Fine... I'll make a design thread.

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SO YOU CALLED US BARBARIANS?!
Designs of civilizations that were namesakes of barb cities in Civ IV.
Too gimmicky?

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Scythian design

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Scythia
Gelonus
Targitaus

UA: Scythae Basilaei
Defeating barbarian units has a chance to create workers, doubled if in an encampment. Tributing city states produces golden age points. +1 for every active worker in the empire; +3 during golden ages.

UU: Skuda
Replaces chariot archer. Ranged strength counts for tributing as well as melee strength. Pillaging tiles takes no movement, provides double health, and causes global unhappiness in enemy empires.

UB: Kurgan
Replaces shrine. Provides a burst of golden age points any time a great person is expended or a mounted unit dies. Provides +15 XP and the "Nomad" promotion* to units bought or built during golden ages.

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This promotion grants units +1 movement after razing a tile, meaning pillaging costs negative one movement point. It also provides +1 food to camps and pastures the unit is stationed on.

Kazakh design

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The Kazakhs
Almaty
Kasym

UA: The Great Jüz
Upon capturing a city, gain based on the number of trade routes to or from the city. Cities gain production and faith for every trade route passing through their borders that does not involve the city. Borders grow faster in largest cities.

UU: Dzhigit
Replaces Horseman. Capturing civilian units provides experience, and each promotion contributes local happiness to a city when garrisoned for every horse resource improved in the empire.

UI: Silk Road
Unlocked at currency. Can connect cities and costs no maintenance. Foreign missionaries yield faith and foreign trade units yield when ending a turn on a Silk Road. If a Silk Road connects to the borders of another civ, gain a copy of a random luxury in the empire.

 

[inthesomeday]

Got my first gimmick. Gonna do 12 for this one

Here's the third, to be able to have the smilies

Ainu design

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Ainu peoples
Sapporo
Koshamain

UA: Iwors
+1 food on sea resources and camp improvements. When an enemy declares war, a free contemporary infantry unit appears on every camp in the empire. Cities enter "We Love the King Day" when an animal resource is improved nearby.

UU: Storyteller
Replaces Great Writer. Rather than creating regular great works, the Ainu Storyteller creates Yukars, Yukars can be used to theme with any other great work. When a Yukar is swapped, gain a massive sum of tourism towards the other civilization. Bulking storytellers generates as well as .

UB: Nusasan
Replaces shrine. Contains a slot for great work of writing. During We Love the King Day (renamed Iomante in these cities), animal resources produce +2 tourism and +1 faith.