Oruc
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The Classical World 250 BC.
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Great scenario, I'm really enjoying it.
But what's up with the Mauryan empire? Why is the leader's name "Gupta Cart"!? The other leaders sometimes refer to him as "Cart". As an amateur history buff who's studied ancient Indian history, I've never heard that variation of names before. What am I missing?
But what's up with the Mauryan empire? Why is the leader's name "Gupta Cart"!? The other leaders sometimes refer to him as "Cart". As an amateur history buff who's studied ancient Indian history, I've never heard that variation of names before. What am I missing?
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The Last Conformist
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Might that be some bizarre variant/misspelling of "Chandragupta"?
Chandragupta would be correct, but I thought maybe Yoda knew something I didn't.
Also, the Carthegenian leader is known as "Asoka." Maybe it's coincidence, but Asoka was actually a powerful emperor in ancient India. Is there a second Asoka I'm not aware of?
But again, those are just minor details. I love the scenario; great job.
Also, the Carthegenian leader is known as "Asoka." Maybe it's coincidence, but Asoka was actually a powerful emperor in ancient India. Is there a second Asoka I'm not aware of?
But again, those are just minor details. I love the scenario; great job.
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Seeing that Asoka is the most well-known Mauryan leader, and that the syllable "Cart" is reminicent of "Carthaginian", it's beginning to look like a snafu with pieces of text going where they shouldn't.
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About names-I think Asoka should be the Indian leader. Cart was a substitie for a name I couldn't find. I must have switched them by accident. Quite funny no one noticed before now, afterall the scenario is more than a year old
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emu, are you making the scenario in Conquests?
If so, then I think it would probably be best to make the following leaderhead changes:
Nubia: Race_Arabs
Daam't: Race_Sumerians?
Also, you could probably use the new unit images for the UU's and maybe use the Portuguese or Hittite leaderhead for the scythians.
-Yom
If so, then I think it would probably be best to make the following leaderhead changes:
Nubia: Race_Arabs
Daam't: Race_Sumerians?
Also, you could probably use the new unit images for the UU's and maybe use the Portuguese or Hittite leaderhead for the scythians.
-Yom
One more suggestion....
Maybe you could make a special impassable terrain called "Sahara" that would replace most of the desert west of Nubia, North of the Sahel, and South of the cost. (Note: I say most, because i don't mean ALL the desert should be "Sahara, just enough so that there's only enough desert on the fringes to have 1 or 2 cramped cities).
The impassable concept would work with problems with expansion into Russia too, you could make an impassable "Taiga" terrain that would cover at least the border of Russia so that civs couldn't freely expand into it. Tons of Barbs would work, but they'd leave their camps and infringe on Med civ's expansion too much.
Maybe you could make a special impassable terrain called "Sahara" that would replace most of the desert west of Nubia, North of the Sahel, and South of the cost. (Note: I say most, because i don't mean ALL the desert should be "Sahara, just enough so that there's only enough desert on the fringes to have 1 or 2 cramped cities).
The impassable concept would work with problems with expansion into Russia too, you could make an impassable "Taiga" terrain that would cover at least the border of Russia so that civs couldn't freely expand into it. Tons of Barbs would work, but they'd leave their camps and infringe on Med civ's expansion too much.
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You cant flag the additional terrains as impassible.
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Yom: Your title looks alot like "Negus Negesti" - any connection?
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@The Last Conformist: What do you mean? Negusa Nagast = King of Kings in Amharic, the language of Ethiopia. What's Negus Negesti
@Yoda: Are you sure you can't flag additional terrain as impassable? If not, you could always flag desert as impassable, rename it to sahara, and make a new terrain labeled as desert that is not impassable.
@emu: You can probably use Hittite leaderhead for Parthians and Temujin leaderhead for the Scythians (apparently their race is not quite sure and hotly debated, but it is likely they came from the Altai Mountains in Central Asia, near Mongolia).
@Yoda: Are you sure you can't flag additional terrain as impassable? If not, you could always flag desert as impassable, rename it to sahara, and make a new terrain labeled as desert that is not impassable.
@emu: You can probably use Hittite leaderhead for Parthians and Temujin leaderhead for the Scythians (apparently their race is not quite sure and hotly debated, but it is likely they came from the Altai Mountains in Central Asia, near Mongolia).
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I think giving desert the impassible flag is a good idea. But what do you mean with "a new terrain"?
Can't you create a new terrain type in the editor? If not, then just ignore my comment about a new terrain type and replace deserts that should be passable with plains (I assumed you could do it since they made a "rain forest" terrain in the Mesoamerica conquest that was impassable, but I guess they just renamed the regular forest terrain and made that impassable).
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Yes they just renamed the forest in the Mesoamerica conquest
BTW im starting a new scenario about the Persian Empire.
BTW im starting a new scenario about the Persian Empire.
In that case....you should make the desert terrain impassable, and change some to plains (i.e. Libyan coast on Mediterranean Sea, parts of the Gobi desert). Also, if it becomes a problem, you could make all of Siberia Tundra, and make Tundra impassable (which it probably should be anyway).
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