9th Civ: It's Sweden

[Gucumatz]

Greg, I thought you guys would do Zulu for sure.. what happaned? why some meaniless random euro country??

Could have been worse. We could have had the Zulu This is the 21st century, Zulu at most deserve to be a 3rd expansion civ or DLC civ

 

[Glassmage]

NOOOO portugal. YEESS sweden. I want to roleplay with "Dance with the Aurora" faith.

 

[Gucumatz]

NOOOO portugal. YEESS sweden. I want to roleplay with "Dance with the Aurora" faith.

Yep I want to see Sweden's UA now.

 

[CYZ]

Greg, I thought you guys would do Zulu for sure.. what happaned? why some meaniless random euro country??

Woah, I agree there's too many European civs. But meaningless and random? You must be trolling.

 

[codepoet]

/does best Monty Python voice:
"Nobody expects the Portuguese Civilization!"

 

[Liex]

If the people on here were as stupid as the people on Facebook who are commenting on Civ's pictures, I would never come back here. Holy hell the people there are morons. After the last pic some people are still guessing the Zulu and they keep guessing civs that are already in the game or have already been confirmed. It's unbelievable how stupid they are.

People on Youtube is WAY worse. Look at this:

"to bad they only have denmark as scandinavian civilization, feels like they are only focusing on south america and asia civilizations!"
Snippidippi at "Civilization V: Gods and Kings PAX Demo - Part 2". It's in the oldest page.

Now if the 9th is Sweden, at least this guy will be a very happy person.

 

[spicytimothy]

We might see San Marino in the next expansion.

 

[Oohforf]

Now now, let's not be mean.

Well, it's kinda true. I'm on there right now and people are still guessing Netherlands O.o

 

[Gucumatz]

/does best Monty Python voice:
"Nobody expects the Portuguese Civilization!"

Good one

 

[tofofnts]

I don't mind Sweden, but I agree it's kind of weird to have 2 scandinavian civs.

 

[Al-Iskander]

If it has to be a European civ, I would accept Sweden. THE KING IN THE NORTH! THE KING IN THE NORTH!

 

[bonafide11]

Yep I want to see Sweden's UA now.

I guess we can begin speculating on their UA now. I don't really know, but I'll say they get some military bonus vs. civilizations of different faiths.

 

[Montov]

I really don't care what civs are included, as long as we see some good (unique) gameplay. 2kGreg, can you point out the most appealing (unique) aspect of the 9th civ? That is more important.

 

[blackcatatonic]

I'm getting sick of all the too-many-Euro-Civs whingeing. Discussions on this forum and elsewhere have established that there are plenty of good candidates for Civs from other parts of the world - enough for another expansion. All that this suggests to me is that they have built this expansion around the scenarios they've introduced. The Zulus or Indonesians wouldn't really have fit with what we know of the scenarios, so while I can't deny being somewhat disappointed at the final Civ being European, I'm not really surprised.

Would I have liked to have seen Indonesia/Majapahit, the Zulus, the Inuit, etc? Sure. Do I doubt they will be added in the future? Not really...

 

[Civciv5]

"Everybody expects the foolish and predictable producers!"
Sweden?!
You have to be kidding!
Well,"2K Greg"!
I want to say you something!
Today you lost one of your loyal fans and clients of Civilization V!
I will never buy this preposterous,laughable and nonsensical "expansion"!

 

[PhilBowles]

Well they can give them whatever characteristic they want, but it wouldn't be fitting of them. To get them something that would fit them would make them just another bland European civ that peaks during the Renaissance Era and isn't that much different than the other ones. That really doesn't add much diversity to the game. The difference between many of these European civs is minimal. I like seeing my rival civilizations in the game look and play significantly different, I don't want them all blending together.

That's going to depend very much on how they work in gameplay terms. Culturally they're not especially interesting or distinctive, and justifying their inclusion on the basis of the Thirty Years War shows just how long-lasting the Swedish golden age was, but there's no more reason for them to play the same way as existing civs as there is for the Dutch to play like the Germans.

 

[blackcatatonic]

THE KING IN THE NORTH! THE KING IN THE NORTH!

The Stark Civ, led by Robb Stark

 

[tofofnts]

People do realise the reason there are so many euro civs is that
1. There's a renaissance scenario
2. The guy who designed this, designs Renaissance board games

 

[JFD]

Opposition to Sweden is because they're apart of Europe, not because they're European? Otherwise I don't really understand support for Brazil over Sweden.

It should be more important that they bring something unique to the game. It remains to be seen whether they will, of course. Hopefully a unique Cannon, tundra bonuses, or a diplomatic UA. It seems a little dramatic to damn the expansion just because there are "too many" European civs. All it really affects is a game map of the earth, and in that scenario, if there weren't more Europeans, how would you go about reenacting colonization? Whether a civ is Asian, African or European doesn't make it inherently better for the game.

 

[D712]

Is Greg just laughing at our guesses somewhere? I think so. Lol

I have a feeling he's gonna surprise us soon.