Hello friends.
It's been a long while since the IC7, a water map with Ottomans, so please let me present the new IC.
We will be playing as "the scary black guy with a sword in front of the burning world", or Askia of Songhai. Not quite Shaka, but rather alike. I was always wondering if it isn't dangerous to carry your sword like that.
Our map is standard-sized Pangaea, with standard number of oppenents/city-states and random everything else.
Our land units have double defensive strength and +1 sight in embarked mode, and melee land units gain the Amphibious promotion. Would be interesting to learn how this stacks with marines' promotions, but I doubt anyone would build marines as Askia on Pangaea.
Also we gain 3 times the usual amount of
for pillaging cities and barb camps.
Instead of temples, we pray in Mud Pyramid Mosques, which cost no maintenance and offer +2
on top of temple's usual +2 
. Availiable through Legalism.
Instead of knights, we build a unit named Mandekalu Cavalry. It is 10
(or 20 ) cheaper and has no penalty attacking cities. Our leader's bonuses add to that, making it essentially into a conquistador.
Here's our start, I think it's pretty good as starts go
Link to the previous IC7:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=496692
Good luck and have fun!
EDIT: I've noticed I made a mistake when posting the thread and named it IC7 instead of 8. I've already reported it to the mods, so don't bother about that, I hope they'll get it fixed.
Moderator Action: -> fixed it.
It's been a long while since the IC7, a water map with Ottomans, so please let me present the new IC.
We will be playing as "the scary black guy with a sword in front of the burning world", or Askia of Songhai. Not quite Shaka, but rather alike. I was always wondering if it isn't dangerous to carry your sword like that.
Our map is standard-sized Pangaea, with standard number of oppenents/city-states and random everything else.
Spoiler :
Our land units have double defensive strength and +1 sight in embarked mode, and melee land units gain the Amphibious promotion. Would be interesting to learn how this stacks with marines' promotions, but I doubt anyone would build marines as Askia on Pangaea.
Also we gain 3 times the usual amount of
for pillaging cities and barb camps.Instead of temples, we pray in Mud Pyramid Mosques, which cost no maintenance and offer +2
on top of temple's usual +2 . Availiable through Legalism.Instead of knights, we build a unit named Mandekalu Cavalry. It is 10
(or 20 ) cheaper and has no penalty attacking cities. Our leader's bonuses add to that, making it essentially into a conquistador.Here's our start, I think it's pretty good as starts go
Spoiler :
Link to the previous IC7:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=496692
Good luck and have fun!
EDIT: I've noticed I made a mistake when posting the thread and named it IC7 instead of 8. I've already reported it to the mods, so don't bother about that, I hope they'll get it fixed.
Moderator Action: -> fixed it.
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