Are there different skin tones for units based on civilization?

[El Caballerion]

We know that each civilization has a UU, based on their cultural skin tone (i.e., Kongo's UU is dark skinned), but does each CIV have ALL of their units be representative of their skin tone?

For instance, will ALL of Kongo's units be dark skinned? Will the Aztecs/Arabia be tanned-skinned?

For those countries with high levels of diversity (such as, America and Britain), maybe some units will be white, some tan, and some black?

If this feature isn't in the game, it's going to be very immersion-breaking to play as a civ like Kongo represented by all white units.

 

[ProMeTheus112]

That would be neat. Doesn't it looks weird though if even after centuries goes by and much happens you still have only 1 color per civ? o_o well that's not weirder than everybody being represented one color. bit of work to make this right eh!! well I think it would be simple enough to just give some different appropriate base color for each civ

 

[anandus]

I believe units like warriors etc were ethnically diverse, yes.

I think not only skin colour, but different models too. Eg different kind of swordsman or spearman.

 

[dturtle1]

There is ethnic themed versions of all common units, not unique versions for every culture but enough so as it is not jarring


And no... each Civ belongs to only one ethnic theme

It is not just the colour of their skin, it affects the clothes they wear even the shape of the weapons themselves. Each theme also comes with a distinct architectural style for buildings. Classic Era Civs like Greece and Rome have a different architecture than England and Germany, possibly different units as well.

 

[ProMeTheus112]

I forgot, but yes there was this, that's great

 

[Dark_Jedi06]

In the latest live stream the Kongolese infantry were clearly of African descent. It seems that ethnic diversity has been a big priority for the art team this time around, there seems to be a lot of variety and detail surrounding units, cities and even improvements.

 

[Ivan Hunger]

As an example, here's some variations on the generic swordsman unit. The first is European, the second is Greco-Roman, the third is North African, and the fourth is East Asian.

 

[El Caballerion]

As an example, here's some variations on the generic swordsman unit. The first is European, the second is Greco-Roman, the third is North African, and the fourth is East Asian.

Cool! I didn't know that they included some regional-specific unit skins. It's a small step, but in the right direction, nonetheless.

I would also assume that they would have these regional skins too:

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  CENTRAL/SOUTHERN INDIGENOUS AMERICAN: For Aztecs (Mayans, Incans, in future)
  AFRICAN: For Kongo (Zulu, Ethiopia, etc. in the future)

I would also love to see NORTH INDIGENOUS AMERICAN (for potential Iroquois, Shoshone-esqe civs in DLC).

Moderator Action: Two posts by same user merged with duplicate quote removed

 

[Krajzen]

In the last Kongo gameplay there was 20th century Kongolese infantry with black skin.

 

[Lord Shadow]

This is quite welcome. Let's hope at least the Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance eras are covered, at least.

It's tricky, though, as some very different cultures are only represented by one civ, like the Aztecs and Kongo. And a hypothetical North American native civ would have to look quite different than Mesoamericans such as Aztecs and potential Incas and Mayans.

 

[isau]

I agree that by the modern era that highly diverse civs like USA and Brazil should really have mixed-race armies.

 

[Uberfrog]

I think we can see African spearmen in Gilgamesh's First Look too.

I've been wanting this feature since before they half-heartedly implemented it in Civ IV BtS. I was sad to see them drop it entirely in Civ V.

It's never going to be perfect, but skin tone goes a long way. More cosmopolitan civs like America will probably be represented as white Europeans unfortunately.

It'll be interesting to see if the weapons and details are per civ or per broad geographic region. I'm expecting the latter but am open to being pleasantly surprised

 

[Siptah]

IIRC from units and buildings we've seen so far Aztecs and Brazil share a graphic style, as do Scythia and India.
So there probably is
- Europe (European civs + America, probably Russia)
- Mediterranean (Greece, Rome)
- Mid-Eastern (Egypt, Sumeria, probably Arabia)
- Africa (Kongo)
- Far East (China, Japan)
- [insert a good name] (India, Scythia)
- American (Aztecs, Brazil)

Makes 7 styles.