Pitch for Spain UA
Foremost Daughter of the Church - Can not found a religion. Capital can convert to the religion of any Spanish city that has a non Pantheon religion. Capital acts as a Holy City once converted. Can benefit from Founder Belief of adopted religion in Capital. Retain original pantheon (convert into Sainthood).
Can faith purchase recon units, settler units (including their UU) and Naval Units. Gain a free inquisitor upon city capture. Gain faith and gold from the use of inquisitors.
I like unique disadvantages, but very few civs have any. Anyway, Spain is a non-founder who still gets to benefit like one. And they can still conquer the Holy City of the founder to gain control of the religion for future picks, and take the founding religious wonder. If they do, the conquered Holy city does not keep getting the benefits. Since that would make some like Holy Law, Council of Elders, Ceremonial Burial and Way of the Pilgrim OP. While Theocratic Rule would be useless.
Spain then uses this disadvantage to fuel expansion, exploration and naval dominance (and of course purchasing missions, which might need some slight modification). And upon taking cities of foreign religions, the use of Inquisitors gives even more faith, as well as gold. Fueling more expansion.
Spain also retains the use of their original pantheon. This is a bit more of a Catholic thing, that worship of Saints and some aspects of former pagan worship was retained. But that isn't really represented by beliefs. And of course, since you can't found a religion you could lose your handpicked pantheon, that is suited to the local terrain. Don't want to be totally reliant on the AI. And Two pantheons is a decent bonus.
Of course, that also means Spain is free to pick lower faith pantheon since they don't have a rush for religion. Which can cost them in terms of pumping out settlers, recon units and naval units. But that is the nature of trade-offs.
This Spain would be very much an Authority - Fealty Civ.
As for the existing UA. The food gain on settlement is an odd choice. Spain isn't particularly highly populated, nor where they particularly focused on actually settling their possessions. Estimates are that only about a million Spanish went to the Americas. The larger population came down to conquering the existing more densely settled parts of the Americas. If anything, England should have that bonus, since they sent lots of colonists from their homeland.
And their UA also removes the need to actually go about converting their own cities. When Spain did the inquisition a bit later, not immediately after conquest. While this new one still encourages them to convert their empire, like historically they did with the Americas and the Philippines.
Foremost Daughter of the Church - Can not found a religion. Capital can convert to the religion of any Spanish city that has a non Pantheon religion. Capital acts as a Holy City once converted. Can benefit from Founder Belief of adopted religion in Capital. Retain original pantheon (convert into Sainthood).
Can faith purchase recon units, settler units (including their UU) and Naval Units. Gain a free inquisitor upon city capture. Gain faith and gold from the use of inquisitors.
I like unique disadvantages, but very few civs have any. Anyway, Spain is a non-founder who still gets to benefit like one. And they can still conquer the Holy City of the founder to gain control of the religion for future picks, and take the founding religious wonder. If they do, the conquered Holy city does not keep getting the benefits. Since that would make some like Holy Law, Council of Elders, Ceremonial Burial and Way of the Pilgrim OP. While Theocratic Rule would be useless.
Spain then uses this disadvantage to fuel expansion, exploration and naval dominance (and of course purchasing missions, which might need some slight modification). And upon taking cities of foreign religions, the use of Inquisitors gives even more faith, as well as gold. Fueling more expansion.
Spain also retains the use of their original pantheon. This is a bit more of a Catholic thing, that worship of Saints and some aspects of former pagan worship was retained. But that isn't really represented by beliefs. And of course, since you can't found a religion you could lose your handpicked pantheon, that is suited to the local terrain. Don't want to be totally reliant on the AI. And Two pantheons is a decent bonus.
Of course, that also means Spain is free to pick lower faith pantheon since they don't have a rush for religion. Which can cost them in terms of pumping out settlers, recon units and naval units. But that is the nature of trade-offs.
This Spain would be very much an Authority - Fealty Civ.
As for the existing UA. The food gain on settlement is an odd choice. Spain isn't particularly highly populated, nor where they particularly focused on actually settling their possessions. Estimates are that only about a million Spanish went to the Americas. The larger population came down to conquering the existing more densely settled parts of the Americas. If anything, England should have that bonus, since they sent lots of colonists from their homeland.
And their UA also removes the need to actually go about converting their own cities. When Spain did the inquisition a bit later, not immediately after conquest. While this new one still encourages them to convert their empire, like historically they did with the Americas and the Philippines.
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gold and 
faith whenever you gain a tile
Production cost. The next version is going to change that so it can work for inquisitors, GPS, etc.
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Culture if adjacent to a city
