Saph’s Silk Road: Alexander’s Path (TSL)
A map stretching from Greece to India (85×40 Small with TSL)
Check out Silk Road: The Crossroads of Empires for the complete, Huge-sized version of this map
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Saph’s Silk Road: Alexander’s Path (TSL)
Can you build an empire that rival Alexander’s?
Design Features
- Recreate Alexander’s empire:
This map stretches from Greece in the west to the western edge of India, also covering areas such as Anatolia, the Caucasus, the Middle East, Persia, and Central Asia. - Navigable rivers:
The rivers Danube, Euphrates, Tigris, Indus and Ganges are navigable to make traversing the map a bit more fun and challenging. - Choke points:
In addition to the presence of navigable rivers, choke points are also created by careful placement of mountain tiles. Don’t think you can just steamroll across the continents! - Accurate rivers:
Plenty of minor rivers are added to their real life locations (as accurately as it can be done on a hex grid). - Accurate terrains:
Mountains and hills are placed based on real elevation data[maps-for-free.com], and grass/plains/desert/tundra are placed based on USDA soil quality data[www.nrcs.usda.gov]. - True Starting Locations:
All the official civs, city states and natural wonders are placed at their real world locations. - Custom civs & city states:
True start locations (TSL) are included for 12 custom civs and 22 city states. (If you would like any other modded civs to be added, please leave a comment!) - Map generated floodplains:
This YnAMP-based map has map-generated river floodplains, so dam construction and flooding events are possible.
Details
Map size: 85 x 40 (Small)
Required Mod: Gedemon’s Yet (not) Another Maps Pack
Official civs with TSL (12 max)
- Arabia
- Egypt
- Greece (Gorgo OR Pericles)
- India (Gandhi OR Chandragupta)
- Macedon
- Scythia
- Sumer OR Babylon
- Persia
- Georgia
- Phoenicia
- Ottoman
- Byzantium
Official city states with TSL
Anshan (X Persia), Hattusa, Hong Kong, Jerusalem (X Kingdom of Jerusalem), Kabul, Mohenjo Daro, Preslav, Yerevan, Muscat, Akkad (X Sumeria/Babylon), Lahore, Nalanda (X Chandragupta), Samarkand (X Timurid)
Note: City states with (X civ/leader) will not spawn if the civ/leader specified is present
Custom civs & city states
12 custom civs and 22 city states have TSL on this map. See this discussion thread for a list.
Game Set-up
To play with advanced YnAMP settings, you need to
- Have this mod and Yet (not) Another Map Pack installed and enabled ingame
- Single Player –> Create Game –> Load Database (next to the BACK button) and wait for the game to load
- Once loaded, you will be back to the main menu
- Single Player –> Create Game (You should see a tick next to CREATE GAME at the top.) –> Choose Map Type –> Saph’s Silk Road: Alexander’s Path –> Advanced Setup
Recommended Settings
- Turn on Only Civilizations/City States with TSL
- Adjust the number of civs, city states & religions in the game to your liking.
- Manually pick the civs to play as/against or leave them random.
- Select Natural Wonders: Leave it at Everything / Uncheck the ones that you don’t want to appear
- Features Placement: Import for pre-placed woods & marshes / Map Generator for randomised woods, marshes, jungles & reefs
- Coastal Lowland: Choose Map Generator for random placement / Matching flatlands for more dramatic flooding / Empty for no lowlands
- Rivers Flooding: Choose Map Generator / Empty for no floodplains & flooding (and hence no dams)
- Resource Quantity: Your own preference (Resources are map-generated; this map does not contain pre-placed resources.)
- Resources Exclusion Zones: Activated to stop certain luxury resources from spawning in certain regions
- Civilization Placement: Choose True Starting Locations for accurate historical placement / Map Generator for random placement
- Enforce TSL: AI if you don’t want the AI to stray from their TSLs
- Use Leaders TSL when available & Use Alternative TSL if required and available: On
- Allow random placement for civs without TSL: Off (You can turn it on if you want random placement for civs not in the list above)
- Real City Naming: On (This is only for the capitals for several civs which do not start at their actual real life capitals e.g. Hungary / Mongolia or civs with two TSLs e.g. Ottoman or Arabia)
Special Thanks
The creation of this Civ 6 map would not have been possible without Gedemon’s YnAMP and Zobtzler’s YnABMC and their posts on the Civfanatics forum.
