It’s a very useful feature and it’s nice just to have it ticking away in the background. It will continue to generate the resources of the route until it has finished at which point you can pick the same route again or choose another. There is no need for any real micromanagement either, once a trade route has ceased the unit requires your attention before turn end and you can select one of the available routes from a list and off it goes. Generally speaking trade routes can be quite lucrative. Or you can use internal trade routes to spread religion within your own borders. You can also trade internally within your own cities providing much needed resources to a city that lacks food or production. You can now build units that are capable of trading both with other players in the game as well City States. One of the most important features new to Brave New World is trade routes.

Those who have God’s and Kings will be familiar with a few of these features, mainly religion, but in Brave New World even these are enhanced enormously so that they make more of a difference to the world, and ultimately, victory. So well integrated are these new features that they are in fact difficult to tell apart from the main features of the original game. A massive roster of changes can be seen in Brave New World and each one actually feels not only well implemented but actually kind of crucial. Brave New World is the latest expansion pack for Civilization 5 – although describing Brave New World as an expansion pack really doesn’t do it justice.

Civilization a brave new world