Sid Meier's Civilization Series (Main Titles)

Imagine if Firaxis creates the Fate franchise, we might get a less cringe-inducing F/GO.

On a more serious note, based on the Civs that I've seen so far, it seems Firaxis tries to make each Civ more unique and gimmick-based. How easy do you think we can break the game? The gimmicks of both China and Scythia seem easily abused.

I don't know if I'm going to pick Civ 6 up anytime soon, honestly. For me at least, the last 2 civ entries were underwhelming without their expansions, and I feel I haven't milked Civ 5 of all it's enjoyment yet. I'm only just wrapping up my second BNW playthrough.

So I'm playing on archipelago and rooting for a cultural victory. I chose freedom as an ideology, and because I have the highest public opinion, Japan's cities (which is an order nation) is defecting to me en masse. Problem is, I don't know if I can build courthouses fast enough to keep my civ nice and happy. Additionally, I'm a rather small nation in terms of cities, and I risk losing my world religion delegates because Japan follows a separate religion. Moreover, I get the feeling things will get rather tense between me and Japan now that our borders are actually touching. The fact my army is clear on the other side of the planet doesn't help matters.

It's a cool system and I'm thinking I can eventually spin this to my advantage, but it'd be nice to have a "Do you want to claim this city?" option come up. I could raze the cities, but that's still a lot of unhappiness I had nothing to do with.

Finally plundering improvements/districts with naval units is a thing now though limited to just Norway it seems

He looks like Chris Hemsworth's Thor.

As an Icelander, I have to wonder if making Iceland into a unique Civ at some point would be redundant, or moving too far into obscurity/irrelevance. I guess given the abundance of Western nations represented, it'd be very low on the priority list in any case, but it would be kinda cool if they used the 900s-1200s Icelandic commonwealth to represent a post-viking age, cluture-focused Nordic country, with someone like Snorri Sturluson as the leader.

edited 7th Sep '16 10:06:59 AM by DrDougsh

Iceland is a major actor in the current Civ V Battle Royale. But the leader is Ingólfur Arnarson.

https://www.twitch.tv/firaxisgames?__prclt=nwhw9dgc

A live stream of Civ VI,showing religion

edited 7th Sep '16 1:30:36 PM by MysteryPerson

Here's the Youtube upload of said stream:

I am getting more and more stoked for this game. I want to play it now.

I'm going to be really disappointed if they don't use El Condor Pasa as the Incan diplomacy theme.

I think at this point the big thing I'm excited for is the music in general: they've already revealed (and or leaked) everything else that I've been waiting to see.

The historical (or theatrical/thematic, in some cases) themes for the Civs was a stroke of genius and, even if I really do like the classic leitmotifs from I-IV, I hope the series hasn't dropped it.

edited 10th Sep '16 11:49:45 PM by KnownUnknown

Greece's ability is called Plato's Republic. Not mentioned in the video is that it has a demoralizing effect on college students

So, any reason why we shouldn't expect this guy to be as much of a dick as Alexander?

edited 14th Sep '16 8:22:26 AM by DarkDestruction

I'm not sure what you mean. Are you saying that, historically, he's the kind of leader whom you'd expect to be super aggressive? Because his bonuses seem focused around defense, government, and culture.

I assume this "bonus wildcard" is super powerful, because overall Greece looks very "meh". The hoplite isn't stronger as it was in V, and the hill requirement on the Acropolis looks like it can screw you if you are unlucky with your start. And while the bonus culture is nice, like Siam in V, you have to be allied first and you don't have any bonus to that - and in V Greece was OP because it had bonus to becoming allies with CS.

So it's kinda like Byzantium, where you have crazy bonuses to Religion, but no bonuses for actually building up Faith.

I presume Greece is gonna get hills as its starting bias.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdvD4Fhc_K8

@Fighteer - actually, I was referring to Alexander's...unpleasant AI behaviour in V. It was also somewhat in jest, too.

EDIT: Well, after being able to watch the introduction clip, I suppose I can say that Greece's UA set won't really favor dickish diplomatic behavior like in V.

edited 14th Sep '16 5:49:22 PM by DarkDestruction

Greece is, apparently, the one with multiple leaders at launch (unless they decide to make Gorgo's Sparta a separate civ, which would be kinda weird). So we might get that dickish Greece after all :D

edited 14th Sep '16 6:06:26 PM by kingtiger522

Didn't they say they were going to make more South American civs in this one, owing to the fact that Brazil and the Inca are Game Breakers on maps where you start where the civilization really is, because they have no early-game competition?

edited 14th Sep '16 8:00:23 PM by HamburgerTime

Did they change Greece's ability in one of the expansions for V? I've only played BNW, and I remember Greece's ability being that it was easier to demand tribute from city-states, and if your influence goes negative it would rise faster than normal. That doesn't sound overpowered (or even all that useful) to me.

It declines at half speed and if negative recovers at double speed. With other bonuses stack on top it makes it so that influence will basically never drop.

The half influence decrease means that you will remain an ally for twice as long as everyone else, and that stacks with Patronage bonuses. Greece makes a diplomatic victory extremely easy to reach, and they don't even need to buy half the world (ala Venice) or go Gunboat Diplomacy for that.

Holy crap, Rome looks strong. Free roads between cities, free buildings in those cities, all of the infrastructure.