Hi civ community!
I'm new to the forums, I'm a fan of history and historical games such as aoe, total war series and paradox. I started playing civ 6 since december and I've been loving it.
Now I want to share here my idea for a new civilization. It is for the all mighty Soviet Union, I've already read some discussions about this subject, some people think Soviet leaders should be available as Russian alternate leaders. Some others think they should not be a civ at all since it is enough with Russians. I think however Soviets should be depicted in the game, why? well, the question should be why not? Even though the Soviet Union was a short lived state, it was a really important one, it left an indelible mark in world and civilization history. I also think they deserve a civ of their own because Tsarist Russia has a different focus and playstyle than the USSR would have. Besides, having both Tzarist Russia and USSR as separate civs would allow players to have recreate conflicts like the Russian revolution and civil war.
My proposal has been based on ideas that I've found in the forums, already existing mods and my own original ideas. I don't claim any right over this ideas, so anyone can use them for their own proposal or mod developing. So after saying all of this here is my proposal.
Soviet Union
- Civilization theme: based on
Katyusha instrumental versions (the one in link is my favourite).
- Civilization ability:
Republic of the Soviets. +35% production towards campus, space port and industrial zone districts. Industrial zone districts provide +1 amenities. Can't found religions.
- Unique Unit:
T-34. replaces tank, slightly stronger than regular tank (+2 strength). Cheaper production (380), requires half oil and gold maintenance than regular tanks.
- Unique infrastructure:
Naukograd. replaces research lab, +50% science yields, +2 great scientist and great engineer points per turn and +20% production towards space projects in this city.
Leaders:
•
Nikolai Lenin
- capital:
Petrograd
- Unique Ability:
Commitern. +50% diplomatic favor for every alliance and city state you are suzerain of, additional +50% diplomatic favor for alliances with same government civilizations. +1 favor during 10 turns for every city that has turned over to you due to loyalty pressure.
- Unique Unit:
Red Guard. Replaces infantry, +7 combat strength against civs with different government. +50% production to red guard in cities with an industrial zone.
- Agenda:
Proletarian Revolution. Likes civilizations with a high amount of industry and happy people. Dislikes civilizations with low industry or unhappy people.
• Iosif Stalin
- Capital: Moscow
- Unique Ability:
Great Patriotic War. +50% production towards military units, industrial zones and military encampments during 15 turns after being declared surprise war. -100% war weariness for battles in own territory, enemy receives +50% war weariness and natural disaster damage in allied territory.
- Unique infrastructure:
NKVD HQ. Tier 3 government plaza building. Grants a free spy when built. +3 loyalty per turn in all cities. +50% production towards spies in this city. Enemy espionage operations in own territory have an extra +35% failure chance.
- Agenda:
Iron curtain. Likes civilizations which doesn't send envoys to city states where he holds suzerainty. Really dislikes civilizations that send envoys to his city states and will not hesitate to attack civilizations that have declared war upon his city states.
Strategy:
Soviet unique ability allows them to build campuses, industrial zones and space ports faster as well as their district improvement turns the scientific victory their best bet. However their leaders abilities may allow for other victory path. Lenin's unique hability should allow the acumulation of more diplomatic favor and aim for a diplomatic victory. Stalin's ability should allow the soviets to survive early wars and possibly strike back their enemies thus making domination victory viable.
One of their disadvantages is not being able to use their unique units and infrastrucres until late game. However been able to construct campuses and industrial zones faster should increase their survival chances in early game.
Leaders dialogues:
I have thought of possible dialogues, most of them are based on actual quotes from this characters or other people from the same time.
Lenin.
Greeting: My name is Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the USSR and the Communist International. We Socialists always stand for democracy, not in the name of capitalism, but in the name of clearing the path for our movement.
Agenda-based disapproval: Socialists must explain to the masses that they have no other road of salvation except the revolutionary overthrow of their governments.
Agenda-based approval: Thanks to your efforts, the dictatorship of the proletariat will soon become a reality.
Declares War: There are times when the interests of the proletariat call for ruthless extermination of its enemies in open armed clashes.
Attacked: Socialists cannot achieve their great aim without fighting against all oppression of nations.
Defeated: The Bolsheviks have failed to bring the dictatorship of the proletariat, but the class strugle is far from over.
Stalin.
Greeting: Hello! I'm comrade Stalin, welcome to the unbreakable union of free republics, the united, mighty Soviet Union!
Agenda-based disapproval: If you are afraid of wolves, keep out of the woods.
Agenda-based approval: We recognize in true people our friends, those who make our contry a reliable stronghold of the peoples' happiness
Declares War: There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm! We grew our army in battles, we'll go from victory to victory
!
Attacked: Russia is a vast land, but there’s nowhere to retreat, Moscow is behind us! Not one step back!
Defeated: I'm finished. I trust no one, not even myself.
Names for Cities taken from renamed russian cities and cities from other soviet republics:
- Leningrad
- Rostov
- Karkov
- Kaliningrad
- Stalingrad
- Chernobyl
- Kursk
- Donetsk
- Kirovgrad
- Gagarin
- Sevastopol
- Belgorod
- Glukhov
- Minsk
- Kiev
- Tallin
- Kishinev
- Dushanbe
- Ashkhabad
- Alma-Ata
This is my civ proposal, I'd like to know your thoughts, maybe is to OP or some things could be different/better. I'd like to hear your comments.