9th Civ: It's Sweden

[SeptimusOctopus]

You would not believe how long I spent trying to find a slice of the art that you guys wouldn't solve in like 5 seconds, while still remaining at least somewhat visually interesting.

It's more difficult than you would expect!

Haha, and here I was planning to have a productive Friday.

 

[The Little One]

It looks a lot like a Dalek to me

 

[Al-Iskander]

After using the currently-popular "download and zoom-out" method, I am pretty sure this is either an arm or a leg.

Hooray. Science.

Haha, and here I was planning to have a productive Friday.

PREACH!

 

[Pouakai]

You would not believe how long I spent trying to find a slice of the art that you guys wouldn't solve in like 5 seconds, while still remaining at least somewhat visually interesting.

It's more difficult than you would expect!

Maybe we should get a different part of it then

At least we're getting it today, Cheers Greg!

 

[CYZ]

Feeding the speculation at it's worst Greg?


I'm not going to pretend to have any clue what that is, but it looks like part of a clothing piece more than part of the interior.

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

Well, it seems Gustavus Adolphus was fond of wearing doilies.

 

[Liex]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_20

Hitler's birthday and Cannabis' day... well, I guess there are no clues in the date. Yesterday that would be a different history...

 

[CommanderZ]

Well, google search by image was not really helpful

https://www.google.com/search?tbs=s...PAofNphnqubw7Nk&num=10&hl=en&bih=912&biw=1920

I would say its some sort of horse armor/decoration.

 

[Pouakai]

If you look at the picture though, they curved around the boot, not above it as in this picture

 

[SammyKhalifa]

it's a klingon, isn't it?

 

[Haig]

Greg, you are like an evil puppetmaster that emerges from shadows while slowly, mockingly clapping his hands. "Bravo, gentlemen, bravo... you have bested me" *clap..clap*

 

[D0MIN1C]

To me it seems like a detail of an Avar daily life depiction. The fat black line looks like a piece of hair, and everything else is just the clothes. I blame my history classes for that.

 

[2K Greg]

Greg, you are like an evil puppetmaster that emerges from shadows while slowly, mockingly clapping his hands. "Bravo, gentlemen, bravo... you have bested me" *clap..clap*

The fact that I play a lot of Dungeons & Dragons as a DM supports this claim

 

[bcaiko]

It looks like a boot (on the bottom of the picture) and the bottom of a (Victorian-style) dress to me. I'm not sure what that implicates.

...cross-dressing Chaka?

 

[Xen]

@D0MIN1C

Your not the only one to think nomad, actually. I kinda though Timur the Lame, but thats mostly because I really don't want another Euro civ. Would have loved it if it was Queen Nzinga (what civ you attribute to her doesnt matter so much to me - it'd be cool to see a black queen in the game. And this is an x-pack that really should have been called "Gods and Queens" anyway

 

[Beefie]

Can't decipher anything from the image, but looking at events on the date (thank you http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_20) some things jump out:
Several references to Civs already announced (Byzantine, Austria etc).
How about this "The April Uprising, a key point in modern Bulgarian history, leading to the Russo-Turkish War and the liberation of Bulgaria from domination as an independent part of the Ottoman Empire."
If the date has any significance, I'm going Bulgaria!

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

I'm just going to throw this out there without anything to back it up: Jan III Sobieski.

 

[Gintoki89]

Looked up some pictures on Gustavus Adolphus due to frequent mentions and I'm putting my money on Sweden. Pic looks like the bottom part of a nice medieval-renaissance style outfit to me with the top of a leg guard and the dangling part of a belt. Some of the pictures on his wikipedia article could definitely support this.

 

[D712]

Will we know today Greg?

 

[GenjiKhan]

If someone guessed correctly where this art come from,will you tell everybody or wait something about 1 month before telling?