pre-release info New Civ Game Guide: Majapahit

[FXS_Sar]

Introducing a new Exploration Age civ, Majapahit!​

The last great Hindu kingdom of Indonesia arose with the surprise betrayal of Kublai Khan's navy, paving the way for the Majapahit, who conquered and controlled the spice islands at the dawn of the global era. But after three hundred years of dominance, the winds began to change. Muslim trade networks sidelined the Majapahit state, forcing them to the island of Bali, where their legacy remains.

Attributes:
Economic
Cultural

Unique Ability:
Negara: All Cities except the Capital have an increased Specialist Limit. After the Exploration Age, the Specialist Limit increase goes away, and the Specialists become inactive until you increase the Specialist Limit.

Unique Infrastructure:

• Pura: Unique Quarter. Receive a Relic when completed.
• Candi Bentar: Unique Building. Receive a Culture Adjacency for Coast and Navigable River tiles.
• Meru: Unique Building. Ageless. Receive a Happiness Adjacency for Mountains and Wonders. Increased Happiness on Natural Wonder tiles.

Unique Civilian Unit:
Pedanda: Unique Missionary Unit. Receive Culture when you convert a Settlement to your Religion. Requires a Temple.

Unique Military Unit:
Cetbang: Unique Naval Unit. Has increased Combat Strength against Naval Units. Can pillage tiles at range with a reduced Movement cost.

Associated Wonder:
Borobudur: Adds Happiness. Increase Happiness on Quarters. Must be built adjacent to a Coast tile.

Starting Biases:
Spices
Coast

Check out the full game guide for more info & civic trees: https://civilization.2k.com/civ-vii/game-guide/civilizations/majapahit/

https://twitter.com/x/status/1858921359683793042

 

[TheGhostEnthusiast]

There's Majapahit! Wonder what the First Look will be, then...

 

[moysturfurmer]

Curious about the inactive Specialists. Does that mean you get an expansion point refunded at Modern, or your Majahapt Legacy bonus yield is kind of delayed until you manage to increase the specialist cap in Modern?

 

[Alexander's Hetaroi]

@Eagle Pursuit
You got your wish for a Cetbang UU.

 

[Xandinho]

I love this architecture; it’s truly beautiful. I’m glad they named it Majapahit this time instead of Indonesia.

Majapahit is definitely the strongest contender for a cultural victory so far. I really didn’t expect that.

 

[Lord Lakely]

There's Majapahit! Wonder what the First Look will be, then...

Himiko?

 

[queenpea]

Great to see a culture-focused civ . Love the music in the video posted to instagram.

 

[moondog385]

Economic, cultural, and coastal bonuses. This civ is made for me~

Also glad they’re not called Indonesia this time around.

 

[TheGhostEnthusiast]

This might be my Exploration Age pick for game one... bonuses useful for all victory conditions and the specialist limit to make small island cities stronger will be nice to let me play around with the new mechanics.

 

[Daigotsu Max]

Mahajapit
Majahapit
Mapajahit
Mahapajit
Mapajahit!

Joke aside, always happy to see Indonesia in some form back. It's such a huge part of the world (in population, size, and culture all around) I love seeing it included.

 

[gdr_willter]

Curious about the inactive Specialists. Does that mean you get an expansion point refunded at Modern, or your Majahapt Legacy bonus yield is kind of delayed until you manage to increase the specialist cap in Modern?

I think it means:

• We have the specialist cap for each settlement. The cap will be increased for the Ages.
• If we have 10 specialists per city as the highest cap in Exploration Age for example, Majapahit can use additional specialists - let's consider we have 12 for the example city.
• When the Modern Age come, the city will be allowed to have the lowest cap in Modern Age. If it is 10, the example city will have 10 specialists online and 2 unactive now. You have to raise your specialist cap to get back these 2.

 

[FXS_Sar]

I think it means:

• We have the specialist cap for each settlement. The cap will be increased for the Ages.
• If we have 10 specialists per city as the highest cap in Exploration Age for example, Majapahit can use additional specialists - let's consider we have 12 for the example city.
• When the Modern Age come, the city will be allowed to have the lowest cap in Modern Age. If it is 10, the example city will have 10 specialists online and 2 unactive now. You have to raise your specialist cap to get back these 2.

This is correct! Once you increase the limit in the Modern Age, your inactive specialists will become active again.

 

[Lord Lakely]

I like the design. Specialists, culture, adjacency bonuses that should work on any map. LOVE the Tradition that gives Production AND Culture on ALL water tiles, that's insane!!! I'll enjoy playing this Civ. Seems good when your Age 1 Civ was Han, especially.

Strange that Majapahit are considered Economic when Specialists and Happiness are mostly an Expansionist thing? I feel like they should be tagged as Cul/Exp, so maybe the site is using the wrong wording, @FXS_Sar?

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

Ah, naval and specialist civ. I like it.

 

[Alexander's Hetaroi]

Strange that Majapahit are considered Economic when Specialists and Happiness are mostly an Expansionist thing? I feel like they should be Cul/Exp, so maybe the site is using the wrong wording, @FXS_Sar?

But they obviously control the spices.

 

[Uberfrog]

Very nice to see Majapahit in the base game - the city art looks lovely, can’t wait to see the unique units.

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

@Eagle Pursuit
You got your wish for a Cetbang UU.

Haha, yes. But it's a boat holding Cetbangs rather than the Cetbangs themselves.

Cetbangs were a form of light cannon that could be fired from a crouched position or mounted as a swivel gun on a ship or a gun carriage.

Incidentally, it's good to finally see the Majapahit associated with gunpowder weapons.

 

[Krikkit1]

Curious about the inactive Specialists. Does that mean you get an expansion point refunded at Modern, or your Majahapt Legacy bonus yield is kind of delayed until you manage to increase the specialist cap in Modern?

Seems like the excess specialists stay there but don’t give any yields/bonuses (hopefully they don’t give any maintenance either)

So if you were M… in the previous age, you want to rush the specialist limit booster s in modern

 

[The Fanatical]

Himiko?

If it's Himiko, then she needs to be paired with Meiji Japan, and we won't get another civilization guide this week. That means the unrevealed leader isn't Himiko or Hawaiian, so he/she is probably unpaired with his/her original civilization, just like Amina and Machiavelli.

 

[Guandao]

There's been a small vocal minority on places like Youtube and Reddit complaining about the "lack of European Civs" in the base game.