How do City Building Games Run on the MBA?

Dear Reader,
*You can skip this part if you want to directly reach my point , if you like a bit of introduction.. then please don't stop and read on*
Yes, I know... a lot of questions have already been asked on gaming and the MBA. I even looked into the whole 'use the thunderbolt port to run an external Graphics card'. But after I saw the pictures and everything you need for it, it seemed rather silly to try. Why not take a gaming laptop like Alienware, if you are into that kind of building. Anyway, I love the people who try this, but I'm afraid that it's not for me. The whole... should I take a MBA or MBP or maybe a completely different budget laptop after all, is really starting to swirl around in my brain. And not the good kind of swirl, that is. After some serious pro and con listing, youtube reviews, many... many articles... I am still not much further in my decision proces than I was few weeks back. Maybe it is because of that annoying habbit to want the best of the best for as little money as possible. Apple products are not little money, however, but if you want the best of the best... it's often where you end up. FYI... here is what I plan on doing on/with my future device:
- daily use (e-mail, web browsing, research, youtube, vid streaming, dowloading)
- writing (editing, pages, word..)
- travel
- presentation (keynote, ppt...et cetera)
- gaming (city builders... =) )
This is what made me seriously consider the MBA. Its portability for my writing on the go needs, it's beautiful design, its fast start up, and still enough power to run programs at the same time without any hiccups. Plus, I have an iPhone and it would be nice to have my laptop corresponding with my future device.
*Start reading here if you skipped the introduction =) *
I am a big fan of city building games (old ánd new) like SimCity, Banished, CivCity Rome and Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom. Will I still be able to play them if I go for a MBA? If yes, can you please advise me on what specs to go for? I understand it will run most smoothly with the highest specs available, but maybe someone here can tell me if it is necessary to invest in 8GB RAM or not, or to go for a better processor. I just wish to run the games smoothly.. the settings don't have to be at their highest.
Thanks in advance!

I'm running an early 2008 Mac Pro 10.9.3 and I'm trying to play Simcity now that it has offline mode, had fond memories of it on PPC.
It's really disapointing. I do a lot of audio on this computer and I can stretch it pretty far in that regard, but I had no idea how horrible core video support actually was. To have to turn every graphic feature to low in order to just get by with delayed scrolling and awful FR, quirky rotate and pan glitches, it's exposed some things about my system.
I wonder if a more powerful modern Mac Mini would do a better job, it would have to be maxed for audio anyways.
Or perhaps likely this is not a great job by the developers with regards to optimization? It's possible that Simcity just no longer works on a Mac. There is very little suport on EA forums on this issue from users with the same problem - as there are of course a lot of users that didn't follow the very simple instructions, which makes it hard to get a legitimate response from the support on the actual matter.

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