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JayKay
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Lisboa, Portugal
Oct 2001
time: 05:16
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Originally posted by Jay Bee
It's a Civ2 scenario. You guys play/played Civ2, right?  |
I have Civ I, CivNet, Civ 2 MGE, Civ ToT, CTP, SMAC, FreeCiv, Europa Universalis, Civ 3, MOO, MOO2 and MOM! I think i pretty much have almost everything even near Civilization! 
Never played that scenario though (i don't usually have patience to download all the scenarios available for Civ 2 - there's just too many of them and sometimes there not that good)! But i just love to play scenarios (when they are well designed)! What's the story of that one? Where can i get it? 
But now that i have Civ 3, i don't think i'll have time to play that one (at least not in the next centurys  )! But i'll give it a try!
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Portugal
Nation of: Magellan's (from Magellan's Expedition);
Vasco da Gama (Discoverer of the Maritime path to India);
and Pedro Álvares Cabral (Discoverer of Brazil in 1500)
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Locutus
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ACS CTP1/2 Manager & Civ4 Co-Manager
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Hengelo, The Netherlands
Nov 1999
time: 06:16
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Zealot,
You wanted me to look at your thread and tell you what's still missing? Well, for one thing on-topic disccussion Why are you guys debating whether or not Portugal deserves to be in? They're in the top 15 of the XPC poll, that's all the reason we need for having them in (I don't care if your name is Luxembourg, if you're in the top 15, you're in the top 15)...
I think the list of Portuguese city names is awfully short: I mean come on, 16 cities? You're country is 2.5 times larger than mine and I had had a time restraining myself from not suggestion over 100 cities for the Dutch
An overview of Portuguese history would be very useful as well, for the civilipedia and to inform infidels like me who don't know jack about Portugal and it's - no doubt glorious - past
BTW, I personally prefer local names over English ones, so Joao instead of John (right?) and Lisboa instead of Lisbon, but that's just my opinion...
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Zealot
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Lisboa, Portugal
Jun 2000
time: 05:16
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Originally posted by Locutus
I think the list of Portuguese city names is awfully short: I mean come on, 16 cities? You're country is 2.5 times larger than mine and I had had a time restraining myself from not suggestion over 100 cities for the Dutch |
Pure time shortage.
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Originally posted by Locutus An overview of Portuguese history would be very useful as well, for the civilipedia and to inform infidels like me who don't know jack about Portugal and it's - no doubt glorious - past |
Pure lack of time.
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Originally posted by Locutus
BTW, I personally prefer local names over English ones, so Joao instead of John (right?) and Lisboa instead of Lisbon, but that's just my opinion... |
Yes, it's Joăo! Very good! (I'm impressed! Really!)
And that is also my opinion, but it is not all that important. But it would be nice.
Thank you for your participation, Locutus.
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Originally posted by Martinus I have a simple and neat idea about Portugal CSU. Let's name it Caravel. |
That was also Itoi's idea, but he didn't play the game yet. And I think you didn't too.
Although Caravels were pretty used by the Portuguese, in the game that UU wouldn't make the play any fun! Because:
1. Your unique unit must have its first military victory in order to that civilization enter its golden age;
2. Caravels aren't properly military units;
3. You don't need boats to trade resources in Civ 3 like you need in real life!
But that's not a very big problem anymore. Because if Portugal was discovering Brazil, and trading by sea from India and China and Japan, they were also fighting in North Africa, in order to monopolize the big trading cities that there was there.
In those battles, the King of Portugal had the support of an "Order of Christ". They were Knights, that were former Templars, and had the support of the "Church". It's all in the link I posted above.
Oh, and yes, it's "carvalho" (you guys are making me one happy portuguese! how did you learn this things?) 
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Ecowiz Returns
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Portugal
Aug 2001
time: 05:16
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First of all, my congratulations for the work done so far.
To help out, I'd like to sugest some more cities:
These are admnistrative centers so their a possible choice:
Viana do Castelo
Vila Real
Aveiro
Portalegre
Setúbal
Funchal
Ponta Delgada
Angra do Heroísmo
These were important in some hystoric event or through some
time:
Covilhă (industrial center - wool)
Sintra (cultural center and strategic location in the conquer of Lisbon)
Avis (the Order of Avis hometown)
Crato (hometown of one of our wannabe kings)
Vila Vicosa
These I just remembered:
Figueira da Foz
Chaves
Portimăo
Some important cities of the anciet Portuguese Empire:
Lourenço Marques
Luanda
Cidade da Praia
Mombaça
Anyone remembers ancient commercial inteposts ("feitorias")?
As for the special unit it is unfortunate that the Caravel doesn't work. It would be the perfect choice. But the "Order of Christ" seems a great unit and would trigger the Golden Age right when it happened.
I'll see if I can pick up some roster of important historic events to help build our civilization's history. When do you think it would be best to start: with Viriato of the Lusitans, with the Count D. Henrique or with Afonso Henriques (our first King)?
Last edited by Ecowiz Returns on 19-11-2001 at 22:57
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History Guy
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Reads too many books...
Oct 2001
time: 23:16
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I posted that actually to see the reaction, actually, more than for any other reason.
You are right that Portugal was one of the first European countries to abolish African slavery, but it was also one of the first European countries (if not the first) to discover it. For as soon as the Portuguese landed in Nigeria they were making war on, not only the Moors, but the Nigerian civilization of Benin. In the 1600s they were using cannon against Benin's forces, and cannon was most certainly about at that point. When parts Benin fell, the Portuguese took over and enslaved the population. It's true that they abolished slavery early on, but they also helped bring it about in Europe, perhaps not as much as the Dutch, but they certainly did. Sorry, but that's how it was.
I do not pretend that Americans didn't have slavery, and that the British didn't have slavery, and that the Spanish didn't had slavery, but I also do not pretend that the Portuguese didn't have it, which I will confess was fairly brief.
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Ecowiz Returns
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Portugal
Aug 2001
time: 05:16
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Originally posted by History Guy
It seems to me that Portugal (as much as no one likes it) is to Spain what Austria is to Germany. |
 Portugal is not a single bit to Spain what Austria is to Germany! Portugal is 800 years old (even under a Spanish King, the title was King of Spain and Portugal). Austria and Germany were once a single country. That hystorically never happened between Portugal and Spain other than under Roman rulling (and by then they weren't yet Portugal and Spain were they).
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Originally posted by History Guy
It is so much like Spain that the average bozo regards it as part of Spain. |
 The last part of your comment is, unfortunatelly very true. The main reason, though is very wrong! It's not due to similarities but solelly due to lack of information an "average bozo" has on Portugal.
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Originally posted by History Guy
Though the Portuguese did get around, they never really had a stable empire. |
WHAT???
For more than four centuries Portugal, with the minor territory it always had, and so few population had phisical representation in all corners of the known world.
Heck, the Portuguese made the World known to everybody! 
What exactly is your definition of a stable empire anyway?
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Originally posted by History Guy
Their big thing was the slave trade actually. They were at one point pretty powerful, destroying some large African kingdoms, yes, but you've got to remember that those kingdoms fought with spears while the Portuguese fought with guns and cannon, so nations such as Benin didn't have much of a chance. |
Guns??? In the XV and XVI century? Whose?
And, actually, what you are talking about is technological superiority. And, as you could testify in the previous posts, the Portuguese greatest unit was a non-military one!
Trade was the activity we were best! And it was not only slaves (not very important in the beginning, only became important when the american colonies begun) but capturing the commercial routes of silk and spices that made Portugal (along with Spain) the strongest nation in the XV and XVI centuries (give or take some years ).
As for slaves, I believe my countrymen allready explained that part.
Portuguese hystory is not your strongest point, is it History Guy?
Keep reading this thread. Hopefully some people may help you a bit, on that.
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Jay Bee
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Valladolid, CA
Jan 1970
time: 06:16
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This is getting amusing 
Come on Zealot, you mention the period of Spanish dominance for the bad things (Benin affair, as if Spain had anything to do with that) and forget all the rest, e.g. w/o that period of "Spanish dominance" Brazil would have never been what is today (Tordesillas Treaty anyone?).
Ecowiz, as much as I agree with you that Austria vs Germany has absolutely nothing to do with Spain vs Portugal, to say that historically Portugal and Spain were not a single country except for the Roman years is absurd. As I posted above, 2200 years out of 3000, Portugal and Spain have been together. You just can't forget that.
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Seriously now, I am really enjoying this thread, it helps me see many things from the other side. That you perceive the infamous 60 years as a "period of Spanish dominance" is very enlightening for me. Let me ask you, what would have happened if Philip II (Philip I) actually moved his capital to Lisbon, as many of his advisors strongly suggested?
(We should have had this discussion in... you know which forum ).
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Martinus
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of Poland
Jun 2001
time: 06:16
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quote:
Originally posted by Zealot
That was also Itoi's idea, but he didn't play the game yet. And I think you didn't too. |
I have been playing Civ3 for the last two weeks. 
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Although Caravels were pretty used by the Portuguese, in the game that UU wouldn't make the play any fun! Because:
1. Your unique unit must have its first military victory in order to that civilization enter its golden age; |
You can also enter GA peacefully. Besides if you get boosted-up Caraval in the age everybody else has sails (this is what I propose to rename the generic caravel) you should be able to win. It is just like with Man'o'Wars.
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2. Caravels aren't properly military units; |
see supra
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3. You don't need boats to trade resources in Civ 3 like you need in real life! |
Yeah, but you need to discover see routes to build harbors etc. - Caravel could be good for this (it could be faster than Sail for example)
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In those battles, the King of Portugal had the support of an "Order of Christ". They were Knights, that were former Templars, and had the support of the "Church". It's all in the link I posted above. |
Yeah, it is a unique unit, but IMHO the real power of Portugal lied in its sea power, not land power. English, Dutch, Spanish and Portugese built their empires on the sea-"something" (sea-trade, sea-exploration, sea-warfare etc.). The CSU should reflect this.
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Oh, and yes, it's "carvalho" (you guys are making me one happy portuguese! how did you learn this things?) |
Something you learn playing a lot of strategy games
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15-11-2001 17:16
No, I was just waiting for you to show me how. 
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