When comparing Civilization V vs Men of War: Assault Squad 2, the Slant community recommends Civilization V for most people. In the question“What are the best LAN party PC games?” Civilization V is ranked 18th while Men of War: Assault Squad 2 is ranked 101st. The most important reason people chose Civilization V is:
From the players cities and armies to the lush landscape, Civilization is quite a beautiful game for those with systems powerful enough to push the graphics to the limit. Even when on lower graphical settings the game looks lush and well animated.
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Pros
Pro Beautiful graphics
From the players cities and armies to the lush landscape, Civilization is quite a beautiful game for those with systems powerful enough to push the graphics to the limit. Even when on lower graphical settings the game looks lush and well animated.
Pro Endless scenarios and replayability
Civilization V has a large assortment of nation leaders to choose from that have an even bigger assortment of scenarios that are able to play out for said leaders. Each game can be quite unique in this way as each leader allows for a different nation to be controlled.
Pro Customization through policies
Policies are used as a tool to gain a variety of customizations that benefit ones society. There is a branching tree of policies that will allow the user to pick certain aspects that will suit them best such as adding law or religion to ones society which will give gains in certain aspects.
Pro Fantastic tactical combat
Civilization V has a great combat system that feels very tactical over previous versions as there is no stacking of troops, but with the new hexagonal grid players can surround enemies as well as allow for better tactics when planning attacks.
Pro Direct control
Allows player to take a direct control of a vehicle, or infantryman (followed by their squad if any), which allows player to take the most important shots themselves, or to park their units into more pristine spots. Even if AI seems to fare well on its own, the more elaborate plans can be conducted by simply using this function.
Pro Fully destructible environments
This can make for a visceral feel as well as an immersive one as everything in the game can be blown to bits.
Pro Punishing
Definitely one of the more time and effort requiring RTS, which you cannot simply take off the shelf and do well in, without past experience. Bullets hurt, weapons are fairly accurate, yet do miss their marks occasionally, and explosions are going to demolish infantry.
Cons
Con One unit per tile
Civ 5 restricts you to having one unit per tile, but has an AI unable to handle that restriction well, and doesn't even have decent pathing for units. Late game becomes a slog of ordering each unit individually due to poor pathing.
Con Most victories won by timed or military victory
It can be pretty difficult to win by diplomacy or culture which does add some challenge to the game but it can get tiresome if one keeps winning by only military or timed victories.
Con No stats on other Civ attitudes
Unlike past Civilization games there are no longer stats on the attitudes of the players surrounding Civilizations. This allowed one to see how each other nation felt about the player, but now that it is gone one has to guess, which is definitely not as helpful.
Con No steam workshop support on Linux
The Linux port currently does not support steam workshop, and as the mac port made by the same developers has not received workshop support despite having been out for several years, it is unlikely that it ever will.
Though there are unofficial workarounds to get the mods working.
Con Non-existent story and unbalanced
The story is the same for all factions, same layout, same script. There's a lot of things that many new players will think are useless, such as creating a defense with barbed wire and mines. It's really unbalanced, considering you can take out a tank destroyer with 200 mm of armour with an armoured car with a 37 mm gun.
Con Punishing
To some a cost of mistake can be slightly too much. Simply having a squad in open at wrong time can end up losing them all in few seconds burst of concealed machine-gun.
Con Steep learning curve
There being no tutorial makes for a steep learning curve, so one will need to spend a good bit of time with the game in order to learn all the mechanics on their own.