Abraxis
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Rather than continue my subversive and clandestine campaign to raise awareness and support for the Holy Righteous King Tamar, I decided to take matters into my own hands and design them myself. I hope there are Firaxis devs around. If so, you have my full consent to delay the release of the game as long as it takes to implement The Mighty Kingdom of Georgia as outlined bellow.
Short of this, I think it will fall on us to implement this civ into the game. I've been doing some research into Georgia and compiled some short notes (which I'll include here) I thought were both significant to this culture, and seemed as though they could translate well into the mechanics we have in Civ.
I think I've managed to translate their themes into the mechanics of the game in such a way as to preserve their identity, leaving out specific values for balance. I've also tried taking into consideration the personality and archetypes of other civs in order to give Georgia some interesting dynamics when in game with the other personalities, as well as to hopefully avoid traits the unannounced civs may have.
Tell me what you think! Suggest some tweaks of your own, or try and design them from scratch yourself. If we can't get Firaxis to add them I will mod them in myself with the input from you guys here.
Notes on Georgia:
Notes on Tamar
General Themes
Civilization
Colours Deep Navy blue with gold border (As in above image)
Great Eastern Monastary: Unique tile improvement, one per city, provides science culture and faith with applicable adjacency bonuses, also contains a relic slot. Can be built in City States providing both them and Georgia with the yields. A road will also be generated between the City State Monastary and Georgia’s closest city.
Spoils of war: Unique ability, Georgia receives a gold bonus for every enemy unit killed (or perhaps just every victory) from a competing religion in their territory. Georgia receives bonus gold when pillaging enemy religion’s tile improvements.
Progeny of David: Unique ability, All units receive combat bonuses against competing religions with greater military power.
Patron of the faith: Leader ability, King Tamar receives bonus emissaries to each city state in which she has a Monastary.
Defender of Holy Antiquity: Personality, Tamar is envious of competing religions with more holy relics than her and she will aggressively Defend city states with Monasteries from attack.
Short of this, I think it will fall on us to implement this civ into the game. I've been doing some research into Georgia and compiled some short notes (which I'll include here) I thought were both significant to this culture, and seemed as though they could translate well into the mechanics we have in Civ.
I think I've managed to translate their themes into the mechanics of the game in such a way as to preserve their identity, leaving out specific values for balance. I've also tried taking into consideration the personality and archetypes of other civs in order to give Georgia some interesting dynamics when in game with the other personalities, as well as to hopefully avoid traits the unannounced civs may have.
Tell me what you think! Suggest some tweaks of your own, or try and design them from scratch yourself. If we can't get Firaxis to add them I will mod them in myself with the input from you guys here.
Notes on Georgia:
Spoiler :
Notes on Tamar
Spoiler :
General Themes
- Georgia was a relatively small nation surrounded by religious enemies. Despite its size, Georgia held against all onslaught. Even pushing out, liberating vassalized cities and establishing tributaries. They were also known for maintaining strong alliances, defending Holy interests in foreign lands, and developing their own unique culture.
- Georgian Rulers claimed decent from David -whom famously defeated Goliath. This theme is carried by their position and success of being a small isolated Christian power among a much larger Muslim dominated region.
- Georgia was heavily invested with protecting the integrity of their faith outside of their borders.
Civilization
Colours Deep Navy blue with gold border (As in above image)
Great Eastern Monastary: Unique tile improvement, one per city, provides science culture and faith with applicable adjacency bonuses, also contains a relic slot. Can be built in City States providing both them and Georgia with the yields. A road will also be generated between the City State Monastary and Georgia’s closest city.
Spoils of war: Unique ability, Georgia receives a gold bonus for every enemy unit killed (or perhaps just every victory) from a competing religion in their territory. Georgia receives bonus gold when pillaging enemy religion’s tile improvements.
Progeny of David: Unique ability, All units receive combat bonuses against competing religions with greater military power.
Patron of the faith: Leader ability, King Tamar receives bonus emissaries to each city state in which she has a Monastary.
Defender of Holy Antiquity: Personality, Tamar is envious of competing religions with more holy relics than her and she will aggressively Defend city states with Monasteries from attack.
