Woah, the maps are indeed awesome. I love Angola in particular.
I'm not sure what the civ will focus on, honestly. I absolutely have to do some serious research on the country - the civ can't just be about internal turmoil, that can't work.
Focusing on the ramifications of the civil war to present-day Angola would definitely work. The country generally urbanized and Luanda in specific had a massive population increase as the countryside population fled to the coastal, usually MPLA-controlled cities during the civil war; Luanda is now the third most populous Lusophone city in the world, and Angola had a massive GDP growth since the civil war ended due to Cabinda's oil deposits, and to a less extent diamonds. Before the civil war destroyed the countryside, Angola was one of the largest exporters of commodity crops in south Africa (The region
), so I thought about a resource-cycling mechanic of some sort where the current "chosen" resource receives extra Gold bonuses. It'd be best to avoid direct references to late developments such as telecommunications, Oil, or units/vehicles used in the civil war like a BM-21 Grad or a Mig of some sort, since those things would come too late in the game for the player to enjoy, but a Great General replacement would work for all eras to represent the Cubans. I didn't, though, find any unique name (This is a
HUGE problem for Angola) that could be used, so I composed "Revolutionary Cadre" out of communist jargons. And Cadre is a too cool sounding word to not be used somewhere in this game.
This is thus what I thought so far:
Leader: Agostinho Neto
Trait: Renewal of Luanda
Your Capital receives any surplus Food of cities under siege by you or your enemies. Increased Gold generation of 1% per turn of war upon signing a peace deal, decreasing every turn.
UB: Shipping Docks (Harbor)
+1 Gold per source of a resource within your borders. Target resource changes every time peace is signed, boosting the base yield of the Shipping Docks by one every time it does.
UU: Revolutionary Cadre (Great General)
Gain Revolutionary Cadre points whenever a Spy performs an action in Angola.
*Something else*
