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Angkor: Elephant Kings

To my knowledge, Dominions has never had a nation based on southeastern Asian mythology. This mod attempts to fill this gap with a mod nation based heavily off medieval Khmer culture, history, and mythology, and to a lesser extent, the Siamese Empire. Angkor is an empire of humans and their Dantih allies, who are a race of very intelligent elephantids who can use tools and walk upright. The real Khmer empire lasted over 600 years but I decided to put the mod nation in Late Age to add variety to that era with some giant size units that are relatively rare.

Angkor is primarily a nation of Water and Earth magic, with lesser abilities in Nature, Astral, and Death, and some Glamour on summons and heroes. All units can cross rivers with canoes (in game - swimming). The Dantih elephantid units are very powerful but can easily be ganged up at size 7 so they are meant to be used in conjunction with human units. The humans are a variety of medium infantry, no cavalry, and fast-firing crossbows (but weaker for balance) based on the historic indigenous crossbows from that region often known as the Hmong or Jarai or sna bow. The sacred units are not high protection but are recruit in any fort.

You start with a great walled city and a capital site that increases population on top of scales because the historical city of Angkor at its peak had one of the most populous and dense urban settlements in the 11th-13th centuries. There is also a ritual spell that increases population growth like Blood Fecundity but with different non-blood school and paths.

There are 5 summoned units and commanders, 1 of which is unique and 4 shared with Patala because of heavy Indian cultural and religious influences on the real Khmer. There are also 3 unique heroes based on Khmer myths.

There is one new pretender, Ganesh, the elephant-headed deva (who should be in the vanilla game as an Indian realm god anyway!). I borrowed an interesting sprite from the Koei video game Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner (it might be a small bit more cartoony than Dominions style).

Credit to the makers of SpriteGen and Magic Enhanced for Dominions 5 for some of the base sprite models before my edits and modifications.