Entertaining Civ VI

[Boris Gudenuf]

Just to end 2018 on a completely Non Serious Note...

Here are musings on things Firaxis could have done to make Civ VI and Gathering Sturm more entertaining, even if they had no effect at all on the play of the game:

The music for Canada should include at least one stanza of the Lumberjack Song from Monty Python.

OR after a Mountie unit wins a combat, the figures jump off their horses, strike a pose, and break into "I'm a Lumberjack and I'm Okay..."

The Canadian graphic for Fur Resource has beavers instead of foxes.

The Incan Scout has a llama instead of a dog

The Maori Scout has a tiny human being with furry feet trotting along next to the scout...

One of the new named Rivers on the map for the Greek civilization is the Styx. It can only be crossed at a ferry...

 

[Zaarin]

One of the rivers for Rome could be the Rubicon; crossing it starts a war.

One of the volcanoes for the Maori could be Orodruin. Sending a Hobbit with the One Ring there causes the instant defeat of Brazil, since Pedro is clearly Sauron while he was still posing as Annatar.

Inca cavalry units could ride llamas.

 

[Phrozen]

Kupe sings You're Welcome at you randomly.

 

[Alexander's Hetaroi]

Inca cavalry units could ride llamas.

Cossacks could ride on bears.
Mounties could ride on moose.
Aztec cavalry on jaguars.
Cree cavalry on bison.
Australia cavalry on emus.
Arabia and Persia cavalry on camels beside the Mamluk.
All India and Khmer cavalry on Elephants and the Varu can be ranged.
Zulu cavalry could ride their battle cattle.
I guess I just want a more variety of animals.

 

[Zaarin]

Cossacks could ride on bears.

Zulu cavalry could ride their battle cattle.

Beware the battle cattle, as Best Friend Tabitha wisely warns us!


So...Civilization: Fallout New Vegas is going to be the spinoff this time?

 

[Boris Gudenuf]

And just to start off 2019 on a suitably frivolous note:

Changes that would affect Game Play but will never be implemented for reasons too obvious to mention:

Sweden
Sweden's first Frigate sinks as soon as it is given a movement order. When an Archeologist 'raises' the wreck, the nearest Swedish Theatre District on the coast gets a Vasa Museum which generates +10 Tourism per turn.

Russia
Once Russia has any Cossack units, if Russia ever loses access to Horses, all the Cossack units immediately become Musketmen.
This is in accordance with the old Russian Proverb:
"Take away his horse, and he is no longer a Cossack."

Russia
Can build 1 Oil Well on a land oil resource within Russian territory, even before they have discovered Combustion.
(The Baku oilfields were producing a full decade before Drake drilled his first well in Titusville, Pa.)
That Oil Well also provides +2 Gold per turn to Sweden.
(Ludvig Nobel, Alfred's older brother, was one of the early directors of the Baku Fields!)

United States
IF the USA names its first Frigate 'Enterprise', and its first Aircraft Carrier 'Enterprise', then the USA gets a 20% boost to the construction of any Space Unit/Component or Space Project.

England
IF England conquers India in any game, it immediately generates an English Great Writer: Rudyard Kipling. His Great Works are:
Barrack Room Ballads
The Jungle Book
Kim
Once all three of them are placed, they generate +1 additional Tourism to any Tourism-producing Wonder, District, Building, Improvement, etc. situated within the original territory of India's cities. IF India somehow regains status as a separate Civ, the Tourism boost remains with India
(Just finished reading David Gilmour's The British in India: Kipling's writings hugely influenced people to go visit or work in India from the late 19th century right down to Indian Independence and beyond)

 

[Weraptor]

Malian buildings should be made of piles of gold. Otherwise not accurate at all.

 

[redfox85]

Beware the battle cattle, as Best Friend Tabitha wisely warns us!


So...Civilization: Fallout New Vegas is going to be the spinoff this time?

No you got California wrong

 

[Zaarin]

No you got California wrong

Gah, I grabbed the wrong one. Best Friend Tabitha would be so disappointed in me.

 

[gozpel]

When your spy successfully counter a Kongo spy for the first time, Mvemba a Nzinga reveals his real name. Which is Morgan Freeman.