Leaders that you would not want to have in civ 7 (until you think about it and they are strangely appealing)

[Siptah]

With civ 7‘s leaders being from a wider field, i.e., not just heads of state, I wondered about cool leaders that never had a chance so far. While there are surely many good ideas, I‘m interested to hear some suggestions that aren‘t good ideas - until you turn the idea around in your head a few times and it becomes intriguing.

I‘ll start off with a few, Eurocentric as I am:
- Sid Meier
- Doktor Faustus
- George-Eugène Haussmann
- Hernán Cortés
- Le Corbusier or Oscar Niemeyer
- Karl Marx
- Hercule Poirot
- Zeus (please not, but it would be fun)
- Nostradamus

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

I'm not sure they'll have completely fictional figures as leaders (as much as I love Poirot)

 

[Siptah]

I'm not sure they'll have completely fictional figures as leaders (as much as I love Poirot)

They won‘t. But we had Gilgamesh, and Poirot is almost as historical as him, having an obituary in newspapers when he died.

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

They won‘t. But we had Gilgamesh, and Poirot is almost as historical as him, having an obituary in newspapers when he died.

I believe Gilgamesh is agreed to be a historical figure who did exist, but Poirot is a purely fictional invention

 

[Haig]

Che Guevara

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

Marcel Proust (just so I can get my hands on him for the tortures I endured reading Swann's Way)

 

[Gori the Grey]

We could give Plato the chance to realize his Republic, More his Utopia or Aristophanes his Cloud****ooland.

We could give Ozymandias a second crack at building something that could better stand the test of time than two vast and trunkless legs of stone.

 

[Professor Phobo]

Franz Kafka, but his model sometimes turns into a giant cockroach.

Marie Curie. You gain a huge one-time science boost the moment you discover Uranium, but then have to pick a new leader.

 

[Zaarin]

We could give Ozymandias a second crack at building something that could better stand the test of time than two vast and trunkless legs of stone.

Ozymandias (Ramesses) has been in almost every Civ game.

 

[Siptah]

We could give Plato the chance to realize his Republic, More his Utopia or Aristophanes his Cloud****ooland.

We could give Ozymandias a second crack at building something that could better stand the test of time than two vast and trunkless legs of stone.

I thought about Plato, but I didn‘t put him in my list, because I actually consider him a great pick. Nothing wrong with that. Now, Aristophanes on the other hand…

 

[Gori the Grey]

Ozymandias (Ramesses) has been in almost every Civ game.

That's why I added the wink emoji. I think he'd be more interesting as Ozymandias.

 

[reddishrecue]

Che Guevara

Or Fidel Castro

 

[Alexander's Hetaroi]

Ra-Ra Rasputin

 

[moysturfurmer]

 

[Kev1916]

Victor Frankenstein

 

[Professor Phobo]

Victor Frankenstein

Dracula, the Mummy, and the Wolf-Man as well.

I'm not even joking I'd love a "gothic horror timeline" scenario or mode.

 

[Alexander's Hetaroi]

Dracula, the Mummy, and the Wolf-Man as well.

I'm not even joking I'd love a "gothic horror timeline" scenario or mode.

Since Vlad Tepes, the inspiration for Dracula, was a real person I think he'd be a great pick too.

 

[Zaarin]

I'd love to see Romania/Wlachia added without the slightest hint of vampires.

 

[Guandao]

Here's a list:
Francisco Pizarro
Lope de Aguirre
Ponce de Leon
Leopold of Belgium
Pol Pot
Rodrigo Borgia
Cesare Borgia
Lucretia Borgia
Aaron Burr
General Custer
Jefferson Davis
Henry Ford
Salvador Dali
Pablo Picasso
Edgar Allan Poe
Mark Twain
Hideki Tojo
John Wilkes Booth
Cecil Rhodes
Nero
Caligula
Agamemnon

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

When I learnt that Ara: History Untold was going for non-political leaders I made the following list:

Ferdowsi - Persia
Leonardo da Vinci - Italy
Voltaire - France
Juana Inés de la Cruz - Mexico
Richard Wagner - Germany
Edgar Allan Poe - America
Rabindranath Tagore - India/Bengal
Fernando Pessoa - Portugal
Rembrandt - Netherlands