Civ VII Weekly Reveal Guessing Thread

[Evolena]

Yes, I'm just throwing things into the brainstorming machine

 

[RedCourtJester]

Yeah the alphabet theory is suffering. If I were still trying to salvage it, I would probably speculate that the Chola are just the beginning of our "exploration civs" batch of Chola/Abbasid/Ming/Spain that have been teased in the leader videos or prior press. Then we could see if the civs continue to be announced in alphabetical order afterward.

I half want to change my bet to just Abbasid/Ming/Spain with maybe a surprise Byzantium or Swahili reveal (i.e. "next Greece" or "next Aksum") in batch, but I'm too lazy to figure all that out and just keeping the Norse bet lol.

 

[The Fanatical]

There are two explanations for this:

a) FXS realized that alphabetical reveals within an age are too predictable and changed the paradigm
b) It was Ashoka‘s turn as last of the leaders associated with an ancient civ (excluding Himiko here as she might not have an associated ancient civ), and Chola was considered the optimal pairing (due to Maurya being one of the initial civs). However, if this is true (and the sole reason for Chola) we should see Persia this week.

Firaxis's marketing team was taken by a storm named "CivFanatics" who found almost all the remaining civilizations before the game even releases! Thus, it was decided that reveals won't follow an alphabetical order anymore in order to keep us guessing every week.

 

[TheGhostEnthusiast]

I‘m going with Abbasids.

Expansionist + Scientist
Starting bias: floodplains
CUU: unique scientists
MUU: Hujariyya
Wonder: Bayt al Hikmah
UBs: Madrasa and some form of Mosque (Abbasid mosques are pretty unique with their large hypostyle halls and open squares, but I don’t know any official name for that style) to form a „university“ kind of district (although Iranian civs would be better suited for this to make a Registan UD).
Civics: something that gives bonuses from ancient codices.

For the leader, I think there is one paired with the Abbasids: al-Mamun. We‘ll see him and his rough desert starting bias this week. He‘ll be cultural and scientist.

I think we saw the Abbasids as Cultural-Scientific in the antiquity stream, though it's possible for things to change I suppose.

 

[Siptah]

I think we saw the Abbasids as Cultural-Scientific in the antiquity stream, though it's possible for things to change I suppose.

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In that case, I'll switch Al-Mamun's cultural trait for expansionist and Abbasid's expansionist trait for cultural in my prediction
Although, to be honest, Al-Mamun and expansionist isn't the best pairing imho.

 

[Evolena]

Remember expansionist is not conqueror but good at growth from food!

 

[The Fanatical]

Remember expansionist is not conqueror but good at growth from food!

An expansionist can also lead to the creation of an empire at a faster pace, if I'm not mistaken. That's exactly what a successful conqueror does.

 

[Alexander's Hetaroi]

I think this week will be Persia, and they'll reveal they can go into the Abbasids, which sets them up for next week.

 

[SeelingCat]

I think Persia is a good candidate, but Wednesday is also the anniversary of the start of the Meiji Era, so maybe we'll see them this week instead.

 

[moysturfurmer]

I think the Date theory is getting too much consideration. Indigenous People’s Day is a federal holiday in America. It very visible to Firaxis, and it lined up w/ an Antiquity Civ during their Antiquity marketing stuff.

 

[Rac]

Welp

 

[moysturfurmer]

So Resources DO have categories now. Luxury (local) and Imperial (empire-wide)

 

[Evolena]

Luxury (local)

Bonus (all settlements) and Luxury (only cities) even

 

[Evolena]

Also, Syvash as an Independant Power village.

 

[Rac]

Also, Syvash as an Independant Power village.

Also I was about ask that, it is an city from a unrevealed leader or an Idependent Power, and if it's an IP, who? Syvash seems to be the lakeland between Crimea and the mainland, so who is this supposed to be?

 

[RedCourtJester]

Also I was about ask that, it is an city from a unrevealed leader or an Idependent Power, and if it's an IP, who? Syvash seems to be the lakeland between Crimea and the mainland, so who is this supposed to be?

Yeah it seems kind of...pointed. I'm not able to trace it to a specific people. We could speculate Scythia or Kievan Rus' (or Slavs...again)?

 

[Evolena]

Also I was about ask that, it is an city from a unrevealed leader or an Idependent Power, and if it's an IP, who? Syvash seems to be the lakeland between Crimea and the mainland, so who is this supposed to be?

In the Antiquity stream, on the trade screen (1h08'), we've also seen Retenu as a "white circle" labelled as "to Villages", as well as Shomron as a "yellow circle" (was at War), which we know was also a City-State with white-and-yellow dashed border. So, definitively IP.

 

[Rac]

We could speculate Scythia or Kievan Rus' (or Slavs...again)?

Scythia could have go with Scythian Neapolis/Kermenchik or another place I think; and Rus, well, Kyiv?

 

[RedCourtJester]

Scythia could have go with Scythian Neapolis/Kermenchik or another place I think; and Rus, well, Kyiv?

I mean I agree, it just feels very pointed at more modern politics (like the past 250 years or so).

Maybe Tatars?

 

[Rac]

I mean I agree, it just feels very pointed at more modern politics (like the past 250 years or so).

Maybe Tatars?

The Crimean Tatars would probably pick one of th capitals of the Crimean Khanate and in Exploration, and the video looks to be in Antiquity considering the other cities in the screen... So IDK, posibily the Tauri perhaps??? Still, of all places that lakeland was chosen. Weird