Guandao
Rajah of Minyue and Langkasuka
I wonder if Theodora will speak Byzantine Greek or Late Latin in game. It seems like Greek is more probable. Can anyone here understand Byzantine/Medieval Greek?
I wonder if Theodora will speak Byzantine Greek or Late Latin in game. It seems like Greek is more probable. Can anyone here understand Byzantine/Medieval Greek?
I don't think that, personally, Greece and Rome are Byzantium in terms of CIV. This would be like creating a CIV for every time Denmark changed age (Vikings, Kalmar Union, Denmark-Norway, Denmark). It's unnecessary. Byzantium just represent a different time-period in Rome and Greece's history. Likewise Italy is a redundant nation because we have Rome.^ Because they were culturally different and a major power of the time.
I agree with this.I'd imagine that you'll be able to reliably found your own religion if you put any effort into doing so, though. This isn't like a wonder race where there's only one "winner."
^ Because they were culturally different and a major power of the time.
Right,but if the Founder of the religion has the power to choose the 2nd Follower belief bonus and an enhancer belief,he'll have a bigger advantage compared to the non-founders,specially if the followers of that religion did choose to get a different victory from the founder . Consider this scenario:
You plan a domination victory and decided to use faith to rush units,so you can raise a army and go to war,but you haven't been lucky enough to found a religion . You then choose one of the religions that are avaliable to you,which bonus seem good enough for you . Unfortinately,the founder of your religion didn't choose "Holy Warriors" as a second follower belief(which allows rushing units with Faith),but instead picked up "Swords into Plowshares" as a second belief,whose bonus are only avaliable when you're not in war . With this,you can't use Faith to buy units,neither go war if you don't want to lose the follower belief bonus . Some turns later,someone chose Holy Warriors,but their religion is too far away . In a few turns,someone else picked up this belief . Later,this civilization dominated an entire continent with the help of this belief and became the runaway civ . Then,you realize you lost the game because you didn't have the power to customize your religion .
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There are plenty of scenarios like this that would create an irrational race to found a religion,because the power of the founder would be far superior to the power of the followers . Let's not forget that this is the main reason why religion in Civ4 was so dissapointed .
Uh... hard to believe that a civ can suddenly be "runaway" with 1 or 2 beliefs.
The only reason it would make more sense to require them to have a religion in order to get the ability is that's just how religions seem to work. First off, what kind of ability? Is it from the list or something else? If it's from the list, all those seem to go with a religion (so you need to have one). If it's a brand new list, the ability is essentially "choose a power" if it isn't tied with a religion.