All Quiet on the Civ Front

[Metecury]

Are we sure that is not just some old concept art for Jadwiga?

 

[Chirthorpe]

Are we sure that is not just some old concept art for Jadwiga?

I would say "I doubt it because of the hair colour"...but then again...Tomyris.

 

[h0nk0815]

The hints "boom", "dynamite" and "Vesuvion" (-> volcano) points to the expansion is build around fire/hot/explosions.

 

[Lord Lakely]

Mhrm, if anything, the long flowing blonde hair is pretty eye-catching. And the red/blue design reminds me of Angevin/Plantagenet England.

For what's it's worth, I did run a visual comparison to Aethelflaed (who exists in the game as a Great General)

and for those interested, here's a side by side of other medieval queens and their Civ counterparts:

There are definitely some artistic liberties here and there, but the Devs always get the general clothing style right, at least. Needless to say, she could be Empress Maltilda or Eleanor of Aquitaine, but as of now, it's simply too early to draw any conclusions yet.

 

[Chirthorpe]

That's pretty concincing, actually.

...it's also interesting to see how much slimmer they made Catherine in V. It's like the opposite of what happened to Teddy Roosevelt and Wilhelmina in VI. xD

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

By the way, the fact that this has a "name", Vesuvius, means it's an expansion and we can rule out DLC, I think.

 

[Cerilis]

I love the speculation game.

 

[Kimiimaro]

I guess it won't be so quiet on the Civ front from now.

 

[Trav'ling Canuck]

By the way, the fact that this has a "name", Vesuvius, means it's an expansion and we can rule out DLC, I think.

Schrödinger's Expansion just meowed.

 

[acluewithout]

For what's it's worth, I did run a visual comparison to Aethelflaed (who exists in the game as a Great General)

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and for those interested, here's a side by side of other medieval queens and their Civ counterparts:

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There are definitely some artistic liberties here and there, but the Devs always get the general clothing style right, at least. Needless to say, she could be Empress Maltilda or Eleanor of Aquitaine, but as of now, it's simply too early to draw any conclusions yet.

I spend 6 months trying to convince FXS to bring back Lizzy 1... and end up with Aethelflaed?

Sure. Why not?

 

[Duuk]

By the way, the fact that this has a "name", Vesuvius, means it's an expansion and we can rule out DLC, I think.

That's a bit of solid logic.

 

[OmegaDestroyer]

I imagine there have been a lot of executed painters throughout the ages.

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

I spend 6 months trying to convince FXS to bring back Lizzy 1... and end up with Aethelflaed?

Sure. Why not?

I would flippin' love to see Aetheflead. All the brains of Alfred and warrior queen too.

 

[Wielki Hegemon]

Olga of Kiev?

 

[AvianBritish]

By the way, the fact that this has a "name", Vesuvius, means it's an expansion and we can rule out DLC, I think.

I think this suggests that we will get natural disaster emergencies, obviously taking reference to the famous Pompeii and it's other distractions (sounds a little better than "Sid Meier's Civilization VI: Etna" but also more pronouncable then "Sid Meier's Civilization VI: Eyjafjallajokull) but I wondered if there could be another meaning for the name "Vesuvius"; of course the mountain it's self translates to "The one who lights the hearth"...

But otherwise; I wonder if we will actually get Mt Vesuvius in this expansion? I personally would prefer an "Amalfi" natural wonder with mt Vesuvius present in it (like Pulpit rock and Kjeragbolten are featured in Lysefjord)

 

[Nev_ti]

leaks? possibly new expansion? Oh boy , here we go again

 

[blackcatatonic]

So I was doing more digging (this time looking into Consorts rather than rulers), and I was wondering if the "concept art" could be related to this individual, Margaret of Anjou. There's some similarities in their appearance.

Spoiler :

She's be a very weird pick, though. Consorts rather than rulers in their own right are controversial, to say the least.

Just quoting to say I did my doctorate on the manuscript that image is from and so find it so odd to see it here

But like you I doubt very much that Margaret/Marguerite would make an appearance as a leader. The leaked image also looks twelfth/thirteenth century to me as opposed to fifteenth. I'd love it to be Eleanor of Aquitaine but alas that seems just as unlikely!

 

[Lord Lakely]

Olga of Kiev?

I considered her at first, but (images in tags)

Spoiler :

It's not a match.

 

[Hawke9]

"Official Second Expansion Speculation Thread" coming when?

 

[MrRadar]

I don't know why, but she makes me think of Princess Tilde (Hanna Alström) from Kingsman:

Maybe she's some Swedish queen? Anyway, there were a lot of fair haired princesses/queens in history