6 New Civs, but Which?

[monkspider]

I would look for the Hebrews, and possibly the Poles in the next XP. That is if neither of them make it in PTW.

[sabrewolf]

Originally posted by Darkworld Ark
Japan & Korea, Babylon & Persia, & Ottoman & Egypt are a good distance apart. Mexico's capital (Mexico city) was built over the ruins of the Aztecs capital.

- fortunatly japan is on an island and corea on the continent --> no problem
- egypt is in nothern africa and can spread a long the mediterranian coast.
- ottomans probably will start in constantinople/istanbul and can spread over easter europe if babs are in... i'm more worried about the greeks... they really are right next door.
- babs will be quite squashed down there. maybe they need to develop to the north (between black and caspian see)?

what freaks me out is the fact, that europe's getting even fuller.
- vikings in scandinavia --> ok
- spanish on the iberian peninsula --> ok, except that the france are getting squashed in
- but the celts??? how do you want to put another civ on the british isles? the current world maps already needed to exadurate GB to make england have a chance (same for japan), now 2 civs?

btw: mongolia and china are gigantic realms. i'm not worried by them. and beijing is right on south east... the far end of the mongolian border

[kring]

The only officially announced are the Spanish and the Mongols as being in. The hwacha (a Korean arty. piece), King Hannibal, Berserk warrior, King Brennus, and a few other things that indicate civs have been mentioned, but to date, only the Spanish and Mongols have been declared in by Firaxis. They will update more as time goes by.

[Heresson]

Poland had big influence on world history.
I won't be proving it again.

[Caliban]

Originally posted by Heresson
Poland had big influence on world history.
I won't be proving it again.

I agree. There were always wars between those who wanted to conquer Poland...

[Heresson]

That's one way to look at it.
Praha... Since end of Middle Ages until XIX century, Polish influence in political -and not only- history was bigger
than German and Russian - as You don't count Austria into Germany, do You. They were Swiss of origin anyway.

[WarpStorm]

Wow, where did this old thread come from?

It's a shame the Incas didn't make the cut

[N. Machiavelli]

I'll concur with that. The Incas, or even the Mayans would have been a welcome addition.

[WarpStorm]

On a World map this leaves a continent basically unclaimed.

[asleepathewheel]

Originally posted by WarpStorm
On a World map this leaves a continent basically unclaimed.

Tsk tsk, warpstorm, you forget about our Australian bretheren. They are on a continent too, albeit a small insignificant one, esp in civ terms.

[WarpStorm]

Good point, I thought the barbarians that filled it were the population. Just kidding.

[asleepathewheel]

Originally posted by WarpStorm
Good point, I thought the barbarians that filled it were the population. Just kidding.

How true.

[Heresson]

Australia should be left without any civ - to make colonisation era possible.

[ducki]

Originally posted by sabrewolf

- but the celts??? how do you want to put another civ on the british isles? the current world maps already needed to exadurate GB to make england have a chance (same for japan), now 2 civs?

To automatically equate the Celts with the British Isles, while understandable, is fairly uninformed.

From http://www.wsu.edu:8080/%7Edee/MA/CELTS.HTM

The earliest Celts who were major players in the classical world were the Gauls, who controlled an area extending from France to Switzerland. It was the Gauls who sacked Rome and later invaded Greece; it was also the Gauls that migrated to Asia Minor to found their own, independent culture there, that of the Galatians. Through invasion and migration, they spread into Spain and later crossed the Alps into Italy and permanently settled the area south of the Alps which the Romans then named, Cisalpine Gaul.

This is just one of many pages to be found from searching google.com for "celtic origin".

The Celts were European powerhouses, not merely "another" people to crowd the British Isles.

[JtheJackal]

So when we all create a world map, will we put the starting location Celts on Ireland or will we put them between France and Germany?