Vote for the hottest male Leader of Beyond The Sword.

i demand leaderhead pictures, since opera loves to crash on some of the game sites :(
And i voted for the dutch guy

I don't know about hot, but Hammurabi is clearly the most badass.

I voted Zara Yaqob cz i like myself a bit of chocolate to melt in my mouth.

:joke: i'm not racist i jus couldn't help but say that.:lol:

Oh this is soooo gonna-get-some-trouble for some here! :lol:

I've seen the animated graphics at the official website and Pericles, if he'd lose that helm awkwardly balanced on his head, seems the most eligible for the cover of "Gentlemen's Philosophy". :lol:

Gilgamesh comes in 2nd place as most likely model on a men's sports or bodybuilding magazine. His skin colouration is so odd, I almost thought he looked Klingon (ST: Next Generation)!

Pericles is a stud.

I'm going with the "Hooray For Beer!" guy.

This thread makes me want to puke..... :yuck:

Oh, don't take it too seriously... It's just a little :mischief: ;) :D

Pericles, in any case ;) (Although Zara Yaqob is a close second)

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PS: If there is one thread for the girls, there is also the right to have one for the boys ;) If you're not interested, don't open the thread and read it...

well, im not a woman, so i would obviuosly have no ability to determine which male leader is the "hottest", so therefore i chose "Why?"

I'm neither, but I can determine which man is hot and which one not. ;) You don't have to be gay for that as well. If woman can judge each other, so should men... ;) But I think we get a wee lil' bit off-topic in here. But I would really like to discuss these astonishing reactions in here in a off-topic thread...

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I'm a straight male and I voted for Zara Yaqob because I think he looks the coolest, but I think some of you guys are really overreacting. It's not like you're going to be forced to have sex with them. Just tell us who you think looks the best...

Spam deleted. If you don't have anything constructive to add to a thread - ie: something that is on-topic, then don't post.

I've seen the animated graphics at the official website and Pericles, if he'd lose that helm awkwardly balanced on his head, seems the most eligible for the cover of "Gentlemen's Philosophy". :lol:

His helmet is all gangsta. PricEles in da house!

uhm.. sry

DeGaulle... French guys know how to wine and dine me.

Joao for me, but again the male leaders are not very hot.

Pericles, hands down.

This expansion has the best AND worst looking leader in the game out of the males, with Perecles being the best and poor ol Suryavaman being the ugliest male I've ever seen in a PC game. I think Zara looks cool too. Like Eddie murphy.

Zara reminds me more of Samuel L. Jackson. :D

poor ol Suryavaman being the ugliest male I've ever seen in a PC game.
Yes, I gave Sury a sympathy vote. I'm not sure what is going on in his coloring, but given the raccoon patches around his eyes (which I assume is his real skin tone), I am guessing he is wearing some kind of gold face paint, with green highlights below his plucked eyebrows.

Well, as far as I know, Lincoln is the only queen on that list...

If that counts for anything.

Pericles is the clear favourite, followed at some distance by Zara Yaqob. That makes sense. I am more puzzled that some people have voted for Sitting Bull. Do they think that his name means that he is hung?

When I first voted for Pericles he was at the bottom, now he's on top! :groucho:

(Excepting of course the inscrutible Mr. Why? :crazyeye:)

What a way to start my Friday morning :lol:

Suryavarnam and Gilgamesh don't look human at all. Justinian gives me the creeps. And Pacal does look like a whiny little brat. I suppose they made Darius so dark-hued because some people probably objected to Cyrus having blue eyes, even though that is not impossible at all. To this day, there are some people in the mountainous areas of India who have grey or blue eyes, and that may very well have been more common back in antiquity as far west as Persia.

Generally speaking, the new leaders are a collection of plug-uglies, with the exception of de Gaulle, who at least looks normal, and Pericles and Zara Yaqob, who look pretty cool. I particularly like Zara Yaqob's track suit - a king should keep himself in shape!

Pericles is the clear favourite, followed at some distance by Zara Yaqob. That makes sense. I am more puzzled that some people have voted for Sitting Bull. Do they think that his name means that he is hung?

:lol: So surprised a mod hasn't delated that one. It's only racy for the 12 year olds out there, and I'm sure they wouldn't even get it.

Nobody likes Suleiman. :(

Pericles is hot:drool:

Suryavarnam and Gilgamesh don't look human at all. Justinian gives me the creeps. And Pacal does look like a whiny little brat. I suppose they made Darius so dark-hued because some people probably objected to Cyrus having blue eyes, even though that is not impossible at all. To this day, there are some people in the mountainous areas of India who have grey or blue eyes, and that may very well have been more common back in antiquity as far west as Persia.
Indeed, many Persians and Pashtuns do have light eyes. They are, after all, Indo-Aryans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Aryans), who speak Indo-European languages and who are thought to be significantly related to European peoples. In fact, the name "Iran" means "land of the Aryans".
http://www.underconsideration.com/speakup/archives/list_women_10-NationalGeo-6-85.jpg

Wow, I actually just read an article about that National Geographic photograph but I hadn't ever seen it. Thanks for posting it, now I know what that article meant when it talked about the woman's "piercing green eyes" :)

Famous cover of NG! I've seen pictures of men from the region with grey-blue eyes as well as on TV. Kinda cool to be surprised by human diversity and find unexpected, yet familiar, faces in distant places.

I gotta travel more... By coincidence my own eyes are green like that especially in sunlight.

Famous cover of NG! I've seen pictures of men from the region with grey-blue eyes as well as on TV. Kinda cool to be surprised by human diversity and find unexpected, yet familiar, faces in distant places.

I gotta travel more... By coincidence my own eyes are green like that especially in sunlight.

So do you ever play as Cyrus in the game? He's one of my favourite civ neighbours because of his decency. I generally like a peaceful game (OK, maybe a war or two early on if I do feel it's necessary, but that's it), and as a rule it's very easy to get on with Cyrus. Unlike most of the civ leaders who aren't religious fanatics, he is also scrupulously fair. He simply won't attack you unless you are begging for it by having no army at all or going out of your way to offend him.

The religious fanatics love you if you follow their religon, or they yours - but you know what they are like otherwise. (OK, Gandhi is just sneaky in business and technology deals, but the others... bleh.) In one game, I shared a smallish continent with Isabella and Tokugawa and actually managed to discover Buddhism before Isabella, and after that all the other religions were discovered by civilizations on other continents, except for one that I beat Isabella to. You could almost see how both Isabella and Tokugawa were tugging at the leash - they wanted to be enemies with me, but their religion forbade them... They went to war when I was attacked by civs on other continents, stood by me because they simply had to, and everything was a banquet. Isabella had to love me because we shared the same religon, and Tokugawa because the rest of the world boycotted us so there was no reason for me not to run Mercantilism, as he did - until *he* suggested we run free markets and trade with each other. It was all really funny!
Of course, in order to establish reasonably amicable relations with the rest of the world (Mehmed and Gandhi in particular hated me), I had to adopt Free Religion in due course. As soon as I did that, both Isabella and Tokugawa cancelled their mutual defence pacts with me ("My friend, all good things must come to an end"); but by then we had been chums for so many millennia, had fought so many wars together and had so many civics in common that they didn't become my enemies.

I wonder what Darius will be like in the game. More aggressive than Cyrus, I dare say, and probably less honourable as well. Still, if the game designers have considered the traditional descriptions of him (the way they clearly did with regard to the tolerant Cyrus), he'll probably not be too sneaky and give fair warning if he means to attack, unlike some leaders I could name. (Mao, anyone? Louis XIV, Napoleon, Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan, Alexander the Great - or Mansa when he's had a bad day at the office?) Maybe he'll be a bit like Julius Caesar and Augustus, who can both demand tribute but who, if you give them the tribute, wouldn't dream of attacking you only a few turns later... God, Mao and Alexander are real swine when it comes to pulling that kind of trick om you.

I speculate because looking at the characteristics given to a leader won't tell us everything - the designers have taken care to give the leaders individualities beyond the two characteristics, and been very successful; and now they brag about having improved the AI even further. I really don't understand how I'll make it until the game is in the shops.

So do you ever play as Cyrus in the game? He's one of my favourite civ neighbours because of his decency. I generally like a peaceful game (OK, maybe a war or two early on if I do feel it's necessary, but that's it), and as a rule it's very easy to get on with Cyrus. Unlike most of the civ leaders who aren't religious fanatics, he is also scrupulously fair. He simply won't attack you unless you are begging for it by having no army at all or going out of your way to offend him...

I wonder what Darius will be like in the game. More aggressive than Cyrus, I dare say, and probably less honourable as well. Still, if the game designers have considered the traditional descriptions of him (the way they clearly did with regard to the tolerant Cyrus), he'll probably not be too sneaky and give fair warning if he means to attack, unlike some leaders I could name. (Mao, anyone? Louis XIV, Napoleon, Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan, Alexander the Great - or Mansa when he's had a bad day at the office?) Maybe he'll be a bit like Julius Caesar and Augustus, who can both demand tribute but who, if you give them the tribute, wouldn't dream of attacking you only a few turns later... God, Mao and Alexander are real swine when it comes to pulling that kind of trick om you.

I speculate because looking at the characteristics given to a leader won't tell us everything - the designers have taken care to give the leaders individualities beyond the two characteristics, and been very successful; and now they brag about having improved the AI even further. I really don't understand how I'll make it until the game is in the shops.

I'm a builder and peaceful player too - I rarely start wars (I'm just not a blood thirsty gamer). Those civs who threaten me or actually attack I vow revenge down the road... I'm actually playing as Cyrus in one game and yes I've had him as an AI in others. He's never attacked me as an AI! But he's not shy on the land grab right next to your borders!

Now about Isabella, well she's attacked me even when my military was double hers and equipped with better tech - silly cow she was! And Tokugawa is weird: as I played Mansa in one game he surrendered as a vassal under me for almost half a game (I was ahead in tech and religion), and in other games he just sits there as an isolationist lump on a log.

Darius could be interesting... And of course I'm looking forward to playing Willem of Orange... and dealing with Pericles, Zara Yaqob, and Joao II :D

Joao II!!!

Why is pericles winning? He seems pretty ugly to me. (espaicailly with that helmet)

^he has a beard.

I voted for Suryavarman. He reminds me of the sun :)

Pericles, hands down.

QFT


He is a sex machine! I'd let him conquer me any day of the week.

This Thread is truly gay.

This Thread is truly gay.

If a female calls another female attrative, is that gay or just commenting?

Also, who cares? I cannot comprehend why so many people equate gay as a negative thing. I could give a crap about someone's sexual preferences, it's a truly trivial part of a human being.

He is a sex machine! I'd let him conquer me any day of the week.

That is what i meant.

If a female calls another female attrative, is that gay or just commenting?

That is not what i meant

Disclaimer: My wife voted for me. :lol: