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sgrig
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Isaac Newton's College
Nov 2001 time: 05:19
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In order for there to be a balance between different cultural groups, one of the remaining civs has to be a Middle-Eastern civ, and one of them an American civ (because currently we have Celts, Vikings - European; Carthagenians, Spanish - Mediterranean (probably); Mongols, Koreans - Asian).
So most likely the middle eastern civ will either be Arabs or Turks. I would prefer Arabs, but I doubt they will be in for political reasons.
So that leaves an American civ. The only possible contenders are Mayas, Incas and Canadians. Mayas are to close to the Aztecs on the world map, so I doubt they'll be in. Hence, this leaves Incas or Canadians. I would prefer to see Canadians, because Incas would probably end up as a very similar civ to Aztecs with an ancient weird-looking UU. Canadians on the hand could have a modern or an industrial UU. So far only Germans and Americans have more or less modern UUs, so I think at least one of the new civs should have an industrial or modern age UU.
It would be extremely funny watching Canada take over the world!
Also, Incas would probably be one of those civs with impossibly long and incomprehensible city names...
I respect the Inca civilization, but I think having Aztecs AND Incas in one game is too much.
It is however possible that Firaxis will include another African civ, which would be good, because I don't think Zulu civilization is a good representative of Africa...
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Darkworld Ark
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of the Capitalists
May 2002 time: 05:19
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I voted for the Incas & Arabs/Turks, because they're probaly be the chosen civs. As for the Canada, seriously, what would there UU be, a moose?
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Mikhail
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flesh.and.binary
Mar 2002 time: 23:19
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Incas and Turks. Firaxis is so predictible.
Israel won't since most of the world opposes the very fact that the country exists (and, as someone else said, it's really too young. Hebrews are an ethnic group, but not really a civilization. Or a Great civilization anyway)
Arabs....well....it's really too vague, IMO. And yes, it would be politically disaproved among the low-brow americans. (example: load up AOEII, enter a room, and choose 'Saracens' as your civ. Watch what name's you'll be called)
What it SHOULD be:
Byzantium and Turks (inca and maya are nice, but neither one of the civilizations are more important than these two) which also sets up for a Crusades scenario quite nicely.
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KaiserIsak
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of Isakistan Empire
Oct 2000 time: 05:19
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The arabs should be in. Their empire were one of the greatest ever. Bagdad were the cultural and scientific center of the world for centuries. While Europe was in the dark age the arabs flourished. They should definatly be in.
The ottoman turks were the most powerful empire in the world for about 100 years, and were a mayor power for about 500. If they call the civ only the turks, the timurids, the selsjuks and the mameluks would be included in the turks as welll, and the civ is then a 1000 year mayor power.
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JtheJackal
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You have to consider that you can't repeat same civs that just have a different name. Like you wouldn't have the Indus and the indians civs. So wouldn't in a way the Babylonians and Persians be the ancient versions of the arabs?
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Cesa
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Kumla, Sweden
Nov 2001 time: 06:19
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quote: Originally posted by kring
According to the article:
Firaxis told us a bit about two of them, the Mongols and the Spanish.
Other new civilizations include the Gauls, the Carthaginians, the Ottomans and the Arabs. We don't have any more details on those yet, but we wouldn't be surprised if the new units include berserkers and a new kind of war elephant. |
What does this mean? Which are the 8 civs?
Vikings, Mongols, Spanish, Gauls, Carthaginians, Ottomans, Arabs and Celts. Is this correct? So we were wrong about the Koreans?
Edit: So Gaul=Celts? Sorry, I'm not very good at history, nor at english names for civilisations. So the 8th civ is either Inca or Korea? Or?
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