Next Sneak Peak

[Phoenix1595]

To me that would feel as wrong as Rome without Legions.

Edit: Eagle Pursuit beat me to it.

Agreed. The key to the Mongol conquests was their speed over long distances. I can't see a simple archer unit doing that when a heavy archer cavalry would be better suited. The UU will likely be a knight replacement.

 

[Arent11]

Got to watch out for those helicopters of the Central Asian steppe. Besides Cavalry Mongolia might also get a bonus with siege/bombard units as well.

I just hope that Rise and Fall will finally give me helicopters that can fly over water

 

[God of Kings]

I just hope that Rise and Fall will finally give me helicopters that can fly over water

...and over mountains.

 

[nitedemon]

He had those poor kitties buried alive though, so...

I hope they will portray him sitting inside his yurt with his 6 cats. That'd be cute.. and made every player's day.

 

[Scaramanga]

The lack of horses is concerning for the Mongols, like the Dutch not having a ship.

Whoever it is, I think "The heat of the forge" may mean enhanced Heroic Ages after going through a Dark Age.

 

[KayAU]

A funky looking cat, a blacksmith forging an arrow, and an archer with a recurve bow.

It's the Mongols.

Genghis Khan was buried with 6 cats.

His given name Timujin means blacksmith.

Mongols used recurve bows.

That's some crazy speculation there, seems highly unlikely.

Let's not be silly. I think we're finally getting a cat civ, with a "human archer" special unit. I'm guessing the leader is Mittens, and the special ability will probably be yarn releated.

 

[Naktis]

Well mongols were predicted and almost confirmed since trailer released..the next civ that will be teased is a mistery one.

 

[PhilBowles]

The lack of horses is concerning for the Mongols, like the Dutch not having a ship.

Whoever it is, I think "The heat of the forge" may mean enhanced Heroic Ages after going through a Dark Age.

I don't think the sneak peak has to have anything to do with the specific UU, it just happened to be the case for the Dutch one - I don't think Hwachas were shown in the Korean one.

My only hesitation is the headgear of the archer in the teaser. The headgear of Mongol warriors, at least as I understand it, was fairly distinctive and doesn't match that image at all. It was often conical and/or had a plume on top (that to me resembles a horse tail). I suspect that it's nothing - and again, i agree that it seems to be teasing Genghis of Mongolia - but it makes me just a little cautious.

That was my sense as well, but the bow certainly appears to be a Mongol recurve - I looked it up because it appeared curiously angular.

I think the teaser text is the clincher, since while there seem to be quite a lot of alternative options for the images (at least the bowman and cat) no one's identified any leaders associated with forges or blacksmithing.

 

[DeutschDachs]

I think people are just reading things into the leaders that aren't there. Other than their fixed agenda and whatever intrinsic bonuses come from their civ uniques, they behave interchangeably with no definable personality. In my current game Brazil is mostly peaceful, they're the science leader and are aiming at a science victory, while having next to no culture output (other than me, the main peaceful culture-focused leader in this game is Gorgo). In other games they've been culture focused, strong or weak, and ranging from passive to highly aggressive. Every other civ behaves in exactly the same way. Slight personality differences do apparently exist, but they're much less evident than in past Civ games: there will be a slight tendency for Brazil to be powerful and culture-focused more often than not, but that's the extent of it.

True enough, Pedro is a demon to me and yet I've never had an issue with Gandhi in any Civ game despite his coding and reputation.

So my small sample size of course runs counter to the coding but part of the fun of Civ is finding those rival Civs who you always grown about when you see their colors appear in your game

 

[clapyourhands]

That's some crazy speculation there, seems highly unlikely.

Let's not be silly. I think we're finally getting a cat civ, with a "human archer" special unit. I'm guessing the leader is Mittens, and the special ability will probably be yarn releated.

I suppose the Felines led by Jasper Kitty weren't just a placeholder after all.

 

[Scaramanga]

I don't think the sneak peak has to have anything to do with the specific UU, it just happened to be the case for the Dutch one - I don't think Hwachas were shown in the Korean one.



That was my sense as well, but the bow certainly appears to be a Mongol recurve - I looked it up because it appeared curiously angular.

I think the teaser text is the clincher, since while there seem to be quite a lot of alternative options for the images (at least the bowman and cat) no one's identified any leaders associated with forges or blacksmithing.

It's nothing to do with a UU, it's just that Mongols basically lived on horseback.

 

[PhilBowles]

So my small sample size of course runs counter to the coding but part of the fun of Civ is finding those rival Civs who you always grown about when you see their colors appear in your game

I haven't looked into the coding, but if differences in personalities are intended something appears to be preventing them from being expressed well in most cases. I don't have any sense of "rival Civs who you always grown about when you see their colors appear in your game" because all of them appear to be essentially interchangeable. Brazil could be a demon one game, and Sumeria plays exactly the same way exactly as effectively in another, while Gorgo focuses on peaceful cultural victories in some games and Montezuma sits peacefully on the sidelines denouncing the player for being a warmonger (all examples from my last two games).

It's nothing to do with a UU, it's just that Mongols basically lived on horseback.

I'm not sure how you can say "it's nothing to do with a UU" given that the sole reason people are suggesting the Mongols may not have a cavalry focus is that the sneak peek shows a military unit and doesn't feature horses. My point is that nothing in the sneak peek suggests that they won't have a cavalry focus.

 

[Lord Xavius]

The Dutch preview didn't have windmills or tulips, either. They probably didn't include horses (or gers, for that matter) in the teaser just to avoid making it too easy.

 

[Rosty K]

The Dutch preview didn't have windmills or tulips, either. They probably didn't include horses (or gers, for that matter) in the teaser just to avoid making it too easy.

Wasn't some sort of a flower the first thing on the screen in the Dutch preview? Or was it Korean one?

 

[darkace77450]

Wasn't some sort of a flower the first thing on the screen in the Dutch preview? Or was it Korean one?

I believe that was Korea.

 

[Lord Xavius]

The Dutch teaser had a flower too, but one more specifically associated with Wilhelmina and the Dutch resistance. Not something as commonly associated with the Netherlands as the tulip.

 

[Zaarin]

Is that like a Ceiling Cat, but in a Van?

Sorry, couldn't resist

Lake Van.

He had those poor kitties buried alive though, so...

Well, Qin was buried with his wives, concubines, servants, and architects, so I think he actually manages to out-monster Genghis.

 

[pgm123]

I don't think they'd put an alternate leader in the expansion that wasn't in the vanilla version, seems messy to make it an alternate Persia leader when everyone wouldn't naturally have Persia to start with.

You're probably right. Unless that's a way to introduce Persia to those who aren't buying the DLC. You get Persia, but Khosrow instead of Cyrus.

 

[pgm123]

At least it's not names such as "Jigonhsasee" or such.

Good thing Sean Bean will not read the Jugemu story.

If anyone wants an English version of it:

 

[Kimiimaro]

Well, Qin was buried with his wives, concubines, servants, and architects, so I think he actually manages to out-monster Genghis.

If I'm not mistaken, queen Puabi was also buried with some servants, but I guess it wasn't as much as Qin Shi Hamster Huang. However, how many people were actually burried with him?