A fun idea based on a dream I had

TyrannusRex

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This could be either a really great mod or another fun mode like Red Death (although I'd love to be able to play it by myself offline, thanks)

So, one night a long while back, I had a dream that I was playing Civ 6 (not surprising, given how much I do play it, although I think I was actually in the game in this dream). It was the Modern Era, and I had several large, scattered cities (mostly near the ocean) that I had to defend from attack by some large kaiju-esque monsters emerging from the ocean and moving ominously towards my turf on their turns. Of course, there was a certain unnamed big green lizard boi, but there were also things like city-sized sharks to keep things interesting. I can't recall exactly what happened in the dream, but I know that it got pretty frightful when all of the monsters descended on my capital city.

So? What do you all think about the Sim City-esque craziness my sleeping civ-addled brain hath spawned? Doable? Fun? Worth doing in the first place? You decide.
 
Although it sounds very cool on paper, unless its a completely separate gamemode like red death is, the consequences sound to me like "recruit partisans" on mega steroids. Not that I have nothing against it, but I think it would make the game rather unplayable.

If you want to make it significant, it has to be a big hit. Lets say they would start appearing by late eras, from atomic and forward. By that time everyone is turns away from victory or defeat, with all the empire pretty much settled in place. If you make a Kaiju spawn in the ocean every X-1 turns, you better be about to finish the game, because unless you are very very inland, you are going to get royally wrecked.

Also, their spawn would be dependent on usage of nuclear material, which, by my understanding, most of us dont use, because coal power plants give better production. Some very late era units at most like nuclear subs or the GDR. So either you make the spawn super sensitive, or you are not seeing kaijus at all.

I think it would work better as a separate scenario or completely separate gamemode like red death. It would mess up too much the coastal cities, and Im sure the inland civs in multiplayer would be spamming nuclear power plants and gdr and such to weaken or eliminate their coastal rivals with no grievances.

Godzilla, although he is a very good boi, makes quite a mess when he is delivering justice.
 
I had pictured it as a separate mode. You could try to fight the kaiju, team up with others to fight them, or try and sabotage the other players (say, blow up their nuclear power plant to lure the kaiju with a big glowing snack.)
 
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