YellowSUV posted...
Doing a reskin of characters costs less money than adding a new model, which they would have to for Napoleon.
The reason Catherine (France) is in the game is because they wanted to switch up the usual leaders but still have a lot of women in the game. A lot of countries don't simply have famous or well known women so a lot of them are basically footnotes in history. Interestingly some of the well known women leaders aren't even in the game such as Catherine the Great (Russia) since she has already been in Civ games.
I think that even if they didn't want to go with the generally expected French leaders, Franois I would have been a much better choice than "Italian woman who was queen regent at one point"