Saph’s Silk Road: The Orient (TSL)

A map stretching from Persia to China (80×43 Small with TSL)

• The starting point of the Silk Road:
  This map stretches from Persia to China, covering areas such as Central Asia, Northern India and Southeast Asia, the Tibetan Plateau, and the Tarim Basin.
• Navigable rivers:
  The rivers Indus, Ganges, Brahmaputra, Yellow, Yangtze and Pearl 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 location (apart from the Giant’s Causeway which represents the Hukou Waterfall on the Yellow River).
• Custom civs & city states:
  True start locations (TSL) are included for 4 custom civs and 25 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.

Map size: 80 x 43 (Small)

Required Mod: Gedemon’s Yet (not) Another Maps Pack

• China (Qin OR Kublai)
• India (Gandhi OR Chandragupta)
• Scythia
• Persia
• Mongolia (Genghis OR Kublai)
• Vietnam

• Anshan (X Persia)
• Hong Kong
• Kabul
• Mohenjo Daro
• Muscat
• Lahore
• Nalanda (X Chandragupta)
• Samarkand (X Timurid)

Note: city states with (X) indicate that they won’t spawn when the indicated civ/city state is present (due to proximity)

A number of custom civs and city states have TSL on this map. See this discussion thread for a list.

To play with advanced YnAMP settings, you need to

1. Have this mod and Yet (not) Another Map Pack installed and enabled ingame
2. Single Player –> Create Game –> Load Database (next to the BACK button) and wait for the game to load
3. Once loaded, you will be back to the main menu
4. Single Player –> Create Game (You should see a tick next to CREATE GAME at the top.) –> Choose Map Type –> Saph’s Silk Road: The Orient –> Advanced Setup

Recommended Settings

1. Turn on Only Civilizations/City States with TSL
2. Adjust the number of civs, city states & religions in the game to your liking.
3. Manually pick the civs to play as/against or leave them random.
4. Select Natural Wonders: Leave it at Everything / Uncheck the ones that you don’t want to appear
5. Features Placement: Import for pre-placed woods & marshes / Map Generator for randomised woods, marshes, jungles & reefs
6. Coastal Lowland: Choose Map Generator for random placement / Matching flatlands for more dramatic flooding / Empty for no lowlands
7. Rivers Flooding: Choose Map Generator / Empty for no floodplains & flooding (and hence no dams)
8. Resource Quantity: Your own preference (Resources are map-generated; this map does not contain pre-placed resources.)
9. Resources Exclusion Zones: Activated to stop certain luxury resources from spawning in certain regions
10. Civilization Placement: Choose True Starting Locations for accurate historical placement / Map Generator for random placement
11. Enforce TSL: AI if you don’t want the AI to stray from their TSLs
12. Use Leaders TSL when available & Use Alternative TSL if required and available: On
13. 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)
14. 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. Mongolia)

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.