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Saph's Silk Road: Alexander's Path (TSL)

A map stretching from Greece to India (85x40 Small with TSL)



Can you build an empire that rival Alexander's?

• 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.

Map size: 85 x 40 (Small)

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

• Arabia
  
• Egypt
  
• Greece (Gorgo OR Pericles)
  
• India (Gandhi OR Chandragupta)
  
• Macedon
  
• Scythia
  
• Sumer OR Babylon
  
• Persia
  
• Georgia
  
• Phoenicia
  
• Ottoman
  
• Byzantium

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

12 custom civs and 22 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: Alexander's Path --> 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. Hungary / Mongolia or civs with two TSLs e.g. Ottoman or Arabia)

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.