Please be more respectful and appreciative of other people's work. The addition of the Germans was certainly not rushed; the pull request was open since well before the release of A27 and being reviewed for a full year before merged. And that time doesn't even include much of the work of creating the content itself, like researching, brainstorming, making the 3D models, the portraits, and putting everything together. Creating a complete new civilization takes tremendous effort and we should all be grateful for the wonderful people who dedicated their free time to achieve it. And in my opinion the Germans are definitely up to the standard of other civilizations in terms of art, historical accuracy, uniqueness, and balance. Stuff like custom phase names are just the cherry on top and can very well just be added in the future.

I am having the same issue. I am running this on Linux. # System Details Report --- ## Report details - **Date generated:**                              2025-11-18 06:41:43 ## Hardware Information: - **Hardware Model:**                              Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-7B86 - **Memory:**                                      32.0 GiB - **Processor:**                                   AMD Ryzen™ 5 5500 × 12 - **Graphics:**                                    Software Rendering - **Disk Capacity:**                               1.0 TB ## Software Information: - **Firmware Version:**                            P.70 - **OS Name:**                                     Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS - **OS Build:**                                    (null) - **OS Type:**                                     64-bit - **GNOME Version:**                               46 - **Windowing System:**                            Wayland - **Kernel Version:**                              Linux 6.14.0-35-generic  

Mercenaries are overpowered, especially when you have metal available. They have more experience so their stats are better. Especially the cavalry, because you spend less time doing nothing with them.

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What a total disappointment; German civilization comes out unfinished, unpolished for this release. Don't start with the portraits... the city phases haven't yet been decided upon.