Recent content by trexeric

This is probably my #1 problem with Civs V and VI, and why I stopped playing them entirely in favor of IV. It's like I'm playing a board game, but in a bad way. That said, the one thing I like better in V than in IV is the cultural victory introduced in the Brave New World expansion, and the...

Either or both of those would be cool, and I've advocated for adding the Temple at Uppsala and Þingvellir as potential pagan Viking wonders in the past. I also think that limiting the UP to only working under paganism would be a great constraint for the player. Though Christianization did not...

Speaking of pagans and persecution, I've been wondering for a long time if there was a way to stop the Vikings from converting to Catholicism so early. They seem to always convert as soon as Catholicism spreads to one of their cities, which is often before you even meet them as other civs...

Add Finland to this goal, and you're golden.

It came up 🤷‍♂️

I will say that I did a Shinto URV once (which I enjoyed as a sort of espionage tutorial), and it was slightly frustrating to be unable to build Itsukushima Shrine. Think it could be a "Buddhism or Paganism" wonder? It's pretty late, so I don't think it would be snatched up by the Romans or...

Mentioned this in another thread, but I'll move the suggestion here: I think it would be neat if you could use espionage to recruit settled Great People in foreign cities, like how spies now can assassinate settled GPs. I envision it such that you wouldn't actually get a new GP born or...

That's a good question without a perfect answer, I think, because of course the Vikings never did vassalize Arabia or Byzantium. But if they did I suppose it would be reasonable that they would be akin to the situation in the Rus, where a small Norse ruling class reigns over the native...

Not to change the subject, but I think it would be a cool idea to be able to use espionage to recruit GPs settled in foreign cities (like how you can assassinate them now), if that were possible.

I think "Dominion of _______" is good and unique enough for the vast majority of Swedish vassal names. Dominion of Russia is more sensible than Varangian Principalities, for example. I agree on the Kalmar Union, both Vikings and Sweden should theoretically be able to have that name if they...

I might push back on some of these. I think Vinland is fine for Canada for the Vikings, but I don't think it makes as much sense for Sweden. Sweden as a civ doesn't really encompass Viking Age Sweden, and even if it did, Vinland wasn't settled by Swedes whatsoever. Similarly with Russia as...

I completed a Tibet run for the first time recently and I thought it was great, maybe one of my favorites. Sort of on the border between puzzle civ and military civ. Very different from Polynesia, I thought, which is another one of my favorites, but I view it as a pretty pure puzzle civ, so I'd...

I don't want to resurrect the old civ-specific victory ranks thread, but I was rereading Ynglinga saga and I think that Dómaldi is probably a better candidate for the bottom position for the Vikings than my initial suggestion of Fjölnir. Where Fjölnir just had an embarrassing death by falling...

There could be measurements for great people (maybe a combination of the active points being generated plus the civ's history of great people?) and of course espionage output.

Yeah, makes sense to change it to Jenny Lind. Like I said, I just kept it from the old Vikings list, but I'll go in and change it now (unless anybody objects). And yeah after reading up on Kreuger, I thought it was an interesting and unique choice for GM, so I ended up going with him. I'll just...