lindsay40k
Emperor
Here's a notion I've been having:
- map is a Terra type one
- all factions start in same location in Africa-like continent
- all factions have a single Nomad unit
- Nomad is a hybrid unit that can settle and can also fulfil some city functions; research, work tiles, increase its population and work specialists, but not make buildings or generate GPP
- most decent attack units require a Barracks, so unsettled civs can't axe rush
- Nomad units can't attack human units but can attack animals and gain food from them
- animal resources are not placed on map but rather run wild as Herd units that become resource tiles when 'killed'
- game starts earlier (say, 6000BC) in an Ice Age; during this time, Ice Sheet terrain fills all coastal waters and adjacent ocean tiles a certain distance from equator
- Ice Sheet is passable terrain. At end of Ice Age, Ice Sheets vanish. Units left on Ice Sheets get dropped on nearest land tile (think Closed Borders when you have units deep in enemy continent)
- Palace has no effect during Ice Age; early settling may grab decent land but yield limited advantage over factions that keep moving
- Nomad units can 'Perform Ritual' in a tile; this puts down a single Culture point on tile.
- Nomad unit has a set Range, acting like city border size but laying down no culture.
- Result: you generate no borders until you establish a cultural presence on the land.
- Nomads can, eventually, recruit a Raider unit; Mounted unit with high Retreat odds
- Mongol Keshik is Raider with M3
- map is a Terra type one
- all factions start in same location in Africa-like continent
- all factions have a single Nomad unit
- Nomad is a hybrid unit that can settle and can also fulfil some city functions; research, work tiles, increase its population and work specialists, but not make buildings or generate GPP
- most decent attack units require a Barracks, so unsettled civs can't axe rush
- Nomad units can't attack human units but can attack animals and gain food from them
- animal resources are not placed on map but rather run wild as Herd units that become resource tiles when 'killed'
- game starts earlier (say, 6000BC) in an Ice Age; during this time, Ice Sheet terrain fills all coastal waters and adjacent ocean tiles a certain distance from equator
- Ice Sheet is passable terrain. At end of Ice Age, Ice Sheets vanish. Units left on Ice Sheets get dropped on nearest land tile (think Closed Borders when you have units deep in enemy continent)
- Palace has no effect during Ice Age; early settling may grab decent land but yield limited advantage over factions that keep moving
- Nomad units can 'Perform Ritual' in a tile; this puts down a single Culture point on tile.
- Nomad unit has a set Range, acting like city border size but laying down no culture.
- Result: you generate no borders until you establish a cultural presence on the land.
- Nomads can, eventually, recruit a Raider unit; Mounted unit with high Retreat odds
- Mongol Keshik is Raider with M3
