[GS] Sneak Peak 15/01

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Tsk, it were the Byzantines who promised to pay the Crusaders and then attempted to drive them away. Enrico just used the situation very well and took what was promised to him :p

Besides, more economic Civs (and if Venice isn't one, then I don't know what is) would be nice ;)
Backstabber Hammurabi would be more my thing for future Civ games, but I loved Dandolo and Venice as well. Despite my aversion to double Italy (Romans + other Italian civ) in general. :)

Re: sneak peek, seems obviously to be Sweden. About time we had a female leader though.

I guess Dido and Suleiman will follow, and Eleanor after that, so that there's some weeks spread for each gender and a spreading of the European civs. But maybe they just choose the civ order out of a hat (with only the obvious civs like Maori and Inca coming within the early time range due to more mystery swirling around the other civs initially); who knows.

Fingers crossed for the next sneak peek clue to be tougher.
 
I hope Sweden is a Science powerhouse. IMO only Korea, Kongo and Sumeria are really good at Science in Civ VI ATM. (Scotland is when playing as them, but from what i've seen not as the AI)
I've seen Greece have serious science chops.
 
Well it'd have to be Sweden.
 
Fingers crossed for the next sneak peek clue to be tougher.
Well with only Ottoman, Phoenicia and Eleanor left after this week - they can't be too hard, or they won't be recognizable at all. My guess is that Eleanor's will be pretty obvious, and only Ottoman vs. Phoenicia will give us any trouble.
 
It'd be cool if they revealed a Swedish wonder. Despite Scandinavia being represented since civ 2 there has, to my memory, never existed a Scandinavian wonder until the addition of Lysefjord, and still no great wonder present. I guess Stockholm city hall, where the Nobel prize ceremonies are taking place, is a big contender. A diplo related wonder would make sense.
 
Backstabber Hammurabi would be more my thing for future Civ games, but I loved Dandolo and Venice as well. Despite my aversion to double Italy (Romans + other Italian civ) in general. :)

Hmm. This position has never made sense to me. Post-Roman Italy is sufficiently distinct from the Roman Empire that one might as well have an issue with Sumeria and Persia co-existing. Or either of those and Arabia.

Besides, more economic Civs (and if Venice isn't one, then I don't know what is) would be nice ;)
Well, Switzerland or Mughals. :)

Switzerland is more of a city-state, to my mind, but some would say the same of Venice. And with the likes of Hungary, Georgia, Mapuche, and Canada in (to name a few), it's safe to say there is no barrier to entry.

Now, the Mughals would be awesome and well-deserving, if only as an alternate India leader.
 
"Mamma Mia" is more popular. And guess who says that? Mario who is an Italian plumber.
All of Italy should be confirmed. :p
No, no, no. "Mamma Mia" would be too obvious. Guess what a less obvious ABBA song would be? "I do, I do, I do". Leave out the spaces, and what do you get? "Ido, ido, ido!". The ABBA shirt is clearly telling us that Dido will be announced tomorrow.
 
Ok, how about this: how physically close to the globe do we expect the Swedish ruler to be? How do we expect her voice to sound?

On a vaguely related note, it might be fun for future sneak peeks to be sneak listens (musical notes), or sneak animation peeks of hand gestures, or eye movement, perhaps. :p

Hmm. This position has never made sense to me. Post-Roman Italy is sufficiently distinct from the Roman Empire that one might as well have an issue with Sumeria and Persia co-existing. Or either of those and Arabia.
I think we have discussed this elsewhere in the Ideas and Suggestions forum, but having two civs, each of which *originated* and had their power base in Italy, with Italian bloodlines (however altered and mixed over the centuries) to be seems like two bites of the apple (and this is in part why I detest there being essentially three Greek leaders, two from "Greece" and one from "Macedonia").

In principle I wouldn't mind everyone getting two bites of the apple if it wasn't for the potential for a) shafting African, Asian, or other non-European regions as overlap civs in recent years mostly come from Europe, if Civ V and VI are examples), and b) the proliferation of too many civs from the same areas necessarily crowding out many other civs from entirely different areas (each Civ game only takes around 40 civs or slightly over in recent years).

Yeah, Venice and the ancient Romans were distinguishable (albeit closer culturally than one might think); no one contests that--but that to me isn't the biggest objection to having two Italian-based civs in again (this ignoring the fact it has been done before in Civ V).

But that's old ground and discussing it further would risk veering too much off-topic (or taking much too much digital ink in this thread specifically). I would refer you to similar discussions in Ideas and Suggestions (IIRC) on the same.

We could finally get a Wizarding British Civ and introduce magic as a yield. :mischief:
That sounds like a neat scenario idea for sure. :)
 
The first globe in Europe post antiquity ( none of the ancient ones survived) was made in 1492. They just didn't exist in Eleanor's time.

I'm pretty sure it's just that none survive from before 1492. But I'll disband my warrior if the reveal isn't Kristina, so this is a moot point.
 
It'd be cool if they revealed a Swedish wonder. Despite Scandinavia being represented since civ 2 there has, to my memory, never existed a Scandinavian wonder until the addition of Lysefjord, and still no great wonder present. I guess Stockholm city hall, where the Nobel prize ceremonies are taking place, is a big contender. A diplo related wonder would make sense.

That would be a bit too similar to the Hungarian palace announced recently.
 
It'd be cool if they revealed a Swedish wonder. Despite Scandinavia being represented since civ 2 there has, to my memory, never existed a Scandinavian wonder until the addition of Lysefjord, and still no great wonder present. I guess Stockholm city hall, where the Nobel prize ceremonies are taking place, is a big contender. A diplo related wonder would make sense.


Indeed it would, but unfortunately we already know (more or less) what the 7 Wonders in the expansion pack will be
 
It'd be cool if they revealed a Swedish wonder. Despite Scandinavia being represented since civ 2 there has, to my memory, never existed a Scandinavian wonder until the addition of Lysefjord, and still no great wonder present. I guess Stockholm city hall, where the Nobel prize ceremonies are taking place, is a big contender. A diplo related wonder would make sense.

Uraniborg would be a great option for Scandinavia's wonder, and we don't have astronomical observatories represented in the game, anyway. But 6 of the 7 wonders of GS are already known, and the seventh seems to be an Indian temple, so there is no wonder of Scandinavia this time around.
 
Sooo, judging from the number of books, I suspect we're getting another science civ? That would be great, because as much as I love Babylon/Sumeria/Korea I do have to say that you can hardly overlook enlightenment historically. & in my humble opinion there should be at least some civs that represent that age.
 
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