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The rammed earth was certainly plastered yes?

Right. Chucking a huge list of buildings (specific names and generic names too!) into a block of text is tedious to read. Much better to just have a couple of rows of portraits and you can hover over the portraits for their tooltips.

Builds should just show all of the building icons. Having a giant list there in paragraph form is goofy. lol

Confirmed. I went to go make something awesome and incredible, but instead was thwarted by this dastardly Fatal Error. (And if you read the error, it doesn't make much sense)

Yeah, by hand.

Reskinned and enlarged the Chinese skirmish map Chang Jiang.

Tweaked the tile color

Solved?

@Nescio These aren't primary sources, but they are modern interpretations of the ancient Han architecture. How do you think they look? Perhaps the colors are better.

https://www.amazon.com/Mingqi-Pottery-Buildings-Dynasty-China/dp/1845197798

So, pretty much every eyecandy item is 'wrong.'

Do you have any rooftile references?

It would seem that the Terra Magna/ROTE Han building set is primary based on these sources already, with some artistic license of course. You're absolutely right about the defensive walls.

Well, there's also his naval program that built up the Athenian navy, a crucial element of Athenian (and Greek) history. We need a specific Naval hero for them and that's where Naval Architect comes from. Athenians have the Mines of Laureion bonus and Long Walls tech. I agree here, but now we may start running into some bad exploits. Long Walls + Piraeus Fortifications = possible game breaking.

Kushite hero selection implemented:

I am not sure. I don't often play the base game. Does the phase tech become available before the building is completed? If so, it may be the same problem.

So, DE makes Fields get unlocked when a Farmstead is built. Unfortunately, now Fields are unlocked even if only the Farmstead's foundation is placed.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2020/12/03/battle-middle-earth-crunch/?_gl=1*svgc0z*_ga*MTg4NzAwMjQ1OC4xNTkzMDU5Njgz

I'd love to see a mod where heroes are replaced by these types of support units.

At the "scale" of the game it's best to depict institutions rather than granular details like the relative strength of the average man and woman. So, the roles of the lower, middle, and upper classes might be ripe for depiction, while family dynamics could be best reserved for an RPG game or something similar (unless worked into the game in a very broad sense). Dunno, I haven't quite pinned down the working theory yet.

While all of that may be true, I personally don't see the need to depict sexual dimorphism in an RTS game. We're not building an anthropology simulator after all.

I think regeneration of resources would work well for groves/forests. Just have it by default, no need for a tech (you don't own trees, they're Gaia). About ambushing, yeah, I think it could be a bonus for some civs to be able to "garrison" units or battalions into groves and then they woukd attack any enemies battalions that march through, with a temporary "surprise" bonus.

Lol.