Good evening you are listening to ThruMovs ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakeney.

Join me this evening, we welcome our friend freelance writer, Fraser Brown.

Hello.

And we also have GameSpeets Inspector of Expansions, Rowan Kaiser.

Good morning.

So, as, since we've invited the Inspector of expansions, uh, onto the show,

you might have guessed that we're going to be talking about civilization six, uh, rise and fall,

uh, the new expansion for the latest edition of civilization.

And, uh, it adds quite a few things, but I'm not sure how much it actually changes, and that's one of

the things we'll be talking about. And maybe on a more macro level, we'll also be talking about

where we're at with SIV and what we think of some of the impulses behind the new ideas

being played around with in this expansion.

But, you know, real quick, Fraser, why don't you, can you give us a quick sort of thumbnail version of what Rise and Falls big ideas are that we're going to be discussing on this show?

A lot of it feels like it's changing the structure off SIV, but using the idea of unstacking things,

which we've seen a couple of times already. So it's like progress throughout history has

been unstacked in the form of an ages system, a dark age, a gold age, that changes how

you move from era to era. Typically, you're moving from ancient, what dark age, a gold age, that changes how you move from era to era. Typically,

you're moving from ancient world to classical to medieval to renaissance. That remains, but

there's more going on there. It's almost like a sort of a race to gather points, so the next

age is a better one for you. So it just feels like this sort of a race to gather points so the next age is a better one for you.

So it just feels like this sort of fundamental underlying progress through history

has been changed and unstacked.

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