Design your own Civ VI civ

[Ryansinbela]

I've often confessed to not having played Civ5 among the franchise iterations.

In that case, I’m referring to William the Silent

 

[Patine]

Creating designs for leaders that were or possibly were members of the LGBT+ community. Happy Pride Month!

Frederick the Great (Germany- gay): After capturing a city, get a boost in Great Writers and a Eureka.

James (Scotland/England- possibly bi): Great Works give faith bonuses.

William of Orange (Netherlands): Can peacefully annex city-states.

Hatshepsut (Egypt-possibly trans or nonbinary): Scouts are free to manage.

Hadrian (Rome-gay): Walls are built at 2x speed.

Nero (Rome-bisexual): Get Great Musician boost through natural disasters

(I don't know how to do Han Wudi, who may have been gay. @pineappledan created a great Babur design, check it out if you can. Also Christina, Ludwig II, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and Abe Lincoln [possibly bi] are already in Civ)

Probably more as a Great General and/ot Governor, than a Civ leader:

Uesugi Kenshin - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Look at the, "Female Uesugi Kenshin Theory," part.

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

Civilization: Alanian Empire (Darial Pass): Mountains provide double adjacency bonus to Commercial Districts. Commercial Districts adjacent to Mountains grant one additional trade route.
Leader: Durgulel (Trade Allies): Production and purchase costs of land units and combat strength increased for every incoming trade route to a city.
Unique Unit: Mounted Lancer: Replaces the Courser. +5 strength on Hills, and ignores movement cost due to Hills.
Unique Improvement: Ghāla/Battletower: Must be built on hills. Gives visibility to as far as 2-3 [not decided which] tiles, and offensive bonus to ranged units garrisoned within it, and defensive bonus for all types of garrisoned units.

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

Civilization: Laotian Empire (One Million White Elephants and a Parasol): Jungle tiles provide bonus faith and gold, and contribute to Religious Tourism. Gain access to the White Elephant Hunt project, which has a chance of spawning a White Elephant resource, chance increased for every Jungle tile in the city. Gain +1 Era Score each time a White Elephant spawns. White Elephant provides faith and amenities.
Leader 1: Fa Ngum (Founder of Lan Xang): Gain a White Elephant each time you reach a new era, unlock a new Governor, or conquer a capital.
Leader 2: Sourigna Vongsa (Heavenly Path): Religious buildings reduce War Weariness. Holy Sites increase population growth for each trade route to and from a civilization that follows Sourigna's religion, and increase Science for every trade route to a civilization that has more technologies.
Unique Unit: White War Elephant: Requires White Elephant resource to be built.
+5 strength to adjacent friendly units, and -5 strength to adjacent enemy units. Grants faith for every enemy unit killed in its vicinity.
Unique Building: Thart: Replaces the Shrine. Reduces loyalty pressure from other civilizations.

 

[Patine]

Civilization: Laotian Empire (One Million White Elephants and a Parasol): Jungle tiles provide bonus faith and gold, and contribute to Religious Tourism. Gain access to the White Elephant Hunt project, which has a chance of spawning a White Elephant resource, chance increased for every Jungle tile in the city. Gain +1 Era Score each time a White Elephant spawns. White Elephant provides faith and amenities.

Given the source and meaning of the white elephant idiom, from nearby Thailand, one would THINK Laos was in for a quick and devastating state bankruptcy.

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

Given the source and meaning of the white elephant idiom, from nearby Thailand, one would THINK Laos was in for a quick and devastating state bankruptcy.

Maybe the White Elephant resource should have a high Gold maintenance?

 

[Caesar of Bread]

So here is the Iroquois!

Haudenosaunee/Iroquois (whatever floats your boat)
Bonus: Confederacy of the Five - Diplomatic Policy Card bonuses are doubled.
Unique Unit: Mohawk Warrior - Replaces Swordsman. +3 combat strength in forests.
Unique Wonder: Onondaga Longhouse - Can only be built in the capital. Gives 5 envoys when created.

Jigonhsasee (God, I can't spell that)
Leader Bonus: Mother of Nations - The first 3 city-states met by Jigonhsasee will be influenced by the Iroquois immediately after meeting.

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

The first 3 city-states met by Jigonhsasee will be influenced by the Iroquois immediately after meeting.

You mean the Iroquois will become their suzerain?

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

Civilization: Bosnian Empire (Heart of the Balkans) Bosnian cities receive bonus faith and culture for each adjacent mountain tile.
Mountain adjacency bonus for Holy Districts doubled, and Military Districts adjacent to Mountains grant faith for each adjacent enemy unit killed.
Leader 1: Kulin (Kulin's Charter): Gain gold from every tile crossed by a foreign Trader. Gain Great Merchant points each time a foreign Trader or Great Merchant enters your borders.
Leader 2: Tvrtko I (Double Crown): Can declare War of Succession upon civilizations whose cities have flipped over to Bosnia. This casus belli is unlocked at Divine Right and generates only 25 grievances.
Unique Unit: Knez: Civilian unit with high maintenance cost. Only one may be produced per city. +7 loyalty when garrisoned in city. +10% combat strength to units within 2-tile radius when linked with a military unit. Cannot be garrisoned in a city with an established Governor.
Unique Improvement: Stećak: +1 Faith, +1 Culture. +1 Amenities when adjacent to river, mountain, Military District or Holy District (does not stack).

 

[Alexander's Hetaroi]

So here is the Iroquois!

Haudenosaunee/Iroquois (whatever floats your boat)
Bonus: Confederacy of the Five - Diplomatic Policy Card bonuses are doubled.
Unique Unit: Mohawk Warrior - Replaces Swordsman. +3 combat strength in forests.
Unique Wonder: Onondaga Longhouse - Can only be built in the capital. Gives 5 envoys when created.

Jigonhsasee (God, I can't spell that)
Leader Bonus: Mother of Nations - The first 3 city-states met by Jigonhsasee will be influenced by the Iroquois immediately after meeting.

I feel like the Iroquois should have a gunpowder UU. It was with the introduction of the arquebus that they were able to expand and control the fur trade from other tribes.

 

[Patine]

Civilization: Bosnian Empire (Heart of the Balkans) Bosnian cities receive bonus faith and culture for each adjacent mountain tile.
Mountain adjacency bonus for Holy Districts doubled, and Military Districts adjacent to Mountains grant faith for each adjacent enemy unit killed.
Leader 1: Kulin (Kulin's Charter): Gain gold from every tile crossed by a foreign Trader. Gain Great Merchant points each time a foreign Trader or Great Merchant enters your borders.
Leader 2: Tvrtko I (Double Crown): Can declare War of Succession upon civilizations whose cities have flipped over to Bosnia. This casus belli is unlocked at Divine Right and generates only 25 grievances.
Unique Unit: Knez: Civilian unit with high maintenance cost. Only one may be produced per city. +7 loyalty when garrisoned in city. +10% combat strength to units within 2-tile radius when linked with a military unit. Cannot be garrisoned in a city with an established Governor.
Unique Improvement: Stećak: +1 Faith, +1 Culture. +1 Amenities when adjacent to river, mountain, Military District or Holy District (does not stack).

A Unique Improvement strongly tied to the Bosian Church, about which little hard information is known (other than it being declared a heresy by both the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches and that it was ACCUSED of Bogilon ideology, but no solid evidence exists of that, or what dissident beliefs thay may have had), and, that, like most funery monuments, are sketchy in how much of an active role they played in a given civilization's day-to-day activities (outside of ones involved with ancestor worship religions, which the Bosnians were not) is a dubious choice.

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

A Unique Improvement strongly tied to the Bosian Church, about which little hard information is known (other than it being declared a heresy by both the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches and that it was ACCUSED of Bogilon ideology, but no solid evidence exists of that, or what dissident beliefs thay may have had), and, that, like most funery monuments, are sketchy in how much of an active role they played in a given civilization's day-to-day activities (outside of ones involved with ancestor worship religions, which the Bosnians were not) is a dubious choice.

From Wikipedia:

Spoiler :

The exclusive relation between stećci and Bogomils was propagated from the late 19th century due to political and ideological reasons, like by Béni Kállay and Austro-Hungarian authorities who promoted post-Ottoman and pan-Bosnian identity because since 1878 the territory was part of Austro-Hungarian administration, rather than scientific reasons. Although it was already questioned in 1899 by Kosta Hörmann the first director of National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, for almost a century it was a predominant theory in international historiography.

Since the mid-20th century many scholars like Marian Wenzel, once the world's leading authority on the art and artifacts of medieval Bosnia and Herzegovina, concluded that the stećci tombstones were a common tradition amongst Catholic, Orthodox and Bosnian Church followers alike. Wenzel's conclusion supported other historians' claims that they reflect a regional cultural phenomenon rather than belonging to a particular religious faith.

 

[Patine]

From Wikipedia:

Spoiler :

The exclusive relation between stećci and Bogomils was propagated from the late 19th century due to political and ideological reasons, like by Béni Kállay and Austro-Hungarian authorities who promoted post-Ottoman and pan-Bosnian identity because since 1878 the territory was part of Austro-Hungarian administration, rather than scientific reasons. Although it was already questioned in 1899 by Kosta Hörmann the first director of National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, for almost a century it was a predominant theory in international historiography.

Since the mid-20th century many scholars like Marian Wenzel, once the world's leading authority on the art and artifacts of medieval Bosnia and Herzegovina, concluded that the stećci tombstones were a common tradition amongst Catholic, Orthodox and Bosnian Church followers alike. Wenzel's conclusion supported other historians' claims that they reflect a regional cultural phenomenon rather than belonging to a particular religious faith.

But were they actively important in the day-to-day life of Medieval Bosnians to the level to qualify as a full Improvement, or no more so than a church graveyard or family tomb in much of the rest of the Western World, just one that would attract interest in the 19h Century onward? There's also a good question.

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

But were they actively important in the day-to-day life of Medieval Bosnians to the level to qualify as a full Improvement

For lack of a better alternative the stećak will do.

 

[Not_Brixter]

Religious civ

Civ ability: Each foreign city where your founded religion is a minority religion has a random building or district pillaged every 10 turns. +1 Great Prophet point for every unit killed.

Leader ability: +3 Combat and Religious Strength to all units for each foreign Holy City.

Unique unit: Combat Apostle - Can use a Spread Religion charge on your unit. That unit gains the Detonate ability. When activated, the tiles within the blast radius of 1 has districts and buildings pillaged, and all units and population killed.

Unique district: Combat Holy Site - Additional +2 adjacency to Encampment districts and Strategic Resources. +2 Amenities when you are at war with another civ.

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

Unique unit: Combat Apostle - Can use a Spread Religion charge on your unit. That unit gains the Detonate ability. When activated, the tiles within the blast radius of 1 has districts and buildings pillaged, and all units and population killed.

☹

 

[Caesar of Bread]

You mean the Iroquois will become their suzerain?

Yes. Also nice Bosnia design

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

Don't be sad. The unit gets rewarded with 72 virgins in the afterlife.

Oh?

 

[Patine]

Don't be sad. The unit gets rewarded with 72 virgins in the afterlife.

A generic, "religious civ," gets rewarded a speciifc - and misinterpreted and badly setereotyped by Westerners and deliberately misrepresented by extremists to disingenuously promote recruiting of the ignorant and desperate - "promise," of one specific religion, do they?

 

[Evie]

I mean, is there ANY part of the proposed civ that's not a misinterpreted and badly stereotyped by westerner aspect of one specific religion?

Subtelty ain't this proposal's strong suite. Not that it has much by way of a strong suite, except maybe an utter lack of any redeeming quality.