[R&F] Cree First Look

[Luxerne]

The Cree are led by Poundmaker, whose capital is at Mikisiw-Wacîhk. Glad to see they have a unique city art style.

Leader Ability: Favorable Terms. All Alliance types provide shared Visibility. Trade Routes grant +1 Food in the sending city per Camp or Pasture in the receiving city, and +1 Gold in the receiving city per Camp or Pasture in the sending city.
Civilization Ability: Nîhithaw. +1 Trade Route capacity and a free Trader with the Pottery technology. Unclaimed tiles within 3 tiles of a Cree city center come under Cree control when a Trader first moves through them.
Unique Unit: Okihtcithaw. Replaces the Scout. Has 20 Combat strength, and receives a free promotion.
Unique Improvement: Mekewap. Unlocked at Pottery. Provides Housing, as well as Production. Provides Gold when adjacent to a Luxury resource and Food when adjacent to a Bonus resource.

 

[DWilson]

Hmm, I look forward to the blog post and a more in depth interpretation of the abilities.

Unfortunately, they went with the English name, and dressed him in more European clothing (although, perhaps he always dressed that way). Generally, I would have appreciated a more Mvemba-esque depiction. Still incredibly excited!

 

[bite]

Lisbon is still a City State

 

[Lord Lakely]

Those are some pretty great abilities for peaceful expansion. I love it.

 

[kaspergm]

Holy cow, the ability that lets traders claim tiles sounds insane. Although one could perhaps claim this civ is a bit too close to Civ5 Shoshone (unique scout, grabs territory).

Also, pink lake natural wonder: https://imgur.com/a/rE48P

 

[Duckfromstatefarm]

I do love the unique scout it gets, at least the unique scout can take more of a beating compared to a scout of another civ so far.

 

[Giskler]

The tile yields of the pink lake: 2 culture, 2 gold, 1 production.

 

[Amrunril]

The civ ability's trade route bonus is certainly interesting and outside the box. I'm a bit disappointed by the leader ability's alliance bonus though. I was hoping for something that built more explicitly with the new alliance mechanics, whereas Poundmaker's vision bonus, like Korea's governor bonus, references the new mechanics in only a superficial manner.

 

[RohirrimElf]

This guy has the best haircut in the game so far. Like his suit as well.

Ontopic: loving the scouts. Should be easy to get +1 vision range fast. I liked this mechanic as america in civ 5.

 

[leandrombraz]

Seems like shared visibility will be limited only to some types of Alliance (I guess only one type).


Really good and interesting Civ with a strong early game, I really like it. The way it gets tile with trade is a really interesting concept, though it's not clear if it can steal tiles or if it only get neutral tiles. It also have nice, readable border colors for a change.

I still waiting for a Civ that make some deep use of the new mechanics though. Only Korea and the Cree so far use the expansion new mechanics, both do it in a quite simple way, nothing really fancy.

 

[Icaria909]

I love the art for Indian cities. That is an excellent touch.

 

[Vahnstad]

The pink lake looks like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Hillier

There are more pink lakes, but i think it's that one, especially since it's located in Australia and every continent probably has a natural wonder. The only continent that doesn't have a wonder yet is Asia. And we still don't know what the function of the orange forest could be. Antarctica could have a natural wonder as well (Erebus?).

Ow they may have updated the Dead Lake natural wonder since it's a saline lake?

 

[luigilime]

I don't know if now is a good idea to have also Canada, I don't think the Cree would be happy

 

[SammyKhalifa]

Seems like shared visibility will be limited only to some types of Alliance (I guess only one type).


Really good and interesting Civ with a strong early game, I really like it. The way it gets tile with trade is a really interesting concept, though it's not clear if it can steal tiles or if it only get neutral tiles. It also have nice, readable border colors for a change.

I can't believe it will steal tiles--after all, it would seemingly steal tiles right up to the other civ's city.

 

[DeepKing]

Lisbon is still a City State

Good catch. Definitely no Portugal this time around.

Man, the Cree are going to be economic powerhouses.

 

[Leathaface]

"All alliances provide shared visibility." Didn't all alliances already provide this?

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

Lisbon is still a City State

Armagh was also in the video.

 

[Ondolindë]

Impressed by the art work of Poundmaker. I believe they are looking better overtime.

 

[Wingednosering]

They are a LOT like the Shoshone from V. Love the trade route land grab ability. They might be my new favourite civ. Poundmaker is highly deserving.

 

[Temppu]

Cant wait to spam those buffed scouts with a free promotion level to finally get use of the ambush +20 combat strength promotion!