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Durkle's Olmec [RaF] (NOT UPDATED EVEN A LITTLE BIT)

Adds the Olmec to the game led by Po Ngbe! Requires Rise and Fall.

The mysterious and long lost ancestors of the Aztec, Maya, and more return to the fray. Use the power of science and religion to transform the harsh land around you into a jungle paradise. Expand your trade network across your continent, forging the way with the strength of obsidian. Do this, and you can once again earn your reputation as the mother culture of Mesoamerica!

Civilization Ability: Rubber People
International trade routes departing a city on a river yield +1 Culture for each luxury resource at the destination. Rainforest tiles adjacent to a Campus, Holy Site, or Commercial Hub receive +1 Production.

Unique Unit: Obsidian Warrior
Strong spearman replacement unique to the Olmec. Can move and see through forest and rainforest. Kills yield Science equal to 50% of the Strength of the defeated unit. +5 Strength while in a Golden Age.

Unique Improvement: Colossal Head
Unlocks the Builder ability to construct a Colossal Head, unique to the Olmec.

+1 Faith, +1 Science. +1 Faith if adjacent to a Campus, +1 Science if adjacent to a Holy Site. Cities with at least four Colossal heads provide a Great Artist Point. May be built on Rainforest. Cannot be constructed adjacent to another Colossal Head.

Leader Ability: Venus-Rain-Maize Complex
During a Golden Age, the Adjacency bonuses of your Holy Sites yield Science, and the Adjacency bonuses of your Campuses yield Food.

The city state of La Venta is replaced with Nanih Waiya, an ancient Earthwork which the Choctaw consider sacred.

Nanih Waiya Suzerain Bonus
Unimproved hills tiles in your territory yield +1 Faith and have +1 Appeal.

Mod Support
- YNAEMP Greatest and Giant Earth Maps
- Tomatekh's Historical Religions

pssst... kid... you want some good yields? put a holy site in between six rainforest tiles, put colossal heads around it, and then build chichen itza... that one's on the house