Do we know the real live Inspiration for the castle and the wonder?
Castle: a repurposed masonry fortress, likely of Incan origin, partially damaged or adapted, reflecting raids and later reuse as a stronghold or settlement. This would visually communicate resistance and appropriation rather than centralized imperial power.
Wonder: a sacred hill topped with a Ruka, emphasizing Mapuche social structure and spiritual centrality instead of monumentality. Simple, symbolic, and culturally distinct.
The humanoid statues are called chemamull btw.
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Mapuche lack Bracer.
Sometimes I wonder if the civ crafter behind the civs knows he or she has mystical natural born coders who are actually time warpers who can destroy hard code laws and just make the engine do whatever they want.
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My first impressions:
They seem a bit overloaded with bonuses. I could do without the gold-on-kill bonus, which seems problematic to balance, and a real mess in team games. The other bonuses seem conceptually reasonable.
The HP bonus affects a lot of units ā basically everything except foot archers ā and overlaps with Vikings and Vietnamese. I think Iād prefer something more focussed.
Malon also affects a lot of units ā compare with the Aztec and Mayan unique techs that just affect skirmishers.
Bombard tower without even having guard tower is weird, but I suppose the precedent has already been set by Tatars (who have bombard tower but no keep).
The wonder doesnāt look at all wondrous ā youāre mostly building a natural rock formation, which is stupid, and most civsā houses look more impressive than the actual building part. The castle is better, but has a similar problem with the rocks at the bottom.
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Iām curious how the Mapuche will use a Genitour.
A team game featuring both Mapuche and Berbers sounds insanely strong.
I think the wonder is a re imagination of a kuel. They were artificial hills built by the mapuche as religious places.
The wooden statues on top are called chemamull, and are placed in religious places. The little drums on the entrances of the hut, are called kultrung and are used by the mapuche chamans, called machi.
As this places are long time abandoned only the hill part remains. Also they are fairly new discovery, son maybe a little archeology is still needed
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The castle maybe takes inspiration in the La CompaƱia Pukara, a mapuche fortification latter conquered by the incas, and later retaken by the mapuche
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I dislike the team uu cheaper tech.
These kinda things make team games impossible to balanced.
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Yeah. I had something similar as a team bonus for my Alans civ and was told to change it because it would affect many unique unit interactions. Then I had a UT with a similar effect, but for team Stable units. That can be abused by multiple identical players researching it multiple times, which is why I removed it. The devs seem to be making all of my mistakes, which they are being paid not to make.
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knock knock
whoās there?
mona
mona who?
Monaspa
(or as the germans would say: mona spar)
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High resolution Mapuche Tech. Tree:
Tupi and Muisca leaked Tech. Trees are no longer available, at least not with the same URL.
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The chemamĆ¼ll remind me a lot of the Easter Island/Isla de Pascua/Rapa Nui moaiā¦
Theyāre quite similar, arenāt they? Of course, any moai Wonder a future Polynesians civ would get would be much larger.
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Rapa Nui Polynesians engaged in trade with the Mapuche & Inca. Polynesians got the sweet potato (Kumara) from the Inca via the Mapuche & the South American tribes got chickens from the Polynesians! I donāt know if thereās any historical info about any warfare between them?
That contact is why I thought that the Inca could receive the regional Oceania siege ship the Drua, and perhaps the Mapuche could as well.
Thereās a legend about Topa Inca Yupanqui, Pachacutiās son, leading an expedition to Polynesia (including Easter Island) and plundering much gold there. Itās not clear how factual it is, since gold was rather uncommon in Oceania, but regardless, it would make for a very interesting sixth scenario to the Pachacuti campaign if the devs decide to do that.
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to the best of our knowledge this isnāt true.
Looking at genetic evidence, there are some traces of south-american DNA in polynesian DNA. Suggesting a single point of contact (eg a small group of south americans making it to polynesia). (I couldnāt find any studies proving the reverse, ie Polynesian DNA in South America)
There is no evidence of continued trade between Polyensians and South Americans. If there had been continued trade we would expect to see significantly more mixing in the gene pool.
What you are claiming is bordering on misinformation.
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If there was continues trade we would see more cultural exchange too like religion and buildings.
I always wondered why is there no contact between aboriginal australians and malays.its not that far to go and see whatās on the other side.
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Do you mean Australians?
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