New Civ Game Guide: Hawai'i

[FXS_Sar]

Introducing a new Exploration Age civ, Hawai'i!​

With their double-hulled canoes and crab-clawed sails, Polynesian settlers reached across the vastness of the Pacific. Hawai'i, settled around 1000 CE, was at first a series of rival kingdoms until the advent of Kamehameha in 1795. But just a short while later, European and American missionaries, settlers, and planters invaded Hawai'i until the kingdom fell to a coup.

Attributes:
Cultural
Expansionist

Unique Ability:
Moananuiākea: Gain Culture each time a Settlement expands to a Marine tile. Increased Happiness on Fishing Boats.

Unique Infrastructure:
Lo'i Kalo: Unique Improvement. Adjacent Farms receive increased Culture. Must be placed on Grassland or Tropical tiles.

Unique Civilian Unit:
Kahuna: Unique Missionary Unit. Requires a Temple. Has a Heal action that doesn't remove this Unit after being used.

Unique Military Unit:
Leiomano: Unique Infantry Unit. Has increased Combat Strength against Infantry and Cavalry Units.

Associated Wonder:
Hale o Keawe: Adds Culture. Whenever you complete a Building on a Marine tile, receive Culture equal to a percentage of its cost. Has a set number of Great Works slots. Must be built on a Marine tile adjacent to land, and cannot be built adjacent to a Tundra tile.

Starting Biases:
Marine
Coast

Check out the full game guide for more info & civic trees.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1861454942814314545

 

[moysturfurmer]

They seem to combo nicely with Khmer, with their Mana civic.

Curious about the Missionary Heal ability. Is that meant for attrition on ocean, or are the missionary Wizard Fights coming back?

Edit: and the music slaps

 

[tedhebert]

They seem to combo nicely with Khmer, with their Mana civic.

Curious about the Missionary Heal ability. Is that meant for attrition on ocean, or are the missionary Wizard Fights coming back?

I'm beggining to wonder if missionaries will be a commander stackable unit

 

[Jkchart]

Really love it. Kinda weird to NOT give the island civ a naval unique unit but it’s such a small gripe that it’s not even worth complaining about.

 

[Mr Jon of Cheam]

They seem to combo nicely with Khmer, with their Mana civic.

Curious about the Missionary Heal ability. Is that meant for attrition on ocean, or are the missionary Wizard Fights coming back?

Edit: and the music slaps

Heals nearby units, according to the tweet.

Nice to have them confirmed.

 

[Uberfrog]

Interesting - less focus on naval exploration than I expected, but I guess since that’s going to be something everyone will want to be doing, there isn’t necessarily a need for a unique ship.

Please tell me that the double-hulled canoes and crab-clawed sails are represented in the naval and embarked unit graphics though! The only ship I see in the video looks sadly like a European carrack.

 

[queenpea]

Yay! This looks fun. Love the music especially!

 

[Aeon221]

Nice! My brother was born in Hawaii and I had a great time living there in the 80s. My fondest childhood memory was dressing up as one of the honor guards of King Kamehameha for second grade graduation -- feather cape, spear and all. I hope they add Queen Liliʻuokalani as the leader. Her story isn't the most heroic but it is very interesting and well worth hearing about.

 

[pokiehl]

Really cool! I love the unique ability; it's elegant.

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

Very culture-oriented. I was expecting the usual capacity to cross oceans early (even if not much earlier than normal)

 

[ehecatzin]

I'm assuming the Kahuna is how you would stack on your naval commander and just, keep on healing while going through ocean tiles. If so, it really looks like a fun civ to go and grab all the islands while other civs are struggling to cross.

 

[Klaus Hergersheimer]

can't cross oceans immediately? boo.

 

[queenpea]

Nice! My brother was born in Hawaii and I had a great time living there in the 80s. My fondest childhood memory was dressing up as one of the honor guards of King Kamehameha for second grade graduation -- feather cape, spear and all. I hope they add Queen Liliʻuokalani as the leader. Her story isn't the most heroic but it is very interesting and well worth hearing about.

She would be a great candidate for a double persona leader--one more inward facing based on the Hawaiian heritage, and one more "Western" facing, focused on diplomacy, etc.

 

[j51]

it must break the exploration age to have a civ do that

 

[TheSpaceCowboy]

The unique missionary certainly confused me at first (as did the Shawnee’s), considering that tribal and/or Amerindian civs aren’t known for proselytizing, but the comments pointing out that it’s to aid transoceanic travel before the prerequisite tech offers some explanation.

 

[Xandinho]

The gameplay is quite unique, and I really enjoy it. I also loved the soundtrack. Overall, it's a great cultural competitor on par with Majapahit.

 

[Alexander's Hetaroi]

can't cross oceans immediately? boo.

Have to save that for the Antiquity Polynesian civ.

 

[pokiehl]

Has it been understood elsewhere what "marine" terrain is? What's the distinction with marine vs coast? (Starting bias has both).

 

[SeelingCat]

Hawaiian Uniques:

• Moananuiākea (Ability) - "ocean" + "size" + "wide, broad"; "Great expansive ocean" - Hawaiian word for the Pacific Ocean (also, Moana Pākīpika)
• Mana (Civic) - "religious power" - a supernatural force in Melanesian and Polynesian culture that anyone or anything can have
• Ohana (Civic) - "family, relatives, kin group" - an extended Hawiian family unit; ʻohana in proper Hawaiian orthography; popularized in the movie Lilo & Stitch
• Heʻe nalu (Civic) - "surfing" - a water sport in which athletes ride a board atop ocean waves dating back to 400 CE
• Kapa (Tradition) - a kind of cloth made by Hawaiians and other Polynesian peoples from fibers of plants like the paper mulberry; known as Tapa elsewhere in Polynesia
• Ahupuaʻa (Tradition) - a traditional territorial subdivision in Hawaii that generally stretches from the coast to the mountains
• Ho'okupu (Tradition) - the ceremonial practice of gift-giving or leaving offerings
• Lo'i Kalo (Infrastructure) - a traditional Hawaiian irrigation system used particular for growing taro (kalo in Hawaiian) in wetland environments; sometimes combined with fishponds
• Kahuna (Civilian) - "priest, sorcerer, minister; an expert in any profession" - an expert in a particular skill, ranging from agriculture, to healing, to priestly duties
• Leiomano (Military) - potentially from lei o manō, "shark's lei" - a club embedded with with shark teeth, similar to the obsidian macuahuitl used by warriors in Mesoamerica

 

[j51]

The gameplay is quite unique, and I really enjoy it. I also loved the soundtrack. Overall, it's a great cultural competitor on par with Majapahit.

I’m not seeing how myself. It just looks like culture bonuses to me. I’m kinda disappointed. I was hoping for something more unique like Civ VI Māori. But I’d honestly love to hear how its gameplay is unique. I’m hoping I’m just overlooking something/not thinking creatively.