Meatbuster
formerly Robo Kai
Shearer9, if you're still interested I can start a prince or monarch game.
EDIT: Done! Roster open.
EDIT: Done! Roster open.
For this game we are going to try a variation based on a suggestion by Sirloin.
Spoiler :
I've had an idea for a SG variant that I'd always wanted to try that maybe you'd consider for this game. Its a war variant that jives well with the Spiritual trait, but it has significant diplomatic challenges:
Denomination Domination. Its in the style of a religious war, but instead of destroying the unbelievers (non-state religion), its about purifying the various factions of your own state religion to make sure they follow the path exactly how you think is right. In other words:
Win by domination, but we're only allowed to declare war or capture cities of a civ that shares our state religion. We can change religions as often as we like, BUT we can't switch to a religion unless we control its holy city.
So this game would be about controlling religions, probably founding as many as we can, spreading them heavily, and balancing the diplomatic shockwaves we'd be dealing with by continuously attacking our allies and their friends. We would have to be very careful about religions that we didn't control, because if someone else founds one and spreads it heavily within their empire, it could be extremely difficult to get them to convert, especially since we'd never be able to share their religion for diplomatic bonuses, which would ultimately make them immune to our attacks.
Now some aspects of this suggestion I consider to be to restricive such as needing to control the Holy City to switch to a religion. So based on this idea these are my suggestions for the varient rules.
1. If a rival civilisation is in the same state religion as us we can DoW and all their cities are fair game.
2. If our potential victim is a different state religion to us and we can't convince them to swap to our state relgion (using diplomacy or espionage) then we can only annex cities containing our state religion.