Never Before Seen Civs - Elimination Game

[Dirk Hartog]

Ashanti 13-3=10 Not that interesting
Burmese 9
Phoenicians 3
Tibetans 12+1=13 Interesting

 

[nzcamel]

Ashanti 7 (10-3) About as relevant as the Zulu.
Burmese 9
Phoenicians 4 (3+1) Overdue.
Tibetans 13

 

[marius_kaparius]

Ashanti 7+1=8 Kente cloth!
Burmese 9-6=6 Like them less than the rest
Phoenicians 4
Tibetans 13

PS: Benin should be on this list.

 

[God of Kings]

Canada should be included in the next round of this thread, and it's not just because I live there.

Canada is the country with the most Civ players that is not already represented as a full civ in any official Civ game.

 

[Jujubeets]

Ashanti 8 + 1 [9] (Africa!!!!!!1!!11!!)
Burmese 6
Phoenicians 4
Tibetans 13 - 3 [10] (Meh. They don't seem as interesting as the rest, and they'd be absolutely screwed in TSL. I'm actually quite surprised they were in the lead.)

 

[civviefan]

Ashanti 9
Burmese 6-3=3
Phoenicians 4
Tibetans 10+1=11

All four are amazing and I want to see them! Choices have to be made though...

 

[Xandinho]

Ashanti 9 + 1 = 10 Go Go Ashanti, I want it to be in 1st place this round.
Burmese 3 - 3 = 0 ELIMINATED - Sorry Burmese, I want to see you in the game, but not as much as the other three on this list.
Phoenicians 4
Tibetans 11

 

[The Kingmaker]

Ashanti 10-3=7
Phoenicians 4+1=5
Tibetans 11

Haven't given up on the inventors of the Alphabet yet.

 

[Dirk Hartog]

Ashanti 7-3=4 Not as interesting as the rest
Phoenicians 4+1=5
Tibetans 11+1=12 Most Interesting

 

[Zaarin]

Ashanti 4
Phoenicians 6 (5 + 1) -- The Phoenicians launched the Age of Exploration a thousand years before the Portuguese existed.
Tibetans 9 (12 - 3) -- I can't say I'm overly enthusiastic about a civilization of monks.

 

[Manifold]

Now it becomes exciting

Ashanti 4
Phoenicians 7 (6+1)
Tibetans 6 (9-3)

 

[Guandao]

Ashanti (4+1)=5 West Africa, the entirety of Africa, really, is lacking representation, it may fall to the Airbenders or Purple Dye people though
Phoenicians (7-3)=4 They made Carthage, but I find their child more interesting, plus not too interested in their leaders, would end up similar to Gilgamesh or Cyrus or Darius/Ashurbanipal/Nebuchadnezzar in Civ5 in appearance, there seems to be a lack of representation of their kings as well
Tibetans 6

 

[DudewiththeFood]

Ashanti 6 - New and deserving African civ.
Phoenicians 4
Tibetans 3 - Came so close choosing Phoenicia but decided peaceable seafarers might make for some interesting abilities. Incas can rule the mountians.

 

[marius_kaparius]

Ashanti 6
Phoenicians 4+1 =5 I think it is time for them
Tibetans 3 - 3 = 0 Eliminated. Unlikely to happen anyways.

 

[civviefan]

Ashanti 7
Phoenicians 2

C'mon Ashanti! I'm surprised my top 3 civs made it to the end, I must be very mainstream

 

[God of Kings]

Let's just say the Ashanti wins with 8 points.

 

[Orange1861]

Ashanti 4 (7 - 3) Not as good as the guys below.
Phoenicians 3 (2 + 1)

 

[Siptah]

Ashanti 5 (4+1) I think its just easier to make a good civ out of this.
Phoenicians 0 (3-0) Surprised that they made it to 2nd place. Sure, a great civ and of quite some importance (although with the standard theory of alphabet development losing ground, there's a chance it will be of less interest in the future). But I think this civ would really need some new mechanics to really shine. Founding colonies for example. But maybe a UU that combines a galley with a settler would have been an option working similarly to Civ V's conquistador... I don't know. But I rank the Ashanti higher in what I want. And there's so many near eastern civs I want, the Phoenicians are rather low in that region for me.

 

[Orange1861]

Awwww.

GG.

 

[The Kingmaker]

Here are the Round 1 rankings:
1 Ashanti
2 Phoenicians
3 Tibetans
4 Burmese
5 Armenians
6 Swahili/Kilwa
7 Nubians
8 Vietnamese
9 Zimbabweans
10 Hebrews
11 Cherokee
12 Hungarians
13 Mississippians
14 Goths
15 Italians
16 Mughals
17 Palmyrenes/Nabataeans
18 Toltecs/Zapotecs
19 Apache
20 Mexicans

If there's still interest, we can do a round 2 with more never-before-seen civilizations. I'm willing to take suggestions for the next set of 20.