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Okay, I'm just making a suggestion, not asking for anyone to go on a "China bashing parade" which people at civ forums do a lot, because everyone besides me seems to hate chinese in the game and in real life on civ forums, and I'm also not asking for any comments on martial arts movies, theres plenty of other crouching tiger hidden dragon discussion forums out there, but I had the idea that first of all, the unique units are not very well blended into the overall game, all of them come in the ancient age, it seems (yes, I know there are some exceptions) which I know has been discussed before, but I would like to reiterate that point, because I'm just now noticing how annoying it is for there to be such flavor in the early parts of the game, but by the end its just blah blah blah same same same...
Anyway, I think a better unit for the Chinese civilization would have been a shaolin monk. No, not a super 99/99/99 fighter who beats all in everything always, something realistic (though I can't guess on the stats). In real life, Kung Fu started out as Indian exercise techniques to get the Shaolin monks in shape back around Jesus' birth. From there, as it was associated with monks, it took on a mystical appearance, evolved into what we know today, and so on. In Japan, there were buddhist monks who actually took up arms on numerous occations to protect the cities of the south from northern bandits. Don't know if this has been suggested before, but this unit would at least represent the Chinese civilization, in the same sort of way the Samurai is an absolute staple of Japan.
Anyway, I think a better unit for the Chinese civilization would have been a shaolin monk. No, not a super 99/99/99 fighter who beats all in everything always, something realistic (though I can't guess on the stats). In real life, Kung Fu started out as Indian exercise techniques to get the Shaolin monks in shape back around Jesus' birth. From there, as it was associated with monks, it took on a mystical appearance, evolved into what we know today, and so on. In Japan, there were buddhist monks who actually took up arms on numerous occations to protect the cities of the south from northern bandits. Don't know if this has been suggested before, but this unit would at least represent the Chinese civilization, in the same sort of way the Samurai is an absolute staple of Japan.
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