Design your own Civ VI Great Person

[Brackenspore]

Design your own Great Generals, Admirals, Scientists, Engineers, Merchants and their abilities.
Writers, Musicians, Artists are standard.


For example:
Stephen Hawking (Information Great Scientist) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking
Creates Research Lab in this district. Research Labs provide +4 Science and +2 Culture*
*because Hawking is popularizer of science

Afanasy Nikitin (Renaissance Great Merchant) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afanasy_Nikitin
Gain 350 Gold. Create The Journey Beyond Three Seas (Great Work of Writing)

Archimedes (Classical Great Engineer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes
Instantly creates two Catapults with 1 promotion

Alexander Suvorov (Industrial Great General) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Suvorov
Creates Military Academy in this district. Military Academies provide +2 Science.

 

[kul]

While Im glad that Sudirman is seen as an Atomic Great General in one of the LPs, I think more Indonesian Great People can help lol

Gajah Mada
Medieval Great General
Gain 150 Culture. Unit gain +10 Combat strength when attacking Cities.
(Gajah Mada, the Indonesian Leader of Civ V fame, is all about conquering neighbouring cities into his kingdom's mandala of influence)

Hasanuddin
Renaissance Great Admiral
Gain 1 Extra Trade Route. Internal trade route towards this city is 33% more effective.
(one of the most famous adversary of the Dutch East Indies during its attempt to conquer the Spice Trade of eastern Indonesan archipelago. Known as Rooster from the East)

Raden Saleh
Industrial Great Artist
The Hunt (Landscape) The Arrest of Diponegoro (Potrait) Six Men Chasing A Deer (Landscape)
(The first ever Indonesian modern artist, a Javanese of aristocratic birth who had the chance to tour Europe and paint under the patronage of various nobles and courts)

Ki Hadjar Dewantara
Modern Great Scientist
Gain an Eureka for a random Modern or Atomic Technology. Immediately gain 50% point needed to unlock current Government's Legacy Bonus
(The father of Indonesian Education, known for his political efforts to archieve independence from the Dutch, and the first founder of an all-native public school)

R.A. Kartini
Modern Great Writer
From Darkness into Light , Letters of Javanese Princess

Frederich Silaban
Atomic Great Engineer
Double the yields and housing from all buildings on this Holy Site district, as well as +3 Ammenities in the City.
(an architect who designs some Indonesian monuments after its independence, most notably is the Isitiqlal Mosque in Jakarta, despite him being protestant)

Mario Teguh
Information Great Merchant
Gain 2500 Gold
(Public speaker and consultant which reached his height of popularity after starring weekly motivational show, whose catchphase "SUPER" and "Golden Ways" had reach memetic status nationally. Recently withdrew from said show after a household conflict)

 

[UnknownHuman]

Khalid ibn al-Walid
Medieval Great General
+25% Flanking bonus for all land military units.

Trần Hưng Đạo
Medieval Great General
+5 Combat Strength when fighting near a river for all military units.

Vasco de Gama
Renaissance Great Admiral
Creates a Caravel with +1 Movement and with the ability to move over ocean tiles without the required technology.

Alfred Thayer Mahan
Industrial Great Admiral
Creates a Seaport in this Harbour. Creates The Influence of Sea Power upon History (Great Work of Writing).

Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
Medieval Great Scientist
Creates The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing (Great Work of Writing). Great Works of Writing provide +1 Science.

Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban
Renaissance Great Engineer
Creates a Citadel ; +100% Defensive Combat Strength for a unit on the tile, and damages all enemy units that end their turn on an adjacent tile for 30% of their maximum Health.

Ustad Ahmad Lahauri
Renaissance Great Engineer
Grants 315 Production towards wonder construction. (2 charges)

Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī
Medieval Great Writer
Masnavi-I Ma'navi; Dīvān-e Kabīr (Great Works of Writing)

Gustav Holst
Modern Great Musician
Mars, the Bringer of War; St Paul's Suite (Great Works of Music)

Miles Davis
Atomic Great Musician
So What; Peaceful (Great Works of Music)

Diego Velásquez
Renaissance Great Artist
Las Meninas, Las Hilanderas (Great Works of Art)

 

[The Kings Raven]

This isn't really a design because Great Prophets are all identical but I'd like to see Hillel the Elder.

 

[Amrunril]

(Great Merchant)- +100 gold for each foreign tourist on this tile

(Great Merchant)- Acts as a settler, on founding a city, gives 100 gold for each luxury resource tile claimed

(Great Scientist)- On activation, you may begin research on a technology for which you are missing a single prerequisite.

(Great Engineer)- Units starting on roads in your territory gain +1 movement

 

[playshogi]

Great Merchant Industrial - Johnny Appleseed- plants a forest on this tile which counts as 'old growth' -- 10 charges.

 

[Tlplw717]

This isn't really a design because Great Prophets are all identical but I'd like to see Hillel the Elder.

I wonder if there is any way that they could have Great Prophets have slightly differing abilities, like they grant unit Pantheon level beliefs.

 

[altayrneto]

There's a lack of Brazilian great People (even with Pedro's LUA), so, there some ideas:

Machado de Assis (Industrial Great Writer) - "Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas" and " Dom Casmurro"
Santos Dumont (Industrial Great Scientist) - Receive a Eureka for Flight tech and a free envoy
Candido Rondon (Atomic Great General) - Extra movement in jungles for adjacent units, and generates culture when some adjacent unit is healing
Oscar Niemeyer (Information Great Engineer) - Grants production toward wonder construction
Lampião (Atomic Great General) - receive extra gold when conquering a city.
Vital Brazil (Modern Great Scientist) - Campus near jungles receive a Science bonus
Pedro Américo (Industrial Great Artist) - "Proclamação da Independência" and "Batalha do Havaí"
Visconde de Mauá (Industrial Great Merchant) - Can create a new trade route and a new trader unit for free.
Tamandaré (Industrial Great Adimiral) - Bonus atack against City-state's units

 

[AmtrakQuebec]

Weird Al Yankovic (Great Musician) - Just because he did Amish Paradise