One thing I really liked in the old old (but excellent) Warlords II game, was the possibillity of finding artifacts. How about implementing this in AND?
An Artifact would be attached to a unit the same way a promotion would, or they could be attached like Lead as Warlord, but different (able to both attach warlords and artifacts). The later already has a nice graphic (Treasure) and can also be used to build Artifact World Wonders, which then again could be "pillaged" when city was captured.
The effect could be Single Unit/Stack/Area/Empire and with Afforess skills it seems that only the imagination would be the limit
Situations where artifacts could be discovered :
(A) Capturing a Holy City (100% chance)
(B) Capturing cities where enemy had National Wonders (5% chance)
(C) Discovering in Huts (alternative to existing huts but low chance)
(D) Killing high XP units (or Generals) (5-50% chance depending how high level)
(E) Killing units already carrying artifacts (100%)
(F) First to discover a tech (100% chance)
(G) Event
(H) Quest
(1) Ancient
(2) Classical
(3) Medieval
(4) Renaissance
(5) Industrial
(6) Modern
Types of Artifacts :
Weapons
Jewelry
Religious items
Objects
Beer of Jaihu
Mona Lisa
Ark of Covenant
Cup of Jamshid
The Palladium
Lippershey's Spyglass
Olmec Compass
Rosetta Stone
Shroud of Turin
Dead Sea Scrolls
Lucy (Australopithecus) Fossils
Crystal Skull
Holy Grail
Excalibur
The Book of the Dead
The Was Sceptre of Set
IMPORTANT : The Artifacts should NOT be magical but can be mythical or legendary. So no flying or supernuking in classical era, nor should they be overpowering.
An Artifact would be attached to a unit the same way a promotion would, or they could be attached like Lead as Warlord, but different (able to both attach warlords and artifacts). The later already has a nice graphic (Treasure) and can also be used to build Artifact World Wonders, which then again could be "pillaged" when city was captured.
The effect could be Single Unit/Stack/Area/Empire and with Afforess skills it seems that only the imagination would be the limit
Situations where artifacts could be discovered :
(A) Capturing a Holy City (100% chance)
(B) Capturing cities where enemy had National Wonders (5% chance)
(C) Discovering in Huts (alternative to existing huts but low chance)
(D) Killing high XP units (or Generals) (5-50% chance depending how high level)
(E) Killing units already carrying artifacts (100%)
(F) First to discover a tech (100% chance)
(G) Event
(H) Quest
(1) Ancient
(2) Classical
(3) Medieval
(4) Renaissance
(5) Industrial
(6) Modern
Types of Artifacts :
Weapons
Jewelry
Religious items
Objects
Beer of Jaihu
Mona Lisa
Ark of Covenant
Cup of Jamshid
The Palladium
Lippershey's Spyglass
Olmec Compass
Rosetta Stone
Shroud of Turin
Dead Sea Scrolls
Lucy (Australopithecus) Fossils
Crystal Skull
Holy Grail
Excalibur
The Book of the Dead
The Was Sceptre of Set
IMPORTANT : The Artifacts should NOT be magical but can be mythical or legendary. So no flying or supernuking in classical era, nor should they be overpowering.