Where are the Balkans in Civilization?

[Duke William of Normandy]

I guess I and the premise of this thread have been disproven: there have been Balkan Civilizations in the Civilization franchise.

They have Balkan city state. And the game called Civilization not states of the World. Byzantium shaped Balkan civilizations more than Anatolia, so it is a definitely Thrace and Balkan civ. With 50 civs in the game and 48 city states they did a pretty decent job in representing every major instances of influential civilizations on planet Earth.

We already have Macedon, Hungary, Byzantium and Greece to represent the region, isn't that good enough?
What? It's not a good argument? Being on the same territory is not good argument that they are represented?
Well, it's the argument we've been served for years as why Italy wasn't present, because of Rome.



They didn't make Maya as the "Apocalypse!" civ (in fact, it was quite correctly designed). Scotland is not just a "Highlander" civ of Scots battling against Englishs. Vietnam has a great designed without being gimmicky. A ot of civs that would have been deemed to be gimmicky and memey were actually quite nicely designed. I trust the devs to make a nice design if they put Wallachia.



Speak for yourself. Your opinion is not universal. I really like them, and found them a nice addition. Also, seeing as how many Gauls civs there is as mods, it's quite a requested civ nonetheless. And, moreover, if we only have what we ask for, we would never have surprises.
Gauls aren't a waste at all. Don't put your opinion as some universal truth please.

To be fair...the region of Macedon, while undoubtedly touched by greek culture and was indeed hellanistic...did encompass a large swath of the balkan area. I will refrain from getting into how far "North" Macedon went but it could considered be a balkan civ. Not slavic balkan, but still balkan.

Regardless we have enough civs in that region already. This, mixed with the fact that larger civs are all around it (Greece, Ottomans, Austria, Rome, etc.) is probably why it's overlooked

Do Hungary and the Byzantines not count either?

Guess that closes this argument.