Revolutions - A New Take!

[Viregel]

OK, so I was thinking that revolutions could be a lot more fun if they were used properly. The idea here is mainly ideology-based, and you'd have a new type of Great Person, the Great Revolutionary, the names being something like this:

Spoiler :

Order:
Vladimir Lenin
Ho Chi Minh
Che Guevara

Freedom:
Paul Revere (Avoiding George Washington)
José de San Martin
Simón Bolívar

Autocracy:
Benito Mussolini (Not that controversial, I hope?)
Francisco Franco
António Salazar

I haven't quite worked out how they would be generated, but they could then be sent to another civilization to help start a revolution! I was also thinking that revolutionaries of all ideologies could be created by any civ, so you can have the situation where Germany sends Lenin into Russia. The plan is that they go into the territory of another civ, and you can Trigger a Revolution. This causes more ideological dissatisfaction, and when it reaches a certain point, Guerrilla Groups appear to try to take cities. They will have been significantly weakened by the revolution, making sure that there's a good chance of taking the city. So, once the city has fallen, who's in charge? The Revolutionary himself, of course.

One turn, a Fascist Boudicca is on the screen, wanting to destroy you, and the next a Communist Lenin is on it, not wanting to destroy you... yet. To me at least, this sounds fairly awesome.

The revolution can possibly take all the cities in the empire, and the capture of a capital could possibly mean an instant win for the revolution. So, what do people think? Good/Bad way to have revolts? It allows for more leaderscreens as well, so, you know...

 

[altayrneto]

I had a similar idea for an expansion ( http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=519001&page=2 ). Your idea sounds really cool, but I think that instead put the focus on ideologies, it should cover other types of revolt, like slaves, religious, separatist (including civil wars and independence of "colones"), reformist and coups, which influence the gameplay in the early and mid game. But there is more names of Revolutionarys:

Spoiler :

Freedom
Robespierre

Autocracy
Julius Caesar
Pinochet

Order
Mao Zedong

Slave Revolts:
Spartacus
Jean Jacques Dessalines

Religious
Girolamo Savonarola
Ruhollah Khomeini

Separatist
Zenobia of Palmyra
William Wallace
Jefferson Davis

Reformist
Kemal Atatürk
Oliver Cromwell

 

[otaman1]

But there are no slaves in Civilization V.

 

[Viregel]

I had a similar idea for an expansion ( http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=519001&page=2 ). Your idea sounds really cool, but I think that instead put the focus on ideologies, it should cover other types of revolt, like slaves, religious, separatist (including civil wars and independence of "colones"), reformist and coups, which influence the gameplay in the early and mid game. But there is more names of Revolutionarys:

Spoiler :

Freedom
Robespierre

Autocracy
Julius Caesar
Pinochet

Order
Mao Zedong

Slave Revolts:
Spartacus
Jean Jacques Dessalines

Religious
Girolamo Savonarola
Ruhollah Khomeini

Separatist
Zenobia of Palmyra
William Wallace
Jefferson Davis

Reformist
Kemal Atatürk
Oliver Cromwell

Yeah, my idea was probably based off yours. I decided that ideologies fit best because that's really where the successful revolts happen; sure, there were a couple beforehand, but with the ideologies, you're getting a whole new government system.

Another idea I had was what about if all leaders were replaced once you had an ideology? Basically, you'd select your ideology, and a list of leaders would come up, and you would pick one from the list, each with their own ability. For example, England picks Freedom, and the next turn, you're greeted with a Wilson Churchill leaderscreen. As not every civ has gone through every ideology, you would pick from a list of generally notable leaders; so you'd end up with Chairman Che Guevara of Sweden Socialist States, Duce Benito Mussolini of The Zulu Empire, and President Maximilian Robespierre of The Republic of China.