Dead Moroz's New Map

[Big_John]

on the new map, the orangey faction are sarmatians. the scyths are out until they can add new factions, afaik. but the map isn't final anyway.

[Zero1]

For commens on the map, all I can say is WOW! HOLY MAMAJAMMA GO DEAD MOROZ! YOU ARE THE MAN!

I knew it was going to be historically accurate and quite detailed but I never imagined that could be done to such a fine and surpremely detailed level. I wish I could give some sort of constructive criticism but I can't find anything about it to criticize, its absolutely perfect.

Playing as the Carthies is going to have a whole new level of depth with the deep interior of Africa to expand into, and the Sarmatians are going to be surrounded with endless steppes to conquer and the Scelucids will have the difficult task of holding their massive empire together and the Parthians ready to pounce on their tender underbelly and and and and AND!!!!

Whew...I seriously CANNOT wait for this mod, its going to blow everything else out of the water

[eadingas]

Russa: well, if you could add some info about _names_ in Central, Eastern and North-Eastern Europe... all we have so far is archeological cultures, and for names we have to use either Herodotus, or Ptolemy, neither of which is very accurate... With Dead Moroz being from Russia and me being from Poland, we have some extra knowledge of these lands, but perhaps you have found something interesting?

[Sheep]

I like the current extent of the map. But is there a way to make 'dead space' that isn't possible to move onto and doesn't have a capital? I was thinking the bottom seven provinces in the southwest of the map (the Sahara) looked particularly useless.

Or, since it's only the cities that have to be within 50 tiles of adjacent cities, make really tall provinces where the cities are clustered up closer to the coasts or the Nile, but the land within the provinces extends vertically all the way down to the map border?

Mostly I'm not looking forward to slaughtering the Carthaginians up in the important provinces but then having to send armies down to root them out of the Saharan provinces by capturing and holding seven completely useless settlements there.

[Sheep]

Can't edit my posts but this is what I mean by really tall provinces. As far as I can tell the cities that remain will be no farther from the adjacent cities than they were before.

[Arkatreides]

I think that's a great idea!

[Sheep]

Especially since you can take those 7 provinces and use them elsewhere... you could make cool, happening cities like Philippi, Agrigentum, Bononia, another province on the east Adriatic coast, give Carthage another city on their coast... heck, there's probably a whole crapload of cities I don't even KNOW about...

[Russa]

Russa: well, if you could add some info about _names_ in Central, Eastern and North-Eastern Europe... all we have so far is archeological cultures, and for names we have to use either Herodotus, or Ptolemy, neither of which is very accurate... With Dead Moroz being from Russia and me being from Poland, we have some extra knowledge of these lands, but perhaps you have found something interesting?

Hi, eadingas!

Pardon me for being rather late in replying: I was unable to access the board for a few days and then things got hectic at work for a while. I would certainly love to do what I can in terms of names. Would you like place-names as well, or just personal names? I will have to look through my reference materials to see what I have. I was trained by Dr Schutz, one of the few experts on Germanic and Central_European culture in North America.

Here are some of his books, if anyone is interested:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/se...599821-5570268

Den' dobre and zdravstvuite, eadingas and Dead Moroz! I was born and raised in Russia and my ancestors on the father's side came from Poland in the 18th century (Prus I clan, last name Plonski). I somehow ended up moving to Canada eight years ago, go figure!

Thanks for letting me participate in your project!

Russa