Over the last two months there has been a tremendous revival of interest in the game Civilization IV and its expansion packs Warlords and Beyond the Sword (BtS for short) here at SIMphoni. This has prompted us to create a new forum, where discussion is not constricted to just Civilization, but which is also a home to other Empire Building Games such as Age of Empires and the Total War series. Some of our members have started writing exciting game journals, along the lines of the well-known City journals: i.e. lots of eye candy and lots of storytelling.

Toroca led the pack by creating the fist Empire Journal. His currently active Civ Game is about the English Empire, where he’s currently engaged in a war of attrition with the Mongols. He is keeping his readers in suspense about how this will end though, as the Empire Journal is currently on hold while Toroca is engaged with another game called the Battle for Middle Earth. A journal about his exploits there can be found in the Empire Building Games forum as well.

djVanDrake is currently playing a Noble level game as Viking VanDrakar. This game is called Rise of the Norsemen, and it appears that beautiful Isabella is indeed getting a rise out of the scruffy Viking.

Douwe is willing to give his Kingdom for a Horse. He is a fresh convert to Civilization, and doing quite well as Syberen of the Greek. Read the journal to see whether he finds what he is looking for.

If you like a good story, lots of humour and the occasional war, be sure to check out these Civ Journals, and perhaps start one of your own!