@Thalatta as the self proclaimed biggest worshipper of Athena im hurt you did not ping me into this topic before

This is a Replay of 4 Petra Bots on the was Map-Version "Rome-with-Crossing12b". All bot settings are:  "Very hard, balanced".  It is here as a riddle. There is no winner determined yet, although the outcome is pretty clear. But the question is: "Why is Rome not defeated yet?" I will post the solution in some days.... took me also some time to figure it out. commands.txt metadata.json

I'm sending a message in a bottle out to sea. Hey everyone, I'm working on a campaign for 0 A.D. called Burning Heart. I want to brainstorm a cover for it. Not an Age of Empires 2 copy, but something with that same vibe, that feeling of power in the image. Anyone down to collab on this? That'd be great.    

Okey, I restarted upping this map a little further. So here is a recent version with in total 4 cross-points over the Tiber, which changes the character of the "battle of the Tiber map" even further. In the original it was mostly: "All against Rome" which has the worst starting conditions, why I started to work on the map .Now with AI everyone is more or less  fighting his neighbor. Is it possible to add setup options on a scenario map like the "balanced" Button on Mainland balanced? I would like to have some option eg. some different setups of treasure?   Rome-with-Crossing12b.xml Rome-with-Crossing12b.pmp

Not sure what I was thinking yet.  I mean for helots: "Helots have 25% less range, wider spread, and 10% less damage than normal citizen infantry, but the same gather rates as civilians. They have 75 HP and cost only 40 food and 10 wood or stone. They do not receive forge techs." Sparta has both "javelineers" and "slinger" helots, the Javs are not peltasts though (no shields.) Athenians have Peltats, Slingers, Thracian Peltasts and Rhodian Slingers. Way back when we removed slingers and added archers, so have some of the framework for that.  I may still keep regular slingers as an option too to unlock, but the archers would come standard. These are the things I like to discuss on discord   So even though its pretyt dead, maybe you could join and we can go back and forth with these things and @ThePoshBarbarian Is welcome too!