Usually goody huts are not this friendly to me on Monarch difficulty. I'm playing England, and at the start of the game I got Compass from the hut in Ireland and a scout from the hut in Denmark, who I sent east to explore. He found another goody hut just on the Mongolian border, and, well...you couldn't really ask for anything better (especially as England)!
EDIT: The next turn I got the event for peace with the Natives. Wow.
Who would have thought some landlocked tribe in Mongolia had the secrets to intercontinental transport?
Anyways, been playing a game on Leoreth's modmod DoC, latest version, big post coming up:
I must have missed the part of my history textbook where it mentioned the Viking Colony of Central Asia.
Delhi, Merv (the light blue patch surrounded by Arab green), and Thessalonica (presumably some Byzantine outpost conquered by Vikings) are all Viking cities here. Although Merv was taken by the Byzantines the turn the second pic was snapped. (Oh and this is all in the Medieval Era by the way. Delhi was Viking before the 12th Century AD, if I recall correctly. How that happened is beyond me).
I must have missed the part about Spanish Ethiopia (in 1300 AD, no less) also.
...And this isn't so much of a OMG moment as a WTH moment. Note to Leoreth: Turn off Justinian's settler-spam attitude. I mean, really, WHO settles four cities in Morocco?? Oh that's right, Justinian.
...Since when does the AI GIFT you techs???? Especially when they're light-years ahead of you, like with Justinian. This was SERIOUSLY the first time I ever saw that, EVER, in a game of BTS, RFC or not.
The surviving Byzantium in the newer versions of DoC keeps reminding me of Isaac's Empire.
