Design a civ using known Civ VII mechanics

[Captain Lime]

I thought it was more interesting having a unique Great Person than possibly having another generic Army or Naval Commander. What is your idea for a Civilian UU?

@Bonyduck Campersang already suggested the name "Millet" and I just forgot to change it.

I thought of this too, but I figured the palace itself would be inspired by the Topkapi Palace. I also considered one of the Mosques as well, but not sure if Religion isn't going to play a big part in this era too.

Yeah, the Civic names might not have been the best, but I'm fine with any changes on those. I'm not the most knowledgeable when it comes to the Ottoman Empire so these are appreciated. I wasn't sure about using "Gunpowder Empire" though because that's not specific to the Ottomans, especially when we have one in the game already confirmed, the Mughals.

On the first point: I was looking at some possibilities for a unit that could either smooth the transition of a city from a conquest to a core type of empire, or one that could serve as a diplomat for those vassal city-states. Possibly a Tımarlı, possibly a Beylerbey. I would prefer for this to be not a great person type CUU but rather one with more generic and pragmatic abilities.

While the Mughals and the Safavids were also described as Gunpowder Empires, this sort of has a different meaning for them. The Safavids were never particularly great at gunpowder (their Tofangchi were nothing special and after the Battle of Çaldıran their adoption of gunpowder was forced but half-hearted) and the Mughals were more focused on artillery than infantry. I would say the Ottomans are the archetypical gunpowder empire, as they were the first of the early adopters and their janissaries and artillery set the tone for the other two.

 

[TheSpaceCowboy]

This would be my number one absolute dream civ! It'll never happen, but it'd be awesome.

Kanto
Modern Age civ

Unique Ability - Pocket Monsters
Instead of Independent Peoples, Wild Pokémon spawn up to ten tiles away from any Settlement owned by Kanto.
The type of Pokémon spawned depends upon the terrain or nearby features.

• Forests - Bulbasaur line, Nidoran♂ line, & Pichu line
• Coasts & Rivers - Squirtle line
• Volcanoes & Deserts - Charmander line
• Mountains & Hills - Geodude line
• Plains - Abra line, Gastly line, & Machop line

Unique Infrastructure:
Pokémon Gym - Unique Quarter. Upon completion spawns a random Pokémon Trainer.
Pokémon Center - Gold base. Pokémon heal instantly when stationed there stacked with a Pokémon Trainer.
Pokémon Professor’s Laboratory - Science base. Additional Science per each Pokémon stacked with a Pokémon Trainer stationed there.

Unique Civilian Unit - Pokémon Trainer
A Commander unique to Kanto
Gained upon constructing a Pokémon Gym.
The specific Pokémon Trainer received is random.
Each Pokémon Trainer can only be received once.
When Pokémon in an Army commanded by a Pokémon Trainer defeat Wild Pokémon, there is a chance to recruit the defeated Pokémon.
Pokémon in an Army commanded by a Pokémon Trainer gain experience and can evolve.
Pokémon Trainers:

1. Brock - Spawns with a Golem in his Army. Rock-types in his Army gain additional Combat Strength
2. Misty - Spawns with a Blastoise in her Army. Water-types in her Army gain additional Combat Strength
3. Lt. Surge - Spawns with a Raichu in his Army. Electric-types in his Army gain additional Combat Strength
4. Erika - Spawns with a Venusaur in her Army. Grass-types in her Army gain additional Combat Strength
5. Koga - Spawns with a Nidoking in his Army. Poison-types in his Army gain additional Combat Strength
6. Sabrina - Spawns with an Alakazam in her Army. Psychic-types in her Army gain additional Combat Strength
7. Blaine - Spawns with a Charizard in his Army. Fire-types in his Army gain additional Combat Strength
8. Bruno - Spawns with a Machamp in his Army. Fighting-types in his Army gain additional Combat Strength
9. Agatha - Spawns with a Gastly in her Army. Ghost-types in her Army gain additional Combat Strength
10. Professor Oak - Spawns with a Pikachu, Bulbasaur, Squirtle, & Charmander in his Army. All Pokémon in his Army gain additional Combat Strength

Unique Military Unit - Team Rocket Grunt
Unique Ranged Unit.
Has extremely low Combat Strength
Has the ranged attack ‘Throw Pokéball’ that can capture Wild Pokémon without fighting them.

Civics Tree

“I Wanna Be the Very Best, Like No One Ever Was”
Tier 1: Unlock the Pokémon Professor’s Laboratory. Unlock the Pokémon Researcher tradition

Tradition - Pokémon Researcher: Increased Science for Specialists in unique quarters ​

Tier 2: Gain science the first time a new Pokémon is discovered, and additional Science the first time a new Pokémon is recruited by a Pokémon Trainer

“To Catch Them is My Biggest Test, To Train Them is My Cause”
Tier 1: Unlock the Pokémon Center. Unlock the Pokémon Breeder tradition

Tradition - Pokémon Breeder: Army Commanders take less time to Respawn and less time to summon Reinforcements. ​

Tier 2: Unlocks the ‘Befriend Pokémon’ endeavor to spend influence points to recruit Wild Pokémon

“I Will Travel Across the Land, Searching Far and Wide”
Tier 1: Unlock the Pokémon Ranger tradition.

Tradition - Pokémon Ranger: Army Commanders gain +1 Sight, +1 Movement, and are not stopped by turn-ending terrain ​

Tier 2: Increased the catch rate of defeated Wild Pokémon

“Teach Pokémon to Understand the Power That’s Inside”
Tier 1: Unlock the Pokémon Stadium. Unlock the Pokémon Master tradition

Tradition - Pokémon Master: Army Commanders gain experience faster and units in their radius gain additional Combat Strength ​

Tier 2: Final evolutions of Pokémon gain massively increased Combat Strength

Associated Leader - Ash Ketchum

Associated Wonder - Pokémon Stadium

 

[Lord Lakely]

No Growlithe or Ninetales line, 0/10, garbage design, do better.

 

[Xandinho]

This would be my number one absolute dream civ! It'll never happen, but it'd be awesome.
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Kanto
Modern Age civ

Unique Ability - Pocket Monsters
Instead of Independent Peoples, Wild Pokémon spawn up to ten tiles away from any Settlement owned by Kanto.
The type of Pokémon spawned depends upon the terrain or nearby features.

• Forests - Bulbasaur line, Nidoran♂ line, & Pichu line
• Coasts & Rivers - Squirtle line
• Volcanoes & Deserts - Charmander line
• Mountains & Hills - Geodude line
• Plains - Abra line, Gastly line, & Machop line

Unique Infrastructure:
Pokémon Gym - Unique Quarter. Upon completion spawns a random Pokémon Trainer.
Pokémon Center - Gold base. Pokémon heal instantly when stationed there stacked with a Pokémon Trainer.
Pokémon Professor’s Laboratory - Science base. Additional Science per each Pokémon stacked with a Pokémon Trainer stationed there.

Unique Civilian Unit - Pokémon Trainer
A Commander unique to Kanto
Gained upon constructing a Pokémon Gym.
The specific Pokémon Trainer received is random.
Each Pokémon Trainer can only be received once.
When Pokémon in an Army commanded by a Pokémon Trainer defeat Wild Pokémon, there is a chance to recruit the defeated Pokémon.
Pokémon in an Army commanded by a Pokémon Trainer gain experience and can evolve.
Pokémon Trainers:

1. Brock - Spawns with a Golem in his Army. Rock-types in his Army gain additional Combat Strength
2. Misty - Spawns with a Blastoise in her Army. Water-types in her Army gain additional Combat Strength
3. Lt. Surge - Spawns with a Raichu in his Army. Electric-types in his Army gain additional Combat Strength
4. Erika - Spawns with a Venusaur in her Army. Grass-types in her Army gain additional Combat Strength
5. Koga - Spawns with a Nidoking in his Army. Poison-types in his Army gain additional Combat Strength
6. Sabrina - Spawns with an Alakazam in her Army. Psychic-types in her Army gain additional Combat Strength
7. Blaine - Spawns with a Charizard in his Army. Fire-types in his Army gain additional Combat Strength
8. Bruno - Spawns with a Machamp in his Army. Fighting-types in his Army gain additional Combat Strength
9. Agatha - Spawns with a Gastly in her Army. Ghost-types in her Army gain additional Combat Strength
10. Professor Oak - Spawns with a Pikachu, Bulbasaur, Squirtle, & Charmander in his Army. All Pokémon in his Army gain additional Combat Strength

Unique Military Unit - Team Rocket Grunt
Unique Ranged Unit.
Has extremely low Combat Strength
Has the ranged attack ‘Throw Pokéball’ that can capture Wild Pokémon without fighting them.

Civics Tree

“I Wanna Be the Very Best, Like No One Ever Was”
Tier 1: Unlock the Pokémon Professor’s Laboratory. Unlock the Pokémon Researcher tradition

Tradition - Pokémon Researcher: Increased Science for Specialists in unique quarters ​

Tier 2: Gain science the first time a new Pokémon is discovered, and additional Science the first time a new Pokémon is recruited by a Pokémon Trainer

“To Catch Them is My Biggest Test, To Train Them is My Cause”
Tier 1: Unlock the Pokémon Center. Unlock the Pokémon Breeder tradition

Tradition - Pokémon Breeder: Army Commanders take less time to Respawn and less time to summon Reinforcements. ​

Tier 2: Unlocks the ‘Befriend Pokémon’ endeavor to spend influence points to recruit Wild Pokémon

“I Will Travel Across the Land, Searching Far and Wide”
Tier 1: Unlock the Pokémon Ranger tradition.

Tradition - Pokémon Ranger: Army Commanders gain +1 Sight, +1 Movement, and are not stopped by turn-ending terrain ​

Tier 2: Increased the catch rate of defeated Wild Pokémon

“Teach Pokémon to Understand the Power That’s Inside”
Tier 1: Unlock the Pokémon Stadium. Unlock the Pokémon Master tradition

Tradition - Pokémon Master: Army Commanders gain experience faster and units in their radius gain additional Combat Strength ​

Tier 2: Final evolutions of Pokémon gain massively increased Combat Strength

Associated Leader - Ash Ketchum

Associated Wonder - Pokémon Stadium

As a Pokémon fan, I have to say this is pretty fun.

 

[Thenewwwguy]

United Kingdom
Modern Age civ

The United Kingdom's gameplay is centered entirely on accruing Great Writer points through inspirational deeds that inspire its citizens to turn them into stories.

Unique Ability - “Faery Stories”
Every time that the U.K. completes any Objective, including those that advances the Age and Legacy Path, it generates Great Write Points

Unique Civilian Unit - Inkling
A separate Great Person type, similar to Great Writers, with a pool unique to the United Kingdom.
The U.K. can use any Great writer points it earns to purchase Great Writers from the common pool in order to deny them to competing civs, or from the Inkling pool, as the Inkling’s Great Writings are much more powerful in their yields.
(The game’s “Inklings” includes famous U.K. writers not part of the historical group, and excludes some who were)

• J.R.R. Tolkien - The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings
• C.S. Lewis - The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe & Out of the Silent Planet
• George MacDonald - The Golden Key & Phantastes
• Lewis Carroll - Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass
• J. M. Barrie - Peter Pan & The Little White Bird
• Madeleine L'Engle - A Wrinkle in Time & A Swiftly Tilting Planet
• H. Rider Haggard - King Solomon’s Mines & She
• Andrew Lang - The Blue Fairy Book & The Red Fairy Book
• Lord Dunsany - The Book of Wonder & The King of Elfland’s Daughter
• William Morris - House of the Wolfings & Roots of the Mountain
• Ian Fleming - Casino Royale & From Russia With Love
• Roald Dahl - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory & Matilda
• Charles Williams -War in Heaven & Place of the Lion
• G.K. Chesterton - Orthodoxy & Heresy
• Kenneth Grahame - The Wind in the Willows
• Beatrix Potter - The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Unique Military Unit - MI6 Agent
A unique Scout unit with actions similar to Spy operations from Civ VI.
Successfully conducting such operations nets Great Writer points.

Unique Infrastructures
Oxford college (Quarter) - Has a large number of slots for Great Works of Writing, and theming bonuses in an Oxford college are more powerful than elsewhere.
Boarding School - Science base. Cities with a Boarding School get +1 Science and +1 Culture for every new Population on the Tile worked.
Pub - Culture base. Generates Great Writer Points, with an adjacency bonus with other Pubs.

Associated Leader - Winston Churchill

Associated Wonder - Big Ben

i like the culture/science spin on an industrial uk. feels very different from the norm but very in-character. i wouldn’t be a fan of winston churchill though. beyond the fact that his military successes overshadowed major military failures, the fact that he was domestically a mixed bag, and as a colonial ruler downright awful, hes also a little later than the time frame of the rest of the civ (besides the MI6 Agent ig) Disraeli or Gladstone would be more interesting to me, less done-to-death by pop culture, and more appropriate for the vibe you’ve got going on.

 

[Thenewwwguy]

Norse​

Attributes:
Militaristic
Culture

Unique Ability:
Viking Age - Land Units don’t get movement penalties when Embarking/Disembarking from Navigable Rivers and Coastal tiles. Steal a Relic (or other type of Great Work) whenever you Pillage a building containing one.

Civic 1: Old and New Faith
Tier 1: Unlock the Runestone Unique Improvement.
Tradition: Gain Culture whenever a Land Unit dies.
Tier 2: The Runestone Unique Improvement gets Happiness from adjacent buildings with a Relic (or other type of Great Work) slotted in. Unlocks the Heddal Stave Church Wonder.

Civic 2: Sea Raiders
Tier 1: Land Units receive increased Combat Strength against Fortification adjacent to Navigable Rivers and Coastal tiles.
Tradition: Increased Gold from Pillaging.
Tier 2: Embarked units have increased Movement on Navigable Rivers and Coastal tiles.

Civic 3: Merchant and Settlers.
Tier 1: Gain an additional Trade Route.
Tradition: Towns receive Food when you’re at War.
Tier 2: Increased Settlement Limit.

Unique Improvement:
Runestone - Culture base. You gain Culture when you Pillage in the Homeland, Gold when you Pillage in the Distant Lands. Must be placed on a flat tile. One per Settlement.

Unique Military Unit:
Jomsviking - Can move after Pillaging. Has increased Combat Strength when damaged.

Unique Civilian Unit:
Viking - Unique Great Person Unit. Can only be built in Cities with a Runestone, and the specific Viking received is random. Each Viking can only be received once. Cost increases per Viking built.

- Erik Thorvaldsson - Activated on an eligible Settlement location in Distant Lands to create a new Town.
- Leif Erikson - Activated on an eligible Settlement location in Distant Lands to create a new Town. Ignores movement penalties from Deep Water tiles.
- Lagertha - Activated on a Commander with a set number of empty slots to grant the Commander a set number of Infantry Units.
- Ragnar Lodbrok - Activate next to a Quarter or City Center on a Navigable River, River, or Coastal tile to destroy all Fortification.
- Harald Hardrada - Activated next to a Navigable River, River, or Coastal tile to Pillage all non-Fortified adjacent tiles.
- Egill Skallagrímsson - Create two random Relics.
- Palnatoke - Activated on a Commander to grant them a free Promotion.
- Rollo - Activated next to a City-States’ unit to Levy it. 2 Charges.
- Bolli Bollason - Activated in an Independent Power's Territory to gain Gold, gain more Gold in the Distant Lands.
- Gunnar Hámundarson - Heal all adjacent Land Unit.

Associated Wonder:
Heddal Stave Church - 2 Relics slots, Spawn a random Relic. Culture Base.

Starting Biases:
Coastal
Navigable Rivers

if we want a full scandinavian pathway, i’d say that rather than norse, you pick an early scandinavian group, the initial kingdom, and a late nation-state

like The Danes -> Iceland -> Norway (modern)

or Swedes -> Kalmar Union -> Denmark (i would prefer this)

 

[TheSpaceCowboy]

Russia
Modern Age civilization

Unique Ability - Cold Warfare
Greatly reduced Influence cost for Espionage, interactions with Independent Powers, and acquiring War Support
Gains Influence when progressing the Ideology Legacy Path
Cannot progress the Railroad Tycoon legacy Path, and Gold from Factory Resources is converted to Production

Unique Military Unit - MiG
Weaker than counterpart Fighters, but cheaper to produce

Unique Civilian Unit - KGB Guard
Unique Settler. Can build a Gulag

Unique Settlement - Gulag
Must be founded on a Tundra or Forest tile at least two hexes away from any owned tiles.
Upon founding acquires all tiles in a one hex radius and Tundra, Forest, and Resource tiles in a two hex radius.
Cannot be converted to a Town or City.
Urban districts cannot be built here, and Rural districts can only be built directly adjacent to the Gulag.
Each tile worked sends Production to the nearest City and adds global Unhappiness.
Does not count against Russia’s Settlement limit.

Civics:

Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti
Tier 1: Unlock the Gulag; Unlock the GKB Guard
Tier 2: Gulags gain a Production adjacent for Rural Districts

Warsaw Pact
Tier 1: Greatly reduce the Influence cost of interactions with City-states of which Russia is the Suzerain
Tier 2: Unlock the Iron Curtain Tradition
Tradition - Iron Curtain: Trade Route with Allies or suzerain City-states generate Influence; no Trade Routes with civs that follow a different Ideology

Sputnik
Tier 1: Gain Science when Stealing Technology; Unlock the Cosmonauts Tradition
Tradition - Cosmonauts: Gain Influence when progressing the Space Race Legacy Path

Glasnost
Tier 1: Unlock Red Square Wonder; Unlock the Pravda Tradition
Tradition - Pravda: Gain Influence when progressing the Geographic Society Legacy Path
Tier 2: Unlock the Perestroika Tradition
Tradition - Perestroika: Gain Influence from Factory Resources

 

[TheSpaceCowboy]

Germany
Modern Age civ

Germany's gameplay centers around its Culture powering its Combat Strength during the first few turns of a Surprise War

Unique Ability - Blitzkrieg
For a number of turns after declaring a surprise war, all German units get additional movement, an additional attack each turn, and added Combat Strength based on the number of Artifacts housed

Unique Improvement - Biergarten
Culture base. Food adjacency with Farms; Happiness adjacency with Wine.
Settlements with a Biergarten experience no War Weariness during a Blitzkrieg

Unique Military Units - Panzer
Receives Blitzkrieg bonuses even apart from a Surprise War
Unique Civilian Unit - Übermensch
Unique Scholar. Gained by placing a Specialist on a district with a scientific or cultural building.
The specific Übermensch received is random, each Übermensch can be received only once, and the cost increases by one Specialist for the next Übermensch.
Once activated, the Übermensch produces a Great Work of Writing that can be slotted into an Artifact slot.
These count towards the Geographical Society Legacy Path, add Combat Strength during a Blitzkrieg, and yield significant Culture, Influence, or Science per turn.

1. Albert Einstein - Annus mirabilis papers; provides Science
2. Dietrich Bonhoeffer - The Cost of Discipleship; provides Culture
3. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spake Zarathustra; provides Influence
4. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz - Théodicée; provides Influence
5. Immanuel Kant - Critique of Pure Reason; provides Influence
6. Jacob Grimm - Deutsche Mythologie; provides Culture
7. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - The Phenomenology of Spirit; provides Influence
8. Richard Wagner - Der Ring des Nibelungen; provides Culture
9. Wilhelm Grimm - Kinder- und Hausmärchen; provides Culture
10. Werner Heisenberg - Umdeutung paper; provides Science

Civics

Bavarian
Tier 1: Unlock the Biergarten; unlock Oktoberfest tradition

Tradition - Oktoberfest: No War Weariness during a celebration ​

Tier 2: Settlements with a Biergarten receive additional slots for Artifacts in the City-center

Völkisch
Tier 1: During a Blitzkrieg, military units gain Combat Strength for every Artifact excavated by an Explorer, unlock the Thule Society tradition

Tradition - Thule Society: Explorers gain Culture and Science when excavating an Artifact ​

Tier 2: Lowers the threshold of Specialists needed to recruit the next Übermensch

Iron Cross
Tier 1: Unlocks Brandenburg Gate; unlocks the Triumph des Willens tradition

Tradition - Triumph des Willens: Military units gain Combat Strength per the amount of War Support less than the enemy’s ​

Tier 2: Gain an Artifact when scoring three Ideology points

 

[evonannoredars]

Unique Civilian Unit - Übermensch
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Völkisch
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Tradition - Thule Society: Explorers gain Culture and Science when excavating an Artifact ​

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Tradition - Triumph des Willens: Military units gain Combat Strength per the amount of War Support less than the enemy’s ​

hmm cant say im a fan exactly

 

[The_goggles_do_nothing]

I’d call these Russian Empire, German Empire because of the military focus and avoid less savory names.

 

[TheSpaceCowboy]

hmm cant say im a fan exactly

It's very much inspired by the portrayal of Germany in films like Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Last Crusade, where German archeologists and occultists are seeking an artifact in order to bring them swift military victory in the coming war.
At the same time, I wanted it to be broader than merely just the Third Reich; slightly Nazi-adjacent, like Hydra in the Marvel movies, without being just Nazi Germany
I tried to pick terms that, even if appropriated by the Nazis, had other meanings and references that predated the Nazis.

 

[TheGhostEnthusiast]

Lili’uokalani

Born during a tumultuous time for Hawai’i, Lili’uokalani took the throne after years of service as a representative. Faced with rampant infighting and increasing economic pressure from the United States, she led the charge to draft a replacement for the Bayonet Constitution that would restore both voting rights for native Hawaiians and the power of the throne. When the American businessmen-backed opposition led a rebellion too strong for her foreign connections to stop, she dedicated the rest of her life to writings and compositions that would strengthen and preserve the culture of Hawai’i, even without its sovereignty.

Unique Ability

Aloha ‘Oe: +1 Culture and Happiness per Age on Great Works and active Traditions. Declarations of Friendship involving Lili’uokalani have no Influence cost and grant a random free Civic for both parties. Penalties from negative War Support are doubled.

Attributes

• Cultural
• Diplomatic

Agendas:

Hoʻokahi Puana: Increase Relationship by a large amount with the Civilizations with the most Influence generation if they have not recently used Sanctions or been exposed for Espionage.

 

[Lord Lakely]

Blitzkrieg
Übermensch
Triumph des Willens

let us maybe not go there. how about it, babes, can we agree on that?

 

[stealth_nsk]

let us maybe not go there. how about it, babes, can we agree on that?

I'm pretty sure there will be no nazi in the game. Modern age Germany is likely to be based on Prussia and if we ever see contemporary age, its version of Germany will be post-WW2, with WW2 itself being the world crisis at the end of the modern age.

 

[TheGhostEnthusiast]

While someone with more knowledge on the topic could certainly put together a better-researched concept, I found the history of this civilization really interesting, and since it's a no-brainer as a predecessor to Songhai, I figured I'd give designing a Civ for it a shot.

WAGADU - ANTIQUITY AGE CIVILIZATION​

Rising to power in the first millennium, the Wagadu Empire (later named Ghana for the title of its ruler) formed a vast network of tributary states. Control of the Sahel’s trade routes fed wealth into bustling cities for centuries, but when the trade routes began to shift, Wagadu’s influence began to fade, and it found itself a (still well-respected) tributary to the rising Mali.

Unique Ability:

Gold Dust Tributaries: Additional Gold on all Resources. Resources Imported from Wagadu keep this additional Gold.

Attributes:

• Economic
• Diplomatic

Civic Trees:

Ghana

• Tier 1: Unlocks the Dome Complex Unique Building. Unlocks the Sacred Grove Unique Building. Increased Settlement Capacity.
• Tradition - Mazalim: Additional Influence on the Palace for each adjacent Building.
• Tier 2: Additional Gold on Influence Buildings.

Dinar

• Tier 1: Increased Trade Route Capacity. Trade routes to and from your Settlements have additional range (as if Trading Post Towns.)
• Tradition - Salt Tax: Additional Gold on the Palace for each Trade Route to and from your Civilization.

Kafu

• Tier 1: Additional Influence on Gold Buildings.
• Tradition - Kaya Maghan: +5% Gold in the Capital for each City State you are Suzerain of.

Unique Infrastructure

El-Ghaba: Unique Quarter. Formed from the Domed Complex, Sacred Grove, and Palace. Adds Influence for each Trade Route to or from your Civilization. Adds Gold for every City State you are Suzerein of.

Dome Complex: Unique Influence Building. Adds Influence to adjacent Quarters.

Sacred Grove: Unique Happiness Building. Adds Happiness to adjacent Quarters.

Unique Military Unit

Sahel Cavalry: Unique Cavalry Unit. Generates Influence from defeated Units.

Unique Civilian Unit

Tribute Collector: Unique Merchant unit. Increases Relationship with the owner of the target Settlement, boosted further if an Independent Power or City State.

Associated Wonder

Larabanga Mosque: Has a Great Work slot and generates a free Codex. Additional Happiness for each Great Work in this Settlement.

Starting Biases:

• Desert
• Navigable River

 

[Kankan]

While someone with more knowledge on the topic could certainly put together a better-researched concept, I found the history of this civilization really interesting, and since it's a no-brainer as a predecessor to Songhai, I figured I'd give designing a Civ for it a shot.

WAGADU - ANTIQUITY AGE CIVILIZATION​

Rising to power in the first millennium, the Wagadu Empire (later named Ghana for the title of its ruler) formed a vast network of tributary states. Control of the Sahel’s trade routes fed wealth into bustling cities for centuries, but when the trade routes began to shift, Wagadu’s influence began to fade, and it found itself a (still well-respected) tributary to the rising Mali.

Unique Ability:

Gold Dust Tributaries: Additional Gold on all Resources. Resources Imported from Wagadu keep this additional Gold.

Attributes:

• Economic
• Diplomatic

Civic Trees:

Ghana

• Tier 1: Unlocks the Dome Complex Unique Building. Unlocks the Sacred Grove Unique Building. Increased Settlement Capacity.
• Tradition - Mazalim: Additional Influence on the Palace for each adjacent Building.
• Tier 2: Additional Gold on Influence Buildings.

Dinar

• Tier 1: Increased Trade Route Capacity. Trade routes to and from your Settlements have additional range (as if Trading Post Towns.)
• Tradition - Salt Tax: Additional Gold on the Palace for each Trade Route to and from your Civilization.

Kafu

• Tier 1: Additional Influence on Gold Buildings.
• Tradition - Kaya Maghan: +5% Gold in the Capital for each City State you are Suzerain of.

Unique Infrastructure

El-Ghaba: Unique Quarter. Formed from the Domed Complex, Sacred Grove, and Palace. Adds Influence for each Trade Route to or from your Civilization. Adds Gold for every City State you are Suzerein of.

Dome Complex: Unique Influence Building. Adds Influence to adjacent Quarters.

Sacred Grove: Unique Happiness Building. Adds Happiness to adjacent Quarters.

Unique Military Unit

Sahel Cavalry: Unique Cavalry Unit. Generates Influence from defeated Units.

Unique Civilian Unit

Tribute Collector: Unique Merchant unit. Increases Relationship with the owner of the target Settlement, boosted further if an Independent Power or City State.

Associated Wonder

Larabanga Mosque: Has a Great Work slot and generates a free Codex. Additional Happiness for each Great Work in this Settlement.

Starting Biases:

• Desert
• Navigable River

I was also thinking of designing a Wagadou civ based on what we know about Civ 7’s mechanics but I was stumped by how information about Wagadou is slightly scarce regarding stuff that is important to know based on the game’s mechanics.

Still however it’s a very interesting civ and a good concept for it you made!

 

[Xyael]

Ada Lovelace

Unique Ability

Explorer of the hidden realities of nature:
+1 Culture from Specialists. +1 Specialist Limit in all Cities. Add Science on urban districts with science base buildings for each adjacent districts with culture base buildings.

Attributes
• Cultural
• Scientific

Agendas

Poetical Science: Increase Relationship with the Civilizations with the most Science generation. Decrease Relationship with the Civilizations with less Culture generation.

 

[Alexander's Hetaroi]

I'm pretty sure there will be no nazi in the game. Modern age Germany is likely to be based on Prussia and if we ever see contemporary age, its version of Germany will be post-WW2, with WW2 itself being the world crisis at the end of the modern age.

Same for Russia being Tsarist Imperial Russia, and not the Soviet Union.

 

[TheGhostEnthusiast]

NAZCA - ANTIQUITY AGE CIVILIZATION​

Rising in the deserts and river valleys of modern-day Peru, the Nazca culture excelled at creating textiles and earthworks. Irrigated settlements surrounded the ceremonial site of Cahuachi, which grew in spite of a low residential population due to regular pilgrimages from priests and artisans. Eventually, however, mass flooding scattered the civilization, their symbols left behind in the works in their ruins and their carvings in the desert.

Unique Ability:

Great Temple: The Capital has a very heavily decreased Growth Rate, but increased Production towards Wonders. The Palace doubles the Adjacency Bonuses of adjacent buildings.

Attributes:

• Cultural
• Expansionist

Civic Trees:

Polychrome

• Tier 1: Additional Culture on Warehouse Buildings.
• Tradition - Great Cloth: The Palace gains Culture and Production for every City.
• Tier 2: Additional Production on Warehouse Buildings.

Kancha

• Tier 1: +1 Settlement Limit. Additional Culture on Farms. Unlocks the Great Lines.
• Tradition - Geoglyphs: Additional Production on the Palace when building Wonders.

Sprouting Head

• Tier 1: Additional Food on Farms.
• Tradition - Trephination: +20% Growth in non-capital Cities.
• Tier 2: Additional Production on Farms in Cities.
• Tradition - Trophy Heads: Infantry units heal an additional set amount when defeating Units.

Unique Infrastructure

Puquio: Unique Tile Improvement. Adds Food. Adds Food to adjacent Rural Districts.

Unique Military Unit

Headhunter: Unique Infantry Unit. Provides Culture based on the Combat Strength of defeated Units.

Unique Civilian Unit

Cahuachi Pilgrim: Unique Unit. Can only be built in Cities that are not the Capital. Activated on the Palace to trigger a large burst of Production.

Associated Wonder:

Great Lines: Provides an additional +10 Adjacency to Buildings. This bonus is -3 for each adjacent Building after the first. Must be built on a flat Desert tile.

 

[Kankan]

I decided to be a bit more limited regarding unique ability and civic choices as some potential options could also work better for a specific leader such as Usman Dan Fodio or Nana Asma'u

Sokoto - Modern Age Civ
In a time of socio-economic turmoil across West Africa with falling quality of life and encroaching European colonialism emerged the Fulani Jihads which gave rise to many revolutionary figures who sought change in the region and for religious unity. Among those emerged the revolutionary Fulani scholar by the name of Usman dan Fodio who conquered the Hausa Kingdoms, whose descendants would then go on to to forge the largest and most powerful state south of the Sahara at the time, and greatly improving religious education in the region. Unfortunately for the Sokoto Caliphate, the encroaching European colonialism became an inevitable factor that could no longer be avoided where the Caliphate would be partitioned by Britain and Germany in what would become the British Northern Nigeria Protectorate (later merged with the Southern Nigeria Protectorate to form British Nigeria) and German Kamerun. However, this is not where the story ends for the Sokoto Caliphate as with the establishment of the Sokoto Sultanate Council, the rulers of Sokoto would remain as symbolic figures that lead much of Nigeria's Muslim community today.

Attributes
Militaristic
Scientific

Unique Ability - Embryonic Bureaucracy
Cities with a Library provide bonus Science to other cities within the Civilisation.

Civic Trees
Waziri
Tier 1: +5 Fortification bonus to all units in settlements for 5 turns after conquering them, unlocks Sarkin Yaki.
Tradition - House-Power: Military Commanders gain an increased Command Radius.

Fulani Jihads
Tier 1: Military Commanders trained in cities of your religion gain extra experience
Tradition - Massina: Levied units from city states gain an extra +2 Combat Strength if the city state follows your religion
Tier 2: Additional Production from Barracks, unlocks Masallacin Shehu
Tradition - Tabkin Kwatto: Conquering cities reduces War Weariness

Tariqa
Tier 1: Additional Science from Libraries, unlocks the Makaranta
Tradition - Usul al-'Adl: Reduced Production towards constructing Science-producing buildings in your cities
Tier 2: Libraries will also provide a Production bonus

Unique Building
Makaranta: Replaces the Academy, also gives a Production bonus towards producing units.

Unique Civilian Unit
Sarkin Yaki: Replaces the Commander, reduced experience needed towards progressing in the Assault discipline.

Unique Military Unit
Fulani Horsemen: Unique Cavalry Unit, gains an extra movement when starting the turn in friendly territory

Associated Wonder
Masallacin Shehu: Conquering cities provides a Science boost in all cities for 6 turns.

City List
Sokoto - The capital of the Sokoto Caliphate, today, in Nigeria
Argungu - A city in Nigeria
Birnin-Konni - a town in Niger
Tahoua - A city in Niger
Gwandu - A town in Nigeria
Kebbi - A city in Nigeria (Also shares the name of Kebbi State)
Dosso - A city in Niger
Dori - A town in Burkina Faso
Say - A town in Niger
Gummi - A town in Nigeria
Kano - A city in Nigeria
Katsina - A city in Nigeria
Zaria - Also known as Zazzau, a city in Nigeria and was also historically ruled over by Amina
Lokoja - A city in Nigeria
Abuja - Today, the capital of Nigeria
Bauchi - A city in Nigeria
Gombe - A city in Nigeria
Nasarawa - A town in Nigeria (also shares the name of Nasarawa State)
N'gamdere - Fula name of Ngaoundéré, a city in Cameroon
Tibati - A town in Cameroon
Katagum - A town in Nigeria

Unlocks

Play as Amina
Play as Songhai in the Exploration Age

Conquer a settlement following a different religion to yours