Varus could be the next Roman leader and Arminius the next German leader.
For Germany, they could make a bold move and release it with history's most evil German... Kaiser Vilhelm II.
Wilhelm II
UA - Kaiser's Diplomacy
Unlike every other Civ in the game, you get competent Advisors who know what the best possible action is. Too bad you're going to ignore them and do the exact opposite of what they told you to do. Receive a big Diplomatic penalty with every other nation in the game for insulting them without reason. AI Wilhelm will send insults to you every turn even if he's Friendly or allied.
"You have unlocked achievement: Dreadnought arms race"
When will be released ?
I think the new entry for the simplified chinese version gives the hint for it: In the Chinese year of the buffalo!
(just kidding...that would be 2022, or so, that's rather Civ6)
My current theory is that this is a new project built on the foundation of Civ V. The company I work for has a single line of products and every major iteration of the product is given a development codename in alphabetical order.
If we take Civ V as the basic product - possibly codenamed antelope or alpaca - then Bison could be either a final major patch (unlikely as G&K and BNW would have most likely been the B and C projects), a stand alone spin off (such as Colonisation or Not-Alpha-Centauri-For-Copyright-Reasons) or Civ VI.
Or it could be a scenario where you have to go back in time to rescue a bison to stop the Earth being destroyed by an alien space probe that wants to talk to them. The scenario can be played as America, Russia, Scotland (renamed England), Zulu or Japan. Of course there are acheivements:
Where... no one... has... gone be... fore... - As America make a "Declaration of Friendship" with a female character
Can you direct us to the nuclear wessels? - As Russia, steal a carrier or nuclear submarine
Hello, computer? - As Scotland discover computing
Incoming transmission - As the Zulu establish an embassy with another civilisation
Oh, my! - Win as Japan
Why only CSs? I want new civs to emerge which is a close copy of your civilization. They will get the same techs as you, but they could exchange say 3 SPs. In multiplayer mode a new player could take over this new civ.Kind of an off-topic tangent: what happens if a Civ's unhappiness spawns rebels, and the rebels capture a city? Does it become a "barbarian city"? Perhaps that could be another way to create a new City State!
Where are these screenshots? Could someone please provide me with a link for it...?Hmmm - some quick researching seems to suggest that there would have been bison in ancient Mesopotamia and Anatolia, and both the Sumerians and Hittites considered 'bulls' to be culturally significant (they appear in many of their myths and legends), so it is possible that the new data could all relate to some WotAW-related thing. Then again, we have seen that screenshot of CotNW Deluxe, so Firaxis were definitely working on that at some point. It'd be strange for them to completely abandon it.
Wouldn't say "very few". Actually quite a handful (not me though). As of today, around 23% out of a total of 48 voters believe there will be yet another expansion for Civ5..Initially DLC was dismissed not because we didn't like the idea of "buying civs" (well, some of us do, not me), but because a lot of us believed DLC replaced the "expansion" model, but we got TWO amazing Eps (G&K and BNW) and quite frankly very few of us expect a third expansion pack (both Civ 3 and 4 got two expansion packs each), and quite frankly I think we all see that Civ 5 is at the end of it's production cycle, and giving new stuff to keep the game fresh is not a bad idea.