Requirement: Civ4 Warlords;
This is the Chinese Unification Map, with the same Civs, with their capitals in the same place, but with all capitals size 1 and every Civ has only the Archery technology.
Stick this in your CIVIV/Warlords/Mods/Chinese Unification/PublicMaps directory and you should have two map options when you load the Chinese Unification Scenario: the default one, and one which starts 100 years earlier (and gives you 300 turns to finish the scenario instead of 200).
I'm not sure how balanced this is; I played 100 turns, and got Wei about to the state that they start at in the main scenario, and most of the AI civs only had 2 cities, so this may require playing up a level or two from normal, or some other balancing, but might be a fun twist for those that enjoy the Chinese Unification map and tech tree.
This is the Chinese Unification Map, with the same Civs, with their capitals in the same place, but with all capitals size 1 and every Civ has only the Archery technology.
Stick this in your CIVIV/Warlords/Mods/Chinese Unification/PublicMaps directory and you should have two map options when you load the Chinese Unification Scenario: the default one, and one which starts 100 years earlier (and gives you 300 turns to finish the scenario instead of 200).
I'm not sure how balanced this is; I played 100 turns, and got Wei about to the state that they start at in the main scenario, and most of the AI civs only had 2 cities, so this may require playing up a level or two from normal, or some other balancing, but might be a fun twist for those that enjoy the Chinese Unification map and tech tree.