Bolivar Leader Overview

[thecrazyscot]

Bolivar is in the Crossroads game files.

Ability: El Libertador
Gain 1 free Support on your wars. When you conquer a Settlement for the first time it can purchase 1 Constructible for free. Unrest does not prevent Purchasing.

Agenda: Cornerstone of Freedom
Likes the Leader with the least Unhappy Settlements. Dislikes the one with the most Unhappy Settlements.

Attributes:
Expansionist
Militaristic

 

[moysturfurmer]

https://www.reddit.com/r/civ/comments/1j3dibl/i_have_access_to_simon_bol

 

[Ryansinbela]

Please don’t let this get patched before I get home

 

[moondog385]

This is one the first militaristic leaders I’d want to use because of that unrest ability. Also, like the design!

 

[wesplaysciv]

Believe that poster is playing on PS5, unfortunately. I thought PC got all the updates first!

 

[thecrazyscot]

Hmm, there must be some way to activate them on PC...

 

[Vincent_lacruz]

So, how to use him well?... Easy:
- Declare war toward a distant IA
- Wait 10 turns
- Make Peace, and give 2-3 settlements you would like to improve
- Wait 10 turns
- Redeclare war, recover your settlement, and buy the most expensive building.

Rince and repeat^^.

Of course this is far from practical, you would lose production, population and units. And the IA tends to develop the settlements rather badly... But it would be fun^^.

 

[Ryansinbela]

Gold Snuff Box: +20% Food when in only one alliance
Davalos Medal: +1 Happiness per Age on Military Buildings
Letter to Jamaica: +50% Gold towards purchasing Units during a Celebration.
Mementos on reddit

 

[thecrazyscot]

Hmm...

 

[evonannoredars]

Our first militaristic/expansionist leader!

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

No starting bias?

 

[thecrazyscot]

No starting bias?

Don't see any

 

[Uberfrog]

Great sideburns - I didn’t know he was ever depicted with a moustache and goatee though?

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

Great sideburns - I didn’t know he was ever depicted with a moustache and goatee though?

He looks like Elvis pretending to be Zorro

 

[queenpea]

He looks like Elvis pretending to be Zorro

We love him.

 

[TheSpaceCowboy]

I think I just found my main

 

[Sagax]

Oh no, they made him hot!…and less like his RL portrayals. Not sure how to feel about that.

Gameplay-wise, my immediate thought is that he’s “crisis-proof”. Greatly mitigates chances of you losing conquered settlements during the unhappiness crisis and essentially negates the plague crisis in both Antoquiry and Exploration?

 

[Lord Shadow]

Apparently younger Simón had sideburns and (more) moustache. No goatee that I could find, though.

 

[untitledjuan]

His leader model looks very weird. As a Colombian, we are constantly surrounded, especially at school, with portraits of him in all history books. Every main city in Colombia has a Plaza de Bolívar (Bolívar Square) with a statue of him (btw, that be an interesting unique quarter for a future Colombia civilization). None of the traditional portraits or statues, even the oldest one made of him back in the 1830's, which currently stands in front of the Capitol in Bogotá, looks anything like the in-game leader model.

Bolívar wasn't known for having a moustache, he is usually seen cleanly shaved and the only portraits were he has a moustache come from his youth. Moreover, the in-game model has a weird romanticised portrayal of him almost taking off his military uniform and showing his under garments, for some strange reason (I guess that's something "revolutionaries" do?). In fact, he was know to the people in Bogotá as an elegant man, who always wore his military uniform correctly.

But, more importantly, he doesn't have the particular iconic hairstyle that he is known for, which he had in Civ6, he just has a generic "not too short" hairstyle that could have been used by almost everyone in his time. Almost everyone in South America would recognise him because of his hairstyle, which is missing in the Civ7 portrayal. He looks like a random Latin American revolutionary, not as Simón Bolívar per se.

It seems they based his looks on the highly romanticised movie and TV portrayals that have existed of him in the last 100 years, rather than on the historical portraits and statues that were contemporary or near contemporary to him. They also seem to have discarded the historical accounts that exist about his appearance. He looks like a telenovela character and nothing like the real-life Bolívar. Also, his facial features don't really align to the known portraits we have of him. Compare him to Civ7's Ben Franklin or José Rizal, who definitely look like their real world counterparts, not generic American of Filipino people.

Civ6 version, even though it was far from perfect, seems more accurate, and more recognisable at a first glance, than Civ7's portrayal of him, at least in my opinion.

 

[untitledjuan]

Apparently younger Simón had sideburns and (more) moustache. No goatee that I could find, though.

There are portraits of him with even a larger moustache, he never had a goatee. However, he had a moustache in early portraits of him. When he fought against Spain and when he was president, he never had any moustache or facial hair, though. Also, notice the iconic way in which his sideburns go over his forehead, that's something really iconic of him that wasn't included in Civ7's portrayal.