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Persia Biome: Highlands Rocky, grey/beige mountain terrain, plus a snow covered rock terrain for the summits. Trees are various pine species, but sparse. Hunt are goats and bears. Buzzards circle overhead. Midlands Scrub terrains with pine species and bush_mediterranean. Cliff textures have a hint of brown and red (similar to the Indian cliff textures, but less strong). Animals are goats, lions, bears Lowlands A mix of tree types: Deciduous trees and pines, with the occasional decorative date palm. Grass terrains predominate with some stony/rocky terrains for decor. Animals are sheep, goats, deer.

The India biome can definitely be a starting point. I can just copy over the India biome terrains and we can adjust from there?

I committed some "Persia" reference images to the terrain overhaul git.

Agreed. Calling them "freemen" or "peasants" or some other euphemism would be silly. Even "serf" would be a euphemism for most of the civs besides Spartans. And this brings up one of the major annoyances of developing this game. You can have 9 people agree to something, but then one guy comes in with some left field opinion and stifles progress. A good example is the discussion about using the swastika symbol on Mauryan and Samnite shields.

Baltic Nordic biome, wip @maroder

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Right, but I wanted them to be useful in a wide variety of land combat situations and didn't want to be too specific, like: "+1 pierce resistance and +2.36 crush attack for advanced rank basket weavers between the 5 minute mark and minute 12 within his skirmish formation."

The game is open source. I don't think a lot of players understand the implications. Diffusion of responsibility is one of the pros and cons of the OS approach.

The reason the Cadmean Citadel would have a platform is because the citadel was a small acropolis. I do understand what you're saying about making all the wonders more prominent, but we don't want to make their footprints larger than they already are.

Quick mockup ideas for the Cadmean Citadel (Wonder):

Other ideas:

Spartan slave class units are Helots, who can be upgraded to light hoplites after researching "Brasidians." <Upgrade> <Mount> <Entity>units/spart/infantry_hoplite_helot</Entity> <Tooltip>Helots are given their freedom in exchange for military service.</Tooltip> <RequiredTechnology>spartans/unlock_brasidians</RequiredTechnology> <Cost> <wood>40</wood> <glory>20</glory> </Cost> <Time>10</Time> </Mount> </Upgrade> Helot "citizen soldiers" (Javelineers, Slingers) could even have the ability to be upgraded "down" to its slave class counterpart.

In DE: Slaves have double gather speed of citizens, with citizen base gather rates reduced somewhat from public mod. Slaves are half health, low armor, and can be captured, and cannot build anything. They are gatherers only.

Miltiades "Heroes of Marathon" - Hoplites +10% attack and +10% speed. Range: 50 meters Aristides "Strategos" - All Infantry +10% health. Range: 50 meters

I can do that. Want slaves trained from the Storehouse & Farmstead, ala DE, or elsewhere?

https://0ad.old.mod.io/terra-magna Alpha 26 update for the mod should hit soon (paging @Stan`)! I'd be willing to add the Suebians (Germans) and Epirotes as well, if they are desired. Or I can make them standalone mods. Not sure what direction Terra Magna should go in the future. A full mod, including the civs in one download, or just split the mod up into its component civs as separate mods. It would stop being "Terra Magna" then though, and the base game needs some code to make waypoint flags and battalion standards mod-agnostic.

MAD Alpha 26 is uploaded and just awaiting verification.

1 = easy 2 = desirable for the main game as well; please make a patch 3 = easy Look at gui/common/music.js

Just trying to make religion a factor without making it complicated.

The heroes were moved from the Fortress to the CC because at the time the Fortress had 5 champions, 3 heroes, and 2 siege engines. In other words, overloaded. Since then, siege were moved to Arsenals and War Elephants and Chariots moved elsewhere too. The original reason for the hero move is no longer there.

Perhaps the mod can take a cue from Delenda Est and add a meta resource. In DE you gain the Glory resource by building Cult Statues and praising them with your units. In Millennium AD perhaps you can gain the Favor resource that you use for Temple techs, special techs, and training heroes. How it's gathered could be by building Temples/Mosques/Churches.

Doesn't have to be completely symmetrical

Right. We can have any number of heroes available to choose from, but can have a match limit of 3. Miltiades and/or Aristides can be available as Hoplite-centric options for Athenians.