fuzzatron717
Holy Warrior
Austria UA is very unique and let's discuss the coffee house as well I think the coffee house is replacement for one of the new buildings we don't know yet and bonus some gold and food and possibly culture.
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That would be sort of neat if coffee houses gave you a coffee luxury instead of happiness.
Ha, that'd be awesome. Yeah, I don't know, Austria's ability is certainly interesting, but I'm not too interested IN IT. Ethiopia's ability is awesome, so are The Celt's, The Dutch ability is great, too, and the Swedish ability is VERY interesting to me, from what I know of it.
Since you can buy coffee absolutely everywhere and Austria isn't the only place with those coffee houses, that would be very strange. I guess the thing with the Austrian Coffee Houses is their "Intangible Cultural" significance, so it'll probably give culture, perhaps some happiness and gold. Perhaps it's a Garden replacement. Or it's a replacement for a building we don't know yet, as the OP suggested. I only hope it's not an Opera House replacement...
Dragonflow
Emperor
I'm interested in the fact that the Hussars unit icon shows him shooting a pistol/rifle from horseback. Maybe Hussars will be ranged cavalry/lancer replacements? Which would be kind of interesting if Austria had a renaissance/industrial era ranged mounted unit, that would set them apart from the other civs in that era.
elprofesor
Pluri-editing poster
Unlikely, all gunpowder units are melee. Cavalry units in game already have rifles. I don't see why hussars would be ranged...
mitsho
Deity
I could imagine a Great Person benefit for the coffe house as simple culture isn't anything special.
A 3 movement ranged Cavalry unit could be fun, more like a poor mans Keshik but stronger.
elprofesor
Pluri-editing poster
For sure! I am not arguing against the "un-fun-ness" of a ranged cavalry unit, only against the likelihood of it.
Louis XXIV
Le Roi Soleil
Cicero63
Warlord
Austria seems very interesting to me, with the Hussar unique unit it could either be used as a Lancer replacement, representing the Napoleonic Wars, or the Cavalry replacement, representing World War I. I think they will go with the Cavalry replacement since focus seems to be put on World War I units
JFD
Kathigitarkh
A bonus to the generation of Great Artists, perhaps.
apocalypse105
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WHen 2K member was interviewing denis at the pax one of the question where can you conquer a city state withouth penalty?
And then he said yes and then he started about austria's unique ability.
fuzzatron717
Holy Warrior
and is it's great
but but it says it the city-state has to be ally and give gold. and the gold is probably like 1500
but but it says it the city-state has to be ally and give gold. and the gold is probably like 1500
Perhaps the acquired City State does not vote at the UN.
It probably does, but that is one of the things that they could do. After that, it may not be so great for a diplomatic victory. It could be more about securing regular access to the resources than about UN votes.
It probably does, but that is one of the things that they could do. After that, it may not be so great for a diplomatic victory. It could be more about securing regular access to the resources than about UN votes.
Louis XXIV
Le Roi Soleil
We don't yet know how much gold, though.
That being said, that ability is very Austrian. If you look at a map of Habsburg holdings, they're all over the place.
fuzzatron717
Holy Warrior
to true louis
fuzzatron717
Holy Warrior
one quick question whats the celts UA do again?
