Ancient Wars, SEIV style

[Singollo]

Well, replace "racial techs" with "cultural techs", and I think it would do fine. I mean, yes, there's certainly no physical reason that another culture couldn't use the same cultural techs, but there's a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff that goes with it. For instance, the Roman religious obsession: this isn't simply a matter of understanding the concept of gods and then developing a religion. It's an entire civilization-based concept, a state machine. It is closely intertwined with the very essence of the Romans: the influence of the Greek culture, the ideas of essential materials (elements) and that which is responsible for them, the close association of the ideology of the Romans being tied up with half-divine heroes, etc. This wouldn't be something that could be duplicated by another culture, having to do with cultural mindsets and relationships and specifics as it does.

So, the effect would be the same, in my opinion. A bunch of technologies, or buildings, or weapons, whatever, that arise due to the particular characteristics of the cultures that spawn them. It would be a neat addition.