Kushan Empire

[Plankhead]

The Kushans were a pretty major empire in the area with all the countries that end with -stan, and so I'm working on putting them in the game.

Name: Kushan Empire
Techs: Mining, Mysticism
Leader: Kanishka I (Philosophical, Financial)


UU
Rhinocerous (Replaces War Elephant)
The Indians and Kushans used rhinos in warfare for the simple reason that an angry rhino will barrel through just about anything, and their bad eyesight encourages this. A simple hard whack was all it took to get a rhino charging at the enemy.
All attributes are same as War Elephant, except Rhinos have +25% against Melee units.

Cities:
Termez
Purushapura
Kapisa
Mathura
Kabul
Taxila
Kanka
Dushanbe
Jalal-Abad
Mazar-e Sharif

 

[Kushan]

Awesome

 

[Mongoloid Cow]

I made a Kushan city list for a mod in Civ 3 (which I abandoned). Here it is:

Purushapura
Mathura
Taxila
Begram
Sangala
Barbaricon
Pattala
Barighaza
Sanchi
Pataliputra
Bodh Gaya
Kapisa-Kanish
Bamiyan
Ghazni
Shahristan
Patna
Kara-Tepe
Kipin
Multan
Vaiskali
Shravasti
Bharhut
Arikamedu
Kausambi
Rajahgriha
Palura
Hastinapur
Ajunta
Kapilavasta
Ellera
Tamralipti
Alosygni
Spoatma
Kola
Pratishtana
Muziris
Simylla
Pandya
Palali

You might be able to pull some more cities from it.

 

[Plankhead]

Where do you find all these cities? Thanks, by the way. But where? I've Googled the Kushan Empire so many times and never found anything like those. I've just relied on looking at the ancient names of (Insert prefix here)stanian countires on Wikipedia, if they had any.

 

[Plankhead]

Okay, I've finished up the city list now, and replaced the Barbarian city Kushans with !Kung (Yes, that's really how it's spelled. That's not a typo at all, I promise you. It has a clicking noise in it.). Now I just have to play with all the other XML files.

 

[Mongoloid Cow]

Where do you find all these cities? Thanks, by the way. But where? I've Googled the Kushan Empire so many times and never found anything like those. I've just relied on looking at the ancient names of (Insert prefix here)stanian countires on Wikipedia, if they had any.

Thorough and wide-ranging research. That, I know several cities of the top of my head Barbaricon, for example, was a port at the end of the Indus River. Purushapura and Mathura were twin capitals of Kanishka the Great. Peukaleotis was an important city in Gandhara, about 5 km from Peshawar. Bamiyan is the city where the Bamiyan Buddhas were built (the ones which the Taliban destroyed in 2001). Patna was a major city in northeastern India. And so forth. If you are going to search the web on the Kushanid Empire (or any past state for that matter), you should be searching non-encyclopædiac websites focusing on Kushan.

 

[Plankhead]

I'll keep that in mind. Or just farm out the research part to you for all my mods and focus on the coding and stuff, since you appear to be much better at it.

 

[Mongoloid Cow]

I know bugger all about most things.