Scenario Project: The Persian Empire

[The Last Conformist]

I've not heard that it did. King Philip of Macedon consulted the oracle in Delphi in the 330s BC, and Plutarch - a rich and influential man - saw it as a great honour to serve as a priest in Delphi in the 1st C AD. He's written what I think is the only eye-witness account of the practices of the oracle.

 

[Yoda Power]

Well then im going to give it the Intelligence Agency abilities, and not make it obsolete

 

[mitsho]

And you have one happiness generating wonder less....

 

[Yoda Power]

Ok time for an update.

I only need to do two things before the test version release.

1. Make the second era tech tree, which I will start on very soon.
2. Find the correct leaders and such for each civ.

I should be able to do that this week

A note for the testers
Please submit an email I can send the scenario too!

 

[The Last Conformist]

What civs do you need leaders for?

 

[Yoda Power]

Originally posted by The Last Conformist
What civs do you need leaders for?

Sparta
Egypt
Thrace
Indians
Greeks
Athens

Its not a big thing, just havent gotten' to do it yet.

However GL's might become a problem

 

[mitsho]

Whact exavtly is the time span for the scenario? Just to know, if Themistocles is a candidate for the Greeks?

and my e-mail is mtschaeni@yahoo.de

mfG mitsho

 

[Louis XXIV]

Could/Should Lyonidas be the leader of Sparta?

 

[The Last Conformist]

'Leonidas'. Well, why not?

My immediate suggestion would have been Agesilaus, who generally overbossed around in Greece in the early 4th C, and led an invasion of Achaemenid Anatolia.

Indians almost gotta be Porus, not?

The last Pharaoh before the Persian conquest was Psammeticus III. But he only reigned 526-525 - a better candidate could be Amasis, who reigned 570-526.

 

[Yoda Power]

Whact exavtly is the time span for the scenario? Just to know, if Themistocles is a candidate for the Greeks?

550BC-323BC

I would appreciate if you could just tell me the greek leader names(as im quite busy, and greek history is not one of my biggest subjects).

Isn't Porus a bit late maybe? However I cant think of anybody but him

Yes Amasis will be the Pharaoh.

 

[The Last Conformist]

I might be able to dig up a name of a ruler from NW India from an earlier time period, but I very much doubt anyone not an expert on ancient Indian history will have heard of him.

 

[mitsho]

so, the fractions (does this word exist in english?)

Sparta: Leonidas
Persia: (do we need one? I'd say Xerxes?)
India: Porus (or an earlier one)
Egypt: Amasis
Athens: Themistocle (anything speaks against this?) or Peisistratos, Alkibiades, ...
Thrace: King Philip (or I am not sure, do we have a Macedon and a Thrace?)
Greece: There are not many knows, so why not take a tyran. The one that is most known is Dionysios of Syracuse. But Sicily isn't on the map, so perhaps 'Polykrates of Samos', or one of the athens politicans that went into an exile... (pretty much all of them... )

mfG mitsho

 

[The Last Conformist]

Why is Xerxes so popular as Persian leader? While he wasn't any particularly bad ruler, he's basically known for losing to the Greeks. I'd say the Cyrus or Darius the Great are better options.

I think you meant "faction". "Fraction" exists, but no meaning of it I can think of fits.

 

[Mithadan]

Originally posted by The Last Conformist
'Leonidas'. Well, why not?

Because Leonidas (complete with the pseudo-Greek-letters) is a brand of Belgian chocolate, that's why!








Totally joking with you guys!

 

[The Last Conformist]

Y'know, I never noticed you're a Gray Man before ...

(Wheel of Time reference for the Tolkienically initiated.)

 

[Yoda Power]

There are both Thrace and Macedon included. I need leaders for both.

Ok here is the tech tree for the second era. Not very big I know, maybe I should just fill the whole thing into one era?

 

[mitsho]

I don't think so, because otherways it would be possible to research reformed military before the satrapies... (for example).
Other possible techs would be: Zarathustra (wasn't the birth of this religion in that time? I do not know, it's my feeling that says it was around that time... ); aristocracy; monumentalism; heroic epic; ...

They're just suggestions. I don't know a use for them, just placeholders... monumentalism could be required to build some wonders. zarathoastraism could be needed for military tradition and Architecture. heroic epic could give a unit type another hp (moral!). How? by making a new unit, looking the same, same production etc. (it works with the ancient cavalry, so... )

Remember, these are just suggestions for more techs (for a larger techtree), which i just thought of, I do not say they are good ideas. ..

mfG mitsho
mfG mitsho

 

[Yoda Power]

I see one problem with Zarathoatism, it isn't exactly very generic. Maybe something like "State Religion" as a prequiste to Mil Tra and Architecture?

I thought about another tech Propaganda, comes maybe after State Religion? It would allow the Great Inscriptions wonder.

I dont want to make the unit system more complicatet at this stage of development. I rather wait untill the scenario is more testet.

 

[The Last Conformist]

When Zarathustra lived is not known with certainty, but most probably before the timespan covered by this scen.

(The name of the religion is "Zoroastrism", BTW.)

 

[Yoda Power]

Ok hows this? I added "Communications," could need a better name(hint hint).

edit: Just realised that I want to swift Architecture and City Planning.