Saph’s Maritime Asia: Strait of Malacca (TSL)
A map of Southeast Asia and eastern India (71×64 Standard with TSL)
This is a cropped version of the Huge-sized Maritime Asia: Indo-Pacific Supremacy.
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Saph’s Maritime Asia: Strait of Malacca (TSL)
Embark on an epic voyage through the Indo-Pacific region! Will you choose to foster commerical and cultural prosperity through ocean trade routes, or impose your rule through naval conquests? You decide!
Design Features
- Conquer the Indo-Pacific: This map covers areas including India, the Himalayas, southern China, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
- Navigable rivers: The rivers Ganges, Brahmaputra, Irrawaddy, Mekong 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 on land by careful placement of mountain tiles. The coastal channels among the archipelagos also present plenty of opportunities for naval tactical manoeuvres. Don’t think you can just steamroll across the map!
- Accurate rivers: Numerous minor rivers are added to their real life locations (as accurately as it can be done on a hex grid). May your cities never feel thirsty!
- 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].
- TSLs & modded Civ support: True start locations (TSL) are included for official and several custom civs, city states and natural wonders. (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: 71 x 64 (Standard)
Required Mod: Gedemon’s Yet (not) Another Maps Pack
Recommended Mods:
- Prismatic – Color and Jersey Overhaul: This adds enough jersey colors so that you can play with more than 20 civs in one game. Otherwise some civs will get transparent colors.
TSL civs
Official civs (15 max)
- China (Qin OR Kublai)
- India (Gandhi OR Chandragupta, SeelingCat – Rudrama Devi)
- Indonesia
- Khmer
- Maori
- Vietnam
Colonial civilizations (and their TSL)
- America or Spain (Manila)
- England (Fort St. George)
- France (Saigon)
- Japan (Taipei)
- Netherlands (Batavia)
- Portugal (Macau)
Custom civs
- Sukritact’s Siam: Ramkhamhaeng, Narai, OR Chulalongkorn
- Sukritact’s Bayinnaung (Burma)
- Tibet: Sukritact’s Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso, Sukritact’s Trisong Detsen OR Gedemo Tibet
- CIVITAS Philippines
- CIVITAS Malaysia
TSL city states (6 max)
- Hong Kong (disabled by Portugal)
- Bandar Brunei
- Kandy
- Singapore
- Ayutthaya (becomes Vieng Chan if you have Sukritact’s Siam)
- Nalanda (disabled by India)
Custom city states
Important note on getting custom city states to spawn
To get the above custom city states to appear on the map at their TSL, you MUST, during set-up, disable/uncheck "Only Civilizations/CityStates with TSL", and then manually pick all the city states that you want to spawn in your game.
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 Maritime Asia: Strait of Malacca –> 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.
- Turn off Only Civilizations/City States with TSL and manually pick city states if you want to play with custom city states
- Select Natural Wonders: Everything
- 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.)
- 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. the colonial civs)
- Turn OFF No Duplicate Civilization will enable you to play with Chandragupta/Gandhi and Seeling Cat’s Rudrama Devi at the same time.
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.
