Guess the New Civs

[Arkangelus]

When it comes to the modern civs (Poland, Brazil, Indonesia to some extent) the smart thing would be to release them as DLC. G&K seems to have picked up some additional press in the Netherlands for including them, and the Korean press hyped their own DLC quite a bit. It'd appeal to a lot of the series fans to have THEIR country represented, the expansion pack will more or less sell itself and Carthage, the Celts probably wont be quite such a draw on their own.

 

[MadDjinn]

from the PAX demo: (someone actually there, and texting a cousin, who's posting it here)

Ethiopia and Austria.

Plus the Hun/Carthage UAs:

Carthage: Can cross mountains. Free harbors in their cities.

Huns: Raise cities at double speed. Start with Animal Husbandry. +1 production from pastures.


plus:

Destroyers are melee. Battleships are ranged.


...


Though, no 'official' confirmation.

 

[TheMarshmallowBear]

from the PAX demo: (someone actually there, and texting a cousin, who's posting it here)

Ethiopia and Austria.

Plus the Hun/Carthage UAs:

Carthage: Can cross mountains. Free harbors in their cities.

Huns: Raise cities at double speed. Start with Animal Husbandry. +1 production from pastures.


plus:

Destroyers are melee. Battleships are ranged.


...


Though, no 'official' confirmation.

The streaming is not until 8th right?.. But the booth is still present.. right? I'm getting confused.

Austria, not a bad choice if you ask me, they SHOULD finally get their spotlight since they were half-involved in C3C, they had their data in, but nobody used them. But that still leaves out 1 nation?

AWWW crap, there was an interview I missed D: I hate myself xD

 

[MadDjinn]

The streaming is not until 8th right?.. But the booth is still present.. right? I'm getting confused.

Austria, not a bad choice if you ask me, they SHOULD finally get their spotlight since they were half-involved in C3C, they had their data in, but nobody used them. But that still leaves out 1 nation?

AWWW crap, there was an interview I missed D: I hate myself xD

the interview (today) with Dennis is about to start, it hasn't been missed yet.

PAX is 6th-8th, so the demo is on the floor already.

 

[Louis XXIV]

Austrians surprise me, but in a good way. Yes, the game is going to be very Eurocentric, but I think they can still be fun.

ETA: Maria Theresa, not a surprise there.

 

[D712]

Austria is confirmed and has a UA that lets her marry into a city state and acquire them.

 

[anandus]

The Austrian UA sounds very good for a pacifist player like me

 

[Louis XXIV]

He threw a name out there with the intrigue thing, but I couldn't quite make it out.

 

[anandus]

Byzantine dromon confirmed

 

[Louis XXIV]

This is the guess the civ thread, not the PAX thread

However, I will point out that, as expected, the Byzantines have a Dromon. My guess is Dromon and Cataphract.

ETA: Ninja edit, well played.

 

[Civciv5]

One of the things I hate in the Civilization series is Eurocentrism.
5 civs of Europe!
Only in this expansion!
While Asia is even important and influental as Europe and has far lesser civs.

Where can I post complaint(s) to the makers?

 

[Gucumatz]

So Ethiopia and Austria are in!

Leaves one more to go!

 

[Dragonflow]

Austria and Ethiopia are nice choices IMO. Finally Africa gets some more civs and I'm not really surprised Austria is in considering there is a focus on religion and a Victorian era scenario.

 

[tofofnts]

Huns capital Attila's Court. Can steal city names.

can steal city names. Interesting...
source: http://forums.2kgames.com/showthread.php?119093-Civ-V-Gods-amp-Kings-at-PAX

 

[Louis XXIV]

Austria fits a couple things. The Renaissance scenario, the Victorian scenario, another female leader.

 

[SammyKhalifa]

Austria fits a couple things. The Renaissance scenario, the Victorian scenario, another female leader.

And focus on WWI units.

I would have liked to see someone like Poland in, but Austria's a reasonable choice too.

 

[Gucumatz]

Would have been fun to see Metternich as the Austrian leader. Having both Bismarck and Metternich in a game would have been great.

 

[Louis XXIV]

And focus on WWI units.

I would have liked to see someone like Poland in, but Austria's a reasonable choice too.

Well, I don't suspect they'll give them a WWI UU considering how poorly Austria performed in the war. But I could be wrong.

 

[Dragonflow]

I think they overdo it with the female leaders. We have in this expansion alone Dido, Boudica, Theodora and Maria Theresia, this make 4 out of 9 civs have definitively female leaders. In Austrias case they at least picked a women who was actually very important, but Metternich or Franz Joseph could have been nice as well.

 

[Hawawaa]

Austria is in. Just watched the live feed. More info on the next interview and we also get to watch the demo too (tomorrow or sunday).