Next Sneak Peak

[Kimiimaro]

The teaser does point out Genghis though. I just hope they pronounce him not like it is written...

While Sarah usually has usually quite good pronunciation (Qin Shi Huang, for example) I can't wait to hear Sean Bean struggling to pronounce names like Seondeok

 

[Sansa_Stark]

I see nobody in flames. But hey, we can always ask the Hound...

 

[God of Kings]

While Sarah usually has usually quite good pronunciation (Qin Shi Huang, for example) I can't wait to hear Sean Bean struggling to pronounce names like Seondeok

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

Good thing Sean Bean will not read the Jugemu story.

 

[anandus]

TSL will be interesting. Scythia will not be amused.

 

[God of Kings]

I see nobody in flames. But hey, we can always ask the Hound...

...or the most ancient god of parasols:

 

[Zaarin]

Well, a double curse on Mongolia. They cheated me out of Georgia and Kublai. My first reaction to the teaser was literally, "Well, if I squint a little I can sort of fudge these results to point to Georgia."

Well, not necessarily. Do the bows curve east? Or to the west? Traditionally, a mongolian bow is made with its curve bending to the west.

I believe an eastern curve would be pheonician. And pheonicians were fond of cats too, introducing them to the egyptians.

Domesticated cats originate in Egypt; the Phoenicians introduced them to the rest of the world. Illegally.

 

[PhilBowles]

What about the archer's headdress? That seems likely to be a hint, and doesn't look Mongol - it looks more like a janissary headdress. I can't relate anything Ottoman to any of the rest, though.

 

[Kimiimaro]

Now... If the leader is really Genghis Khan, I wonder what his agenda could be. We still lack a leader that likes, when you conquer cities.

 

[Zaarin]

Now... If the leader is really Genghis Khan, I wonder what his agenda could be. We still lack a leader that likes, when you conquer cities.

He likes leaders who no longer exist and have been absorbed into his empire. So same as Alexander (and Pedro).

 

[Kimiimaro]

He likes leaders who no longer exist and have been absorbed into his empire. So same as Alexander (and Pedro).

Why Pedro?

 

[Zaarin]

Why Pedro?

Because he's a rampaging warmongery jerk who never seems content until all his neighbors fall under his dominion? At this point I literally restart if I find I started near Pedro the Psychopath.

 

[SammyKhalifa]

Now... If the leader is really Genghis Khan, I wonder what his agenda could be. We still lack a leader that likes, when you conquer cities.

He hates people that don't accept his trade delegation.

Genghis Khan wanted trade and goods, including new weapons, for his nation. A Mongol caravan of several hundred merchants approached a recently formed Khwarezmian Empire in Persia and Central Asia. That empire's sultan received them by having the chief of the envoys killed and the beards of the others burned, and he sent the other envoys back to Genghis Khan.

Genghis Khan retaliated. In the coldest of months he and his Mongols rode across the desert to Transoxiana, with no baggage, slowing to the pace of merchants before appearing as warriors in front of the smaller towns of the sultan's empire. His strategy was to frighten townspeople into surrendering without battle, benefiting his own troops, whose lives he valued. Those frightened into surrender were spared violence. Those who resisted were slaughtered as an example for others, which sent many fleeing and spreading panic from the first towns to the city of Bukhara. People in Bukhara opened the city's gates to the Mongols and surrendered. Genghis Khan told them that they, the common people, were not at fault, that high-ranking people among them had committed great sins that inspired God to send him and his army as punishment. The city of Samarkand surrendered. The sultan's army surrendered, and the sultan fled.

http://www.fsmitha.com/h3/h11mon.htm

Perhaps one of most boneheaded moves in human history, haha.

 

[Xandinho]

I wish the Mongol leader was Genghis Khan, but I do not care much. Kublai Khan and Ögedei Khan are also good choices.

Because he's a rampaging warmongery jerk who never seems content until all his neighbors fall under his dominion? At this point I literally restart if I find I started near Pedro the Psychopath.

Curiously, Pedro is almost always weak in my games. In my present match with Macedon, I easily invaded almost every city in Brazil and left Pedro with only one city. His army was insignificant.

 

[DeutschDachs]

Pedro is strangely evil. He's declared war on me by turn 10 twice! Surely I couldn't have done anything that offensive by that time!

 

[Cerilis]

Pedro is strangely evil. He's declared war on me by turn 10 twice! Surely I couldn't have done anything that offensive by that time!

Maybe you took a peak at the Great People page?

 

[Alexander's Hetaroi]

Pedro is strangely evil. He's declared war on me by turn 10 twice! Surely I couldn't have done anything that offensive by that time!

The one time I've made an alliance with him is when I did not get enough great people, at least early on. All other times he at least goes to war with me especially when I take his great people (Michelangelo was a last straw), have different governments, not enough faith etc. One time he was nuke happy as well.

 

[PhilBowles]

Pedro is strangely evil. He's declared war on me by turn 10 twice! Surely I couldn't have done anything that offensive by that time!

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.

 

[CivAddict201320]

Because this thread needs more kitten.

All threads need more cats!

 

[CivAddict201320]

Seems like a mountain cat, quite sure about that, i know that a few months ago, i researched all different types of cats, and those kind of cats only appear in mountains, and i think it's the Caucasian cat.

This is a cat in Georgia (i've seen it on the fb page of Party for the Animals), will research about it again

What a beautiful looking creature

 

[Vahnstad]

I associate Ottomans also with cats, but i'm not sure why. Probably because of this