Cyon
Cosmonaut
First version released, download the mod here
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Greatings brave Nzinga, ruler of the Ndongo and Matamba, your beauty is only outshined by your cunningness. Your ambiton lead you from beeing the sister to the king of the Ndongo to eventualy claim two thrones. Then the Portuguese invaded your land, captured your island fortress almost also you Great Queen - you death defiantly climbed down the steep cliffs and manage to escaping to raise a new army. You then used your wit to form a alliance with the Dutch and turned them against your enemy. You stood proud and strong on the battlefield, there your archers and Dutch soldiers defeated the far larger Portugal army at the battle of Kombi in 1647.
Your kingdom were a part of the great Kingdom of Kongo - which with its capital Mbanza Kongo were more than 100 000 people lived, sophisticated political system and disciplined army - awed the world. Kongo grow rich of its trade with ivory, wax and raffia cloth - a fabric made of the fibers from the Raffia palm, and valued so highly that it were used as currency. The great Manikongo - the ruler over all the Kongo kingdoms could muster a army of tens of thousand men paid by the taxes from all dukes and vassals.
Queen Nzinga, your people look to you to lead them to glory. To form new alliances and divide their enemies. To lead them on the battlefield and drive the invaders into the sea. Will you answer their call? Will you build a civilization that stands the test of time?
UU: Pombo
The Pombo is a fast light infantry unit that ignores terrain movement cost and has a bonus in defense against ranged attacks, but weaker against mounted units than the Pikeman that it replaces.
Cost 100
, 10 
, 3 
Special Abilities: Ignores terrain movement costs,
Bonus vs Mounted Units +50% (instead of +100% for Pikeman)
Starts with the Promotion:
Cover I (+25% defense against ranged attacks)
Background: The Pombo were elite scouts that could keep the same pace as a horce and were used to hunt down fleeing enemy troops. They relied on agility and skill to dodge arrows and spears instead of armor. Wiki: Kongo military
UB: Raffia Mill
The Raffia Mill gives a small amount of culture and production, and also a production and gold bonus to jungle tiles,
instead of the percental production bonus from the Workshop that it replaces.
Cost 100
Maintenance: 2
Effect: +2 and +2
. It also provides +1 and +1 from each Jungle tile worked by the City .
Background: The Raffia Mills in the region of the seven kingdoms - Kongo dia Nlaza - produced more than 100,000 meters of cloth annually in the 1500's. The cloth were made from the fibers of the raffia palm and were often decorated with ellaborate artistic patterns, and also functioned as a currency. wiki: Kongo dia Nlaza and wiki: Raffia
Mini Leader image: | Symbol: | Menu Map:
Colors: Pale turquoise with brown red border (as the Aztecs but reversed)
City list:
Mbanza Kongo, Loango, Kabasa, Nkuna, Kavanga, Mpinda, KaKongo, Nsi Kwilu and Kongo dia Nlaza
Leader scene:
Background: Queen Nzinga Mbande (1583 – 1663) was queen of the kingdoms of Ndongo (aka Ngola) and later Matamba. Ndongo was the most powerfull of the Wene wa Kongo's vassal states. Queen Nzinga is one of medieval Africas most famous rulers. wiki: Queen Nzinga
The Kingdom of Kongo (Wene wa Kongo in Congolese) were one of the most populous medieval African kingdoms with half a million citizens and a 100 000 in capital Mbanza-Kongo. A long-lived kingdom that defeated Portugal on the battlefield, and had control over a large area via their vassals. The Manikongo raised 20 million Nzimbu shells in tax annually. wiki: Kingdom of Kongo
This is the art and proposal for a new civ. I'm god at art but not so much at programming and such so it would be great with some help. I have made a .psd file with alpha channels fore mapping the bleed on the icons but which can be downloaded here alongside with correct resolutuon of: leader scene, looding screen and the menu map
Some help with 3d model of the Pombo would also be super, I imagine the easiest way would be to remove the shield on 3d model of the spearman 8and maybe shange the speartip so it loooks like the on on the picture) and edit the texture so he gets darker skin and a bare chest. I could edit the texture myself if some one could extraxr it for me.
the last thing is to ad an icon for the Pombo, but haven't found the data for size and format.
I believe that we with some cooperation could make a great new civ! I have some ideas for other African civs which can be viewed here.
So what do you think? Has any one time to help me make this to a playable civ?
/Nikolaj Cyon
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Queen Nzinga Mbande
Wene wa Kongo
Greatings brave Nzinga, ruler of the Ndongo and Matamba, your beauty is only outshined by your cunningness. Your ambiton lead you from beeing the sister to the king of the Ndongo to eventualy claim two thrones. Then the Portuguese invaded your land, captured your island fortress almost also you Great Queen - you death defiantly climbed down the steep cliffs and manage to escaping to raise a new army. You then used your wit to form a alliance with the Dutch and turned them against your enemy. You stood proud and strong on the battlefield, there your archers and Dutch soldiers defeated the far larger Portugal army at the battle of Kombi in 1647.
Your kingdom were a part of the great Kingdom of Kongo - which with its capital Mbanza Kongo were more than 100 000 people lived, sophisticated political system and disciplined army - awed the world. Kongo grow rich of its trade with ivory, wax and raffia cloth - a fabric made of the fibers from the Raffia palm, and valued so highly that it were used as currency. The great Manikongo - the ruler over all the Kongo kingdoms could muster a army of tens of thousand men paid by the taxes from all dukes and vassals.
Queen Nzinga, your people look to you to lead them to glory. To form new alliances and divide their enemies. To lead them on the battlefield and drive the invaders into the sea. Will you answer their call? Will you build a civilization that stands the test of time?
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Glory of the Manikongo
[Trait:] +50% growth in until Printing Press, receives units from allied militaristic City-States twice as often.
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until Printing Press, receives units from allied militaristic City-States twice as often.-------------------------------
UU: Pombo
The Pombo is a fast light infantry unit that ignores terrain movement cost and has a bonus in defense against ranged attacks, but weaker against mounted units than the Pikeman that it replaces.
Cost 100
, 10 , 3 Special Abilities: Ignores terrain movement costs,
Bonus vs Mounted Units +50% (instead of +100% for Pikeman)
Starts with the Promotion:
Cover I (+25% defense against ranged attacks)
Background: The Pombo were elite scouts that could keep the same pace as a horce and were used to hunt down fleeing enemy troops. They relied on agility and skill to dodge arrows and spears instead of armor. Wiki: Kongo military
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UB: Raffia Mill
The Raffia Mill gives a small amount of culture and production, and also a production and gold bonus to jungle tiles,
instead of the percental production bonus from the Workshop that it replaces.
Cost 100
Maintenance: 2
Effect: +2
and +2. It also provides +1 and +1 from each Jungle tile worked by the City .Background: The Raffia Mills in the region of the seven kingdoms - Kongo dia Nlaza - produced more than 100,000 meters of cloth annually in the 1500's. The cloth were made from the fibers of the raffia palm and were often decorated with ellaborate artistic patterns, and also functioned as a currency. wiki: Kongo dia Nlaza and wiki: Raffia
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Mini Leader image: | Symbol: | Menu Map:
Colors: Pale turquoise with brown red border (as the Aztecs but reversed)
City list:
Mbanza Kongo, Loango, Kabasa, Nkuna, Kavanga, Mpinda, KaKongo, Nsi Kwilu and Kongo dia NlazaLeader scene:
Background: Queen Nzinga Mbande (1583 – 1663) was queen of the kingdoms of Ndongo (aka Ngola) and later Matamba. Ndongo was the most powerfull of the Wene wa Kongo's vassal states. Queen Nzinga is one of medieval Africas most famous rulers. wiki: Queen Nzinga
The Kingdom of Kongo (Wene wa Kongo in Congolese) were one of the most populous medieval African kingdoms with half a million citizens and a 100 000 in capital Mbanza-Kongo. A long-lived kingdom that defeated Portugal on the battlefield, and had control over a large area via their vassals. The Manikongo raised 20 million Nzimbu shells in tax annually. wiki: Kingdom of Kongo
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This is the art and proposal for a new civ. I'm god at art but not so much at programming and such so it would be great with some help. I have made a .psd file with alpha channels fore mapping the bleed on the icons but which can be downloaded here alongside with correct resolutuon of: leader scene, looding screen and the menu map
Some help with 3d model of the Pombo would also be super, I imagine the easiest way would be to remove the shield on 3d model of the spearman 8and maybe shange the speartip so it loooks like the on on the picture) and edit the texture so he gets darker skin and a bare chest. I could edit the texture myself if some one could extraxr it for me.
the last thing is to ad an icon for the Pombo, but haven't found the data for size and format.
I believe that we with some cooperation could make a great new civ! I have some ideas for other African civs which can be viewed here.
So what do you think? Has any one time to help me make this to a playable civ?
/Nikolaj Cyon
here is an in game screenshot of mine
