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Stefan Härtel
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Eddie's best friend
Jul 1999
time: 06:16
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 Afghanistan looks great, Stefan. Keep on that way goin' better!!! Hope you changed terrain resources...   |
Don't worry, this is only the very first version. There will be new terrain graphics within a matter of time
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why do you love middle-east history so much?? |
Very good question... it's just an area that fascinates me very much... I've never been able to give a reasonable answer to this I must admit. Neither do I have any relations (OK, I lived in Karachi for a while, but I was very small back then) nor is there any great cause...
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Stefy, love the cities man!
I'm a huge fan of good art work.
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Thank you very much! I'm working on a third style for the mountain civs right now, so chances are good that at least parts of Afghanistan won't look the same in the end.
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What are those mini-hut thingys in the hills and mountains. At first I thought of mines, but then I se there is a
mined wine resource next to Herat, so maybe it isn't mining. |
Railroads. Large urban areas (Baghdad, Shiraz, Samarqand etc.) have suburb-styled railroads around them (a concept I borrowed from RF and SF). There are some small snowy villages in the mountains. These too, are railroads, but the single style. They are there for asthetic purpose only, with hardly a connection to the outside world, and in strategic views, are to be ignored.
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Also, you might want to give this a look-see. I see that you have the grassland terrain along ther rivers in this
picture. Is that the case with the majority of the map? I used this here little graphic I altered from the swamp
reeds from RedFront. I happen to use it as the grassland 'shield' and I think it makes a subtle, yet excellent
addition to the grassland terrain. This may work even better if your grasslands are only for riverbeds, thus giving a
riverweeds kind of vibe. Check it out! |
There's more grassland on the map outside of the rivers. I took Mercator's map with barely any changes (there's a new dasht terrain, a couple of changes here and there, and Basra and the southern Indus are connected to the ocean). I will consider what you said. Thank you
Here's a further screenshot, and to close with, a bit of historical trivia.
The Ghurid civ (in northeastern Afghanistan) in this scenario is unislamic, the only ones apart from the Hindus. They were fiercely resisting the muslimic force, and if you payed attention to recent reports on Afghanistan (dunno what's it like in your country, in Germany there were overwhelming reports) you might understand why they could indeed resist for more than 300 years.
Later, they did get Islamic, and became an important opposition to Ghaznavids and Seldjuks.
Their greatest leader then had the name similar to the one of a famous character
of 1001 nights... anybody have an idea what it could be?
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19-11-2001 22:02
No cities in Rajastan, Stefan?
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