Any Ideas For A Meso-american Modpack???

[thomson_2001]

here is a pic of the canoe.

 

[thomson_2001]

Now there is updated icons (the city production icon has now been added). Thanks guys

 

[thomson_2001]

CHECK OUT THE MOD WEBSITE!!! www.81x.com/thomson_2001/mesoamericamod

 

[thomson_2001]

Here are some early screenshots of the High Priest. It is based on sceenshots from Age of Empires but has been changed for the mod

 

[Mongoloid Cow]

Wow! It looks like it's gonna turn into a realy good mod!

 

[thomson_2001]

The only problem at the moment mongoloid cow is that there aint much "modding" going on.lol. Im too busy doing all the fun stuff like creating units i havent started on the mod aspect of it all. Im gonna wait till the scenario editor comes out first then create a serires of exciting and unique games with excellent maps etc.....

 

[thomson_2001]

UPDATE:- progress is slowing as the units get more complicated.Working of the Warior death flc now and priest run.

 

[Mongoloid Cow]

When do you reckon they'll be finished? 2 weeks? 3weeks? 4 weeks? Doesn't really matter be just good to know, that's all. Also, where were llamas distributed? I know they were in Peru, but that's all I know.

 

[Nahuixtelotzin]

Llamas and similar species can be found more or less in the whole Andean region but not in Central or North America, nor in south american lowlands

 

[thomson_2001]

warrior will take 2 to 3 weeks.priest will be bout 4. A seriea of scenarios will be out within the month! thanks for the support guys!

 

[Richard III]

Any sacrifice element? You order a high priest to sacrifice a unit and it appears on an altar and gets it heart ripped out?

Sorry, I've been reading more Diaz, and that just seems like an appropriate idea. I'd pay money to see that in a Civ mod.

R.III

 

[TrailblazingScot]

Did the Aztecs etc have swords?

I'm just wondering because in the book of Mormon they tribe in "Central America" had swords apparently around 60 B.C and indeed there are alot of references to swords.

Book of mormon or moron...a chap call Moroni in the book, fascinating

 

[Nahuixtelotzin]

Originally posted by kittenOFchaos
Did the Aztecs etc have swords?

I'm just wondering because in the book of Mormon they tribe in "Central America" had swords apparently around 60 B.C and indeed there are alot of references to swords.

Book of mormon or moron...a chap call Moroni in the book, fascinating

The book of mormon is really the proof that you can sell the biggest bull**** to people.
It's not true at all. Beside the fact that metal weapons were COMPLETELY unknown in the Americas, we don't have a cronology that goes further back than ~1300, except for the Maya area, where we can set exact dates until maybe 200AD. Before that we rely on the guessings of the archeologists and C14-method.
Neither archeological science nor C14-method were available to Joseph Smith...

But there is a vivid tradition of jewish descendance theories foir the Indians from the 16th century onwards. One built up on the other, until blunder, false statements, wrong translations and weird bible interpretation culminated in Smith's bulls*it. I'm currently working on a paper on those theories, so I ought to know .

But some explanations to the term "sword" in connection to the Aztecs:
The first writers about America had to describe a completely unknown world, so at first they had to describe it in the old concepts.
Columbus wrote that he had seen nightingales, though there arent such in the Americas. He simply used it as an understandable pattern for what he saw.
Gomara, Cortes' apologetic writer, called the Aztec temples "Mosques", because he wanted to accentuate the rightfulness of their destruction, the treatment of the Indians and present the Conquista as the legitimate heir of the Reconquista.

Jaguars were called "tigers", because until you could make it clear to european , what a Jaguar was, you had to use a more familiar term. There is tons of similar examples, the sword being one.

The "sword" was probably the Maquahuitl, which actually resembles more a war club...

 

[thomson_2001]

Wow, thanks Nahuixtelotzin. That info will help me in my mod.

You said : "I'm currently working on a paper on those theories, so I ought to know". So are you studying at University or is it just a topic of interest for you, im keen to know

 

[Nahuixtelotzin]

I'm studying History at the University of Graz, Austria.
Among my fields of special interest are the history of exploration, cultural contact and the impact of this first "globalization" on european thought.
The theories about the indian origin are incredibly interesting in this aspect.

My interest in the Aztec culture partially derives from the interest in cultural contact and syncretism but is partially genuine.
It's so interesting for comparative purposes with the Old World antiquity because it developped independently (if we don't believe Smith ). But I'll never be a specialist in Mexicanistics, lamentably. It's more a little hobby of mine.