One civ I'd like to temporarily retire from civ7 is Mali/Songhai/Ghana trilemma - not because I have anything against it, as Islamic Sahelian civilizations are very cool in general, but they have become a recurrence in strategy games so they are in a safe spot anyway (see AoE4), meanwhile I'd like to see some other West African civilizations if we are going to keep getting one civ per West Africa. Especially from indigenous religions forest zones (Akan, Yoruba, Igbo, Edo, Fon, Ewe, Mossi etc). And even within Islamic West African civs you could play with Jolof, Hausa or Kanuri for example.
That's also partially my beef with Zulu (besides their design always being copy paste boring as hell, unlike far wider range of possibilites with Sahelians) - their eternal recurrence snuffs out Zimbabwe, Xhosa, Tswana, Malagasy etc.
I wouldn't even complain about Ethiopia being absent, provided we got Somali in its place - very old civilization, undeserving of the terrible fate that has befallen it.
Kongo is IMO almost certainly going to be replaced by some other Central/Easterm civ anyway, whether it is Nzinga of Ndongo (entirely separate kingdom) or my dream of Kenya - Tanzania - Uganda area finally getting somebody.
Nubia can remain for my taste, since it's strange such prominent civ got there only once, although I'd be tempted for it to come in Christian edition of Makuria or Alodia, due to sheer exotic appeal of this utterly lost civilization.
That's also partially my beef with Zulu (besides their design always being copy paste boring as hell, unlike far wider range of possibilites with Sahelians) - their eternal recurrence snuffs out Zimbabwe, Xhosa, Tswana, Malagasy etc.
I wouldn't even complain about Ethiopia being absent, provided we got Somali in its place - very old civilization, undeserving of the terrible fate that has befallen it.
Kongo is IMO almost certainly going to be replaced by some other Central/Easterm civ anyway, whether it is Nzinga of Ndongo (entirely separate kingdom) or my dream of Kenya - Tanzania - Uganda area finally getting somebody.
Nubia can remain for my taste, since it's strange such prominent civ got there only once, although I'd be tempted for it to come in Christian edition of Makuria or Alodia, due to sheer exotic appeal of this utterly lost civilization.
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