Lonecat Nekophrodite
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1. Should their closely packed city planning scheme be their main theme as in Civ6?
2. Name of their Civ unique ability please. (Yamato no Tamashii or Taiyoh no ji or something else)
3. Leader
Mine will propose Itou Hirobumi as a candidate
Leader Ability: The Last Samurai (Science and Civil developments, Expansionist, admires superior civ and disdainful of inferiors like Pete, cheaper unit upgrades, serious with CS affairs)
4. UU
4.1 How to represent Japanese signature unit. the Samurai? (while in reality the term refers to an entire warrior caste and not just one kind of units. there also Archers, Armored Lancers (AKA, 'Cataphracts' (inspired by Chinese literatures like Romance of the Three Kingdoms where heroic characters were usually represented as being cataphracts, particularly Guan Yu) or 'Knights' (騎士) and later, arquebusier samurais before the entire caste abolished as a part of Meiji Restoration). However 'pop culture' samurais were best (and usually) represented as melee fighting men with light armor.
A. Swordsman Samurai (Kenshi); the most common representations of Samurais.
B. Halberdier/Billman; other videogames represented Samurais as billmen or halberdiers wielding Naginata.
4.2 If they can have one more UU. What should there be?
5. Unique Infrastructure
- I don't really agree that Electronics Factory as 'Generic Factory' replacement a proper representations of Japanese. YET I'm not quite sure how to represent Animation Studio as a 'counter' to American Movie Studio. While Americans invented 'Animated Cartoons', and also the first to televise ones. Japanese made 'Anime' their 'things' through serious televisations including exports particulalry to elsewhere in Asia and Latin America.
6. I've forgot about Ryukyu state. They are 'Japanese' but never was under a proper 'Japanese Imperial Rule' nor follow classic Japanese feifdoms. They called themselves 'A Kingdom of Ryukyu' and became a vassal to BOTH Japan and China (Particularly when Japan lost a tribunary status to China sometimes in 16th Century) and ruled by their own monarchs (of 'Sho' family (likely the family name and characters were granted by a Chinese Emperor). Despite their peoples being 'japonic', their cultures are very 'sinic' (more Chinese than Japanese, particularly with Ryukyuans adopted Ming era cultures, while true Japanese preserved much of Tang era Chinese cultures particularly archetectures). Ryukyu only became officially definite 'Japanese' in the latter half of 18th Century. With the Kingdom of Ryukyu dissolved (after Qing became too weak and Japan under Emperor Meiji had no interests collecting tributes but instead to annex Ryukyu completely), and the remaining Ryukyuan royal family was interned in Tokyo for the rests of their lives (some said there were those who did escape Japanese Imperial stranglehold and went to China and eventually became Chinese).
Should 'Ryukyu' appeared as a CS too? And which type of CS should it be?
2. Name of their Civ unique ability please. (Yamato no Tamashii or Taiyoh no ji or something else)
3. Leader
Mine will propose Itou Hirobumi as a candidate
Leader Ability: The Last Samurai (Science and Civil developments, Expansionist, admires superior civ and disdainful of inferiors like Pete, cheaper unit upgrades, serious with CS affairs)
4. UU
4.1 How to represent Japanese signature unit. the Samurai? (while in reality the term refers to an entire warrior caste and not just one kind of units. there also Archers, Armored Lancers (AKA, 'Cataphracts' (inspired by Chinese literatures like Romance of the Three Kingdoms where heroic characters were usually represented as being cataphracts, particularly Guan Yu) or 'Knights' (騎士) and later, arquebusier samurais before the entire caste abolished as a part of Meiji Restoration). However 'pop culture' samurais were best (and usually) represented as melee fighting men with light armor.
A. Swordsman Samurai (Kenshi); the most common representations of Samurais.
B. Halberdier/Billman; other videogames represented Samurais as billmen or halberdiers wielding Naginata.
4.2 If they can have one more UU. What should there be?
5. Unique Infrastructure
- I don't really agree that Electronics Factory as 'Generic Factory' replacement a proper representations of Japanese. YET I'm not quite sure how to represent Animation Studio as a 'counter' to American Movie Studio. While Americans invented 'Animated Cartoons', and also the first to televise ones. Japanese made 'Anime' their 'things' through serious televisations including exports particulalry to elsewhere in Asia and Latin America.
6. I've forgot about Ryukyu state. They are 'Japanese' but never was under a proper 'Japanese Imperial Rule' nor follow classic Japanese feifdoms. They called themselves 'A Kingdom of Ryukyu' and became a vassal to BOTH Japan and China (Particularly when Japan lost a tribunary status to China sometimes in 16th Century) and ruled by their own monarchs (of 'Sho' family (likely the family name and characters were granted by a Chinese Emperor). Despite their peoples being 'japonic', their cultures are very 'sinic' (more Chinese than Japanese, particularly with Ryukyuans adopted Ming era cultures, while true Japanese preserved much of Tang era Chinese cultures particularly archetectures). Ryukyu only became officially definite 'Japanese' in the latter half of 18th Century. With the Kingdom of Ryukyu dissolved (after Qing became too weak and Japan under Emperor Meiji had no interests collecting tributes but instead to annex Ryukyu completely), and the remaining Ryukyuan royal family was interned in Tokyo for the rests of their lives (some said there were those who did escape Japanese Imperial stranglehold and went to China and eventually became Chinese).
Should 'Ryukyu' appeared as a CS too? And which type of CS should it be?
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