Design seems nice, but the faith from forts and citadels part has been used(or more correctly, will be used) in Age of Imperialism's Dervish state.
Thanks for the heads up! I'll try and think of something different because I also found out this morning that Firebug's Malta civ (which is similar to this one but seems to be focused more on Malta than the knights) already uses this too.
And yes, the second civ is indeed Romani. And no, it's a pure coincidence I came up with it roughly the same time as you did, Hoop Thrower. The idea for the UA just came to me a few days ago and for now that's pretty much all I have.
Romani Nation
Leader: ??? - Since there was no real Romani nation this is hard. For now I'm using mythical king Shibilis as a placeholder but I saw there have been a few claimants for
King of the Romani over the years. But which one is best?
UA: Upon city growth, a
Population Unit is born which can move to any existing Romani City or settle a new City.
Not sure if this is enough for a UA though, it's basically just "choose where your pop goes" and even if that is one nice advantage I have two concerns:
- will the AI be able to handle it? (or should AI Romani perhaps get a x% chance of spawning a Settler instead of growing?)
- is the UA too weak, should there be a second part to it?
No ideas for UU or UB yet either. All I really have is a UA and I barely even know how to code it.
Then there's cities. I made up a preliminary city list, mostly from this Wikipedia list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Romani_settlements
However, those are most of them quite modern and almost all of them in Eastern Europe. but it's not that simple to find information on Romani settlements since they have a very nomadic history. Capital is Sulukule, Turkey because apparently that is the oldest recorded Romani settlement in Europe.
I'm not too happy with this list though because I would like to find more historical settlements if possible, and also add some western European ones to make it more inclusive since there hasn't been any Romani Nation anyway. Plus, most of the self-proclaimed kings of the Romani I have read about seem to be Romanichal (from Britain) so it would make sense to include some British names on the list if I can find any.
Something else I'm thinking about is their preferred religion. For now I have set it so that if you play with Tomatekh's Historical Religion mods the Romani will prefer Shaktism, which seems to be part of Romani religious beliefs even among Roma who adher to other religions such as Islam or Christianity.
But I'm torn whether to put Islam or Christianity as preferred religion for those without religion mods. The three settlements on top of my current city list are mostly Muslim-dominated when it comes to Roma population but overall a majority of Roma are Christian. And when it comes to Christianity, I thought Orthodoxy would be best since many non-Muslim Eastern European Roma adher to that, and also because it is overall preferred by less civs in the game.
Just a minor thing, but I tend to over-think details some time...
Faith from Forts and +3 
and +15 HP.
from Walls, Castles and Arsenals. Never eliminated from the game, even when they lose their last city.
If you would like to help me out, or can point me in the direction to someone who might, I would be very happy! I have this portrait of Philippe for refence as to how he looked:
