Carolus
Chieftain
Europe to India Map, v. 1.0 - done on Conquests
This map, which takes a typical map arrangement for Roman Europe and extends it out to the western coast of India in the east and Ethiopia in the south, has been designed with ancient scenarios in mind, though it's usable for other periods as well (it would work equally well for Alexander the Great or for the early expansion of Islam). The map has been rotated a bit counterclockwise to allow inclusion of all of the Arabian peninsula without needing to depict the entire Sahara desert. The far northern reaches of Scandinavia and Russia have been omitted both in light of their irrelevance in ancient times and in the very large amount of mostly uninhabitable territory they would have provided. Otherwise, the map more or less encompasses the lands known to the ancient Greeks.
Artemisarrow has recently released a map very similar to this on the main customization forum, but it covers a slightly different area and is significantly smaller- we seem to have been working off the same basic idea, though.
http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads6/Eurindia.map1.zip
This map, which takes a typical map arrangement for Roman Europe and extends it out to the western coast of India in the east and Ethiopia in the south, has been designed with ancient scenarios in mind, though it's usable for other periods as well (it would work equally well for Alexander the Great or for the early expansion of Islam). The map has been rotated a bit counterclockwise to allow inclusion of all of the Arabian peninsula without needing to depict the entire Sahara desert. The far northern reaches of Scandinavia and Russia have been omitted both in light of their irrelevance in ancient times and in the very large amount of mostly uninhabitable territory they would have provided. Otherwise, the map more or less encompasses the lands known to the ancient Greeks.
Artemisarrow has recently released a map very similar to this on the main customization forum, but it covers a slightly different area and is significantly smaller- we seem to have been working off the same basic idea, though.
http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads6/Eurindia.map1.zip