Adding Canada as a Civilization

[Tian Dan]

Being Canadian I created them for my Civ game but was wondering who I can include for our Military Leaders or Great Scientists?

I've created the UN Peacekeeper as a special unit. Nothing special just a marine with more defence 2 attack and 10 defence available at the same time as the UN Wonder.

Thanks

[Dis]

military leaders

sorry, couldn't resist.

[Lord_Davinator]

hmm...

I think a couple of canadians something Banting and Charles Best... created insulin...

[gunkulator]

Some Canadian Scientists:

Brian Kernighan - co-inventor of the C Programming Language

James Gosling - inventor of Java Programming Language

Oswald Avery - discovered that DNA is the agent of heredity

Reginald Fessenden - invented the useful radio. Marconi gets credit for the first wireless transmission, yes, but it was a spark transmission system, only good for morse code. Worse, all transmitters interfered with each other. Fessenden invented Amplitude Modulation (AM) which allowed human voice to be carried over a single frequency and for multiple transmitters and receivers to "tune" to the different carrier frequencies so as not to interfere with each other.

Alexander Graham Bell - well, sort of. He wasn't Canadian but he spent over 30 years in Canada off and on and made some of his breakthrough discovers while in Canada.

[Willem]

Re: Adding Canada as a Civilization

Originally posted by Tian Dan
Being Canadian I created them for my Civ game but was wondering who I can include for our Military Leaders or Great Scientists?

You'll have to look at our early history for military leaders, we don't exactly have a tradition that creates them. A couple would be Brock and Montcalm, the ones who duked it out on the Plains of Abraham. I can't think of their first names though. Samuel de Champlain comes to mind as well, though I'm not really sure if he was a military leader or not.

[KuriousK724]

pamela anderson is canadian.... your army would probably follow her into battle!

[Aramis]

Maybe instead of MGLs Canada could have Entertainment GLs. They could have a pacifying effect on other civs. Neil Young, John Candy, Joni Mitchell . . .

[Dis]

and Rush!. Rush is cool.

And Mike Meyers, Dana Carvey. Jim Carrey. I could go on and on.

why are Canadians so damn funny?

[Whoha]

Some British Military guys stationed in Canada way back when a couple of 100 years ago might be an idea for MGLs.

[Solomwi]

Celine Dion and Bryan Adams. You can give them to a rival civ and 5 turns later be guaranteed of a declaration of war.

[Vince278]

Can't think of any military leaders. If you could have advisors like in Civ2 I'd replace Elvis with Geddy Lee.

[Robert]

James Labrie

[Vince278]

Adding Canada as a civilization reminded me of a (probably unintended) joke attributed to Gandhi:

Unknown: What do you think of Western Civilization?
Gandhi: I think it would be a great idea.

[Dis]

bah! what does he know.

[bob rulz]

Originally posted by Dissident
and Rush!. Rush is cool.

And Mike Meyers, Dana Carvey. Jim Carrey. I could go on and on.

why are Canadians so damn funny?

Because Canada was created purely for their funny accents and hilarious comedians. That is Canada's purpose in this world.