Civ VII Weekly Reveal Guessing Thread

[Xandinho]

If Friedrich and Catherine are in, plus Napoleon, we have enough modern age European leaders already. A second South-/Mesoamerican leader would be good, but I don't think we'll get one at this point. Africa would be covered by Shaka. So that leaves Asia for the last leader. Could be Gandhi, but as most of the other modern leaders are quite traditional choices, I expect another curveball (hard to predict who it is, though).

Maybe a Polynesian leader? A Hawaiian leader might be Exploration in game terms, but would be what we would call modern in the real world. Of course it doesn't necessarily have to be a Hawaiian leader, perhaps an important Maori figure.

 

[TheGhostEnthusiast]

Maybe a Polynesian leader? A Hawaiian leader might be Exploration in game terms, but would be what we would call modern in the real world. Of course it doesn't necessarily have to be a Hawaiian leader, perhaps an important Maori figure.

Lili'uokalani will always be confirmed in our hearts...

 

[mitsho]

From the archetypes for the curveball non-traditional ones, I feel like we need a scientist leader. Merchant and Seafaring Explorer are kinda covered by other leaders, but do we have one that likes science yet? So that's my guess for the last one (besides Shaka... Sigh...)

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

Lili'uokalani will always be confirmed in our hearts...

What's so special about her

 

[gdr_willter]

From the archetypes for the curveball non-traditional ones, I feel like we need a scientist leader. Merchant and Seafaring Explorer are kinda covered by other leaders, but do we have one that likes science yet? So that's my guess for the last one (besides Shaka... Sigh...)

Ben Franklin is actually a scientist leader, isn't he?

 

[mitsho]

Ben Franklin is actually a scientist leader, isn't he?

Oh, oops, yeah, sure! That was dumb of me.

So what other archetypes are missing? Engineer? Rich Oligarch? Artist?

 

[gdr_willter]

Oh, oops, yeah, sure! That was dumb of me.

So what other archetypes are missing? Engineer? Rich Oligarch? Artist?

My choice will be:

Admiral, Independent activist, Politician, and Astronaut.

 

[Lord Lakely]

Oh, oops, yeah, sure! That was dumb of me.

So what other archetypes are missing? Engineer? Rich Oligarch? Artist?

Artist (or patron of the arts), Entrepreneur, Revolutionairy.

Geographically, we've yet to see any leader from the British Isles, Scandinavia, Anatolia, Latin America*, Polynesia, Central Africa, Southern Africa and Central Asia.


* I don't count Pachacuti since he's technically not latino

 

[chaosprophet]

With eight Game-Guideless Modern civs and four weeks (not counting launch) left, I believe we'll be getting a Game Guide every Tuesday and Thursday going forward. I'd expect the Thursday ones to be tied to Leader First Looks, (Himiko + Meiji, Fredrick + Prussia/Germany, Catherine + Russia, etc,) but I'm not sure exactly how many leader First Looks we should be expecting. Does Napoleon get one, or does the status as a 2K account bonus make him not count? If he does count, we might even need multiple First Looks in a week or two. Either way, I think it'll be a pretty packed news month.

From the total given, there is still 6 first looks missing, one being napoleon, the other 5 being base game leaders. So we probably will have at least one week with two first looks. Maybe all weeks with them, considering they may want to have all six first looks in before they likely allow influencers and reviewers to play the game and post about it a little before launch.

 

[CivKirk64]

They basically admitted with their recent post that it is Himiko next week. I feel like leader wise there could be another surprise or 2 as we don't need the matchy matchy.

 

[Alexander's Hetaroi]

Artist (or patron of the arts), Entrepreneur, Revolutionairy.

We have Revolutionary Napoleon as a persona, so that is covered.
I could see either Catherine or Frederick as being a Patron of the Arts.

 

[Black Gate]

If Himiko and Meiji are up next, I'm really interested to see what variant of Japanese they decided to have her speak, and what sort of focus they gave to Meiji. A decent chunk of the modern civs could easily be given any sort of playstyle - I'm going to predict industrial and scientific.

 

[TheGhostEnthusiast]

If Himiko and Meiji are up next, I'm really interested to see what variant of Japanese they decided to have her speak, and what sort of focus they gave to Meiji. A decent chunk of the modern civs could easily be given any sort of playstyle - I'm going to predict industrial and scientific.

I’m predicting Militaristic and Scientific based on the narration in the Nintendo Switch trailer.

 

[The_goggles_do_nothing]

I'm hoping for Shrines and Art with Japan.

From the Switch trailer:

"Queen Himiko. Friendship is her strength. She can initiate diplomatic initiates the help you research new technologies."

 

[TheGhostEnthusiast]

I'm hoping for Shrines and Art with Japan.

From the Switch trailer:

"Queen Himiko. Friendship is her strength. She can initiate diplomatic initiates the help you research new technologies."

also note: "In the Modern Age, you can evolve your empire into Meiji Japan, known for its scientific strength and military force"

 

[The_goggles_do_nothing]

also note: "In the Modern Age, you can evolve your empire into Meiji Japan, known for its scientific strength and military force"

Couldn't they be more specific? I'm sure it's because I'm ignorant of a lot of Japan's history but I thought the Meiji period was about rapidly catching up in science and industry and not being a leader in science.

 

[Alexander's Hetaroi]

I'm hoping for Shrines and Art with Japan.

From the Switch trailer:

"Queen Himiko. Friendship is her strength. She can initiate diplomatic initiates the help you research new technologies."

That would mean Diplomatic, and I guess Scientific.

 

[Sagax]

Couldn't they be more specific? I'm sure it's because I'm ignorant of a lot of Japan's history but I thought the Meiji period was about rapidly catching up in science and industry and not being a leader in science.

Rapidly catching up in science = higher science yield or tech generation than most other civs = scientific civ within Civ7 framework

 

[Nic@Melbourne]

And they did have the tech and military lead to expand the Japanese Empire significantly

 

[gdr_willter]

And sometimes we easily forgot it, that the Japan is the country invented the early RADAR antenna for military purposes - the Yagi-Uda Antenna (regardless their Army and Navy overlooked the power of it and abandoned it tho)