pre-release info New First Look: Catherine the Great

pre-release info

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Introducing Catherine the Great!​


Born a German princess, Catherine the Great overthrew her husband in 1762 to become Empress of Russia. Guided by a vision of modernization, she established new models of law and governance, and oversaw an era of rapid expansion through war and diplomacy. Motivated by intellectual curiosity and love of the arts, Catherine also sponsored creatives, scholars, and scientists, fostering the Russian Enlightenment and its environment of innovation.

Agenda:
Dusha: Decrease Relationship by a Medium Amount with player who has the most Great Works. Increase Relationship by a Medium Amount with the player with the least. Catherine the Great must have a Great Work for this to take effect.

Starting Biases:
Tundra

Attributes:
Cultural
Scientific

Unique Ability:
Star of the North: Increased Culture per Age on displayed Great Works. Buildings with Great Work slots gain an additional slot. Cities settled in Tundra gain Science equal to a percentage of their Culture per turn.

Game Guide here: https://civilization.2k.com/civ-vii/game-guide/leaders/catherine-the-great/

 
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What does it mean for a city to be settled “in” Tundra? City center on the tundra tile.
 
Again, why is the French civilization refered to as "French Empire" when they are using just "Russia" as a name for the Russian civilization. If they really wanted to avoid associating with modern existing countries, I bet that distancing themselves from Russia and using a different term would have been something they wanted to do.

I find it great that they just went with using the name "Russia", as they have done with Spain, Greece, Egypt, America, Mexico, etc. They should really considering renaming the "French Empire" and just go by the name "France"
 
I will miss the Great Works of Art & Music & Writing, but maybe there's room for like, an Austria with Great Musicians or something. But that's just my human resistance to change is all

Also, couldn't help but note "Born a German princess." Guess we have her other historical choice
 
What a packed ability!
Tundra science ability probably won't be useful until the modern age until we get ancient/exploration tundra civs which'll be interesting.
 
Germany and Britain predictors sweating real hard right now.
Curious that they point out her German birth, making me lean more towards thinking Germany is in with her as another leader that could unlock it.
 
Oh wow, by coincidence I checked here to see a first look out of usual schedule. Albeit people already knew her because of the esbn ratings, I believe?

And Russia got confirmed too, although it is was the one with the strongest evidence so far.
 
So she's basically Civ6 Russia in leader form. :D They went with a young look for her.

I may have missed what form the Great Works are taking in this game.
Codices (Antiquity), Relics (Exploration), Artifacts (Modern).
 
Oh wow, by coincidence I checked here to see a first look out of usual schedule. Albeit people already knew her because of the esbn ratings, I believe?

And Russia got confirmed too, although it is was the one with the strongest evidence so far.
So now Britian, Germany and Prussia are competing for the final slot?
 
So we got our civ/leader that interacts with the Great Works mechanics. And it makes sense for Catherine given her involvement in the Russian Enlightenment and the resulting great works of writing/art/music….

Except there are no great works of writing/art/music in the base game, and we ended up with Catherine the Archeologist :crazyeye:
 
She's Cul/Sci as expected - YES! In comes cultural Russia.

I know it's another Euro leader, but Catherine the great has always been one my favourite Civ leaders, and one of my fave historical leaders and I'm thrilled to have her back in the franchise :)
 
I may have missed what form the Great Works are taking in this game.
Relics in the Exploration Age I believe, and Artifacts in the Modern.
 
Also, Catherine doesn't have an alternative persona... I wonder if that means Himiko has one.
 
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