Ceylon: Devastating Emily
In 1869 a previously unidentified fungus struck the coffee plantations of Ceylon, one of the great coffee origin lands of the 19th Century. In a very few years the blight known by colonial English planters as “Devastating Emily”, and later its scientific name Himileia Vastatrix, destroyed the coffee economy of the Island. Ceylon’s coffee never recovered, and in time it was replaced by planting tea.
But though coffee became a commercial and personal financial disaster, tea was already being grown successfully by the pioneer James Taylor. As there was a plantation system in existence it was relatively straightforward for the remaining coffee planters to make the switch to tea, and the rest is history.
From 1850 to 1896, this map is a scenario:
- Industries are dynamic: new industries open regularly, and sometimes they change or close.
- No game is the same: industries change randomly
- The Ceylon Times annual newspaper keeps you updated on changing industries and other news.
Afterwards, it’s free play.
Several typical features:
- New supply chains and industries: coffee, tea, cinnamon, rubber, coconut oil, gold
- Padda boats: flat-bottomed, punt-shaped barges called Padda boats were the prime method of transportation in 19th century Ceylon.
- Elephants
- Large 1:2 map
- Hand-painted map of the tea country near Kandy and the capital Colombo
- 2 large cities, 15 small villages
- Lots of plantations, a port and an auction house.
I like to make Transport Fever maps that tell a story. I do research, make scripts and build new models specifically for a map. By combining all this, I try to give the map a certain typical feel. I am therefore not interested in releasing parts of these mods separately: I feel that the parts are stronger together.
If you like this map, you should also check out my campaign:
And my other story maps:
- Exposition Universelle 1889
- War Express
- White Pass & Yukon Route: GOLD! GOLD! GOLD! GOLD!
- Central do Brasil: Gold Rush
- São Paulo Railway. The story of Daniel Makinson Fox.
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