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You could also train champs from there because only the finest men played ball game, they would be much like naked fanatics

I have another idea : Mesoamerican civilizations played a game called juego de pelota (ball game) They used a ball (don't ask what it was made of) and they kicked not with their feet but with their hips. The point was to make the ball go through a small ring on a wall. There were 2 teams: in some civilizations the losers were sacrificed, in others like the Zapotecs the winner was sacrificed as a prize because they thought being sacrificed was the biggest honor. They had ball game stadiums, so I though you could make a building like the greek Theatron that florishes culture. The Zapotecs aztecs and mayans played it The 3rd and 2nd image is the zapotec one in Monte Albán

Time and location: 500 b.C.-1000 a.C. Origin: 3500 years ago State of Oaxaca Main cities: Monte Albán, Mitla (Inside Monte Albán, main religious center, built 2000 years ago, culture florished there. )

The Zapotecs were influenced by the mayans. They located in the state of Oaxaca. Their name was given by the Aztecs ( Rulers of Mesoamerica) it means in nahuatl (Aztec language) it means people of the Zapote (a Mexican fruit) but that wasn't their real name it was ben´zaa it means people of the clouds, they thought they were descendants of the clouds. I found something interesting: they believed in the legend of the nahual ; they were priests with amulets that at night could transform into savage animals and terrorized the people. I think this nahuales could be trainable champion priests. They were really scary I think they could debonus nearby enemy troops in attack because of fear. The design could be a normal soldeir with some wolf skin and other animal skins like on the third image. But they need to be available not only to Zapotecs but also to aztecs because they both believed in them

What type of info? Soldeirs, historical, language, heroes, architecture, location?

You need to build a Civic center in the island. You can build Civic centers since phase II. You can also build a military colony if your civilization has that building (much like a civic center but less expensive and smaller).

I have an idea for aztecs; Aztecs located in a lake (literally) because of an ancient prophecy, because the used to be nomads until they could find an eagle standing in a nopal (Mexican cactus) eating a snake, and 200 years later after migrating from their origin land Aztlán they found it in a small piece of land on top of the Texcoco lake. So they literally build their city on top of the lake, But how? They used an original technology called Chinampas these were pieces of land on top of the water. To build chinampas they used logs which they used Mecate ropes ( Made from another Mexican cactus) to tie them and filled them with stones, dirt and other materials, the product was a piece of land on top of the water and they made lots of them and they didn't need irrigation systems, there were small spaces between each chinampa were the aztecs used canoes to travel between them. They ended up making so many chinampas that they formed an entire city, that still remains today on top of the Texcoco lake, Tenochtitlán which many people don't know was the biggest city of its time ( Bigger then the Incas, Spanish, British, etc.). Today chinampas are still there and you can travel to see them in a medium boat called Trajinera in the Xochimilco, they are still used and many people live in them. They have resisted all that time. Another interesting fact is that the Texcoco lake covered most of the valley so today's Mexico city is most on top of chinampas ( Yeah the texcoco lake almost dissapeared.). So my idea is to add chinampas to the aztecs, since these were the most important technology for them.

Hi i've been playing 0ad for a while and I want to help, so this topic looks perfect for me since I'm mexican so if you need any help or info I can help.