Sid Meier's Civilization® V

Can get to later eras without game slowing down on ending turns. I like that workers can be automated. Same for work boats. Naval units can bombard cities as well as ground units. Air units can destroy other units: air, sea, and ground. Resources limit how many military units can be built. This way, you aren't able to just fill the skies with stealth bombers. Or field endless swordsman units in the earlier eras of the game. No iron, no swordsman units. Explore, find resources, take control of them. Build more units. Happiness can seriously slow down a civilization. Settle a new area, happiness takes a hit. Keeps me from settling the map rapidly. That leaves areas open for other civs to settle and, of course, barbarians. Barbarians raid from time to time, cruise the seas capturing unsuspected worker and settler ships, and sometimes get up close and personal while pillaging your territory. Barbarians upgrade their troops over time. They won't stay warriors indefinitely. They'll spawn archers and later on, infantry. If research lags, barbarians may have stronger units. Units move faster across water than ground in my experience so far. I do more on water tiles in Civ V than in Civ IV. Water is more fun in Civ V. Keeps me playing on and on. So many building options as tech advances. All sorts of wonders can be built. Started using destroyers to whittle down city defenses. Then met cities in later game eras that laughed at my destroyers. Then, I figured out stealth bombers. And the resource needed to build them. Once you get a feel for what you want to use for military units, you'll want to find those necessary resources and make them your own. Civ VI turned out to be a disappointment for me. Turns really slow down after about turn 300. 7+ seconds on my computer ... before I get to turn 300 :( It has a full screen bug that can make it look like your computer is locked up. If you've got a second monitor, just bump the task manager to the other monitor. Then, you can end task on Civ VI. Put it in borderless window instead of full screen to avoid this lockout behavior. Builders in Civ VI do not automate. Even with builder lens mod, still have to eye ball all the map to see where to send builder to build something. Oh, and to build roads, you'll need traders. These require you to unlock techs. Want more than one trader? Need more tech. It's a pain. Yes, builders can create things instantly. There is no work boat. Builders need a tech to set sail to build things in the sea. Builders are a lot of work to move and build. I haven't figured out a way to just line up a bunch of build tasks and move on. I've got to make a decision each turn for each builder or idle them with sleep or skip turn options. Since traders build roads while doing trade routes, I must wait for a trader to finish before I can make a new road somewhere else. Moving units around is a slow process. You are actually stuck near your starting area due to the way Civ VI builds roads. When enough traders are active in Civ VI, then it's not a big deal anymore. That's when things slow down :( Traders in Civ VI just take up processing power and slow down end turns. Civ VI is just too slow for ending turns. Even early game, I can wait 5-10 seconds to end a turn. On another turn, it's a second or less. Interrupts any flow I try to have with the game. I don't run into this sluggishness with Civ V. I get the impression Civ VI focused more on graphics and civs in their own languages (which is of zero use to me since I cannot understand all those languages). If you want that game, have a fast processor and fast RAM. Mine's only DDR4. Works for anything I do except Civ VI. Purchased Civ V and VI around the same time during a sale. I prefer Civ V. Regarding Civ VI civ communications, they actually yell at you while denouncing you for some reason or other. Do I need Norway screaming at me to denounce me repeatedly? They're bullies when they're denouncing. So stressful watching the visuals. Don't like it. Civ V denouncements are not nearly as stressful as Civ VI. I like Civ V. Civ VI makes me feel like I'm being bullied, is some kind of patience test, and when it is my turn, I'm bombarded with so many decisions I cannot keep straight in my head whatever it is I wanted to do, plan, or strategize. Maybe I want 1 worker to control to build specific things. I cannot stand doing it for every single construction possibility for the entire game. It's okay in the early game. It's difficult mid game. Around turn 250 or so, it's just work. It's work I don't want to do. I took one look at Civ VII's forums and decided no. Lag with air units and specific civs? No thanks. Civ VI is already a big turn off with my computer's inability to keep turn times low enough to maintain a flow with the game beyond around turn 200. At turn 300, gets even worse.