Which Civs should be added after PTW? - Page 4

Panag · January 23, 2003, 16:50

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Originally posted by Yahweh Sabaoth
Australia WAS a prison colony. Maybe that's why they're so hot on kicking immigrants out of their country, exterminating the aborigonies, etc. Actually, Australia might be an interesting country to include... militaristic and industrious? There's only one so far... maybe militaristic and commercial?

hi ,

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not militaristic , they are definatly not , ....

commercial they are , ......

have a nice day

Yahweh Sabaoth · January 23, 2003, 17:01

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Originally posted by panag

hi ,

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not militaristic , they are definatly not , ....

commercial they are , ......

have a nice day

Um,

to you, militaristic they are... they've been modernizing and beefing up their navy for the last 10 years, in an attempt to project their power in the South Region, and their talk, at least, is often warlike.

Then again, hey, any of you Australia experts feel free to criticize us... I'm just going off of what I've read in the news... I haven't read much about the history of Australia.

Although "militaristic" is the best fit for a bunch of former prisoners, wouldn't you say?

Panag · January 23, 2003, 18:09

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Originally posted by Yahweh Sabaoth

Um,

to you, militaristic they are... they've been modernizing and beefing up their navy for the last 10 years, in an attempt to project their power in the South Region, and their talk, at least, is often warlike.

Then again, hey, any of you Australia experts feel free to criticize us... I'm just going off of what I've read in the news... I haven't read much about the history of Australia.

Although "militaristic" is the best fit for a bunch of former prisoners, wouldn't you say?

hi ,

they really dont fit the profile , .....

as for the aus navy , well huh , they are still small , very small they have a large area and simpl dont have all the ships they realy need , they dont even have tank divisions , ...... so no a far cry from "militaristic" , .....

have a nice day

Sparkle · January 24, 2003, 09:58

Hi, I would add definitely these

Israel (don´t understand why it isn´t in the Civ yet)

Slavs (better than just Polish because there are millions of slavs in the world, Ukraines, Serbs, Czechs... these deserve their place too).

Cuba (with Fidel Castro) yes they are ugly but they should be there too, they are famous and active

Eskimos (Inuit) because they are a popular and famous civ.

Byzantines because they were extremely powerful civ.

Maya or Inca (they were powerful too), but one of them should be enough

Portuguese or South America (Brazil...)

Normans (Normandy was not Scandinavia and it was powerful in medieval times. Norman army was very successful in the 1st crusade)

Yahweh Sabaoth · January 24, 2003, 11:21

Sparkle... your ideas for new Civs cover a lot of ground, but I disagree with some of them for various reasons:

Normans: yes, these WERE "vikings". They are represented in the game by the "Scandanavians" and "English". Norman civilization outside of the context of England is not that compelling, though it was a swell invasion (Thanks, William!)

Between Portugal and Brazil, take Brazil. It's a huge country with the potential to be a superpower (not anytime soon, of course) and it would add another "Amer-Indian" civ. A winner!

Maya or Inca? Sure! But how about the Sioux? Just for old times' sake?

The Byzantines WERE powerful indeed, but their power or cultural contributions never rivaled Rome's... they were the "leftovers" from the Roman empire and their main contribution to the world was to provide a buffer between the Black Sea, Southeast Europe, and expanding Islam. Lots of good intrigue in Byzantium, but worth a whole Civ?

Eskimos or Inuit would be awesome!

"Kayaker" as a UU?

Cuba!!! Their UU could be the cigar or the Son band! (I'm joking, of course. No offense meant to any Cubans around here)

I have to disagree with Slavs. They're just too diverse to lump into one group. After all, the English, French, Germans and Spanish are really just a cross-breed of "Scandanavians" and "Germans" anyways... why should they get their own Civs while Poland and Serbia are lumped together?

ISRAEL!!! ADD IT DAMMIT!!!

Sparkle · January 24, 2003, 14:41

Yahweh Sabaoth

Why Sioux and not Apache? Leader Vinettou :-))

I think that Normandy was not located in England but in France and that´s a bit far from Scandinavia :-) And Normans in Italy were not insignificant, Roger I. united the separate city states...

One Slavonic nation is already separated in the Civ and that is Russia. Slavs are usually divided into western Slavs and eastern Slavs. These nations are quite similar. A Western Slavs civ would be best imho, with Belgrade, Zagreb, Laibach, Prague or Warsaw the capital.

Yahweh Sabaoth · January 24, 2003, 14:53

Sparkle

Well, maybe I'm just warm on the Slavs. I find the nations of Serbia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bosnia, Greece, Lithuania, etc., too distinct to just lump into one group... especially if Incas and Maya are to be separate from Aztecs! I mean, after all, we do have a good deal more recorded history of Serbia, Hungary, et al, than we do of the Mayas, Incas, or Aztecs.

As for the Normans, true, they have had a very important role in history, but their rule in Northern France was less significant than their rule in Italy, which you correctly point out they unified (more or less), and in Britain, which they conquered, laying the foundation of "modern Britain".

But since we already have England, and we have the Romans, the most I could see would be a modern "Italian" Civ seperate of the Romans.

Perhaps a Papal State? That would be cool...

As for them being from Scandanavia, they are related to the scandanavians they swept from the North into Europe c. 900 AD (that era). I see the Normans as a passing phase, albeit an important passing phase.

Don't get me wrong though: I'd love to see a William I, Roger I, or what-his-name... "The Weasel" who caused so much trouble for Byzantium...

you got good ideas, though, keep 'em coming...

Has anyone given any thought to new African civs? I would like to see:

Yoruba
Ethiopia
Nubia
Mali
Sigilmasa
Almoravids
and best of all
BERBERS! For pete's sake! Great horsemen!

Panag · January 24, 2003, 15:44

hi ,

there is one "civ" that we should not forget , the barb's , they should be able to take over cities , work land , etc , ...... (!)

have a nice barbarian day

sabrewolf · January 24, 2003, 15:46

nubian and ethiopean have been proposed a few times.

however your definition of "slavs" is amusing

... hungarians, the baltic states (estonia, latvia, lithuania), greece and romania aren't slavs at all. some of them might have been under the control of the soviet union for a long period, but slavs?

....

but you're still right that another slavic civ beside the russians would be good. and you're right, that there are a lot of slavic countries (serbia, bosnia-hercegovina, croatia, slovenia, slovakia, czech republic, poland, bulgaria, ukraine, white russia (belarus), moldavia and some other smaller former-soviet countries i forgot in this list)

sabrewolf · January 24, 2003, 15:53

otherwise
- polynesians (instead of aboriginees or australian)
- inuit
- ethiopean
- inca (better than maya. the mayans didn't control a big are, just a small part of central america. the inca were far larger and start in a better place (peru). however, i like mayan temples more than any other sacred things in the world

)
- maybe nigeria
- not cuba, but a "caribbean" civ would be cool. give 'em luxuries like tobacco & marihuana uniquely and they'll rule the world in peace

)

Yahweh Sabaoth · January 24, 2003, 16:17

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Originally posted by sabrewolf
nubian and ethiopean have been proposed a few times.

however your definition of "slavs" is amusing

... hungarians, the baltic states (estonia, latvia, lithuania), greece and romania aren't slavs at all. some of them might have been under the control of the soviet union for a long period, but slavs?

....

but you're still right that another slavic civ beside the russians would be good. and you're right, that there are a lot of slavic countries (serbia, bosnia-hercegovina, croatia, slovenia, slovakia, czech republic, poland, bulgaria, ukraine, white russia (belarus), moldavia and some other smaller former-soviet countries i forgot in this list)

Hate to break the news to you, but Greece is overwhelmingly slavic. The slavic migration to Greece occurred in the mid 2nd millenium. As for the Baltic states, yes, I suppose those are mixed Slavic-Germanic. And as for Romania, I plead ignorance: I have always assumed as they are surrounded by Slavs that the Romanians are themselves slavic.

But as for the "Greeks" the ancient Greeks that are depicted in Civ have gone the way of... well... the ancient Romans! I.e., they have assimilated utterly. Thus, while Greece is distinct from Russia, it has perhaps more in common with Russia ETHNICALLY than it does with Italy... which was certainly not the case in the ancient world.

Yahweh Sabaoth · January 24, 2003, 16:19

one thing I forgot, too: Greece has been slavic much longer than the Soviet Union was ever around, and Greece was never a soviet sattelite.

South killer · January 24, 2003, 16:41

I think this civs shuld be included:

--Tibet--
UU: Tibetan Monk
--Incas--
UU: Llama rider
And we need more latin american civs:
--Brazil--
UU: ???
--Mexico--
UU: Mariachi ???

--Argentina--

UU:Gaucho

What do you think?

Yahweh Sabaoth · January 24, 2003, 16:46

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Originally posted by South killer

--Argentina--

UU:Gaucho

What do you think?

That would be appropriate for a Steely Dan civ, but I'm not sure about Argentina.

Sparkle · January 24, 2003, 17:26

Yahweh Sabaoth

the Norman warriors who did so much harm to the Byzantines was Robert Guiscard and his son Bohemond de Tarente. Bohemond then conquered Antioch and for a short period before he wes slaughtered by Egyptians, he was ruler of Jerusalem. Not an unsignificant historical figure, could make a good leader :-)

Sparkle · January 24, 2003, 17:27

as for bosnia-hercegovina

Bosnia-hercegovina is not Slavonic. It´s Arabic (moslim).

sabrewolf · January 24, 2003, 19:19

no, sorry, bosnians are slavic, it's just that a part of them (approx. 40%, >50% before the war) are muslims.
and definetly not arabic. if something, then ottoman (turks)...

not every muslim country is arab. in fact many aren't (iran, pakistan, afghanistan, indonesia, malaysia(?), philipines, some smaller caucasian republics, etc.)

sabrewolf · January 24, 2003, 19:24

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Originally posted by Yahweh Sabaoth
Hate to break the news to you, but Greece is overwhelmingly slavic. The slavic migration to Greece occurred in the mid 2nd millenium. As for the Baltic states, yes, I suppose those are mixed Slavic-Germanic. And as for Romania, I plead ignorance: I have always assumed as they are surrounded by Slavs that the Romanians are themselves slavic.

But as for the "Greeks" the ancient Greeks that are depicted in Civ have gone the way of... well... the ancient Romans! I.e., they have assimilated utterly. Thus, while Greece is distinct from Russia, it has perhaps more in common with Russia ETHNICALLY than it does with Italy... which was certainly not the case in the ancient world.

ok, sorry, my fault... maybe...
to me, the greeks are an own civ, because they've had thousands of years of own culture. i don't call the arabs israelis, only because they are both semitic.

sabrewolf · January 24, 2003, 19:25

in fact, check this out, bosnians are clearly slavic:

sabrewolf · January 24, 2003, 19:27

and this image:

proves that greeks aren't slavic, except if you call encyclopaedia britannica?

sabrewolf · January 24, 2003, 19:28

oh, and one more:

--> greek are hellenic

Yahweh Sabaoth · January 24, 2003, 19:31

Hey, well, there you go!

I didn't lump Bosnians in with the rest of the slavs, because they're Islamic...

...in other words, I was subscribing to the weird viewpoint of the West that treats muslims as an ethnic group!

So, that was stupid of me. I read too many geopolicy statements I guess. The Bosnians are, indeed, slavic.

And I agree that the greeks "of history" are distinct enough to warrant their own civ.

Yahweh Sabaoth · January 24, 2003, 19:32

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Originally posted by sabrewolf
oh, and one more:

--> greek are hellenic

Whoa, I stand corrected.

That's quite a cool map!

Yahweh Sabaoth · January 24, 2003, 19:34

Hey, now, waitaminute! How are the French and Spanish "Italic"? And what's with "Iranian"? Iran is a relatively new concept in a land thousands of years old, with many, many overlapping ethnicities, including persian, turkic, arabic, etc. And how about "Albanian"?

Still, it's a cool map. It gets "Germanic" and "Celtic" mostly right.

sabrewolf · January 24, 2003, 19:37

that was the map for indo-europeans

here's a world map for the non-indo-europeans:

actually, these maps are showing todays languages. usually languages go hand in hand with ethnicity.

Yahweh Sabaoth · January 24, 2003, 19:39

That is goddamn awesome.

I recommend everyone on this site who ever profers a racist argument or statement again - and there are plenty, as I'm sure you noticed - be redirected right here.

Good job Sabrewolf.

sabrewolf · January 24, 2003, 19:40

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Originally posted by Yahweh Sabaoth
Hey, now, waitaminute! How are the French and Spanish "Italic"? And what's with "Iranian"? Iran is a relatively new concept in a land thousands of years old, with many, many overlapping ethnicities, including persian, turkic, arabic, etc. And how about "Albanian"?

Still, it's a cool map. It gets "Germanic" and "Celtic" mostly right.

we cross-posted

italic languages could also be called romanic.
iranian is persian

Yahweh Sabaoth · January 24, 2003, 19:42

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Originally posted by sabrewolf
italic languages could also be called romanic.
iranian is persian

Ah, yes, the Romance languages. Back to school for me.

All I want to know is, what relation does Iranian/Persian have to pre-turkic Persia? i.e., the Persia of antiquity?

sabrewolf · January 24, 2003, 19:44

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Originally posted by Yahweh Sabaoth
That is goddamn awesome.

I recommend everyone on this site who ever profers a racist argument or statement again - and there are plenty, as I'm sure you noticed - be redirected right here.

Good job Sabrewolf.

thanks... but actually i stole these image-links from another thread that died a few months ago. "dervish" (not active since july 2002) found all these things...

Sparkle · January 24, 2003, 22:10

sabrewolf

Well, I don´t think there are many slavic Bosnians left after the Bosnian war :-(

And to the maps you provided us with: are these maps of slavonic NATIONS or LANGUAGES? Because I think that these maps you showed us are not of the nations but of the languages because a serbo-croatian nation is not, serbo-croatian language is...