The Kanem Bornu Empire

[Gedemo]

Adds the Civilization of the Kanem Bornu to Brave New World, with Idriss Alooma as its Leader!
Adds the city-states of Nouakchott (mercantile), Sidjilmassa (mercantile) and Sennar (militaristic)
This mod features Custom Leader Music.

You can download it here:

http://www.mediafire.com/download/tnkect51h3xbgrl/Kanem_Bornu_Empire_(v_1).civ5mod

Kanem Bornu Civilization



Leader: Idriss Alooma

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UA: Mirage of Agisymba: +2 gold and +2 production on oasis tiles. Better defense if the city is built on a desert tile.
Unique wonder of the « Salt City of Taghaza » (+1 gold and brings 3 salt ressource)

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UU: Tuareg cavalry (cavalry with promotion desert warrior)

UB: Slave Market : replaces market with a+1 production bonus. It gives a free caravan unit and a free trade route available. It gives also 3 slaves ressources tradable with other civs.

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Credits:
Music:
Brandon Fiechter - Desert Mercenaries (Enchanted Lands)
Icon Taghaza: Desert City by Janina Overley
Idris: Camels and sunset by HenzG

 

[SargontheGreat2]

YES! I've been waiting

 

[TPangolin]

You might want to make a thread with all your civilizations in it, so that people can find them all at once

 

[Scapegrace]

Oooooh, more African civs! <3

I really enjoy what you've been doing with this. Do you have any plans for civs from Central Africa? =]

 

[Gedemo]

Oooooh, more African civs! <3

I really enjoy what you've been doing with this. Do you have any plans for civs from Central Africa? =]

Monomotapa and Maasai are coming soon

 

[COF]

Monomotapa and Maasai are coming soon

I can make you Icons for those if you want (I already made a Maasai icon for Hiram.)

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I can change the colors if you want.

What colors would you like for Monomotapa?
I made a small "prototype".

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[Gedemo]

I can make you Icons for those if you want (I already made a Maasai icon for Hiram.)

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I can change the colors if you want.

What colors would you like for Monomotapa?
I made a small "prototype".

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For the Maasai, I've done a similar icon (the same, but red) and in the game , the civ is red and Brown...so I'm still searching a good civ background+icon colour. Yours are very pink but it's new and I can try if you have the color codes values (red/green/blue) for the icon and the background

For Monomotapa, this is what I have now:



with the following colour in the game:

ICON
<Red>0.3176</Red>
<Green>0.0941</Green>
<Blue>0.0392</Blue>
<Alpha>1</Alpha>

<BACKGROUND
<Red>0.0863</Red>
<Green>0.6584</Green>
<Blue>0.2345</Blue>
<Alpha>1</Alpha>

 

[Scapegrace]

Monomotapa and Maasai are coming soon

ALL OF THE YES.

ALL OF IT.

This was my own idea for a Maasai civ:-
Maasai (I'm extremely tempted to put Neiterkob as the leader, but that'd probably be ghastly of me. [=)
Start Bias: Grassland
UA: Enkai's Chosen
When the Maasai Capital is founded, one of the surrounding tiles gains the Cattle resource. When an enemy city is captured, the unimproved tile with the lowest yield and no other resources on it becomes a Cattle tile. If no such tiles in range, one random improved tile is replaced with an unimproved Cattle tile. Cannot build Pastures until Medieval era.
UU: O-Rinka Moran (Replaces Spearman)
Starts with the unique promotion Lion Hunter, giving the unit +1 Movement and +50% bonus experience gain when charging into combat. The unit retains this promotion when upgrading, and upgrades to the Longswordsman rather than the Pikeman.
UB: Enkang (Replaces Granary)
+2 , +1 per Cattle and Plains Tile, costs 90 rather than 60 at Regular game pace.

No, there isn't a reference to adumu. That would be way, way too obvious. Instead, I focused on one of the central tenets of Maasai religion, that being that all the cattle in the world were given to them by Enkai and that therefore "rustling" is just taking back what is rightfully theirs, hence the bit in the UA about spawning Cattle next to captured cities. Hopefully, this isn't too imba.

Oh, and concerning the O-Rinka: I know it's a kind of throwing club (and a nastily effective one at that), but I didn't want to make another Impi and it fits the ethos of them being rustlers and raiders, launching the o-rinka into the fray before the stabbing begins. The reason the unique promotion is called Lion Hunter is because, well, the Maasai still hunt lions. How they do it is basically chasing after the poor beast until it keels over from exhaustion, at which point getting stabbed with a spear is largely ceremonial. =]

EDIT #1: Renamed the UU to O-Rinka Moran on Hoop's guidance.

EDIT #2: Nerfed the UA on Hoop's guidance. It really was a little on the OP side. Hopefully this is less game-breaky. =]

 

[Hoop Thrower]

Wherever I've ever read about the Maasai the name of their Warriors have always been Moran, so maybe that should be the UU name?

 

[COF]

Sadly that data didn't work in Photoshop so I had to try to get it as close as possible myself.

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For the Maasai, how about this?

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Also, are there any other Civ's you're interested in doing since I have a huge folder with Icons I made just for fun.

 

[Scapegrace]

Wherever I've ever read about the Maasai the name of their Warriors have always been Moran, so maybe that should be the UU name?

I was following the Firaxis tradition of people with weird weapons being named after the weapon rather than the name of the warrior (cf. Atlatlist), but yeah, Moran makes more sense. What did you think of the Civ ideas themselves?

 

[Gedemo]

Sadly that data didn't work in Photoshop so I had to try to get it as close as possible myself.

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For the Maasai, how about this?

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Also, are there any other Civ's you're interested in doing since I have a huge folder with Icons I made just for fun.

I like your both maasai icons (the pink one and the red one) , have you got the RGB datas (so I can put and try them in the game as civ colors)?

For Monomotapa's, could you try with this icon?

 

[COF]

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The brown is
R:60
G:33
B:17

The BG is:
R:22
G:84
B:0

The Red for the Maasai:
R:216
G:0
B:0

If you decided to go with the Pink Maasai
R:255
G:102
B:204


The purple shield (both versions are the same)
R:64
G:49
B:81

What other civs are you interested in, I got like dozens of useless Icons I made just for fun.

 

[Hoop Thrower]

I was following the Firaxis tradition of people with weird weapons being named after the weapon rather than the name of the warrior (cf. Atlatlist), but yeah, Moran makes more sense. What did you think of the Civ ideas themselves?

Civ certainly seems synergistic, but damn those are lots of Cows, the UB could get really, really powerful very quickly, though the Cattle can work against you I guess, maybe remove the starting cattle? (Or reduce it to 1)

 

[Scapegrace]

Civ certainly seems synergistic, but damn those are lots of Cows, the UB could get really, really powerful very quickly, though the Cattle can work against you I guess, maybe remove the starting cattle? (Or reduce it to 1)

Yeah, I think you're right, it'd make a lot more sense to only give them one starting Cattle. They grow too fast too quickly, and I imagine that if you're playing against them on Deity, a carpet of O-Rinka Moran would not be pleasant to deal with since they get them so early on (I'd plan on making them a very aggressive Civ to reflect their warrior nature). It's OP and it needs a change.

How you'd actually -mod- it, of course, is another matter entirely. I'm fairly new to Civ and I've got the computer know-how of a concussed hedgehog in a bag, so someone more talented (by which I mean someone talented) would have to do it. =]

 

[Gedemo]

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The brown is
R:60
G:33
B:17

The BG is:
R:22
G:84
B:0

The Red for the Maasai:
R:216
G:0
B:0

If you decided to go with the Pink Maasai
R:255
G:102
B:204


The purple shield (both versions are the same)
R:64
G:49
B:81

What other civs are you interested in, I got like dozens of useless Icons I made just for fun.

I put your Icon in the mod and I've change the civ color with your RGB code




My Kanem Bornu icon could be better, your help would be welcomed (it's a very wellknown african "adinkra", very easy to find with Google image)

 

[COF]

I put your Icon in the mod and I've change the civ color with your RGB code




My Kanem Bornu icon could be better, your help would be welcomed (it's a very wellknown african "adinkra", very easy to find with Google image)

Alright I'll get right to it! Colors?

 

[Gedemo]

Alright I'll get right to it! Colors?

These colors are from civ V color base, I've tried to translate in RGB code doing this civcolorcode x 255 = RGB code

Dark Pink (icon)
176
0
97

Light Blue (Background)
127
178
255

 

[Gedemo]

What other civs are you interested in, I got like dozens of useless Icons I made just for fun.

If you want to look at it too, there is also my Samoyedic civ

the color are :

Dark Blue
41
0
163

Light Purple
178
153
255

The icon is this reindeer head:



Thanks for your nice work!

 

[COF]

The Deer head Icon you provided was, sadly too small.

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So I just took one online.

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