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Provost Harrison
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The farce is strong with this one.
Feb 2000 time: 05:14
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OK, so we have numerous screenshots, videos, etc, and we have seen a lot of civilisations which will appear in the game. Now I have had a look and some of the ones I have seen so far:
- Americans - Abraham Lincoln - Abraham Lincoln animated leader and so many screenshots seen playing this side. Abrams tank and F-16 special unit seen.
- English - Elizabeth I - Yep, again, another animated leader, although no screenshots of the civilisation playing. Longbowman and Man-O-War special units seen.
- Germans - ? - Seen cities such as Berlin and Hanover on a map being played. Panzer special unit seen.
- Persians - ? - Seen cities such as Persepolis and Bactra, so they will probably be in.
- French - Joan of Arc - Screenshot of diplomacy screen clearly shows the french with a female leader in chainmail, who I would expect to be Joan of Arc. Apparently have the special unit Musketeer.
- Aztecs - ? - Again, I have seen the cities of Tenochtitlan and Ecatepec. Presumably it will be ruled by Montezuma. Eagle Warrior special unit spotted.
- Greeks - Alexander the Great - Ditto, seen the city of Athens on a screenshot. Screenshot of diplomacy screen shows leader.
- Romans - Caesar - Now I have seen the city of Rome, I am sure I have others as well on the screenshot. Now if you look closely at the E3 videos (in both) you will notice when he loads a game, it has a 'game loaded' window with the Civ2 picture of Caesar on it. I presume the leader will be Caesar. Legion special unit seen.
- Indians - Gandhi - On the most recent video which has the trailer, there is quite clearly a picture of an animated Gandhi, who would most certainly be the ruler of the Indians.
- Babylonians - ? - Confirmed by Dan Magaha. City seen on screenshot (Nippur)
- Chinese - Mao Tse Tung - Animated head once more.
- Japanese - ? - Now I believe one of these animated heads to be Japanese. No idea who the leader is, but the architecture behind him is a giveaway. Samurai special unit seen.
- Zulus - ? - Special unit Impi has been spotted, so the Zulus are probably in the game. Cities on map spotted (Isandhlwana, Ulundi)
- Egyptians - ? - Seen the city of Hieraconpolis on a screenshot. Animated head of Pharaoh seen.
- Russians - ? - No other information than the special unit MiG seen.
- Iroquois - ? - Leader Hiawatha seen. Some sort of Brave special unit seen. Cities seen (Oka, Gewauga, Onnontare, Waukegan)
This appears to account for all 16 civilizations in the game. Does anyone else have any further information on any of these and we can try and figure out who is going to be in!
Last edited by Provost Harrison on 10-08-2001 at 03:01
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SerapisIV
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Hartford, CT, USA
Feb 2001 time: 00:14
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quote: Germans - ? - Seen cities such as Berlin and Hanover on a map being played. Panzer special unit seen. |
Frederick the Great, maybe but doubtfully Bismarck.
quote: Greeks - ? - Ditto, seen the city of Athens on a screenshot. Presumably ruled by Alexander the Great. |
Gotta be Alexander
quote: Spanish - ? - On one of the screenshots (same one with Persians) you can quite clearly see the city of Salamanca, quite clear (at least originally) a Spanish city. No leader known however. |
Isabella
quote: Japanese - ? - Now I believe one of these animated heads to be Japanese. No idea who the leader is, but the architecture behind him is a giveaway. Samurai special unit seen. |
Tokugawa, something tells me they'll skip Tojo or Hirohito
quote: Zulus - ? - Special unit Impi has been spotted, so the Zulus are probably in the game. |
Gotta be Shaka
quote: Egyptians - ? - Seen the city of Hieraconpolis on a screenshot, but that is all I have seen. |
Ramses II or Cleopatra, I'd bet on Ramses, him being an actually accomplished leader. But lacking more female leaders, I'd give Cleopatra a politically correct edge.
quote: Russians - ? - No other information than the special unit MiG seen. |
Catherine the Great or Stalin, I'd guess Stalin, but again, the whole politically correct thing...
quote: Native Americans - ? - Seen animated leader. This appears to be an Iroquois leader of some sort. Some sort of Brave special unit seen. |
Sitting Bull is Sioux, Tecumseh if Iroquois
Again, though, these are only guesses.
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quote: Originally posted by Provost Harrison
OK, so we have numerous screenshots, videos, etc, and we have seen a lot of civilisations which will appear in the game. Now I have had a look and some of the ones I have seen so far:
[*]Americans - Abraham Lincoln - Abraham Lincoln animated leader and so many screenshots seen playing this side. Abrams tank and F-16 special unit seen. |
The Airplane is a F-15 and not F-16.
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quote: Originally posted by Alex 14
Those Civs sound pretty much like they will be included in civ 3, except I'm not sure if Native America has been confirmed. |
Actually we have two. One a picture of a Iroquois Indian Leader and a Indian unit.
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quote: Originally posted by Provost Harrison
Bah! What's a difference of one between friends? 
Yeah, I got the impression that it would be a native North American civ of some kind, although I was not too clear which; Iroquois looked the most likely to me. |
(laughing)
The F-15 was made by McDonnell-Douglas and the F-16 was made by General Dynamics Corp. These company would be complaining because each would claim to be the best fighter and the other is just OK. The F-15 has two tails (vertical stabilizers) and the F-16 has one tail.
Actually we now have only 3 aircraft manufacture left in the US. Boeing is heading up one group. General Dynamics head up another group and Northrop out there by themselves. However Northrop has a contract with one of the above groups to build something. I have all 42 volumes of World Airpower and I could look up all the mergers, but a little lazy right now.
Yes I to believed it will be the Iroquois because of the leader picture. (Just wait and Firaxis will come out and said we are all wrong on which tribe will be in the game.)
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I know how to settle who will be leader of England. Our leader should be King Aedwin of Northumbria and Bregusind. He was king during 614 AD time frame. Also he was the Uncle of St. Hild (614 A.D. to 680 A.D.) who is known at Saxon Goddess of War. Maybe some of our English friends who are History Buff can fill us in on King Aedwin and St. Hild.
Now for some real fun. It turns out that King Aedwin is one of my ancestor either as a Uncle or Grandfather. 2 of his later family in 1634 left England for the U.S. There is over 5,000 family in the U.S. that still carry the family name. Since Elizabeth is German maybe we should return to England and claim the Throne. As lease I'm almost 50% saxon.
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AncientPharaoh
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North Carolina
Jun 2001 time: 00:14
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Well...they could just use Lennin for Russia then, he wasn't that bad, wasn't there nearly as long...but oh well.
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johndmuller
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Capitol Hill, Colony of DC
Feb 2001 time: 00:14
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So a lot of these leaders are not really nice, what's wrong with that? Would you rather Attila the Nun?
I know that old Abe is a Civ Classic, but he was a "unificator" with a lot of blood on his hands - it was hardly Our Fiinest Hour, except maybe for the Emancipation Proclamation, and are we really sure that was policy and not strategy? I don't know if I have any great suggestions instead (Washington would be kind of boring too). Maybe someone like Teddy Roosevelt?
Perhaps we could use a little more diversity away from military/historical types too. Ghandi and Tecumseh are cool, but we could have more in non-military directions. What about Confusious, Budda, Moses, Christ, Pythagoras, Mohammed, Pope somebody-or-other, Socrates, Lao Tzu, Oddyseus, Mars, Thor, Grendel's Mother, Prometheus, Clark Kent, ......
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