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===[TASK]=== WONDER: Persians: Apadana of Darius


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I definitely think the Gate of All Nations should be the Persian Wonder. We'll keep the Hanging Gardens of Babylon for either Atlas purposes or some kind of "capture the monument" gametype.

http://www.persepoli...all_nations.htm

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The Grand Stairway, the Gate of All Nations, the Avenue of the Army and the Throne Hall are all parts of a concept. Together they form the processional route of the army from the level of Marv-Dasht to the Throne Hall and back. One can vividly imagine the formations of soldiers marching between the Throne Hall and the Army Gatehouse and further through to the Gatehouse flanked by the huge carved stone bulls of the southern portal, then through this building and exiting through the north portal and into the arrow-straight Avenue of the Army heading west toward the Gate of All Nations - there greeted by the huge winged bulls with human faces. From the exterior of the grounds on the level of the Marv-Dasht an observer would be offered an impressive display: the "Immortals" marching through the stone bull guarded west portal of the Gate of All Nations and on to the Grand Stairway. Here, the rows of soldiers would split left and right marching down the seven meter wide stairs in perfect step with the drumbeat. Upon arrival at the mid landing they would turn 180 degrees and rejoin into single rows. With their colorful clothing and banners and the sunlight reflecting off of their armour they would have resembled two slow flowing rivers splitting and then reuniting.

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Stairs:

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Front Gate:

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Back Gate:

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Oh, I started working on this one back when this thread came up, but I didn't finish it because I started working on higher priority things.

I reused several assets from Pureon's awesome persian buildings.

It needs the human-headed-winged-bulls in the back gate and eyecandy everywhere. I'll upload the blendfile if someone wants to finish it.

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To start with, I'm fully in favour of having the Hanging Gardens of Babylon replaced with something Persian. Maybe you should start a Babylonian architecture set (Hanging Gardens, Ishtar Gate, etc.). And remove Persian details (lion tile is Babylonian, flanking men are Persian):

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However, I'm not convinced the Gate of All Nations would be a suitable wonder. It is, in fact, already present in game: the Persian hall, where you can recruit Kardakes and elephant champions (it could use some improvements, though). Moreover, it's actually one of the smallest structures (only four columns inside) of the Persepolis palace complex:

https://www.livius.org/articles/place/persepolis/persepolis-photos/persepolis-terrace/

https://oi.uchicago.edu/collections/photographic-archives/persepolis/persepolis-terrace-architecture-reliefs-and-finds

So if someone is ambitious, why not try your hand at the very large hundred column hall of Artaxerxes (cyan) or the even larger adapana of Darius (red)? (I'm not sure what 0 A.D.'s current Adapana is supposed to be.)

Separately, it would be nice to have the tomb of Cyrus, still standing after 2500 years; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_of_Cyrus for images.

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25 minutes ago, Nescio said:

So if someone is ambitious, why not try your hand at the very large hundred column hall of Artaxerxes (cyan) or the even larger adapana of Darius (red)? (I'm not sure what 0 A.D.'s current Adapana is supposed to be.)

The 100 columns hall of Persepolis is indeed quite impressive

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Some pictures and 3D:

http://www.the-persians.co.uk/photo_albums/album4_persepolis_reconstruction.htm

http://www.persepolis3d.com/frameset.html

3D visit tour:

 

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