New leader civics

Here are the favored civics for the four new leaders.

Augustus - Representation
Churchill - Nationhood
Ramesses II - Theocracy
Stalin - State Property (duh!)

They all seem to make sense, although I personally would have given RamessesII Organised Religion.

Wow, Mr. Bee comes through once again! Thank you much!

Could you clarify the exact benefit of the Japanese shale plant? +10% is kind of weak. We speculated that perhaps it removed the coal requirement or remove the health penalty for a coal plant. Could you be so kind as to look into this?

Yeah, the Shale Plant is just like the Coal Plant except that it provides power WITHOUT needing coal. It still carries the -2 health penalty.

You once again are the savior of the Civ community! Thank you Mr. Bee!

Mr. Bee a more personal and less sppecific question.
Do you like the XP and is it for you a good addon for CIV4 or it doesn't seem so much good as previews seems to say?

Didn't he write the previews?

Ha! Yeah, my participation on this board is contingent on my remaing neutral on the subject of whether the game is good or not. All the parties involved are fine with me answering factual questions but my opinions have to stay under wraps for now.

ok thats good, all pretty right, but what do fave civics actually do?

I know the AI will try to force his/her fave civic on to you, but what does it mean for the human player?

The AI always adopts and stays in its favourite civic ( I think ), and you get diplo bonuses if you use their favourite civic. Also, as you mentioned, they try to force it on you from time to time.

mrbee, I still have a few questions about Warlords expansion - if you are ok with answering

*Is there a required tech for Vassal States. In other words, do you need to reseach say Fedulism before you can demand/ask for Vassal States?

*How often do Great Generals appear for a warmonger (a player that usually goes to war to expand or something)? Do they appear regularly or are they rare?

*Can the Military Advisors (that give +2 xp to units built in that city) stack. So can you have 3 or 4 Military Advisors in one city?

*Do Vassalage and Theocracy still give +2 xp?

*You said that the Aggressive trait is unchanged in another post. I have read information in another review that stated that Shaka was able to build the Stables at double the production because he was Aggressive. Does the Aggressive trait indeed double the speed of the Barracks, Stables and Drydocks?

*If the Aggressive trait does indeed allow for Stables to be built at double the production, then does that mean the Mongol Ger can also be built at double the production?

*The Warlord unit, when it attaches to a unit, gains free promotions as well as access to some new promotions. I am wondering how many free promotions and are they from the normal list of promotions?

Thanks heaps if you answer this. If not, then thanks heaps for the amount of information you have given us already (sorry if I went overboard here )

Watiggi

an on the OP... Representation... for Augustus?? the guy who finished the Destruction of the Republic, I mean, maybe Bureaucracy, but Representation?

This means that the 'non Favored' civics (excluding defaults) are
Bureaucracy, Free Speech, Vassalage
Slavery, Serfdom, Emancipation, Caste
Environmentalism
Pacifism

as for questions to mrbee, what about the German Assembly Plant? does it get +50% with coal and another 50% with power? or just 50% with Coal, and no power bonus.

mrbee said:

Here are the favored civics for the four new leaders.

Augustus - Representation
Churchill - Nationhood
Ramesses II - Theocracy
Stalin - State Property (duh!)

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Im a bit surprized Ramses doesent have slavery as his fav.

That might be because it essentially becomes obsolete when Emancipation comes into effect.

Hey Mr. Bee, did any of the existing traits get changed in any way? Was financial nerfed, expansive buffed, etc?

CF4L said:

Im a bit surprized Ramses doesent have slavery as his fav.

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If you mean to imply that the Pyramids were built using Slavery the current thinking is that was not the case. Rather a lot of the manual labour was voluteered by farmers and agricultural workers in slack periods. They considered it their religous duty to aid their god-king's passage into the afterlife and happily contributed.

In addition, the Pyramids were built centuries before Rameses

Alright, one more question for the magnificent Mr. Bee. Are there any new resources or tile improvements in Warlords?
Some previews seemed to indicate that this was so.

UncleJJ said:

If you mean to imply that the Pyramids were built using Slavery the current thinking is that was not the case. Rather a lot of the manual labour was voluteered by farmers and agricultural workers in slack periods. They considered it their religous duty to aid their god-king's passage into the afterlife and happily contributed.

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its more in reffrence to the Exodus and how he went after them more than anything else

Doesn't the bible just say "Pharaoh", not Rameses?