Antiquity Buildings Guide - Gameplay + Visual incl. Cultural Variations

[Giskler]

I believe we have seen a partially submerged American style bath:

It's in the same shot as the building speculated to be Monks Mound.

 

[RedCourtJester]

I believe we have seen a partially submerged American style bath:
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It's in the same shot as the building speculated to be Monks Mound.

Dawwwww the bath is taking a bath.

 

[Giskler]

And this looks like the SEA monument.

 

[JNR13]

Nice finds, I think I also spotted the African Lighthouse just being the same as the Middle Eastern one:

 

[Vincent_lacruz]

Have we discerned what exactly a "Warehouse" does, and why some unique improvements do not remove Warehouse bonuses?

I think warehouse building are structure that don't remove the basic yield of the tile, contrary to non-warehouse buildings. I think that's what they said in the first playthrough video, but I may be mistaken on that...

 

[Zaarin]

I think warehouse building are structure that don't remove the basic yield of the tile, contrary to non-warehouse buildings. I think that's what they said in the first playthrough video, but I may be mistaken on that...

I believe you're correct.

 

[moondog385]

Really nice work on that chart! I love all the different architectural styles. I don’t really see India fitting into any of those at the moment.

 

[TheGhostEnthusiast]

I think warehouses are buildings that provide yields to certain types of tiles throughout the city. The "not removing tile yield" in reference to warehouses was I think in the description of some tile improvements. I think what it's getting at is that there are several layers of yields than can be placed on a tile, and by default the warehouse yield is overwritten by improvement yields. In terms of Civ 6, it's like Preserves, or how fisheries work with Auckland. I don't remember where exactly I got this info though, so it could very well be wrong.

 

[JNR13]

Really nice work on that chart! I love all the different architectural styles. I don’t really see India fitting into any of those at the moment.

Mauryan cities are using the middle eastern style apparently. I'm curious about the Chola though, I think they definitely need their own style. Both the Abbasid style and Southeast Asian one are too far away.

 

[Siptah]

Mauryan cities are using the middle eastern style apparently. I'm curious about the Chola though, I think they definitely need their own style. Both the Abbasid style and Southeast Asian one are too far away.

Chola is likely SEA in that case.

 

[moondog385]

Mauryan cities are using the middle eastern style apparently. I'm curious about the Chola though, I think they definitely need their own style. Both the Abbasid style and Southeast Asian one are too far away.

Interesting. I assume the Shawnee and Mayans are using the same style then?

 

[JNR13]

Interesting. I assume the Shawnee and Mayans are using the same style then?

They are in different eras. Styles are era-specific.

 

[JNR13]

Guide has been updated. Thanks to the PAX Australia panel we saw an Indian Villa. The Trung Trac trailer had some SEA Villas. Added the squeezed down American Bath. Cleo was shown in a trailer with the same Lighthouse as the Persian city. Maybe a placeholder, but I put it down for now. I added the Indian Villa to the Persian style column because we haven't seen the Villa for the latter yet and at the same time I haven't seen Indian variants of the other buildings yet. They will apparently be different styles in the end, but I'll wait with splitting it until I have more pics to actually fill out *both* columns.

 

[Paisley_Trees]

This is so cool thank you for putting it together! I don’t know why I’m just so excited for claypits and brickyards… freemasons should be a thing in this game!

 

[JNR13]

This is so cool thank you for putting it together! I don’t know why I’m just so excited for claypits and brickyards… freemasons should be a thing in this game!

And the next era's building is literally called "Stonecutter".

I am always happy when a game doesn't forget that construction styles around the world do not only use wood and stone, yes. I somewhat get that it's meant as a balance thing, that areas rich in food shouldn't also be rich in construction materials, but river valleys became such hotspots for urbanization exactly because this was not really an issue and you can build homes just fine from leftovers from getting that food combined with literal dirt.

As someone from the Baltic Sea region, I hope that one day Brick Gothic will find its achknowledgement in games. It's never an "architectural biome" so to speak in fantasy settings and not even Anno or so has included brick-based styles for the more monumental and advanced buildings. Maybe making everything red isn't something art directors like, I guess.

 

[Siptah]

As someone from the Baltic Sea region, I hope that one day Brick Gothic will find its achknowledgement in games. It's never an "architectural biome" so to speak in fantasy settings and not even Anno or so has included brick-based styles for the more monumental and advanced buildings. Maybe making everything red isn't something art directors like, I guess.

It's pretty prominently in the Witcher - or at least I thought it would be until looking at some screenshots right now. But from my memory, I've always put down Novigrad as having a late medieval/early modern Polish baltic coast vibe.

You can definitely find it in the Patrician series

As for civ, I feel it is just unlikely that some of the famous brick gothic churches from e.g., Lübeck would make it over Aachen Cathedral, the Dome of Cologne, Ulm/Strasbourg/Freiburg Minster, etc. But maybe we might get an Age 2 Hanse civ in 7 at some point (it's certainly high on my wishlist) that then logically should feature red brick gothic architecture in it's unique buildings.

 

[Evolena]

When associating brick with cathedral, I think of Albi (South of France) :

Edit. I don't understand what I do wrong with inserting images. I use the "insert image" tool, with an url, it's displayed nicely when I'm writing the post, and then once submitted... It doesn't work anymore
Edit2. Still not

 

[8housesofelixir]

As someone from the Baltic Sea region, I hope that one day Brick Gothic will find its achknowledgement in games. It's never an "architectural biome" so to speak in fantasy settings and not even Anno or so has included brick-based styles for the more monumental and advanced buildings. Maybe making everything red isn't something art directors like, I guess.

I recall the Teutons in Humankind used a Brick Gothic visual for their city centers (likely based on the Ordensburgs).

 

[Siptah]

When associating brick with cathedral, I think of Albi (South of France) :

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It‘s worth looking at more than one picture of it anyway

You put the ending tag [/IMG] as part of the link.

 

[Evolena]

Thank you. However I haven't done anything myself, I used the "insert image" editing tool. Maybe the tool is bugged then, but knowing it at least allows me to try to correct the output myself.