Harald Hardrada protestantism??!

[Brodsko]

Why Harald who is a MEDIEVAL king is a follower of a XIV century religion? REEEEEEE

[SamBC]

Because Norway.

[krabdr]

See Sweden's involvement in the 30 yrs war, or was it the 100 yrs war? Gustavus Adolphus.

[Ghuldarkar]

Harald would have been formally catholic anyway, since Harald Bluetooth introduced christianity and the kingdoms of denmark and norway (with the pope's blessing, most importantly, giving him some security among the other christian regents). Or maybe he was more into greek orthodox christianity as he spent a while in Konstantinople when he was younger. But giving him Protestantism is about as wrong as Islam.

[pfcole]

As far as I can tell the religions are "free ranging" without consideration to historical period or nationality in the game, as it seems the AI does not care either... thats why :).

[Lady Crimson (RIP)]

Not everyone can be Kongo?

[Ghuldarkar]

Originally posted by pfcole:

As far as I can tell the religions are "free ranging" without consideration to historical period or nationality in the game, as it seems the AI does not care either... thats why :).

You are wrong. Some leaders only take what's going to be left with maybe some preferation, but others, harald included prefer a specific religion over all other. In his case it's protestantism and it's quite wrong for him, because he would be a catholic approved ruler (the norwegians were catholic for about 100 years at that time) in the times before protestantism. Norway might have big connections to protestant movements, but it would be wrong to just assign protestantism to Harald because of that, since Tokimune is a buddhist ruler in a shinto country (Japan), thus preferring buddhism over shinto, making shinto not the first choice for any leader.

[Aleksi]

Originally posted by Ghuldarkar:

Originally posted by pfcole:

As far as I can tell the religions are "free ranging" without consideration to historical period or nationality in the game, as it seems the AI does not care either... thats why :).

You are wrong.

Your personal opinion has been noted.

[Duck from State Farm]

Welcome to Civ 6, where Norway follows Protestantism, Arabia follows Judiaism, Ancient Macedon conquerors Brazil and Ghandi nukes Rome all in a game.

[SamBC]

Some, but not all leaders have a religious preference. That means they will choose that religion, if it is available, when they found a religion. Not all leaders care much about founding a religion, but if they find themselves well placed to do so, will do so.

If they don't found a religion, or someone else founds their preferred religion, their preference doesn't matter at all.

[pfcole]

Originally posted by Ghuldarkar:

Originally posted by pfcole:

As far as I can tell the religions are "free ranging" without consideration to historical period or nationality in the game, as it seems the AI does not care either... thats why :).

You are wrong. Some leaders only take what's going to be left with maybe some preferation, but others, harald included prefer a specific religion over all other. In his case it's protestantism and it's quite wrong for him, because he would be a catholic approved ruler (the norwegians were catholic for about 100 years at that time) in the times before protestantism. Norway might have big connections to protestant movements, but it would be wrong to just assign protestantism to Harald because of that, since Tokimune is a buddhist ruler in a shinto country (Japan), thus preferring buddhism over shinto, making shinto not the first choice for any leader.

I stand corrected... I did not notice that after several hundred hours of play :).

[pfcole]

Originally posted by ADawg:

Originally posted by Ghuldarkar:

You are wrong.

Your personal opinion has been noted.

That was an observation... note the words "as far as I can tell" reflecting there was observation. Flawed though it may be it was observation.

[pfcole]

Originally posted by SamBC:

Some, but not all leaders have a religious preference. That means they will choose that religion, if it is available, when they found a religion. Not all leaders care much about founding a religion, but if they find themselves well placed to do so, will do so.

If they don't found a religion, or someone else founds their preferred religion, their preference doesn't matter at all.

I did not see that.. Wow thanks for the insight sir.

[Martin]

Protestantism didn't occur until around 15th century.. vikings adopted in part christian religion around 820 ad. So they were neither catholic nor protestant.. just christians. If anything they might have been considered RC Christians, but until there was another type of christianity the religion was mainly just considered the christian faith, like the jewish faith or the muslim faith. People don't really refer to sects of a faith until there's at least more than 1.

[pfcole]

Originally posted by Martin:

Protestantism didn't occur until around 15th century.. vikings adopted in part christian religion around 820 ad. So they were neither catholic nor protestant.. just christians.

In the 800's there was only ONE christian religion "Catholic", if you were christian you were catholic.

[Ghuldarkar]

Originally posted by pfcole:

Originally posted by Martin:

Protestantism didn't occur until around 15th century.. vikings adopted in part christian religion around 820 ad. So they were neither catholic nor protestant.. just christians.

In the 800's there was only ONE christian religion "Catholic", if you were christian you were catholic.

No there were actually also other groups of christians in other places, for example nestorians in asia. But in Middle Europe Catholicism was definitely predominant, not to mention that Harald Bluetooth's move on becoming a christian was to establish him as a monarch on par with other european monarchs to ward off other invasors that would use ousting pagans as a reason for conquest.