Carazycool
Warlord
anyone else notice that Atilla's Court was not the capital?
maybe the huns don't have a capital city?
maybe the huns don't have a capital city?
Well we do have the Songhai, so I guess anything is possible...
(Ahem, clears throat) The Huns were the ones driving all those puny German and Teutonic (as the Goths were from modern Sweden) tribes before them in terror out of their homelands and into the territory of the decaying Roman Empire. The Huns, therefore, were the major cause of the fall of the Empire in the West.
They also brought with them a military innovation in the laminated bow they fired from horseback, putting much more power behind the arrow. They were able to do so on the basis of another innovation - the stirrup - that they also introduced to the clueless and backwards Europeans, barbarian or civilized.
Language? Just have them speak HUNgarian Yes the Magyars were a different people, but they came in on the same script - from central Asia, on horseback, invading terror, non- Indo-European language, yada, yada. And they likely bore some linguistic relation to their Hunnish predecessors.
And Attila is a modern Hungarian name in use.
We don't know whether it's the capital or not; Attila's Court is under Carthaginian occupation in the shot (notice the puppet icon).anyone else notice that Atilla's Court was not the capital? maybe the huns don't have a capital city?
Oh c'mon Firaxis, put Great Moravia in. Please!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Moravia
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I really find the Huns an unnecessary addition to the game, prolly chosen for gameplay value and Attila's fame
We don't know whether it's the capital or not; Attila's Court is under Carthaginian occupation in the shot (notice the puppet icon).
That is the ONLY reason to choose a Civ for the game. You can have the most historically accurate potrayal of a civ possible, but if it's not fun to play, it's not successful.
Fine, let's have the Klingons in the next DLC.
Well, Russia is in the game and even then, the Kievan Rus', the Bulgarian Empire, and Poland are all arguably more significant Slavic entities to include. (Re-iterate Poland if you were talking specifically about under-representation of West Slavic).
Hi everyone, I'm back and in my new house. Good to see that the thread's still going strong .
Is that Attila in the Gods & Kings poster behind Ed Beach? I'm presuming the other character is Boudicca!
Cultural impact of Great Moravia is huge. There is still cyrilic scrypt (and azbuka) in many country (Russia, Bulgaria, Serbia, Bosnia/Hercegovina,...) Religion with reference to saint Cyril and Method from that ages is still dominant here and people still know who was Mojmir or Svatopluk (king of Great Moravia). Great Moravia was slavic monarchy. A big milestone for all slavs from north (Poland) to south (Croatia), from west (Bohemia) to east (Ukraine). Just look at few Great Moravia cities like: Bratislava, Nitra, Mikucice, Olomouc, Znojmo, Velehrad, Strigonium,... I think slavic people deserve a representative in this game. There are Shonghai, Zulu (Civ1 ~ Civ4), Polynesia, Khmer (Civ4), so why not first big slavic monarchy?
I support the addition of at least one East European civ but be honest with yourself here, given the choice of:
Poland (1000+ year continuous cultural history, largest state in Europe for centuries, central to European history and culture in many ways)
Hungary
Lithuania
Bohemia
Bulgaria
Serbia
aaaaand... Great Moravia
what do you think they're going to choose? We'll both be lying in the cold, cold ground before you see the likes of Samo's kingdom and Csanad in a Civ title and Moravia falls into that category: an influential, significant but ultimately ephemeral state.
Cultural impact of Great Moravia is huge. There is still cyrilic scrypt (and azbuka) in many country (Russia, Bulgaria, Serbia, Bosnia/Hercegovina,...) Religion with reference to saint Cyril and Method from that ages is still dominant here and people still know who was Mojmir or Svatopluk (king of Great Moravia). Great Moravia was slavic monarchy. A big milestone for all slavs from north (Poland) to south (Croatia), from west (Bohemia) to east (Ukraine). Just look at few Great Moravia cities like: Bratislava, Nitra, Mikucice, Olomouc, Znojmo, Velehrad, Strigonium,... I think slavic people deserve a representative in this game. There are Shonghai, Zulu (Civ1 ~ Civ4), Polynesia, Khmer (Civ4), so why not first big slavic monarchy?
Lmao it does. I think it may be just that actually. Good eye.
Edit: Nevermind, that's the Great Prophet.
Because Attila's Court is a Hun city that was captured by Carthage; it's not a city-state. The elephant symbol on the right the the Carthage civ bage, not a city state type icon.
Was browsing the thread.... not sure if this has been resolved yet.
EDIT: Well that's embarassing. Hundreds of hours of Civ and I never noticed other Civs' logos next to their city names. Still left wondering why there's a city called Attila's Court, then.