So I love playing TSL maps and trying to make them realistic as possible and I was recently thinking about since we are limited in the civs we could put on a map ( I believe it is 20 max for a huge map) that would make it the best playable experience.
Main factors I would consider are: geography, cultural significance, and lastly probably gameplay.
So most important to me is rounding out the continents. I will be doing this from my head so please feel free to correct me or add your opinions. I am not a history/geo expert nor an expert at the game, but here are my first thoughts.
North America:
America
Canada
Aztecs
Mayans
Cree
South America:
Brazil
Inca
Mapuche
Australia/Oceania:
Australia / Maori (not sure which but probably can't handle both)
Africa:
Nubia
Kongo
Mali
Middle East/India:
Arabia
India
Asia:
China
Russia
Indonesia
Mongolia
Europe:
I already only have 2 choices left so this gets super hard and Europe is tight. Likely have to eliminate some from others ( North America?)
Thoughts to improve? I am not even considering CS, but those could be important since I believe we can pick those out as well.
This isn’t even remotely historical or realistic
First off, you have to leave North America, South America and Africa empty so they fill up with barbarian camps and city states, thus leading to the historical colonial scramble.
Europe is basically unsolveable due to loyalty mechanics and Wide >>> Tall in this game. You can sort of approximate it with Germany, Spain, England and Russia. This leaves each one room to expand and not immediatly get deleted by loyalty.
Yes I deleted Rome and Greece from history. They end up penned in their peninsulas and just contribute to the loyalty clusterfrack
If capitols were immune to loyalty this would change.
One option is replacing Germany with Poland and Rome.
The Middle East gets Eqypt and Persia.
Central Asia gets Scythia.
India gets, well India
Asia gets China, Vietnam, Korea and Mongolia.
Ideally Britain and Spain eventually turn the Americas into a colonial empire which then becomes The Free Cities Death Zone when they hit a dark age.
Unfortunatly the AI never expands overseas, Europe stays a more or less a backwater and usually an Indian Superpower eventually dominates because India was blobbed into one civ.
The only way you get anything approaching history is the above setup with Britain played by a human