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Yeah, and I'd love adding Lan Xang.
What, you didn't hear about it? It was medieval Laotian state, was very cool. How could you now know about it? It's basic knowledge of South-East Asia.
What do I mean, let's be serious, this game is the place for
a) Great civilisations, empires, or strong culturally influential nations
b) Very few exceptions from this rule if particular nation was exotic or very unique (Polynesia, Iroquis)
Not for whatever minor tribes somebody has sympathies towards, and which are completely obscure to the global public (Wends are completely obscure for me, and I am Polish with interest in obscure civilisations
)
My words may be a bit brutal but let's be honest, devastating majority of global Civ community doesn't want to see, out of all possible empires,
Polabian Slavic tribe in the game.
Of course everybody can have his own fantasies - I'd genuinely like to see Lan Xang (Laotian medieval kingdom) in civ game... But I am aware how small chances of such obscure nations are to appear in a game (and Lan Xang was treated by its neighbors with far greater respect than Polabian Slavs by theirs
)
And you're from Poland? A Slavic nation? With interest in obscure civilizations?
You don't know much about Slavic history, that is a given.
Why don't you read up about the Wends and quit making such worthless statements and instead do some research first?
The only thing that saved your nation from the German/Frankish hands/conquest was the fact your predecessors converted to Christianity-Catholicism, unlike the Wends-placed to the West of you, and guess what? they were more advanced than your Poles at the time, and if they only chose Christianity/Catholicism-lets be real!(we're not talking about protestant/orthodox Christians here, but the much more aggressive Catholics) , and did not fight among themselves all the time, they, no doubt, would have forged a far greater empire than your Poland ever was!.
Heck!, if it wasn't for the Union with Lithuania-a
non Slavic country, your Poland, and thus you as a citizen of it, would be just part of an obscure, tiny European state.
What about Wallachia under Vlad the Impaler?
Wallachia is a great suggestion, but the country could hold several names, changing overtime from:
DACCIA-WALLACHIA-ROMANIA.
A fine, distinctive European civilization, with own language and culture and a rich and tumultuous history, so why not?
I really think that a good choice to balance South American Civs would be to add the
Guarani or Tupi-Guarani civilization. They had a huge influence on the Southern cone, especial Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil. I really liked the addition of native american civs in the last 2 civilizations and I think the push now should be to expand South American, Caribbean and African civs.
Fine, fine, just include real CIVILIZATIONS, not village only builders (they never actually contructed a city), or nomads again.
GRAN COLOMBIA, NAZCA, TIWANAKU, ARGENTINA, MOCHE?, perhaps Arawak?-not really a civ though, ASHANTI, ZIMBABWE, CONGO, SOUTH AFRICA (Mandela as one of the leaders).
I guess there are several other choices.
Nope. You're all wrong.
What you need for the real dark horse is King Leonard of the Principality of the Hutt River!!!
Never heard of him? He's this awesome aussie farmer who managed, almost by accident, to successfully secede from the Damn Imperialist Dogs who run Australia. His territory is huge - larger than Monaco - and he gets away with not paying tax. He even declared war on australia! (I think he threw a rock at a post office)
right, moving along...
What about the Gauls?/Galls/Gaels.
Separate them from Celts, create their own leaders (VERCINGETORIX, BRENNUS),
gallic swordsman as fast moving swordsman as UU, DRUID as the other.
Celts on the other hand, since lead by Baudica, should be WALES/CORNWALL/Isle of Man/Ireland Celts, with cities such as: CAERDYDD, TINTAGEL, BAILE ATHA CLIATH, IONA.
Leave Pictish warrior as one of their uniques, and, let them have the LONGBOWMAN-share it with England, for it the WELSH BRITONS/Galls who invented the unit, the English stole the idea after they conquered Wales-in the 12th century-from what I recall off hand, and then used the unit with great success on battlefield.
Has anyone ever really proven that Israel is being kept out because of Middle East sales? If that is the case then I worry that naming it something else won't help the matter. I really hope its some kind of oversight rather than politics.
Just call them HEBREWS instead, not to piss off the Arabs, how is that?
The influence of the Jewish monotheism on the course of Earth's Civilization cannot be denied!
I`d like to think Canada has a unique enough culture to warrant a civilization of it's own. Perhaps have peace keeping as a special trait.
Right on!
Peace keeping, CN Tower and hockey rinks.
Should I go into Canadian inventions and great people?
The Kievan Rus wasn't Baltic though.
Yes, yes, however, the Kievan Rus' does have a lot to offer as a Civilization!
Kievan Rus'-brought by Slavic and Norse/Viking ,converted to /Orthodox Christian traditions as one of the 1st Slvic/slavian (forgive for the using the pan-Slavic name) Christian Empires, the Kievan Rus' was a vast, prosperous kingdom, until the partitions after Vladimir the Great's death.
The Ukrainian: KIYEVAN RUS's medieval name should change to UKRAINE, kossacks were a fierce infantry, using muskets (samopaly), pikes (spisy) and sabres to fight off invaders.
Kiyevan Rus'/Ukraine sure deserves a look as a distinct civ.