I went west.
Problems, Criticisms, the like:
1) GIVE THE MONGOLS A CURSED BLITZ ABILITY ALREADY! (sorry, but that is really irking me.
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2) Crusaders should not be so strong offensively. The crusader states were almost entirely on the defensive in this age, give the Crusaders a strong defense and check the box labeled AI strategies - Defense.
Also, make the Arabs stronger offensively. Give the Crusaders more defensive units. Also give both Arabs and Crusaders a fleet.
3) Byzantines-Latins are OK, but there should just one or two more cataphracts on the Byzantines side.
4) Anatolian Turks should have a lot more units. They should be able to smash the Byzantines in the back and nearly take Constantinople.
5) The AI units are roaming all over the place. I have a suspicion that if you give all people a knowledge of the whole map, this will be fixed.
6) Eliminate the little barbarian encampments around all over the place. WE ARE THE TRUE BARBARIANS!
7) Persia-Iraq-Damascus area needs a massive irrigation system through all of the Plains, floodplains, and deserts in that area, so that their cities can actually grow. Indeed, these areas had a massive and complex irrigation system and very very large populations before the Mongols came.
8) The area through Ortrar to Bhokara should all belong to Kwarzihm.
9) I haven't tried this yet, but how, exactly, are the Mongols supposed to launch the fabled invasions of Japan with no watercraft building capabilities. There is a graphic for the Kublai Khan ship somewhere on this forum. Use that, and make it a cheap Mongol buildable transport unit with weak stats but high transport capacity. Also give the Japanese small "assault craft" to deal with them, with high attack values.
10) Are you really intending to release this with the dates still chugging from 4000 BCE?
11) Are you really intending to release this in DEBUG mode?
12) Make more VP locations. Ortar, Samarkand, and Bokhara are a good place to start.
13) Novgorod should be bigger and richer than Moscow, and Moscow a tiny farming village.
14) [When] Are we getting Flying tiger Warship graphics?
15) WE need better civilopedia entries... I could do those if you needed.
16) Name the other two armies Subadai and Odagai. Preferably Subadai on the Western City.
17) Nary a leaderhead to be found?
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MAKE IT SO WE CAN PLAY OTHER CIVS! I DON'T ALWAYS WANT TO PLAY AS THE MONGOLS!!!!! Really, I want to try out other civs, it would give me a better perspective, and also it would give the user more flexibility.
Overall, westward seems to be OK, but I need to test further. I've only gotten to Persia. Wait a while.
I am enjoying playing this, but it needs further tweaking. A lot of little things are needing to be changed, not anything gamebreaking... Yet. I'm still looking.