New Civilization: Bavaria

I'm working on a Module for Bavaria, and I am far enough to start asking for feedback.

Bavaria0.1.zip v 0.1

Here is what I have so far:
Leaders:

• Ludwig II - Creative and Industrious
• Franz Josef Strauss - Philosophical and Expansive

Starting Techs: Agriculture and Mining
UU: Alpine Troops (replaces Marine, Flat movement, 5 movement points, starts with Guerilla and March)
(replaces Marine, 1-2 first strikes, starts with Guerilla II and March)
Unique Building: Beergarden (simply a renamed Colosseum)

I have most of the buttons created, but know nothing about making the 3D models. Learning that is my next step.

Most of the text is in both German and English, but aside from city names, nothing else has been translated, and the Civilopedia is lacking.

I would like to get the Alpine Troops to have no penalty on hills, and be able to move over peak squares... but I can't figure out how.

I don't know that starting a unit with Guerilla II is kosher, but the unit does come late in the game, and I wanted the movement bonus over mountains... is there a better way to get that?

I'll call this version 0.1, and see where it goes from there. Any comments or improvements are welcome.

Screenshots: http://autophobia.no-ip.com/~abek/bavaria/

UU: Alpine Troops (replaces Marine, 1-2 first strikes, starts with Guerilla II and March)

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That is overpowered, the US Navy Seal starts with March promotion, never mind another one too and more first strikes.

Nice idea. But Franz-Josef Strauss with the trait philosophical? This is a joke, isn't it? He was a die-hard reactionary and polarized the public like few others. He had several scandals, including the "Spiegel-Affäre", in which he simply arrested the editor-in-chief of the influental "Der Spiegel" magazine, Rudolf Augstein, for more than 100 days. Simply because "Der Spiegel" attributed the German army as being "prepared for defense to only a limited extent", Augstein and the magazine were accused of treason. Strauss was forced to step down as defense minister as consequence. If you really want to use him as bavarian leader, I would rather give him the traits aggressive and expansive.

Andrea Hofer would be a good Bavarian leader.

Nah Pope Benedict XVI would be a good leader!

Missrevolver said:

Nah Pope Benedict XVI would be a good leader!

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Yeah! But for Bavarians.

Lares said:

Nice idea. But Franz-Josef Strauss with the trait philosophical? This is a joke, isn't it? He was a die-hard reactionary and polarized the public like few others. He had several scandals, including the "Spiegel-Affäre", in which he simply arrested the editor-in-chief of the influental "Der Spiegel" magazine, Rudolf Augstein, for more than 100 days. Simply because "Der Spiegel" attributed the German army as being "prepared for defense to only a limited extent", Augstein and the magazine were accused of treason. Strauss was forced to step down as defense minister as consequence. If you really want to use him as bavarian leader, I would rather give him the traits aggressive and expansive.

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Strauss himself might not have been philosophical, but shouldn't the traits reflect the influence that a leader had on the civilization? Strauss might have been aggressive as a person, but if he was running an unprepared army then aggressive would be a BAD trait for him.

I chose philisophical based on this section in the Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz-Josef_Strauss#Legacy
Which says he "managed to transform Bavaria from the once-agrarian state to one of the centers of technology in Germany that it is today."

He might have been a die-hard reactionary, but like it or not, die-hard reactionary is a philosophy. He is often seen as the philosophical father of the modern CSU, too.

Strauss is too close to our time to be anything but a controversal choice, and I accept that. The game's leaders seem to be a generation older than Strauss at the youngest. I don't like his politics, but he is quite admired in Bavaria.

Italicus said:

Andrea Hofer would be a good Bavarian leader.

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I don't know that an Austrian would be appropriate; especially one that lead anti-Bavarian uprisings!

abethebrewer said:

I don't know that an Austrian would be appropriate; especially one that lead anti-Bavarian uprisings!

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Yes... But Hofer was of Bavarian origin like all the German High Atesinians.
For this reason I have proposed he.

What about Elisabeth von Wittelsbach?

Also, sound theme: Vengaboys - Shalalala, or the jingle from the Erdinger beer commercial.

I think maybe Alois Hingerl would be better -- he does after all have a letter with advice straight from God on how the Bavarian State should be run.

Italicus said:

Yeah! But for Bavarians.

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Pope Benedict XVI is a Bavarian.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_XVI

Thats why I mentioned him because I thought he'd be the perfect spiritual leader for Bavaria especially since Germany as a whole hasn't had the papacy in centuries...

sounds great

some suggestions:

unique National Wonder: Neuschwanstein Castle (replaces Shakespears Theatre)

monastery brewery: replacees cathedral, every brewery needs three monasteries instead of temples, double building speed with wheat.

Great Wonder "Oktoberfest" replacing Broadway, giving 7 pieces of the happiness ressource "Beer".

As long as we're headed down the Oktoberfest path, how about "Ein Prosit" as the anthem?