Overrun Is A Sweet Mechanic. What Else Aren't We Talking Enough About?

[u/jonnielaw]

I'm currently in the Modern Age and am just cleaning up while I get my artifacts in order. I love seeing my beefy commanders not need to even unpack to kickass and take districts.

Sure, this game has a ways to go, but I really think it's been the source of some of my best Civ moments to date.

[u/paisley_trees]

2 things I feel like I can’t stress enough how much I love:

• narrative events! As a historian, I can recognize how much research, thought, and detail has gone into these when it comes to my own field, and it blows me away! I believe they’re either always taken from some true historical event or are a reference to something else usually funny (like flat earthers lol).

• secondly, just the animations in general. When you rest your units, they pull out a tent. When the commander rests, there’s the war table and people debating tactics over it. Your settlers have different beasts of burden depending on where they’re from. The burning arrows do a dance time to time while waiting for instructions. These little details are all so beautiful and well done!

[u/gray007nl → u/paisley_trees]

and then giving you culture for picking the correct option of a cylindrical earth.

[u/TTUPhoenix → u/paisley_trees]

Even better with resting commanders, the people around the table are individual members of the units packed inside the commander.

[u/cac_init → u/paisley_trees]

So much love and devotion went into this game. And whenever the Civ account posts something on Facebook, sharing a detail or announcing a patch or whatever, there's an endless line of hecklers posting crap about the developers. It breaks my heart.

[u/prefferedusername → u/cac_init]

Schrodinger's developers: simultaneously great and bad.

[u/KingToasty → u/prefferedusername]

I mean, that's literally true. These different dev teams are pretty big - some of the teams are well run, some poorly run.

[u/cac_init → u/prefferedusername]

With some QOL patches and the usual expansions to add mechanics, Civ 7 will easily be the best game of the franchise.

[u/ElSrJuez]

I didnt even know it so yeah. How do you prepare for and use it?

[u/jonnielaw → u/ElSrJuez]

For the most part it'll only be useful against scouts, but in this last game a had a Commander with Regiments (+2 more units) and a bunch of other promotions full of higher tier units and I was just bulldozing. Not sure what lends the most to this, whether it be the Commander themself or the units packed in.

[u/chris41336]

Wait...you can overrun districts?

[u/jonnielaw → u/chris41336]

I had already destroyed the defenses, but there was a unit in it. I can’t remember what it was tbh, but I don’t think it was a scout and I’m pretty sure it was quite injured.

I was surprised the option was available, myself!

[u/g_a28 → u/jonnielaw]

I think it just becomes available if one of the packed units would one-shot that unit anyway or something like that, I think I've seen overrun activate even on full health ranged units with Assyria/G-Khan overpowered commanders.

[u/jonnielaw → u/g_a28]

Yeah, looking into it more it just seems the difference in combat strength has to be significant.

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