Aeon mod - Italy

[MeteorPunch]

This is a play through of a mod I'm working on, called Civilization III Aeon. I'm playing as Italy, which could debateably be the most powerful civ in the game, as they are decently strong throughout history. I'm not a writer, and I'm not trying to be...this is an experiment if anything.

Game settings:
Map: 10k tiles, standard
Civs: 8
Difficulty: Advanced (a Emperor/Demigod equivalent)
World: Pangea (in retrospect I would have liked it to be Continents for more navy action, but I hadn't played on Pangaea in a long time so...)

Spoiler :

BC4000 The start - pretty nice. Rome founded.

BC3956 Milan founded.

BC3514 First Boat sets sail, and contact is made with Canada.

BC3292 Canada is behaving aggressively, leaving a warrior fortified by Milan. Florence founded.

BC3245 Contact with South Africa.

 

[Arexander]

Looks nice. Double colors for Rome?

 

[MeteorPunch]

Spoiler :

BC3160 Contact with China and Spain.

BC2983 A disturbing report is released as Canada moves another Warrior in striking distance of Milan.

BC2938 Figures! Well I have Archers now at least.

BC2850 Contact with France.

BC2806 Take that, Canadian fish resource! Naples founded.

 

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Spoiler :

BC2673 2 of Canada's units are forced to return home as Spain has declared war on them. My fish-blocking boat watches the action.

BC2452 Contact with United Kingdom.

BC2407 Peace with Canada. Hey, I need workers!

BC2319 Venice founded. I blame the Volcanoes for this bad grid of cities.

BC2186 Imperial Republic government adopted.

 

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Spoiler :

BC1744 Turin Founded.

BC1390 The Senate completes in Rome.

BC1213 Ravenna founded on an isthmus for future passage.

BC1124 South African units approach.

BC1080 Contact with last remaining civ, Japan. Looks like they have an island to themselves up northeast.

 

[MeteorPunch]

Spoiler :

BC991 Training Camp completes in Milan.

BC903 Ancient Forge completes in Naples.

BC682 Genoa founded.

BC460 Some news I want to see.

BC328 Units heading west to South Africa...which will leave the main cities lightly guarded, allowing an easier time of doing what I was intending to.

 

[MeteorPunch]

Spoiler :

BC239 Canada joins team China vs South Africa.

BC151 "The situation."

BC106 China's units retreat from fighting South Africa to come after me. I'm considering abandoning Shanghai, but I think the defense might hold.

BC62 Rather than counterattack me, the stacks head east to the more lightly defended cities. This is gonna let me pick them apart.

 

[MeteorPunch]

Looks nice. Double colors for Rome?

I've tried the whole double color thing, even triple colors, but it doesn't look as nice as solid colors to me. Instead I use a single color and change the borders and city panel.

 

[MeteorPunch]

One last thing:

White - UK
Blue - France
Yellow - Spain
Neon Green - South Africa
Pastel Blue - Canada
Red - China
Dark Red - Japan
Dark Green - Italy

 

[vmxa]

Some nice looking stuff, hope you stick it out. New mods are always a good thing.

 

[BuckyRea]

I have a million questions. I'll try to keep it down to 3 or 5.

1. What's that resource just northeast of Canton?

2. What the modpack being used here? Is this you own work or are you putting it together from other sources?

3. What are the attack/defend/move stats on those "boats" you have? How do they stand up compared to 2-movement based coastal carracks? Do they attack or only defend? Can they transport troops? Or are those just your version of galleys?

 

[Arexander]

1. I seems like a Tropical Fruits resource.

2. This is his own mod. I'll let him tell more about this as I dont know everything.

 

[MeteorPunch]

I have a million questions. I'll try to keep it down to 3 or 5.

That's fine, ask away.

1. What's that resource just northeast of Canton?

Wine. It's a sideways barrel with 2 grape clusters beneath.

2. What the modpack being used here?

It's my own mod, titled "Aeon" that is pretty much done, I've just been fine-tuning things and getting numbers right.

Is this you own work or are you putting it together from other sources?

Well it's my own work, but I've used dozens of images, sounds, units, etc. which were created by others.

3. What are the attack/defend/move stats on those "boats" you have? How do they stand up compared to 2-movement based coastal carracks? Do they attack or only defend? Can they transport troops? Or are those just your version of galleys?

Boats are sea units available extremely early on...you can have a boat built 6 turns into the game. They come before galleys. The stats are:

1 Attack
1 Defend
3 Movement (ships in general have decent movement)

Sinks in Sea tiles
Cannot enter Ocean tiles.

Transports 2 Foot units (In the first era, that means anything but mounted/horse units.

 

[MeteorPunch]

I'm concerned about all my image bandwidth getting eaten up, so I went back and spoilered each post.

 

[MeteorPunch]

Spoiler :

BC 18 South Africa and China make peace. China is willing to take peace as well, and will even offer a small town for it, but as long as South Africa and Canada remain at war, I think I should continue.

AD159 Chengdu captured. Invasion fleet spotted off Nanking.

AD203 During the interturn several wars and alliances were declared. War happens nearly nonstop in this mod.

AD292 Tsingtao captured.

AD336 First assaults on Beijing made.

 

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Spoiler :

AD380 Roman Colosseum completes in Florence and we enter our Golden Age. Pisa founded.

AD380 Beijing falls, leaving China with only 2 cities.

AD425 Xinjian is captured, exiling China to a single island city. I grant them peace in exchange for all their gold.

AD469 Alchemist's Shop completes in Rome.

AD602 Middle Ages begin.

 

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Spoiler :

AD638 Does the AI build sea units? Yes, lots? So far Archipelago maps have been my favorite, but this is really my first time on a Pangaea.

AD650 China is no more.

AD662 Feudal Monarchy government adopted.

AD710 Knights Templar completed in Rome. Begin making unit movement to take on Canada.

AD722 Change of plan - during the interturn a stack of South Africans moved in...looks like it will be Canada helping me here. I ally Canada and Spain vs. South Africa.

 

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Spoiler :

AD734 Crusades completes in Naples.

AD758 Second South African city captured, Durban.

AD770 Finally..

AD782 Aw.

Johannesburg is captured.

AD818 South African capital of Cape Town is captured.

 

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Spoiler :

AD842 Compass enables Map Trading and gives a better view of the world.

AD854 Heroic Epic completes in Naples. Palermo founded.

AD866 Soweto captured.

AD890 Benoni captured.

 

[MeteorPunch]

Spoiler :

Politics..

Power chart:

I'm pretty much on cruise control at this point, but I'll play it out anyway. In the past I have lost multiple times at this difficulty level, but this has been easier for lots of reasons.

China and Canada started out strong, but China really had a bad start location (too many mountains, although in this mod terrain is more even I think), and Canada's early war with Spain left them pretty ordinary.

I had very nice land and have been able to mostly avoid wars I don't want to be in - in past games sometimes it's me who all those red lines point at.