heroes have ‘life spans’ that when they run out the hero disappears, but they can be recalled by faith. You can only have one hero per-city. Heroes can jump from city to city.

Some buildings (shrine & temple) and wonders (Hanging Gardens & The Oracle) give bonuses for heroes.

Gilgamesh’s ability has been changed for this mode: 25% Production increase when claiming Heroes, and Heroes have 20% longer Lifespans.



Anansi – Anansi’s Tricks – Use when located on a Bonus or Luxury Resource. Anansi consumes the resource and generates 60 Science and 50 Culture. Costs 1 Charge and ends turn.; Agile: Ignores Movement penalties in Woods and Rainforest terrain.
Arthur – Arthur’s Accolade: Transforms an adjacent military unit to a Questing Knight unit (Time Limited)
Beowulf – Beowulf’s Challenge: Target an adjacent enemy unit with Combat Strength less than Beowulf’s. Beowulf immediately destroys the target. Costs 1 Charge, 1 Movement.; Rugged: Ignores Movement penalties in Hills terrain.
Hercules – Hercules’ Labour: Use when located on a friendly District under construction. Hercules immediately completes construction of the District. Costs 2 Charges and ends turn.; Rugged: Ignores Movement penalties in Hills terrain; Hercules’ Rage: Use when located on an enemy District. Hercules destroys all buildings present and pillages the District. Costs 1 Charge and ends turn.
Himiko – Himiko’s Rule: Can instantly levy a City-States military if you are a Suzerain; Inspiring: +10 Combat Strength to all units within 2 tiles; Himiko’s Charm: Target any adjacent City-State. Himiko immediately places 1 free Envoy in the City-State. If you are already the Suzerain there, Himiko also earns 50 Faith. Costs 1 Charge and ends turn.
Hippolyta – Rugged: Ignores Movement penalties in Hills terrain; Hippolyta’s Favor: Hippolyta automatically heals 20 HP each turn; Hippolyta’s Command: Target any adjacent friendly unit that has moved or attacked this turn. Hippolyta immediately restores the unit’s moves and attacks. Useable once per turn.
Hunahpu & Xbalanque – The Twins’ Resurrection: Any ordinary land unit killed by Hunahpu & Xbalanque is resurrected under your control with full HP and movement; Agile: Ignores Movement penalties in Woods and Rainforest terrain
Maui – Maui’s Inventions: Can create a random luxury or bonus resource on an unowned empty tile; Agile: Ignores Movement penalties in Woods and Rainforest terrain.
Mulan – Mulan’s Devotion: Mulan gains 1 Combat Strength every turn; Mulan’s Defiance: Mulan fully fortifies automatically at the end of every turn.
Oya – Oya’s Storm: Damages all adjacent enemy units while healing all adjacent friendly units; Swift: Ignores all terrain Movement penalties.
Sinbad the Sailor – Navigator: Can enter Ocean tiles; Sinbad’s Journeys: Sinbad earn 500 Gold whenever he discovers a Continent or Natural Wonder; Sinbad’s Fortunes: Target any adjacent enemy naval unit or Barbarian Camp. The target is either cleared or damaged by 50%, and Sinbad immediately earns 300 Gold. Costs 1 Charge.
Sun Wukong – Swift: Ignores all terrain Movement penalties; Sun Wukong’s Disguise: Sun Wukong is hidden unless adjacent to an enemy unit; Sun Wukong’s Immortality: Sun Wukong has significantly increased Lifespan.

December Update

New Feature

City-States Picker – Allows you to pick which city-states are in your game. you can sort by name or by type

Balance Pass

Secret Societies – An update to the Lay lines

Byzantium – A fix to stop it getting bonus cavalry units from buildings it did not build

Social Policy Cards – Great People points, adjacency bonuses, and population requirements have been updated.

Technologies – Professional Sports, Capitalism, Industrialisation, Refining, electricity, Advanced Flight, and Advanced Ballistics have all have their requirements for their Eureka boosts reduced

Combat – Melee Units bonus against Anti-cavalry Units reduced, the combat of teir-1 promotions is reduced.

Great People –

Leonardo Da Vinci – Increases the culture bonus he gives workshops
Albert Einstein – Science bonus now applies to the Research Lab

AI – Leaders will be less likely to give demands if they are doing badly in a war or you are stronger. Have a better sense as to when to raise a captured city.

Diplomacy – Added a “Stop Asking Me” button

Vietnam Pack

Out in January

VIETNAM

Civilization Leader: Bà Triệu (Lady Triệu)
Leader Agenda: Defender of the Homeland – Like Civilizations that have not declared war on her, dislikes those who have.
Preferred Religion: None
Civilization Capital: Thăng Long
Civilization Bonus: Nine Dragon River Delta – All land Specialty Districts (like Holy Site) can only be built on Woods (bonus Culture), Rainforest (bonus Science), or Marsh (bonus Production). Can plant woods when you unlock Medieval Fairs.
Leader Bonus: Drive Out The Aggressors – bonus combat strength when fighting on Rainforest, Marsh, or Woods, bonus movement if you start your turn on one of these tiles. This is doubled if the tile is in your territory.
Unique Unit: Voi Chién – A War Elephant that replaces the crossbowman, bonus movement and can move after attacking
Unique District: Thành – An unique Encampment replacement bonus culture for each adjacent District. Bonus Tourism after Flight is researched.
Rivers:
Lakes:
Mountains:
Volcanoes:
Cities: Huế, Đồng Hới, Trà Kiệu, Đà Nẵng, Con Cuông, Mỹ Tho, Quy Nhơn,

Kublai Khan

Leads Both China and Mongolia

Leader Bonus: Gerege – You gain a bonus Economic Policy Card Slot, When creating a Trading Post in a Civilization for the first time you get a random Eureka and Inspiration
Leader Agenda: Pax Mongolica – Likes civilizations with strong military and high gold-per-turn, dislikes civilizations with a poor military or gold-per-turn
Preferred Religion: Buddhism

New Game Mode

Monopolies and Corporations Game Mode

You can create entire industries around owning multiple copies of the same resource (like Diamonds or Ivory)

This is first done by building Industries, a new tile improvement built by the Builder. This gives you bonuses to the home city of the resource including Great Merchant points.

The next level is Corporations, after controlling a certain amount of a single resource you can use a Great Merchant to create a Corporation. These increase bonuses and create products which work as great works that you can add to Stock Exchanges and Seaports.

Finally, if you control all the sources of a particular luxury resource, you can create a Monopoly. This gives you bonus Gold and also Tourism.

Industry Bonuses & Products

Amber – +Faith
Citrus – +Production towards Military Units
Cocoa – +Growth & +Housing
Coffee – +Culture – Game Designer Full Coffee
Cotton – +Production towards Military Units
Diamonds – +Gold
Dyes – +Faith
Furs – +Production towards Civilians Units
Gypsum – +Production to Buildings
Honey – +Growth & +Housing
Incense – +Faith
Ivory – +Production towards Military Units
Jade – +Gold
Marble – +Production to Buildings
Mercury – +Science
Olives – +Production towards Civilians Units
Pearls – +Faith
Salt – +Growth & +Housing
Silk – +Culture
Silver – +Gold
Spices – +Science
Sugar – +Growth & +Housing
Tea – +Science – Sun-Never-Sets Tea
Tobacco – +Production towards Military Units
Truffles – +Gold
Turtles – +Science
Whales – +Production towards Military Units
Wine – +Culture

Preserve

Preserves are a new specialty district, That grants housing based on tile appeal, culture bombs surrounding unclaimed tiles, and increases the appeal of tiles next to it. It can not be built next to a City Centre but bonus from multiple overlapping Preserves can stack. Unlocks with Mysticism.

Grove: + Food & Faith to surrounding unimproved Charming tiles, +Food, Faith & Culture if the tiles are Breathtaking. Unlocks with Mysticism.

Sanctuary: + Science & Gold to unimproved Charming tiles, + Science, Gold & Production if the tiles are Breathtaking. Unlocks with Conservation.

February Update

Barbarian Clans Game Mode

Barbarians can now build Unique Units from Civilizations not in the game

There are Six Clans

Hills Clans – Near Hills
Rover Clans – Near Horse Resources

Every Turn Clans gain points towards a conversion into a City State

When you occupy a Clan Outpost you can Disperse it (remove it from the game and gain XP) or Raid (gain gold and they lose progression towards City State conversion)

You can also interact with clans diplomatically: (all options boosts their conversion speed)

Bribe – Spend Gold to stop them from attacking you for a time
Hire – Spend Gold to buy one of their Unique Units
Incite – Spend Gold to get the Clan to attack someone else
Ransom – Spend Gold to get a captured civilian unit back (this reduced progression to conversion)

Leader Selection Pool

You can customise the selection of leaders used in the game, this can be used to make sure certain leaders … looking at you Alexander … are not in the game. Or conversely to make sure a leader dose appear in the game.

This can be used in multiplayer to create ban lists so players can’t pick certain leaders.

Balance Pass

AI – The AI is more likely to use anti-air as well as Air Units
Policy Slots – Government Policy Slots has been updated
Great Barrier Reef – Now gives a Major Campus Adjacency Bonus
Cliffs of Dover – now provide 3 Culture, 3 Gold, & 2 Food

Portugal Update

Out in March

Portugal

Civilization Leader: João III
Leader Agenda:
Preferred Religion:
Civilization Capital: Lisbon
Civilization Bonus: Casa Da Índia – International Trade Routes can only reach cities on the coast or with a Harbour, +Yields on International Trade Routes. Trader units get +range on Water and can embark from the start of the game.
Leader Bonus: Porta Do Cerco – All units get bonus sight, bonus trade route when you meet a civilization for the first time, Open Borders with all City-States.
Unique Unit: Nau – Cheaper maintenance, Starts with one free promotion, has two charges to build Feitorias.
Unique Tile Improvement: Feitoria – +Gold, +Production, Portugal gains +Gold, +Production to all trade routes to a city with one. Must be built in a foreign city that you have Open Borders with on the coast next to a bonus or luxury resource. Cannot be removed.
Unique Building: Navigation School – Replaces the University, +construction of Naval units, +science for every two Coast or Lake tiles in the city, +Great Admiral Points.
Rivers:
Lakes:
Mountains:
Volcanoes:
Cities: Viseu, Évora, Faro, Guimarães,

New World Wonders

Torre de Belém – +Gold, + Great Admiral Points, +Gold for International Trade Routes based on the Luxury resources at the destination. On construction each city not on your home continent gets a free building. Must be on a coastal tile next to a Harbour.

Etemenanki – +Science & +Production on Marsh tiles in your empire, +Science & +Production on Flood Plains in this city. Must be built on a Marsh or Flood Plain.

Map Script

Wetlands Map – A new map script dominated by marshes

Zombie Defense Game Mode

Every unit killed in the game has a chance to turn into a Zombie unit. These units focus on nearby units and if they kill a unit it creates another Zombie unit.

You can build two new tile improvements to help you against the Zombies, with the Trap and Barricade.

You can use a city project to ‘Turn Undead’ to temporarily take control of Zombies in your city limits, there is also a ‘Zombie Outbreak’ spy mission.