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Lion.Kanzen

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  1. For Alexander campaign sciguy42 suggests: Sogdiana would be awesome, there are a few scenarios where Alexander is fighting them and currently I am just using Persians as a substitute. The Dahae would be good too, their horsemen rode alongside Alexander, currently I am using the Persian Horse archers to represent them. Capadocians appear in mission 11, any units unique to them would be great.
  2. It was a joke. I say it because of the colors of things.
  3. @wowgetoffyourcellphone I'm going to send you the file privately in various formats. If @Stan` agrees can be committed to art repo.
  4. Some Mayan names for actual rivers. Credits by othyrsyde from alternative history. Lake Choi = Lake Atitlan Lake Mungia = Lake Isabal Silbapec River = Motogua Icbolay River = Usumancita Cancuen River = Pasion Ulia River = Ulua Balaliama River = Chamelecon Olopa River = Lempia (it's still called the Olopa in Guatemala though) He collected by several sources and books. Is from a forum of alternate history. """Yep, I dug through a lot of books, particularly one where it explored a priests missionary efforts in the Peten region. It matched up some of the names he listed for bodies of water and such to their modern names. Others were found on archaeological and geographic papers, and even the odd tourism site (especially in Guatemala where they list 'local names' the Maya insist on calling them."" https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/gone.322778/page-2
  5. on the map it looks like the Nile river but in a different size and with tropical vegetation. The fertile alluvium of the Ulúa valley in northwestern Honduras covers ca. 2,400 kilometers and includes a vast range of environmental conditions and a rich and varied flora and fauna including deer, tapir, monkeys, quetzals, and felines. Shell and other marine resources are available in the north where the Ulúa River meets the Caribbean. A local obsidian source can be found on the southwestern flank of the valley and jade from the Motagua valley is located west just over the Honduran-Guatemalan border. The region was particularly known for cacao, among the richest in Mesoamerica according to conquest documents. The Chamelecón, Ulúa, and Comayagua rivers that flow into the valley provide natural routes of communication to Yucatán and the central and southern Maya Lowlands as well as to central, southern, and eastern Honduras and onto lower Central America. This lush valley and its unique geographic position–typically described as the "Maya Frontier"–places the valley in a key location with interaction between the cultures of lower Central America and those of the Maya lowlands. The goal of this project is to understand how one specific object, Ulúa marble vases, functioned in this diverse region during the Late Classic period.
  6. Ulúa River Chamelecon River From 1530, the colonists became the arbiters of power, installing and deposing governors. Spanish government in Honduras was riven by factionalism. As a response to the growing anarchy, the colonists requested that Pedro de Alvarado intervene. Alvarado arrived in 1536, put an end to the political infighting, and gained an important victory over Sicumba, a Maya leader in the Ulúa Valley. Alvarado founded two towns that later became important, San Pedro de Puerto Caballos (later to become San Pedro Sula) and Gracias a Dios. Oviedo reports Guerrero as dead by 1532, when Montejo's lieutenants Avila and Lujón arrived again in Chectumal. Andrés de Cereceda, in a letter to the Spanish King dated August 14, 1536, writes of a battle that occurred in late June 1536 between Pedro de Alvarado and a local Honduran cacique named Çiçumba(Sicumba). The naked and tattooed body of a Spaniard was found dead within Çiçumba's town of Ticamaya after the battle. According to Cereceda, this Spaniard had come over with 50 war-canoes from Chetumal early in 1536, to help Çiçumba fight the Spanish who were attempting to colonize his lands. The Spaniard was killed in the battle by an arquebus shot. Although Cereceda says the Spaniard was named Gonzalo Aroca, R. Chamberlain and other historians writing about the event identify the man as Gonzalo Guerrero. Guerrero was likely 66 years old when he died. In July of 1531, Captain Dávila left with a force towards the place that today is Chetumal, where they supposed that Guerrero lived and there were gold mines; however he found a place in abandonment and although later he takes some Mayan prisoners, they deceive him saying that Gonzalo Guerrero had died of natural form, reason why Dávila sends reports to Montejo in Campeche on the supposed death. In reality, he died in 1536 when he was facing the troops of Captain Lorenzo de Godoy to help, with fifty canoes, Cicumba, Tolupan cacique of the town of Ticamaya (Honduras), in the lower valley of the Ulúa River.[19] A crossbow arrow stuck right in his navel and pierced him to his side, where he was mortally wounded by an arquebus shot. His men carried him off the battlefield and hid him behind some palm trees. He asked his closest friends to take care of his children and the rest of his men, more than a thousand, to continue fighting. They had to retreat and Guerrero's corpse was left in the enemy camp. It is said that some Spaniards later claimed to have seen him: tattooed and dressed like an Indian (Native), but bearded. During the night, some of his men rescued his body and as a last tribute, they threw him into the Ulúa River, so that the current would take him to the ocean from where he came.
  7. we could have a Gaia that is human. gaia 2?
  8. the same as a slinger. pierce damage. I like disassembled things.
  9. @Stan`ideas? @Lopess sounds good. The camp have slots to add more archers? I want one that is small. And one that serves strong and that in phase 3 Become a normal fortress.
  10. could work as a low range Bolt shooter with bonuses at high places.
  11. That machine reminds me ... https://weaponsandwarfare.com/2015/08/27/caesars-naval-campaign-against-the-veneti/ Initially, Caesar campaigned by attacking the coastal strongholds of the Veneti one by one, using Roman siegecraft and the almost limitless work ethic of his legionaries to create a situation in which his men could get onto the walls and capture each stronghold. However, as each stronghold threatened to fall to the Romans, the Veneti would bring up their ships and evacuate the population and their possessions, rendering the Romans’ capture of the place pointless. Caesar soon realized that only with his fleet could he make decisive headway, and that he would have to suspend operations until the fleet was ready. The ships the Romans had built were essentially Mediterranean war galleys, the kind of ships they were familiar with. As well adapted as they were to Mediterranean conditions, however, these ships were not well suited to the huge waves and extreme tides of the Atlantic, and were held up for long by the weather. Finally, however, the weather became calm enough to allow them to sail to the south Brittany coast and confront the Veneti. It was an exceptionally ill-matched battle. The ships of the Veneti and their allies, some 220 strong, were of a very different sort from the Roman vessels: high decked, to withstand Atlantic waves, shallow bottomed, so as not to be stranded by low tides, and powered by sails rather than oars, as once again the Atlantic waves are not suited to rowing The Roman war galleys relied on ramming and boarding tactics, but their rams were ineffective against the strongly built and shallow-bottomed Venetic ships, while those ships’ high decks and manoeuvrability under sail prevented easy boarding. At first the Romans were at a loss to know how to proceed. However, they devised an ingenious device for cutting the rigging of the Gallic vessels: hooks mounted on the end of long poles, which could be used to snag the rigging on Venetic ships.
  12. In any case Western languages must leave them as they find certain things.
  13. @wowgetoffyourcellphone Can we move units from mods to the game (vanilla) for campaigns matter?
  14. In their wars, the Maya made use of a range of deadly weapons. These included the iconic wooden club known as the macuahuitl, the spear-thrower, and according to some traditions, hollowed vegetables filled with hornets used as grenades. https://www.historyhit.com/maya-weapons/ this would be a poisonous weapon.
  15. This @Lopess Mayans at War: Unusual Weapons The Popul Voh, the book of the Kiche Maya, tells of hornets and wasps used as defensive weapons. When attackers came, defending warriors had gourds filled with hornets that they threw into the midst of the attackers. Hornets erupted out of the gourds and angrily attacked, killing many warriors. The defenders won the battle. https://www.historyonthenet.com/mayans-at-war
  16. Mayans at War: Long Distance Weapons The Mayans had both long-distance weapons and melee weapons. The long distance ones included bow and arrow, blowgun, slings and throwing spears. When the atlatl or spear thrower was brought to the Mayans from Teotihuacan around 400 A.D., it was quickly adopted and became the Mayans’ dominant long distance weapon. The atlatl greatly increased the accuracy, force and range of the spear; when thrown from an atlatl a spear reportedly could pierce the Spaniards’ metal armor. The blowgun was predominantly used for hunting, but it had some wartime uses as well. Mayan warriors used bow and arrows more during the Post-Classical era.
  17. It would be nice to give yekaterina a visual mod.
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