To note, as players get more experience with Civilization 6 they are likely to deviate from the Religion Beliefs that are recommended below. RELATED: Civilization 6: Best Leader For Beginners For those players having trouble picking their Religion Beliefs in Civilization 6, this guide should help quite a bit. This will in turn require fans to make several tough decisions, as they will need to select several Religion Beliefs, each of which grants their own special bonuses and perks. Which works against him in my opinion as it just doesn't feel right having a human lead Rome.Ĭyrus acts the way I wanted Trajan to, and has a great aesthetic and voice to boot so I'm throwing another point his way.Once a player has selected one of the best Pantheons in Civilization 6 and attracted a Great Prophet, they will then be able to found a Religion. In short, I want a real Caesar! I absolutely loved their depiction of Augustus in 5, the way he checks his nails while talking to you like the dirt under his fingers is more important than you and your entire country, the way he seems almost bored when declaring war or even when you sneak attack him like this is just business as usual, everything about him just screamed "I am a god and I know it.", whereas Trajan is more. I don't want to face off against a kind of nice (if boastful) guy leading the Roman Empire, I want to face off against an egotistical pragmatist who doesn't consider you worth their time, a man so above it all and self confident that he looks at you, the leader of a rival and likely powerful empire, like he's speaking with a child.
I get that his portrayal is likely accurate. I understand that Trajan was one of the "5 Good Emperors", I understand that he was noted for being kind and personable to both his fellow senators and the common Roman peasant, I understand that while he was an extremely successful military commander he was also well known for his social welfare and public works programs to improve the lives of his subjects. If I could issue one veto on a leader appearance to knock it out of this competition entirely, my ire would be directed towards besieging this "Pericles", this false imposter with the feeble arms that look to be made of plasticine. One of the most severe disappointments in leader appearance in Civ VI I have known (on the opposite end of the spectrum from Cyrus, Curtin, Roosevelt). And such a long beard would be caught easily in his robe and severely impede any physical military activity, which makes no sense given he was a strategos in the Peloponnesian War for Christ's sakes. In the year of his death Pericles was still leading military expeditions against other Greeks (again, check Wikipedia-Pericles literally led ALL Athenian military expeditions in 429 BC), and Pericles was in his 60s when he died, not in his 90s (Civ VI suggests otherwise).
Civ VI's Pericles possesses weak arms and the feeble, inaccurate appearance of a scholar rather than a general, all of which his helmet a hilarity given that it looks like a heavy ornament rather than a functional war helmet (not to mention inaccurate as others have pointed out). (Wiki it, and compare with the real Pericles, who looks like a handsome and healthy man with a functional helmet more like his Civ IV incarnation). Pericles = 13 - 3 = 10 Looks like Solon, not Pericles.
Even the larger personalities from real life (and better known ones) like Trajan aren't nearly as well themed in their Civ representation as John Curtin is).
He's one of the best themed leaders in the game because of his opposition to war. He doesn't seem petulant or smirking when you declare war on him, but treats it like the serious matter that it is. "EVERY MEANS OF RESISTANCE" is a rallying war cry that gives even the human player some doubt about having declared war on him. John Curtin = 8 + 1 = 9 (They got the IRL John Curtin's mannerisms right, they didn't go overly caricatural on him, his voice actor is great, his lines are not copied directly from his speeches but are certainly in that spirit, especially when you declare war on him.