One thing that is quite interesting about the choices of leaders in Civilization VI is that they, unlike in Civ V, have the leaders capital, rather than one given for the whole civilisation. Consider what we've seen:
Greece:
- Pericles: Athens
- Gorgo: Sparta
Russia:
- Peter the Great: St. Petersburg
Arabia:
- Saladin: Cairo
Sumer:
- Gilgamesh: Uruk
Rome:
- Trajan: Rome
Norway:
- Harald Hadrada: Nidaros
Kongo:
- Mvemba a Nzinga: Mbanza Kongo
India:
- Gandhi: Delhi
Spain:
- Philip II: Madrid
German:
- Frederick Barbarossa: Aachen
Scythia:
- Tomyris: Pokrovka
Brazil:
- Pedro II: Rio de Janeiro
France:
- Catherine de Medici: Paris
Aztec:
- Montezuma I: Tenochtitlan
China:
- Qin Shi Huang: Xi'an
Japan:
- Hojo Tokimune: Kyoto
Egypt:
- Cleopatra: Ra-kedet
England:
- Victoria: London
America:
- Theodore Roosevelt: Washington
Of these, some of the more interesting include Aachen for Frederick Barbarossa, Cairo for Saladin and Sparta for Gorgo. These wouldn't be a surprise of course thinking about the leaders themselves, but are surprises for the civilisations. There's been a lot of interesting information given since Gorgo was released, not least of which was that both Gorgo and Pericles would be able to play on the same game (seemingly as default), with them being assigned different capitals, colours, but the same civilisation. Them using the same large list of city names, which randomised with weighting towards the more well known, is also an interesting way of doing it.
One thought that occurs seeing this is that we also know that Isabella of Spain is on her way, and much like Gorgo, her traditional capital is not the same as the other leader for the civ. Philip II was assigned Madrid as his capital (which is less surprising for Spain as a whole), the city that he himself moved the capital to. Isabella of course had her capital as Toledo.
So, what if for her reveal we see the same pattern, a different set of colours (possibly her colours from Civ V), a different capital (Toledo)? It may well suggest that each leader added to the game is chosen in such a way that they could be given this, that is, new leaders would be ones that had a different capital to the ones already seen in the game. For example, Lenin could lead Russia with Moscow as their capital, and some version of red and yellow as their colours, or Alexander could lead Greece from his capital of Pella.
The choices of colours for civilisations also remains largely unchanged from previous versions, except in a few distinct cases, e.g. Philip's Spain. This is another area that may direct us to other possible new leaders.
Should this be the case, it would open up a lot of different possibilities, such as representing civilisations that went through a lot of changes (e.g. various German leaders, Byzantium could be Rome with a different leader, doubt they'd do that though), while it would also limit a lot of cases (je ne suis pas Napoléon).
At this time there isn't enough information to either strongly suggest, nor deny, that this is actually the case, just thought it was interesting. Seeing how they reveal Isabella though will be quite insightful.
Edit: Fixed Egypt's capital.
Greece:
- Pericles: Athens
- Gorgo: Sparta
Russia:
- Peter the Great: St. Petersburg
Arabia:
- Saladin: Cairo
Sumer:
- Gilgamesh: Uruk
Rome:
- Trajan: Rome
Norway:
- Harald Hadrada: Nidaros
Kongo:
- Mvemba a Nzinga: Mbanza Kongo
India:
- Gandhi: Delhi
Spain:
- Philip II: Madrid
German:
- Frederick Barbarossa: Aachen
Scythia:
- Tomyris: Pokrovka
Brazil:
- Pedro II: Rio de Janeiro
France:
- Catherine de Medici: Paris
Aztec:
- Montezuma I: Tenochtitlan
China:
- Qin Shi Huang: Xi'an
Japan:
- Hojo Tokimune: Kyoto
Egypt:
- Cleopatra: Ra-kedet
England:
- Victoria: London
America:
- Theodore Roosevelt: Washington
Of these, some of the more interesting include Aachen for Frederick Barbarossa, Cairo for Saladin and Sparta for Gorgo. These wouldn't be a surprise of course thinking about the leaders themselves, but are surprises for the civilisations. There's been a lot of interesting information given since Gorgo was released, not least of which was that both Gorgo and Pericles would be able to play on the same game (seemingly as default), with them being assigned different capitals, colours, but the same civilisation. Them using the same large list of city names, which randomised with weighting towards the more well known, is also an interesting way of doing it.
One thought that occurs seeing this is that we also know that Isabella of Spain is on her way, and much like Gorgo, her traditional capital is not the same as the other leader for the civ. Philip II was assigned Madrid as his capital (which is less surprising for Spain as a whole), the city that he himself moved the capital to. Isabella of course had her capital as Toledo.
So, what if for her reveal we see the same pattern, a different set of colours (possibly her colours from Civ V), a different capital (Toledo)? It may well suggest that each leader added to the game is chosen in such a way that they could be given this, that is, new leaders would be ones that had a different capital to the ones already seen in the game. For example, Lenin could lead Russia with Moscow as their capital, and some version of red and yellow as their colours, or Alexander could lead Greece from his capital of Pella.
The choices of colours for civilisations also remains largely unchanged from previous versions, except in a few distinct cases, e.g. Philip's Spain. This is another area that may direct us to other possible new leaders.
Should this be the case, it would open up a lot of different possibilities, such as representing civilisations that went through a lot of changes (e.g. various German leaders, Byzantium could be Rome with a different leader, doubt they'd do that though), while it would also limit a lot of cases (je ne suis pas Napoléon).
At this time there isn't enough information to either strongly suggest, nor deny, that this is actually the case, just thought it was interesting. Seeing how they reveal Isabella though will be quite insightful.
Edit: Fixed Egypt's capital.
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