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"+cc SgtWolf" means I'm in favor of conceding victory
Civ 5 Design Challenge II - Mechanics
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Sgtwolf00
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Conceding victory? I see, so Mister inthesomeday, would you care to join me at five for some discussions? Also this is the new mechanic.
When foreign trade units (caravan or cargo ship) end their turn in your territory or pass through it, you will recieve a lump of gold.
I wanted to try out my 'passive trading' idea and so I've made it this week's challenge, left out the trading post part. Cause that will make things to complicated. Submissions end on the sixtinth, glhf! I'll be expecting some Nabatean designs!
The Sultanate of Rum
Leader: Kayqubad the Great
UA: Traders of Anatolia: Whenever a ForeignTrade Unit ends its turns in your border, gain a lump sum of
Gold and
Great General points. Captured Cities provide +25%
UU: Ghulam: Longswordsman replacement. +25%Combat Strength if on the same tile as a Worker. Available from Metal Casting rather than Steel.
UB: Han: Caravansary replacement. Unit and BuildingProduction is increased by 5% for every
connected to the
Capital.
Why is this Sultanate always gone?
Natan35
Mayor of St. Natansburg
Hmmm... I've got this
Mali Empire(Mansa Musa)
UA: The Golden Reign
Gain gold when foreign caravans end the turn in your territory equal to the amount of gold, copper and salt you posses in addition to receiving 
faith equal to that amount when your caravans end the turn in foreign territory. +1 trade route for each capital city following your religion.
UB: Blacksmith
Replaces the forge. While retaining its capabilities, the Blacksmith also increases the production of mounted units by 15% and may be built in every city. Furthermore, Engineer specialists in his city will yield +1 faith.
UU: Mandekalu Rider
Replaces knight, though available at civil service and does not share its penalties. The Mandekalu Rider has the "Imperial Clan" promotion that makes it become stronger(+1) with the amount of caravans you own and +1 
movement as long as you own at least 1 (Stays after upgrade).
(Modded version)
Mali Empire(Mansa Musa)
UA: The Golden Reign
Gain
gold when foreign caravans end the turn in your territory equal to the amount of gold, copper and salt you posses in addition to receiving faith equal to that amount when your caravans end the turn in foreign territory. +1 trade route for each capital city following your religion.UB: Blacksmith
Replaces the forge. While retaining its capabilities, the Blacksmith also increases the
production of mounted units by 15% and may be built in every city. Furthermore, Engineer specialists in his city will yield +1 faith.UU: Mandekalu Rider
Replaces knight, though available at civil service and does not share its penalties. The Mandekalu Rider has the "Imperial Clan" promotion that makes it become stronger(+1
) with the amount of caravans you own and +1 movement as long as you own at least 1 (Stays after upgrade).(Modded version)
Spoiler :
Keniisu
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Ghana Empire (Ghana Bassi)
UA: Foreign Economics -
When foreign caravans end the turn in your territory gain a sum of gold equal to the number of trade routes active. Alongside this all tiles with mines (Gold, Salt or Iron) gain an gain a tile boost of +1 Gold each turn ended while the caravan resides in your territory.
UB: Souq (Replaces Market.)
Unlike the normal Market, once this is built every desert tile belonging to the city gains a yield of +1 Gold .
UU: Fāris (Replaces Knight)
Unlike the normal Knight, this Unit gains +25% more defense on desert tiles and becomes stronger for every caravan active from your capital. (+1 )
UA: Foreign Economics -
When foreign caravans
end the turn in your territory gain a sum of gold equal to the number of trade routes active. Alongside this all tiles with mines (Gold, Salt or Iron) gain an gain a tile boost of +1 Gold each turn ended while the caravan resides in your territory.UB: Souq (Replaces Market.)
Unlike the normal Market, once this is built every desert tile belonging to the city gains a yield of +1 Gold
.UU: Fāris (Replaces Knight)
Unlike the normal Knight, this Unit gains +25% more defense
on desert tiles and becomes stronger for every caravan active from your capital. (+1 )
Urdnot_Scott
Sultan
Kingdom of ArmeniaLeader: Ashot III
UA: The Twice-Crowned King
Upon signing a declaration of friendship with another civilisation, receive a freegolden age points.
UU: Ayruzdi (Replaces Knight)
The Ayruzdi, unlike the knight it replaces, receives a
UB: Kachkar (Replaces Shrine)
Alongside the regular benefits of the shrine, the Kachkar yields +1culture if the tile has a fort or citadel.
A bit of a 'cloak and dagger' civ here. Be nice on the surface but secretly have plans to utterly destroy everyone who ever looked at you funny in the changing rooms after P.E in year 5. You can either play super nice and use all that gold and faith to befriend everyone but then have a backup incase anyone decides to backstab you (in the form of your combat bonus plus a super fortified homeland full of citadels, forts, fortified units and deadly cavalry) or you can be a bit cheekier and befriend everyone and then use your combat bonus and free cavalry to start picking your friends off one by one, and by the time anyone realises you're perhaps not as friendly as you first appeared it'll be too late! Alexander be warned, this time the backstabb-er might just become the backstab-ee!
This mirrors real life Bagratid Armenia, sitting right between the Arabs and the Romans the Bagratid kings played them against eachother while being nice on the surface, being more than happy to accept the gifts and crowns (hence the UA name) that each sent to Armenia, unaware that the kings were accepting gifts from their enemies!
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The Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem
UA: Outremer
Cities conquered by the Kingdom become part of the empire with 75% of their full health rather than 50. Units may be purchased in puppeted cities, and puppeted cities receive no penalty to yields. Purchased units cost no maintenance.
UU: Crusader
Replaces Longswordsman. Available at Civil Service. Much cheaper to purchase, costing only 25% more gold than hammers. Trade units passing through friendly territory within two tiles of a Crusader provide a lump of culture, science, and gold. Crusaders pillaging improvements or trade routes yield double gold and, when pillaging improvements, twice as much health.
UU: Turcopole
Replaces Lancer. Ranged unit with combat strength 20 and ranged combat strength 25. Costs only 25% more gold than hammers to purchase. Combat bonus in enemy territory.
UA: Outremer
Cities conquered by the Kingdom become part of the empire with 75% of their full health rather than 50. Units may be purchased in puppeted cities, and puppeted cities receive no penalty to yields. Purchased units cost no maintenance.
UU: Crusader
Replaces Longswordsman. Available at Civil Service. Much cheaper to purchase, costing only 25% more gold than hammers. Trade units passing through friendly territory within two tiles of a Crusader provide a lump of culture, science, and gold. Crusaders pillaging improvements or trade routes yield double gold and, when pillaging improvements, twice as much health.
UU: Turcopole
Replaces Lancer. Ranged unit with combat strength 20 and ranged combat strength 25. Costs only 25% more gold than hammers to purchase. Combat bonus in enemy territory.
Uighur_Caesar
Comandante en Jefe
I came up with this by combining the elements of my original Ryukyu design with some of GPuzzle's recent one:
kul
Prince
Cant go wrong with a pirate civ!
The Sultanate of Malacca
Leader: Iskandar Shah
UA: Straight of Malacca
Cargo ships cannot be pillaged in your territory and naval units take 5 damage every turn in your territory. Cargo ships give a lump sum of 15 gold, culture and 
science to you and the owner of the cargo ship when they end their turn in your borders.
UU: Lantaka (Trebuchet)
Unlocked at Compass, and has a smaller bonus against cities (50 vs. 200). Has better ranged strength (18 vs. 12), and never obsoletes. Becomes a 1 ranged naval unit upon embarking.
UB: Foreign Merchant's Quarters (Harbor)
Instead of providing a flat bonus, Malacca gains +10% trade route range for every trade route going in and out of this city (max: +100%). Trade routes too and from this city yield and additional +3 gold and +2 science.
Leader: Iskandar Shah
UA: Straight of Malacca
Cargo ships cannot be pillaged in your territory and naval units take 5 damage every turn in your territory. Cargo ships give a lump sum of 15
gold, culture and science to you and the owner of the cargo ship when they end their turn in your borders.UU: Lantaka (Trebuchet)
Unlocked at Compass, and has a smaller bonus against cities (50 vs. 200). Has better ranged strength (18 vs. 12), and never obsoletes. Becomes a 1 ranged naval unit upon embarking.
UB: Foreign Merchant's Quarters (Harbor)
Instead of providing a flat bonus, Malacca gains +10% trade route range for every trade route going in and out of this city (max: +100%). Trade routes too and from this city yield and additional +3
gold and +2 science.
kul
Prince
I dont know, it just felt like a funny coincidence that our civs were lined up like that, Niao lol
Natan35
Mayor of St. Natansburg
Foreign merchant quarters sounds a bit too... Straightforward.
The name? I can't think of anything else, but I know Malacca was home to many traders of different origins.
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You could call it a Bandaragh
kul
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Ooh whats that?
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A Persian word for harbor that got mixed into Malaysian through Malaccan trade. The old name for a Malaccan administrator of a merchant quarter was a Shahbandar. Of course I learned this on Wikipedia, so think of it how you want, but that is where I find most names for my uniques.
Sgtwolf00
Potential genius
Yeah I use wiki a lot when I don't know of other places, plus it's sometimes easier for me to translate that information into a design. I got three of my uniques from this page for my recent Aztec design. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_Empire#Imperial_Reforms
Also thanks for that piece of information!
Sgtwolf00
Potential genius
Okay guys vote day! Unfortunately due to time and technical issues I won't be able to post the racap post right now. I'll do it later in the day.
But for now vote! (I'll give my answer later in the day as well.)
Voting last till Monday 22nd.
But for now vote! (I'll give my answer later in the day as well.)
Voting last till Monday 22nd.
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I'll go with Keniisu's Ghana, I love a good Ghana design and there are parts of the uniques that would be great for single and multi. The gold off the market is a good mechanic, and the UA has some good conceptual applications, but I like the UU best, I imagine the civ has a desert bias and a desert knight with trade strength including internal trade routes is well designed.
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