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Okay, latest update fixes some of the remaining issues, makes it slightly more efficient, and adds difficulty support properly (in the GUI). It also changes the debug setting to false by default, and I changed the descriptions for Alpha 13. I have made Aegis default on RM. Please try the difficulty settings, easy should feel easy but not tooooo easy. Hard should be somewhat challenging to skilled players. Very hard should be challenging. Please report if it is too challenging, or not enough (I use a system of resource cheat: Easy AI gathers 33% more slowly, hard 33% faster, and very hard 66% faster.)

Chanakya?

true, but Thermopylae is still one of the most famous battles of the Ancient Worldjumping off my earlier suggestions, a thought occurs to me. perhaps, instead of focusing on everyone civilization at a given point, each of the six original civs is represented instead: just one of the Hellenic factions, just one of the Celtic ones, the Iberians, the Romans, the Persians, and the Carthaginians in various settings from their most famous historical events: again, the Greek representative could be Thermopylae (or, to give focus only to the Hellenes, it could be the aforementioned Mantineia), the one for Carthage could be Hannibal crossing the Alps, the Celts have Boudicca's rebellions, and--for a bit of drama--the final one shown could be for the Romans and depict Caesar's assassination, with the camera flying into Caesar's eye as the fade to black (or perhaps moving up and out of the building to show a night sky0 and then the title comes up

Roman Milestone: blend, dae, text and norm : link Just so you know ...