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Other Games => Civ 6 => Topic started by: Nikolai on August 09, 2016, 03:37:51 PM

Title: First look: Scythia
Post by: Nikolai on August 09, 2016, 03:37:51 PM

Courtesy of WePlayCiv (http://www.weplayciv.com/forums/showthread.php?9282-CIVILIZATION-VI-First-Look-Scythia&p=304588#post304588):

 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PfDkGcSNE0#)

Title: Re: First look: Scythia
Post by: Unorthodox on August 09, 2016, 03:55:30 PM

ooo...

Ok, so it would be a tough choice between them and the Aztecs as my favorite.  Double the horsies is SOOO tempting. 

Title: Re: First look: Scythia
Post by: E_T on August 09, 2016, 05:15:52 PM

And not needing horses to build, too...

Hey UnO, did you see the Mercenary Civic on the Civic Tree?

Title: Re: First look: Scythia
Post by: E_T on August 09, 2016, 05:16:56 PM

And not needing horses to build, too...

Hey UnO, did you see the Mercenary Civic on the Civic Tree?

Title: Re: First look: Scythia
Post by: Unorthodox on August 09, 2016, 06:16:56 PM

Quote from: E_T on August 09, 2016, 05:15:52 PM

Hey UnO, did you see the Mercenary Civic on the Civic Tree?

No, I didn't go through those two trees.  I've never been able to really read the tech trees, just not how my brain processes the info. 

Title: Re: First look: Scythia
Post by: Buster's Uncle on August 09, 2016, 06:55:31 PM

Thanks, Nik.  -I was wearing shoes and getting bled at the doctor's office at time for this to release, in my own defense, but you win this time. ;)


I like the queen's armor, even though it's probably bull...

Title: Re: First look: Scythia
Post by: Nikolai on August 09, 2016, 07:22:41 PM

Heh, I saw it mentioned over at Paradox, and just went for the kill.;)

Title: Re: First look: Scythia
Post by: Buster's Uncle on August 09, 2016, 07:32:35 PM

-And I'm dead this time.  AAAAGH! :D

Title: Re: First look: Scythia
Post by: E_T on August 09, 2016, 09:45:08 PM

Check out Penry's civic thread on WPC, all written out...

Title: Re: First look: Scythia
Post by: Unorthodox on August 09, 2016, 10:02:08 PM

Just looks like a rather random name than anything meaningful. 

VERY few games capture mercenaries well, though. 

Title: Re: First look: Scythia
Post by: Buster's Uncle on August 10, 2016, 03:38:33 AM

(http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=1353)

(http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=1354)

(http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=1355)

(http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=1356)

(http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=1357)

(http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=1358)

Title: Re: First look: Scythia
Post by: Unorthodox on August 10, 2016, 09:37:19 PM

I guess we're not supposed to notice the kurgan doesn't look like a kurgan? 

Title: Re: First look: Scythia
Post by: Buster's Uncle on August 10, 2016, 09:40:28 PM

...I guess that could be a burial mound under the monument.  I see a tombish entrance...

Title: Re: First look: Scythia
Post by: Unorthodox on August 10, 2016, 09:47:09 PM

But Cromlechs (the what appears to be a passage tomb underneath) are more suited to western Europe, and Menhir (standing stone) especially. 

I could get behind the Cromlech portion (typically smaller brickwork in a kurgan, but whatever), and forgive the rings of stones (mostly up into Russia the ones that had that, though others had brick walls), but that megalithic stone on top is either so out of place as to be jarring or I need to read up a lot more on tombs of the steppes. 

Title: Re: First look: Scythia
Post by: Buster's Uncle on August 10, 2016, 09:52:28 PM

Is it possible that it was ever common practice to pull down the markers of buried enemies, I wonder?

Title: Re: First look: Scythia
Post by: Unorthodox on August 10, 2016, 09:56:35 PM

Quote from: BUncle on August 10, 2016, 09:52:28 PM

Is it possible that it was ever common practice to pull down the markers of buried enemies, I wonder?

I've not studied the Kurgan as in depth as some others since there's not a lot of prop buildering potential in a giant mound of dirt, but it certainly would have caught my attention when studying megalithic stone works for upcoming plans if any kind of large stone markers were common.  If such a stone would be pulled down, I'd suspect there'd be some kind of evidence of it. 

Title: Re: First look: Scythia
Post by: Buster's Uncle on August 10, 2016, 09:58:35 PM

There ought to be, yes, even if you drug it back to camp and set it up to steal the enemy's power...

Title: Re: First look: Scythia
Post by: vonbach on August 11, 2016, 01:54:05 AM

This one sounds insanely overpowered. Intersting at least. I've heard of these people.

Title: Re: First look: Scythia
Post by: Buster's Uncle on August 11, 2016, 01:59:14 AM

It ought to prove an early-game threat, yes.

Title: Re: First look: Scythia
Post by: vonbach on August 11, 2016, 02:19:30 AM

This is the first time I've heard of the Scythians in any civ game. I'm curious if they have their allies the Parthians in the game.
Though I doubt it. Rivals to the Romans then moved to Europe and became the Germanic tribes.