Asia ton Barbaron disscusion thread

[CaesarAugustus]

Moving the map west as CaesarAugustus suggests would end up including Illyria and about a third of Italy - something that we're not going to do. As it is, the eastern extent mannages to include all of the Gansu corridor in the north, and provides some more space for the northern steppe factions to expand into. The inclusion of SE Asia is a result of that and will hopefully help to slow down Mauryan expansion.

Actually I meant more that the easternmost portion of the map to the Yuezhi border could be cut off, and the additional province slots used to add more regions to the (smaller) existing map. But now that I see that it adds more expansion opportunites for the AI (a Yezhi-Tibetan "faction" would be interesting). And southeast Asia, might indeed slow down Mauryan expansion, provided that they are able to put up some resistance... Maybe something along the lines of Satres in EB's noricum-province. Yes, that would probably do quite nicely to prevent them from steamrolling the southern Indian factions and Seleukids' eastern provinces.

I do not know very much about the east, but I am happy to see that there were sinicized Rong, Di, and Qiang barbarians which you will be representing. I promise not to press the issue after this so as not to become annoying, but as the map does enroach on Qin's westermost border, maybe, just maybe, you would consider adding a few units represent a Chinese expansionist empire's military presence after 221BC? (Kind of like the Yuezhi invasion in EB) Provided of course that there are a few unit slots to spare... And I won't ask about China again. Promise.

Another thing I was wondering, are the Himalayas going to be near impassable? Maybe even impassable (for armies) like the Sahara in EB? Is there any unit planned at this stage for a unit(s) in the Himilayas? and Southeast Asia? and Tibet?