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Barnacle Bill
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Somewhere on the wine dark sea
Oct 2001
time: 00:17
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Sid's original Civ computer game owed more to "Empire" than the boardgame "Civilization". I'm having a hard time thinking of a single thing from the boardgame that appeared in the computer game:
Board game has no military units, just tokens representing (IIRC, depending on where there were at the time) population or money. Combat was essentially mutual annihilation of tokens occuppying the same map area. Sid Meier's Civ, on the other hand, copied the modern military units and how they work directly from "Empire" and apparently worked backwards from there to get the pre-modern ones.
BG map covered only the Mediterranean world, and consisted of rather large areas (akin to provinces in EU, except IIRC larger in terms of territoty per province), rather than a regular grid of tiles.
Cities were placed in areas specifically designated as city sites, if there was enough population there already, and replaced some of the population tokens, and had to be broken down if the population fell below so minimum (conceptiually not unlike hotels vs houses in Monopoly).
There was a lot of drawing & trading & passing of cards, which had to be accumulated to make tech advances and could trigger events like plagues & earthquakes.
The primary impact of the boardgame on computer civ is that legal shenanigans regarding rightfully ownership of the copyrighted name "Civilization" let Activision get away with calling CTP1 "Civilization: CTP", thus confusing consumers into thinking it was actually a sequel to Sid Meier's Civilization. Activision bought the rights to use the name "Civilization" for a computer game from the owner of the boardgame and thus maintained in court that they, not Microprose, had the legal right to call their computer game "Civilization" (CTP was a Civ-too knock-off, though, not a computer port of the boardgame - AH did produce a computer port of the boardgame but only sold about 3 copies). Microprose (or whoever owned them by that time) then trumped Activision by buying AH. The legal settlement allowed Activistion to continue to call CTP1 "Civilization" but not its sequels.
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04-02-2002 08:22
and is one of my all time favourite boardgames alongside Brittannia, Machiavelli (like Diplomacy with plauge and economy...), Republic of Rome, Settlers and History of the World
A very good game as I recall. The mathematical simplicity of the expansion and combat sequences meant the AI could provide significant challenge to the human player(s). The only part I found dissatisfying was the trade bargaining because it could not match the spice of negotiating face to face with live opponents.
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