Recent content by Hannibal XIII

Still playing my long Marathon game as Russia, which I love. I'm ahead in science and culture, so the LUA is useless (hoping they get a second leader pronto, probably Cathy but I'll always want Stalin back), but by god the Mother Russia and Lavra stuff is so, so useful. I'm swimming in faith and...

I wish they'd ask you to let missionaries in with the option of closing your borders to missionaries -- IRL, missionaries were never just able to wander freely. I hated in Civ V having to find ways to block missionaries at my borders with random units, although at least the Great Prophets aren't...

The only theme I'm truly not fond of is Kongo's... love love love their rendition of Kalinka, and El Helwa Di is also pretty nice.

Poland confirmed? This channel has all of the themes, as does Civtv.

I'd like Korobelniki, or Polyushko Polye, or Sacred War, or V'Put, or maybe Den Pobedy. Farewell to Slavianka would also be nice.

Man, they made Mohandas look dark... wish they had saved the game's most overused/worst leader for last :) Once again, they also gave India a really weird boost that is less straightforward and less useful than other civs... and gave it a name that has little to do with historical Indian...

Jazzed about Hardrada and even Philip II... Having two leaders for a civ (Greece) that could accurately be split into city-states, when we have no SE Asians, Iran, Ottomans, and a number of other places... that's some nonsense. Also my eternal hate for Gandhi, but I've accepted the white...

Hence out of place civ (which would include Tamar, whose portraits fit the gold-white-veil thing). What do you think of the picture of Prithvi Narayan Shah (uniter of Nepal)?

Possible B5 (under the Gorkha theory): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/Prithvinarayanshah.jpg The image features white and gold prominently, and if it was cropped I could see how it blurs into what we are seeing in B5. Still think its probably Tamar or an out-of-place...

I wish they got stiffed more. They were never unified, their biggest success was settling Galatia, and they got whupped by Julius Caesar. When they do get in, it's with a hodgepodge of Irish, Scottish and Welsh cities (or in Civ 4, continental Celtish cities) so as to appease the plastic paddies...

Man, if any theme from CiV deserved to come back, it was Chega de Saudade, particularly the war version. Oh well :P

Maybe the Spanish can be the warmongers? They did wreck the Americas and then fight against England, the incipient Dutch, the Moroccans, the Turks, and the French at various points... And you can sell Isabella as warmonger fairly easily, what with the zealotry...

What else does Qin Shi Huang say?

Here's my ideal base 18/4 for DLC 1) America -- Washington or Lincoln (my dream is Nixon :P ) 2) France -- Philip II Augustus or Louis XIV (I am a Bonaparte-phobe) 3) Russia -- Catherine the Great or Yaroslav the Wise (or Stalin pls) 4) Germanies -- Barbarossa, Frederick II von...

I'd prefer Lincoln, or Washington, to that bloviating imperialist TR. Ultimately, my dream leader would be Dick Nixon :D