something the devs once said leads me to believe that britain will be the last modern age civ slot. i can't find the exact words but it was to the effect of looking historically at the great struggles and rivalries between world powers.
thinking about the years being used as the modern period, 1750 thru 1950, it seems to me that the magnitude of Britain's involvement on the world stage (for better or worse) simply can't be ignored. even ignoring WW2, britain probably has a notable conflict or exchange in history with the majority of the modern age civs, certainly America France Buganda Russia Mughal Siam and Qing. i do not think we can say the same about Prussia / Germany.
further, from a earth TSL perspective, i think the Civ7 team has done well to pick base game civs that, as best as possible, give an uncontested area of the map for each civ that covers the empire at or near its peak. just looking at the 2 europe civs in each era... rome and greece split europe west vs east; normandy and spain split europe north vs south...napoleonic france at one point spread to most of the continent and covered most of prussia's home territory. britain at its extent spread out everywhere else BUT the continent, giving it a unique space on the map. prussia even at its height overlaps with france to a fair degree, not westward enough to avoid overlap with russia either.
finally i believe the trio of Goths/HRE/Germany makes way too much sense as a DLC pairing, it would be ridiculous not to package them together. if one of the first two DLCs it would also explain the availability of germanic wonders and unit models in pre-launch material.
feel free to disagree but i'm still putting my bet on Britain in base game, Prussia or Germany in early DLC.
thinking about the years being used as the modern period, 1750 thru 1950, it seems to me that the magnitude of Britain's involvement on the world stage (for better or worse) simply can't be ignored. even ignoring WW2, britain probably has a notable conflict or exchange in history with the majority of the modern age civs, certainly America France Buganda Russia Mughal Siam and Qing. i do not think we can say the same about Prussia / Germany.
further, from a earth TSL perspective, i think the Civ7 team has done well to pick base game civs that, as best as possible, give an uncontested area of the map for each civ that covers the empire at or near its peak. just looking at the 2 europe civs in each era... rome and greece split europe west vs east; normandy and spain split europe north vs south...napoleonic france at one point spread to most of the continent and covered most of prussia's home territory. britain at its extent spread out everywhere else BUT the continent, giving it a unique space on the map. prussia even at its height overlaps with france to a fair degree, not westward enough to avoid overlap with russia either.
finally i believe the trio of Goths/HRE/Germany makes way too much sense as a DLC pairing, it would be ridiculous not to package them together. if one of the first two DLCs it would also explain the availability of germanic wonders and unit models in pre-launch material.
feel free to disagree but i'm still putting my bet on Britain in base game, Prussia or Germany in early DLC.
