Never Before Seen Civs - Elimination Game

[Zaarin]

Benin (Dahomey)/Benin (Nigeria) 30 (33 - 3) -- I'm surprised to see such a runaway lead here. They're welcome to first place, but they're not the only interesting civ on this list.
Creek/Muskogee/Other SE NA 14
Gauls/Britons 17
Georgians 22
Haida/Tlingit/Other PNW NA 24 (23 + 1) -- One of the most unique cultures in the New World, and they would offer a playstyle we haven't seen associated with New World civs before.
Irish/Scottish 10
Kushans/Bactrians 8
Maori/Other Polynesians 13

 

[Boris Gudenuf]

Benin (Dahomey)/Benin (Nigeria) 30
Creek/Muskogee/Other SE NA 14
Gauls/Britons 18 (17 + 1) You want unique? A REAL Gallic Civ would/could have Migrations, Religious Geometry, road networks, a diplomatic/religious/scientific elite, and a choice of military, diplomatic, or religious leaders. This Civ has only been seen in Civ games before as a pale smear of what it should be.
Georgians 22
Haida/Tlingit/Other PNW NA 24
Irish/Scottish 10
Kushans/Bactrians 8
Maori/Other Polynesians 10 (13 - 3) - To be honest, I'd be happy to see ALL the remaining Choices in a Civ game, but I gotta choose to play here, and this is the Civ I'm most certain Firaxis would Vertically Fornicate.

 

[Kimiimaro]

Benin (Dahomey)/Benin (Nigeria) 30
Creek/Muskogee/Other SE NA 14
Gauls/Britons 18+1=19 - Civ I want to represent Celts.
Georgians 22
Haida/Tlingit/Other PNW NA 24
Irish/Scottish 10-3=7 - Civ I don't want to represent Celts.
Kushans/Bactrians 8
Maori/Other Polynesians 10

 

[Morningcalm]

Benin (Dahomey)/Benin (Nigeria) 30
Creek/Muskogee/Other SE NA 14
Gauls/Britons 19 - 3 = 16 (Not a priority or that unique, sorry)
Georgians 22
Haida/Tlingit/Other PNW NA 24
Irish/Scottish 7
Kushans/Bactrians 8
Maori/Other Polynesians 10 + 1 = 11 (Re: the Maori, they are too fascinating not to make it into the top 5, easy to find leader, UA, agenda, etc for them as well, and their craftsmanship would make for a cool aesthetic touch, not to mention they represent an underrepresented region in the form of Oceania, and a unique non-modern civ)

 

[Guandao]

Benin (Dahomey)/Benin (Nigeria) 30
Creek/Muskogee/Other SE NA (14+1)=15 I wouldn't mind the Iroquois being switched out for them. Enough of Hiawatha! Why not the descendants of the great Mississippians? And if the Sioux get put in...I'll be pissed....
Gauls/Britons 16
Georgians 22
Haida/Tlingit/Other PNW NA 24
Irish/Scottish 7
Kushans/Bactrians (8-3)=5 I think they should go before the Irish/Scottish. They are a little too obscure compared to the others. Plus the Bactrian leader would speak some form of Greek.
Maori/Other Polynesians 11

 

[The Kingmaker]

Benin (Dahomey)/Benin (Nigeria) 30
Creek/Muskogee/Other SE NA 15
Gauls/Britons 16+1=17 I'm starting to sound like a broken record here.
Georgians 22
Haida/Tlingit/Other PNW NA 24
Irish/Scottish 7
Kushans/Bactrians 5-3=2 A prospective Bactrian leader need not speak Greek, as that was only the administrative tongue of the region for about two centuries. A pre-Greco-Bactrian could speak Avestan, the language of the Zoroastrian scriptures, and a post-Greco-Bactrian leader from the Kushans or Hephthalites would speak ancient Bactrian, an Iranian language that was the lingua franca of those empires. It's a pity Bactria spent most of its history being ruled by other cultures. -- they might otherwise be more well known today. That being said, as cool as it would be to see them, I think they're too obscure to have a chance at the moment.
Maori/Other Polynesians 11

I normally cast my votes in the morning hours, but my schedule was off today and I didn't get a chance until now. I expect to return to normalcy tomorrow.

 

[Xandinho]

Benin (Dahomey)/Benin (Nigeria) 30
Creek/Muskogee/Other SE NA 15
Gauls/Britons 17 - 3 = 14 Nothing against them, but they are behind on my list of priorities.
Georgians 22
Haida/Tlingit/Other PNW NA 24
Irish/Scottish 7
Kushans/Bactrians 2
Maori/Other Polynesians 11 + 1 = 12 I think it would be interesting to see them in the game, occupying the islands of New Zealand and competing power with Australia.

 

[Kimiimaro]

Benin (Dahomey)/Benin (Nigeria) 30+1=31 - They will win, for sure, and I wouldn't mind an african empire in game...
Creek/Muskogee/Other SE NA 15
Gauls/Britons 14
Georgians 22
Haida/Tlingit/Other PNW NA 24
Irish/Scottish 7-3=4 - Least interresting to me.
Kushans/Bactrians 2
Maori/Other Polynesians 12

 

[Zaarin]

Benin (Dahomey)/Benin (Nigeria) 28 (31 - 3) -- Like I said before, I don't begrudge them their victory, but there's no need for such a landslide.
Creek/Muskogee/Other SE NA 15
Gauls/Britons 14
Georgians 22
Haida/Tlingit/Other PNW NA 25 (24 + 1) -- I'm getting a little tired of repeating myself...
Irish/Scottish 4
Kushans/Bactrians 2
Maori/Other Polynesians 12

 

[Boris Gudenuf]

Benin (Dahomey)/Benin (Nigeria) 28
Creek/Muskogee/Other SE NA 15
Gauls/Britons 14
Georgians 22
Haida/Tlingit/Other PNW NA 25
Irish/Scottish 4
Kushans/Bactrians 3 (2 + 1) One last Hurrah for the Bactrians, simply because the unlikely fusion of Central Asian nomad and Hellenistic Greek is so unusual it at least deserves to be tried...
Maori/Other Polynesians 9 (12 - 3) They have potential, but not as much as the others left on the list.

 

[Mudokon Pop]

Benin (Dahomey)/Benin (Nigeria) 28
Creek/Muskogee/Other SE NA 16 (15 + 1) - I'm particularly interested in the Mississippians so their descendents are the next best thing - their culture was arguably certainly the largest and most widespread in NA - they were significant traders
Gauls/Britons 14
Georgians 22
Haida/Tlingit/Other PNW NA 22 (25 - 3) - mostly downvoting to give the Creek/Muskogee the edge
Irish/Scottish 4
Kushans/Bactrians 3
Maori/Other Polynesians 9

 

[Morningcalm]

Benin (Dahomey)/Benin (Nigeria) 28
Creek/Muskogee/Other SE NA 16
Gauls/Britons 14
Georgians 22
Haida/Tlingit/Other PNW NA 22
Irish/Scottish 4
Kushans/Bactrians 3 - 3 = Eliminated. We need to make room for the more distinctive and memorable civs, and this Civ is simply not one such. Hellenistic Greece has been done to death in VI so I don't buy the argument that mixing that culture with Central Asia is compelling.
Maori/Other Polynesians 9 + 1 = 10 (One of the few memorable and distinctive civs remaining alongside the Dahomey and Native Americans)

As an aside, I think we need more posters taking part in these threads so it's not just the same people repeating their opinions and points over and over until death. Maybe we can post in other forums about how the Ideas forum also hasn't elimination game since now.

 

[Guandao]

Benin (Dahomey)/Benin (Nigeria) (28-3)=25 Downvoted just to not give them so big a lead over the others.
Creek/Muskogee/Other SE NA (16+1)=17 I'm given my reasons for wanting them in the game. They are inheritors of a great legacy.
Gauls/Britons 14
Georgians 22
Haida/Tlingit/Other PNW NA 22
Irish/Scottish 4
Maori/Other Polynesians 9

 

[The Kingmaker]

Benin (Dahomey)/Benin (Nigeria) 25-3=22 ...And consider the playing field leveled for the top 3.
Creek/Muskogee/Other SE NA 17
Gauls/Britons 14+1=15 Christopher Lambert (of Highlander fame) played Vercingetorix in the eponymous 2001 film, (which was uncreatively called Druids in the US). Not the best portrayal of the Gauls I've ever seen. Voting for a better depiction in Civ6. Would love to see them get the Greek treatment and feature leaders for both the Aedui and Arverni.
Georgians 22
Haida/Tlingit/Other PNW NA 22
Irish/Scottish 4
Maori/Other Polynesians 9

 

[Morningcalm]

Maori/Other Polynesians should be at 10 given my upvote.

 

[Returning Lurker]

Benin (Dahomey)/Benin (Nigeria) 22+1=23
Creek/Muskogee/Other SE NA 17
Gauls/Britons 15
Georgians 22
Haida/Tlingit/Other PNW NA 22-3=19
Irish/Scottish 4
Maori/Other Polynesians 10

Is this genuinely some kind of a joke? You people are voting not based on any merit or personal opinion but instead just to make it more of a competition? What's the point of this exercise if people aren't going to vote on their true preferences? Once it gets to the top 10 we might as well just stop voting and have the OP start rolling a 10 sided die every day to pick who gets eliminated and make the list that way if we are going to just downvote "because it should be a fair contest" rather than what we actually feel. Rolling the dice would make the game infinitely more "tense" if that's all we're going to care about, the winner could be anyone if we just roll a die, how exciting.
The contest already was fair, every option was given an exactly equal chance from the word go, no one started with fewer or greater points, no one was given restrictions on when or how you could vote, the outcome already is even. Why arbitrarily kneecap the leader if they got there fair and square?

 

[The Kingmaker]

@Returning Lurker: Because this is just a forum elimination game, not a presidential election. And who says people aren't "voting what they actually feel?" It's always a tough choice to make a down vote when you want to see all the remaining options.

 

[Browd]

Moderator Action: As The Kingmaker notes, an elimination thread is nothing but a forum game; it is not an exercise in careful group deliberation intended or designed to yield THE right answer. The only requirement to participate is that posters follow the rules, including the requirement that posters state reasons for their votes. Depending on the poster, those reasons may be carefully thought out and expressed, or may be abrupt, personal and arbitrary -- both satisfy the rules. If you don't care for the rules or format of these games, you can choose not to participate. There are no "real world" implications that follow from the results of these games.

 

[Returning Lurker]

@Returning Lurker: Because this is just a forum elimination game, not a presidential election. And who says people aren't "voting what they actually feel?" It's always a tough choice to make a down vote when you want to see all the remaining options.

I'm not saying that there is a "right answer", or that this is some kind of scientific process, just that as a game it isn't in the sporting spirit. What is fun about a game where the winner didn't earn their victory or where one of the "losers" only lost because the game screwed them over and not through any fault of their own? In a game I think sportsmanship is important, and it doesn't seem sporting to cripple the leader specifically because they are the leader and you want to make it more of a "race" than the game already was. Sure, no rules have been broken, but the same could be said if someone chose their votes based on the outcome of random number generator or always voted against the alphabetical first and always voted for the alphabetical last because "bigger letters are cooler". Neither of those examples are against the rules but it's still not in the spirit of the game.

 

[Xandinho]

Benin (Dahomey)/Benin (Nigeria) 23 + 1 = 24 An up vote for the civ of this list that I most want to see included in the game.
Creek/Muskogee/Other SE NA 17 - 3 = 14 Definitely the least interesting for me
Gauls/Britons 15
Georgians 22
Haida/Tlingit/Other PNW NA 19
Irish/Scottish 4
Maori/Other Polynesians 10