Scenario Idea

[JellyDonut]

What if the Persians won at the Battle of Salamis in 480 BC?

I think this paragraph explains it all, from Victor Davis Hanson's "No Glory That Was Greece" in the book What If?:

Hegel knew, as we may have forgotten, that had Greece become the westernmost province of Persia, in time Greek family farms would have become estates for the Great King. The public buildings of the agora would have been transformed into the covered shops of the bazaar, and yeomen hoplites paid shock troops alongside Xerxes' Immortals. In place of Hellenistic philosophy and science, there would have been only the subsidized arts of divination and astrology, which were the appendages of imperial or religious bureaucracies and not governed by unfettered rational inquiry. In a Persian Greece, local councils would be mere puppet bodies to facilitate royal requisitions of men and money, history the official diaries and edicts of the Great King, and appointed local officials mouthpieces for the satrap ("the protector of power") and the magi.

If the Scenario Group there doesn't make a scenario of the Perisan Wars in Greece, it will be my first one.

[Mars]

Go for it

[Juggernaut]

The troublesome part with making scenarios is that one most possess information on size of cities at a certain age, present city improvements etc.

[Sabre2th]

Originally posted by uncle_funk
The troublesome part with making scenarios is that one most possess information on size of cities at a certain age, present city improvements etc.

If one does not possess this information, they can either guess, do some research, or ask Apolyton. There always seems to be someone here that knows all the little, obscure facts.

[Juggernaut]

Yeah, there are many History buffs around here.

[Steve Clark]

And there are those that have already done such a scenario for Civ2 (somewhere)! Perhaps learning from them (as far as events) would be good, but remember to ask permission to use all of their wonderful custom/unique units for that period, which will likely be import-able into Civ3.

For those that are thinking of any historical-based scenarios for Civ3, please check out the thousands of highly-detailed custom/unique units already built. You can take the time to sprite them, if you wish, but I think they will be good enough as it is.