pre-release info New First Look: Friedrich

[Boris Gudenuf]

I feel like Baroque Fred and Revolutionary Napy should switch abilities. Napy was definitely more famous for housing things from conquered cities.

Ah, but Fred did it first. He only did less of it because, unlike Napoleoni, he didn't get that far out of Prussia to find more opportunities.
But in his lifetime, his reputation as an 'enlightened' ruler suffered severely from his looting of Dresden and Prague whenever he occupied them.

 

[8housesofelixir]

Agenda:
To Arms!: Decrease Relationship by a Medium Amount with the empire that has the least amount of Military Units on the map. Increase Relationship by a Small Amount with the empire that has the most amount of Military Units on the map.

I know people don't really enjoy seemingly dumb AI agendas as such, but this completely fits Friedrich.

Such an agenda means Friedrich will more likely denounce and attack whoever has the least amount of military units, and this is precisely the kind of monarch Friedrich was. He was an opportunist who would absolutely go back on his words and backstab you at any possible moment if you looked like easy prey, making tons of enemies in the process, and that's how the Silesian Wars and the Seven Years War broke out.

 

[Lonecat Nekophrodite]

Introducing Friedrich, including his Baroque persona!​

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Friedrich, Baroque (DLC Persona)​

Friedrich the Great’s rise to power in militarized Prussia at first seems contradictory. He had a proclivity for military theory and a taste for Prussian aggression. Yet from youth, Friedrich was drawn to art and literature. He wrote philosophy, composed music, and hosted the leading artists and intellectuals of the day. But he never lost sight of the battlefield, balancing his creative side with the logical rigor requisite for a military leader.

Agenda:
Parisian Sensibilities: Increase Relationship per built Wonder in the Capital by a Medium Amount. Decrease Relationship per Building in the Capital by a Small Amount.

Starting Biases:
None

Attributes:
Cultural
Militaristic

Unique Ability:
Hohenfriedberger Marsch: Gain a Great Work upon capturing a Settlement for the first time. Gain an Infantry Unit when you construct a Culture Building.


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

Will he speaks French in Baroque persona? while Oblique, he speaks High German.

 

[Siptah]

He sounds like great fun to play as! Great to have him back.

I'm not too fond of the colors for the Baroque persona though. And I would have hoped that his first published work, the Antimachiavel, would be mentioned just to set up a rivalry in the player's minds who aren't that familiar with Fritz.

 

[ColtSeavers]

Will he speaks French in Baroque persona? while Oblique, he speaks High German.

Please no, I guess there are already enough French speaking leaders already!

 

[Archanist]

Please no, I guess there are already enough French speaking leaders already!

I will make a mod that makes Rizal speak French because he learned that irl, just for you :^)

 

[ColtSeavers]

I will make a mod that makes Rizal speak French because he learned that irl, just for you :^)

Lol, I had to learn French in school for many years, without much success, I'm afraid. So that's not necessary, thanks.

 

[Evie]

No, no, please, *do* make the All-French mod.

(and Shaman Queen Freddy).

 

[Hellenism Salesman]

I would prefer if Trung Trac was exempt from the forced French for… reasons…

 

[8housesofelixir]

I do find a French-based globalization and international order rather than an English-based one a very interesting thought experience or alt-history direction. (Disco Elysium has such a setting, btw)

 

[CivLuvah]

I will make a mod that makes Rizal speak French because he learned that irl, just for you :^)

We also need to have a mod in which he speaks German to fill our quota of German-speaking leaders lol

 

[Weraptor]

A question for history-heavier people out here. Wouldn't the free unit on science building fit Fritz's dad better? He enlarged the Prussian army in part by drawing protestants from catholic countries and even constructed schools and hospitals to accommodate this wave of immigration. Has Frederick (the Great) done something similar?

 

[Boris Gudenuf]

A question for history-heavier people out here. Wouldn't the free unit on science building fit Fritz's dad better? He enlarged the Prussian army in part by drawing protestants from catholic countries and even constructed schools and hospitals to accommodate this wave of immigration. Has Frederick (the Great) done something similar?

Frederick's father was notorious for sending 'recruiters' all over Europe to haul in non-Prussians for the Prussian Army. However, Frederick maintained that network of body snatchers and he also maintained (although I do not believe it was original to him) that each foreign recruit was actually three men: one new soldier for Prussia, one less soldier that anybody else could recruit, and one more Prussian who could stay home, work and pay taxes to support the army.

It is estimated that over 1/3 of the Prussian Army was actually composed of men not originally from any part of Prussia, and only a small percentage of those men were voluntary recruits. One reason Frederick was incensed when Britain began recruiting 'Hessians' to fight the American revolution was that Britain's efforts cut into his own recruiting from the same Germanic manpower pool!