Great People Flavor Unit Request Thread

The idea behind these thread is based on the idea that an ancient Great Artist looks like Shakespeare and the modern incarnation looks like Elvis. I'd like to extend it to individual civs. For example, instead of Elvis, how about a moptopped Beatle for England? How about a Mark Twain unit for America? How about having Confucius as a prophet for China, or that guy who usually wears a veil as an Arabian prophet? How about having an Isaac Newton who holds an apple, or a Bill Gates who hauls around a PC?

I'm going to make some requests for these units, so that we may be able to add them to mods, such as The Capo's Diplomacy mod.

Mark Twain (America)


Brigham Young (America)


Billy Graham (America)


Bill Gates (America)

[He could haul around a PC]

Benjamin Franklin (America)


Thomas Edison (America)


Alhazen (Arabia)


A Mexican singer (Aztecs/Mexico)


Carlos Slim (Aztecs/Mexico)

[Have him hold a cell phone]

Confucius (China)


Isaac Newton (England)

[He could be holding an apple]

Stephen Hawking (England)


A Beatle (England)


Adam Smith (England)


Louis Pasteur (France)

[Maybe have him hold a bottle of milk]

John Calvin (France)


Albert Einstein (Germany)


Beethoven (Germany)


Martin Luther (Germany)


Ramakrishna (India)


Lakshmi Mittal (India)


Hiroshi Yamauchi (Japan)

[Make him hold a handheld or a console of some sort]

Kobo-Daishi (Japan)


Vincent Van Gogh (Netherlands)


Zoroaster (Persia)



Miguel de Cervantes (Spain)


Pablo Picasso (Spain)


Henrik Ibsen (Vikings)


Ingvar Kamprad (Vikings)


Desmond Tutu (Zulu/Southern Africa Civs)

Good idea, this would be very cool. The main thing you need; a lot of art! Sorry, I can't help you there.

If you get the art, I can help you get them in the game. (Hell, we'll put the modern day ones in the World 2009 mod!)

Here are some units for Custom Civs in the Diplomacy mod:

James Joyce (Ireland, but Irish units can be used for Celts):


Robert Boyle (Ireland)


St. Columban (Ireland)


Bono (Ireland)


James Watt (Scotland, but Scottish units can be used for Celts):


Robert Burns (Scotland)


Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Gran Colombia)


Michaelangelo (Italy)


Leonardo da Vinci (Italy)


Galileo (Italy)


St. Thomas Aquinas (Italy)


Copernicus (Poland)


Frederic Chopin (Poland)

I got an idea... you know how the Great Spy sometimes looks like James Bond? Well, how about having different Bonds for different nations? Scotland can have the Sean Connery James Bond, England can have the Roger Moore James Bond, and Ireland can have the Pierce Brosnan James Bond.

As for America, they can have Jack Bauer.

Aristotle (Greece)


Pytheas (Greece)


Archimedes (Greece)


Christopher Columbus (Spain)


Fray Bartolomé de las Casas (Spain)


Rumi (Persia)


Vasco da Gama (Portugal)


Virgil (Rome)


St. Peter (Rome)


Guglielmo Marconi (Rome/Italy)


Niels Bohr (Vikings)

Does anyone have some suggestions for Great People?

We were on the subejct of Great Spies once... I suggested James Bond for the British Isles, and Jack Bauer for America...

But what about France? I just got an idea. None other than Jacques Clouseau!