I have played the game for several hours this afternoon and after getting incredibly bored with the training tutorial as it wouldn't let me kill one of my allies (I knocked him down and then my Catapults proved ineffective - game forces you to not kill allies when training?
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I then started a normal game, actually understanding the basics of growth and exploration and after a couple of hours (I think) I was still too unprogressed to have any battles and just found it far too slow to get going and unrewarding on the process to advance through the game.
I think that it shall retire and sit in my game drawer, until I need a coaster, whereby it will come back and have its use.
Anyone else as dissapointed as me? I would like to comment I have never played a Civ game before so this is not a gripe in relation to others in the series, I'm sure Civ lovers find it awesome, but my above question is posed to those who have this as their first Civ experience?