Brave New World's 9 new Civs

[ldvhl]

Why are so many people saying Native American civs have been/will be brown?

 

[Pedro P]

BAD NEWS however.
Just looked the image of the achievements. This is the symbol of Italy on the African scenario.

. Roman symbol. It really takes a little of my faith that Firaxis will finally come to its senses and add Venice or Sicily as a Italian civ. I swear, if Civ 5 ends with italians being represent by Rome it is going to be disgusting, not even the fact that my homeland is finally represented into the game would cover that wound.

 

[Martin23230]

Couldn't that just be Rome? The Yellow and Black Civ looks a lot like Russia... could just be that.

Nope

 

[sukritact]

Couldn't that just be Rome? The Yellow and Black Civ looks a lot like Russia... could just be that.

I don't think so, It matches the colors of the globe things in the Venetian flag almost perfectly (difference in color probably due to image quality, compression messes up things very slightly).

Here's Rome for comparison:

 

[Merciorum]

Yeah, I'm starting to be convinced it's Venice here. So here's my 9 civ set-up for now:

Assyria
Brazil
Indonesia
Morocco
Poland
Portugal
Seminole/Shawnee/Sioux/Powhatan
Venice
Zululand


The only thing I'm uncertain about is if we'll get a native AMerican civ, and if we do, which one. The only clue we have is the weird barbarian unit, but even then we don't know for certain whether that's really linked with any civ, though I suspect it is given that it screams eastern native american tribes.

Almost certainly this, though I still think the Pueblo are in with a shot as well (though it's unlikely). Psyched for Venice .

Pity about the Cherokee . And Oman! I suppose that was always a long shot, though, and nobody else ever agreed with me.

Since I'm a turtle-culture type of player most of the time, I;m not sure who I'll be playing come expansion time... probably Brazil, Ethiopia, Egypt or France.

 

[InsanelyApple]

Almost certainly this, though I still think the Pueblo are in with a shot as well (though it's unlikely). Psyched for Venice .

Pity about the Cherokee . And Oman! I suppose that was always a long shot, though, and nobody else ever agreed with me.

Since I'm a turtle-culture type of player most of the time, I;m not sure who I'll be playing come expansion time... probably Brazil, Ethiopia, Egypt or France.

I would've like the Cherokee and Oman.

 

[VermelhoRed]

It's more the fact that they aren't just both purple, it's that it's the exact same purple. As in, the exact same purple. There is no difference between them. It's as though they literally took the colour for the civ off the flag off Venice as it was on Wikipedia. It would be one thing for them to be similar, but they are exactly the same.

Throw in that it looks almost certain that Venice has been removed to be added into a Civ and bingo, there's our answer.

Every purple used in medieval flags is the same purple. There were only seven colors, or tinctures, that were used in flags and coats of arms back then. And the purple fits, but the city colors don't. I think Venice is in as a blue-and-gold civ, and the purple one is something else, not the Sioux, thought.

 

[Dragonflow]

BAD NEWS however.
Just looked the image of the achievements. This is the symbol of Italy on the African scenario.

. Roman symbol. It really takes a little of my faith that Firaxis will finally come to its senses and add Venice or Sicily as a Italian civ. I swear, if Civ 5 ends with italians being represent by Rome it is going to be disgusting, not even the fact that my homeland is finally represented into the game would cover that wound.

Interesting.
Why would they use Rome if they'd have Venice in the game. It would've made more sense to use Venice as the stand in for Italy.

 

[Gucumatz]

Why are so many people saying Native American civs have been/will be brown?

Who has said that, its just extremely probable that the Sioux are not purple

 

[Merciorum]

I would've like the Cherokee and Oman.

Aye, especially the Cherokee. They really, really deserved to be in, far more than any other Native American civ.

By the way, everyone, something sukritact posted in the other thread, to add to the Purple Theory:

Further proof (as if it's needed anymore):

The top is the cream from the globe thing/city dots. The bottom is the purple from the globe thing/territory.

I'm thinking we have ourselves a Venice .

 

[Option]

Heraldic purple is not that purple we see in that screenshot, and it's also a rarely used tincture.

 

[Gucumatz]

Aye, especially the Cherokee. They really, really deserved to be in, far more than any other Native American civ.
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No. That is all I have to say about that, there are more than a dozen more important Native American civs than the Cherokee. Only reason they were being considered was they were North American, people like to claim "Cherokee Heritage", and somewhat recognizable to an east coast audience [also speculation about the Civil War Scenario]

 

[Pedro P]

Interesting.
Why would they use Rome if they'd have Venice in the game. It would've made more sense to use Venice as the stand in for Italy.

The logical answer to this question is what I fear

I mean, should Venice be in, it would probably be used as Italy on the scenario.

 

[VermelhoRed]

Well, anyways, I still bet on purple not being Venice. You guys spend too much time looking at matches with obscure things and not enough time thinking about how Firaxis' would think. Which is fair, I guess, I'll just agree to disagree.

 

[Menzies]

Well, anyways, I still bet on purple not being Venice. You guys spend too much time looking at matches with obscure things and not enough time thinking about how Firaxis' would think. Which is fair, I guess, I'll just agree to disagree.

They are the exact same colour, it is the same cream for the cities as it is on the flag. It looks as though they directly used the flags colours as the Civs colours. Can you think of any other explanation for colours being that identical?

You can disagree if you want, but it seems mighty silly now that they've given us an image of a Civ with colours taken from Venice's flag.

 

[turingmachine]

The logical answer to this question is what I fear

I mean, should Venice be in, it would probably be used as Italy on the scenario.

But why, it would have a Venetian symbol which would hardly represent an Italian civ more than the Roman symbol. The UU are probably unique to the scenario. It will probably have a city list unique to the scenario. There's really no read reason to use Venice for a stand in Italian scenario civ over Rome.

 

[Dragonflow]

They are the exact same colour, it is the same cream for the cities as it is on the flag. It looks as though they directly used the flags colours as the Civs colours. Can you think of any other explanation for colours being that identical?

You can disagree if you want, but it seems mighty silly now that they've given us an image of a Civ with colours taken from Venice's flag.

Menzies, the cream is different. If you look at sukritact's image you'll notice the cream's are two different colours.

 

[ImperialChaos]

Peaches and Cream?

 

[Menzies]

Menzies, the cream is different. If you look at sukritact's image you'll notice the cream's are two different colours.

Only very very marginally, and it seems to be from compression issues more than anything else. The purples (which there is a large amount to work from on the image we have) is a perfect match.

 

[sukritact]

Menzies, the cream is different. If you look at sukritact's image you'll notice the cream's are two different colours.

Image compression may have messed up the results, especially since I'm selecting the cream from a much smaller area. The purple matches 100% however.

Colors change when an image is compressed. I had a lot of trouble with that preparing my April Fool's prank.