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The Aztec are not one of the scenario civilizations, so the game put you on one of the undiscovered continents. Where you'll be alone, and won't have contact to other Civs for another thousand years. Tough assignment. There's iron on all continents, but the jungle regions don't have horses. The Spanish brought horses to South America. Map tries to be realistic.
If you don't wish to play the scenario (with the scenario Civs listed above), I'd recommend to play the Map Only version of this map. That way it's more balanced for random starts, and you have less of a chance to toil as a recluse for ages all alone on your continent.

Where are all the fucking strategic resources? Started in the jungle and have spent nearly 150 turns exploring with my jaguars and I have yet to see a single horse or iron location. Or even another civilization for that matter.

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Is there anyway to have this on quick game pace? waiting 15+ turns for a worker is pretty unbareable

I put the companion map to this Continents map up on the Workshop: it's modeled after the Pangaea Plus maps introduced with the Explorer Maps Pack. I don't think I can improve on that map anymore. It's got everything: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1278837372

Thanks!

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Rate up and Favorite for the tutorial ALONE! Quite handy for those who don't know what to do.

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well done

Great work lad. Always good to see some new quality maps.

Thanks btw, everyone (but one), for getting this up to four stars. It's a fair exchange for the work put in. Cheers.

Nice! Great discussion. My slightly sadistic slant comes into play here: Austria is quite far removed from ANY city state. That's owed a little to the fact that the Austria AI has always managed to piss me off with its diplomatic marriages. There are not that many City States in this world, and if Austria takes just a couple off the board by annexing them, diplomatic victory becomes difficult (that's also why Venice is not a Civ in these scenarios).

As human player of Austria, you're forced to commit early: expand into Russian lands to get close to the Eastern City States, or settle for Brussels (and meet the Germans) and maybe Genua in the West. The wild card of course is Mongolia, with its appetite for City State conquest: it's right next to all the Eastern City States (Budapest, Bucharest and Kabul). So if you commit to the Eastern frontier as Austria, you can't relax until you've also got a plan for the Khan. Fun times!

*UA, not UU

Great map, I'm a huge fan of your work from Tropico 5 and it's great to see you back at it in my other favorite game no less. One question though, wouldn't it make more sense for Austria to have Russia's current spawn, putting them closer to Budapest and Bucharest and allowing them to properly utilize their UU in the first half of the game?

@ D.A.N.O.N. Thanks! 24 positive ratings out of 25. For a three star average? I don't get Steam's math. But I'm glad the map finds people who enjoy this kind of thing.

Nice!!!

@ TheSupernaturalCupcake Sorry I didn't get what you were saying, btw. I've replicated your problem, and added a solution (that I hope will work for everyone) to the Image scroll above. Thanks for bringing that up!

The AI struggles with any combat, but granted, mountain ranges with narrow passes don't aid the AI. You will want to play at a hard setting, to give the AI some hefty advantages. Facing long odds, it can be fun to outsmart its massed armies using terrain as your ally. But: no doubt about it, the game dynamic does change on a map like this. Sorry if that feels slow. It is kinda slow. I don’t feel it to be "unplayably" so. It depends on your playstyle, and what you will want to forgive for building an empire on a nicer looking map.

Also realize this: much of the desirable land in this world is clustered tightly. You can found a city within 4 tiles from the next one, and you should where possible if you want to speed things up (= have more cities to be able to build more). Especially Civs like China and India can build immense city clusters on constrained space. That’s all intended: both of these countries are friggin’ population monsters, and I hope for the map to mirror real life as best I could. You’ll find a lot of this kind of thinking in this map.

As for Arabia (some spoilers): that's the hardest pick. It can work with a trading strategy: Arabia sits in the middle, so will have contact with lots of Civs; using the terrain, you can maintain a very small army and keep military expenditures/build requirements low (in the BNW version, it’s Morocco, which is a trading Civ). It has early game dibs on two Natural Wonders, and you can block the Egyptians/Persians from sending settlers north by securing the passes. As AI, Arabia will be weak. Its intended as oil rich patsy, a low hanging fruit for an imperialistic empire that wants oil (think: Iraq).

Would be pretty good, but you went waaaaaay over the top with mountains. With huge unbroken forests like this and constant mountainranges with single-tile openings, the game becomes unplayably slow and the AI just breaks down.

Furthermore, starts are not carefully balanced at all. The Arabian start is unplayably bad, for example. The "maze" of mountains south of Arabia seperating them from the Persians also creates horrible gameplay patterns.

i had to move the map file but i got it to work in the end thanks for tring to help fix it tho

Exit Civ V when you have it running, hit Subscribe above, boot Civ V back up, go to Mods, give it a second to check on the Steam server, then set up a new game, go to "Additional Maps", Continents++ will be one of those now, check that, then also check the Scenario button. That should do it.

map isn't showing up for me is there a easy way to fix this?

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@Indiaman_At_Sea Cheers, mate. Let's not say it out too loud then. ;)

not sure if this is legal since it's basically free map dlc :p

Not sold on the art direction of Civ VI; keep coming back to Civ V because I think they made those maps in Civ V look really good. And a scripted map won't even do it justice. I hope this carefully crafted map shows off the strengths of Civ V one more time. And I hope you had some fun with it.

This looks beautiful