I appreciate the feedback but I think some of you are reading too much into it.
The pack is intended to add some leaders that have been controversial additions here, so the opportunity was taken to add a few others that have been involved in controversy, mass death, international criticism, etc.
1. I addressed this above. Yeah, Arabia might be a better fit and perhaps we can change that in v.2 or in the 5.0 pack. It's easy to do and if that's how the community sees it, it's cool by me.
2. Gold 5.0 is going to add over 30 new leaders, plus these ones. As stated in the Q&A, there are many in that pack that could have been moved here - Idi Amin, Timurid, Attila - but the point here was just to have an add-on for guys like Hitler, Mussolini and Pol Pot in the interim while 5.0 was completed.
Nero would have been a good choice, or Cromwell. But I went with what was available and certainly, in terms of historical perception, Caligula fits the bill quite fine.
I also mentioned in the Q&A that Bush and Richard III are going to seem like odd choices given the company, but I wanted to broaden the inclusion because, let's face it, biographies - like history - are written by the winners.
Almost every leader can be called evil by someone. Mao, Stalin and Genghis Khan were added by Firaxis. Gold has added Suharto, Eyadema and Botha in past releases.
NoM is not meant to be a comprehensive judgement on anyone. It's just a collection of controversial leaders (and in some cases, terrible men) who have impacted history in ways more associated with war and death than peace and love.
5.0 is going to add a dozen more civs and three dozen more leaders. That will be the big release you may prefer.
