Gaia Empires (Fantasy Map, Standard Size, 8 Civs)

[Lamabreeder]

Standard sized (100x100) map for 8 players on a single land mass. Raging barbs.

Fantasy map (as opposed to real map).

Requires Civilization III Conquests

Some maps require the modpack RAR

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• All Civs have roughly similar and fair starting positions regarding available terrain and geostrategic position. This does not necessarily apply to resources.
• Starting positions are not too similar, however, increasing replay value.
• All Civs have a subcontinent for themselves: Their empires will mostly be bordered by coast, but one to three landbridges will connect to the rest of the continent.
  • Empires will be relatively easy to defend.
  • Empires will have a natural shape and (minimum) size.
• There are 5 Civs with only one land bridge, 2 with two, and the central one with three.
• There are also 8 small islands near the coast of each subcontinent.
• You can found 12 to 20 cities on your subcontinent, depending how tight you pack them - if you leave at least two tiles between cities.
• There is relatively much jungle.

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I designed this map so a peaceful builder approach with a large empire on only a standard map size was possible. I played multiple games from almost all starting positions and was quite content.

The central civ normally has a hard time if played by an AI.

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Contains 5 versions of the same map: a blank map w/o resources, two maps with resources, a blank map for RAR and a map for RAR with resources.

 

[Omni314]

they look so cool, i love proper strategic maps!