Weekly eXchange #219 – Dialing It In.

Join Nate and Troy as they bring you all the important information on all of your favorite 4X and strategy games! This week they talk about Civilization 6 Gathering Storm, At the Gates, Thea 2: The Shattering, Driftland: the Magic Revival, Warhammer 40K Gladius: Relics of War, Pax Nova, Endless Space 2, Alliance of the Sacred Sun and much much more. As well as continued coverage for your other favorite 4X and strategy games

Music for eXplorminate by Mangadrive

Show Notes:

Civilization 6 update – first look – Mali and Mali gameplay and a RIP to William Morgan Sheppard – 02:18
- Civilization IV Steam page
- Sid Meier’s Civilization VI: Gathering Storm Steam page
At the Gates update and a bit about Jon Shafer – 08:19
- Aggressors: Ancient Rome Steam page
- Thea: The Awakening Steam page
Thea 2 update – 15:55
Driftlands: the Magic Revival update – 20:30
- Let’s Play Driftland (Dallin)
WH40k Gladius: RoW update – 22:23
Pax Nova update – 27:00
- Dawn of Andromeda Steam page
- Endless Space 2 Steam page
- Stellaris Steam page
- Age of Wonders 3 Steam page
Endless Space 2 update – 30:21
- Strategic eXpanse #35 – 2018 Game/eXpansion Of The Year Show!
Alliance of the Sacred Suns update – 32:51
- Crusader Kings 2 Steam page
- Europa Universalis 4 Steam page
Phoenix Point update – 38:19
What is… War Party? – 40:01
- Warcraft II: Tides Of Darkness on Blizzard

Games played – 42:07

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15 Comments

Joe Kundlak 7 years ago

Good show guys! To all – show notes are upcoming in a few hours.

BTAxis 7 years ago

Hey Joe. Excellent work as always.

Joe Kundlak 7 years ago

I aim to please!

GermanDad 7 years ago

nice show as always…..even the sound 😛 ….thanks 🙂
did anybody catch up news about predestination? last update was around october and they are in 1.0 somewhat beta some month now, should reach the finish line soon hopefully.

zarpaulus 7 years ago

That “infiltration” thing sounds like a nod to how the Germanic tribes actually entered the Roman Empire. They weren’t “invaders” so much as “refugees allowed to settle in exchange for military service”, or foederati.
The Visigoths rebelled when their rations came late and they were forced to sell their children into slavery. While the Ostrogoths were ordered to sack Rome by the Emperor, though their secession from the Empire wasn’t in the original plan.

Frank Burt 7 years ago

Did I zone out for a few minutes or did Nate forget to get on his soap box? 😉

eXplorminate 7 years ago

Oh no, I got on 3 times but because of the blizzard that Troy was experiencing, we had to cut it out. Assuming this weekend doesn’t present another blizzard, we’ll re-record it. Stay tuned and thanks for listening.

Neil 7 years ago

Warcraft claims are unfair, in my opinion. Pretty much all high fantasy is based heavily on Tolkien and so will have many similarities. I do wish more game developers would explore non-Tolkien fantasy worlds, as the same old noble elves and gruff dwarves gets tiresome, but that’s another issue.
Zerg and Tyrannid claims may be more fair, Zerg are not a hive mind though. Does the biological-nightmare civilisation idea really originate with games workshop?

eXplorminate 7 years ago

No doubt. I wasn’t trying to ding Blizzard, it was more about the absurdity of the whole situation. I think the alien reference to the zerg and Tyranids spawned with H. R. Geiger and probably earlier. Space Marines are from Starship Troopers by Heinlein if not before.
For non-Tolkienesque fantasy settings one need look no further than the Thea and/or Dominions series.

dont ask 7 years ago

so late…when did you record that? rituals were already added

eXplorminate 7 years ago

Friday night. We usually record Saturday or Sunday with Friday or Monday being an alternate date that depends on life circumstances and the like.

SilasOfBorg 7 years ago

Nate, you didn’t miss much by not playing the Tyrranids right away — the base game update broke the Necrons in a hilarious fashion (free Rapid Rise!), which has only just now been hotfixed.
Enjoyable listen as always, back to your usual professional sound quality after last weeks chair-related sabotage. 😉

Jodet 7 years ago

Steam just announced yet another new DLC for Endless Legend. Yeah!!!

eXplorminate 7 years ago

Yea, Symbiosis and then we have Penumbra for ES 2.

Libertygeek 7 years ago

Was a very fast preorder for me. I will happily buy all the DLC Amplitude puts up. I still love EL to no end and I think Amplitude is giving it loving care instead of milking it. Endless Space 2 is more of an occasional distraction but still fun. Of course once Planetfall hits, oh boy. Great show by the way Nate and Troy. Thanks as always.