# Some ideas for new maps **URL:** \ **Category:** III - Discussion\ **Created:** [November 11, 2022, 7:19am UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/some-ideas-for-new-maps/218921 "2022-11-11T07:19:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![MUTYLATOR5553](https://forums.ageofempires.com/user_avatar/forums.ageofempires.com/mutylator5553/32/115284_2.png) [@MUTYLATOR5553](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/MUTYLATOR5553)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2023, 1:42pm UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/some-ideas-for-new-maps/218921/24 "2023-08-22T13:42:02Z")
> [@miller\_21st](#): > > For Europe: Crimea, English Channel and Prussia. Great ideas! I would also suggest the following maps: 1. Silesia - a map that is cut in half by the river (Oder). The left side of the map has numerous silver mines while the right side of the map has numerous coal mines (reference to Lower and Upper Silesia). 2. Dubrovnik - an area surrounded on one side by the blue sea with small islands and on the other side by rocky mountains. 3. Norway - Fjords map 4. Lapland - map with frozen lakes and lush coniferous forest. 5. Provence - map with famous lavender bushes. 6. Burgundy - map with hills and grape bushes. 7. Catalonia - beach map with scattered Cows. 8. Sicily - a triangular beach island. 9. Lazio (or Rome) - a map with a Basilica surrounded by fortifications in the center - the players can take it. 10. Naples - U-shaped map. 11. Bavaria & Austria - mountainous map with many flowery meadows. 12. Brandenburg - a wooded map with a river and two lakes with large islands. 13. Galicia (south-eastern Poland and western Ukraine) - a map with hills and an oil deposit (generate Coins) - a reference to the fact that the world’s first oil wells were built in this area. ---
**Author:** ![RatcicleFan](https://forums.ageofempires.com/user_avatar/forums.ageofempires.com/ratciclefan/32/115119_2.png) [@RatcicleFan](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/RatcicleFan)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2023, 2:01pm UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/some-ideas-for-new-maps/218921/25 "2023-08-22T14:01:40Z")
> [@MUTYLATOR5553](#): > > - Sicily - a triangular beach island. > - Lazio (or Rome) - a map with a Basilica surrounded by fortifications in the center - the players can take it. > - Naples - U-shaped map. I was thinking Italy could afford to be represented by more than one map. I see you thought the same. > [@miller\_21st](#): > > Lake Texcoco should be renamed as Valley of Mexico, which is more accurate; naming that region as Tenochtitlan is like naming the Andes mountains as Cusco. Other recomendation for Mexico is Sierra Madre map. Well, multiple European maps are named after single cities (like Budapest and Muscovy, though technically Budapest is a merger of three cities) > [@MUTYLATOR5553](#): > > - Sicily - a triangular beach island. > - Lazio (or Rome) - a map with a Basilica surrounded by fortifications in the center - the players can take it. > - Naples - U-shaped map. I was thinking Italy could afford to be represented by more than one map. I see you thought the same. > [@miller\_21st](#): > > Lake Texcoco should be renamed as Valley of Mexico, which is more accurate; naming that region as Tenochtitlan is like naming the Andes mountains as Cusco. Other recomendation for Mexico is Sierra Madre map. Well, multiple European maps are named after single cities (like Budapest and Muscovy, though technically Budapest is a merger of three cities which weren’t unified yet at this time). > [@MUTYLATOR5553](#): > > Galicia (south-eastern Poland and western Ukraine) - a map with hills and an oil deposit (generate Coins) - a reference to the fact that the world’s first oil wells were built in this area. There’s also a Galicia in Iberia, which could maybe be represented. We could just call it Galiza instead to differentiate it from the Polish region tho. ---
**Author:** ![UpmostRook9474](https://forums.ageofempires.com/user_avatar/forums.ageofempires.com/upmostrook9474/32/47514_2.png) [@UpmostRook9474](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/UpmostRook9474)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2023, 2:21pm UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/some-ideas-for-new-maps/218921/26 "2023-08-22T14:21:21Z")
**Asia** At least we all know we need Siam and Iran, the only blanks in the Southeast Asia and West Asia. Siberia can be divided into at least three parts: west, middle and east, and even the Chukchi Peninsula (or named Bering Sea), Lake Baikal, Altai Mountains, and [Mountains of Heaven](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tian_Shan) (with some parts from current Mongolia). Regarding the blank of South China: - [Yangtze River](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangtze) - [Sichuan Basin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sichuan_Basin) - [Yungui Plateau](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yunnan%E2%80%93Guizhou_Plateau) - [Southeastern Hills](https://baike.baidu.hk/item/%E6%9D%B1%E5%8D%97%E6%B2%BF%E6%B5%B7%E4%B8%98%E9%99%B5/10798076) (or Southeast Coastal Hills, or Southeastern Coast, or even Pearl River, anyway better than being named just Fujian or Guangdong). Then, please allow me to share my ideas quoted from other topics. > [@Proposals of New Asian Native Tribes](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/proposals-of-new-asian-native-tribes/211900/4): > > I would suggest that the first island chain be divided into the following ways from north to south. > > - [Sakhalin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakhalin) (or Karafuto) > - [Ezo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokkaido#History) (or Ezochi) > - [Ōu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C5%8Dhoku_region) (the name of the main mountain range of modern Tōhoku region of Japan, and also the historical name of that region) > - [Kantō](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kant%C5%8D_region) > - [Hokuriku](https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/%E5%8C%97%E9%99%B8%E5%9C%B0%E6%96%B9) (a narrow, long cold land facing the vast Sea of Japan, with many ancient buildings that can be represented by Zen temples) > - [Tōkai](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C5%8Dkai_region) (the origin of the Oda clan, the essential route between East and West Japan) > - [Kansai](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansai_region) (or Kinki) > - [Setouchi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setouchi_region) (a map as narrow and long as Araucania, with a narrow and long inland sea surrounded by land) > - [Kyushu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyushu) > - [Ryukyu Islands](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryukyu_Islands) > - [Formosa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Taiwan) (an island map with flat land and a water trade route on one side, and mountainous and forested land and sea with whales on the other) > - [Black Ditch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_Strait) (The historical name of the Taiwan Strait. If there is a map that cover the two sides of the Strait, it is recommended to use this name to avoid disputes) > - Luzon > - Mindanao > > The current Honshu is very suitable for Ryukyu, that is, renaming Honshu to Ryukyu and adding water trade routes. On the other hand, the current Hokkaido is suitable for Kanto, so it can also be renamed Kanto. > > It can be seen that Japan can have many maps, enough to have the Shinto Grand Shrine as a new small civilization. The Shinto unit could be [Kunoichi](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%81%8F%E3%83%8E%E4%B8%80), a unit like Priestess + Ninja. On the other hand, there will be no Zen Temple and Shinto Grand Shrine in Sakhalin and Ezochi, while the Ainu settlements can appear in Sakhalin, Ezochi and Ōu (and maybe Kamchatka). * * * Europe > [@Let's build a world map of AoE3](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/lets-build-a-world-map-of-aoe3/205281/128): > > The blanks in the Europe may be the following. > > - Greenland: > A V-shaped peninsula map, players are located on the sides of the coast. The water is rich in fish and whales, and the coast is rich in prey, trees and mines, but inland is an open snowfield and ice sheet without any resources, trade points and shelters. You can choose to control the coast through the navy, or attack directly through the snow inland at the shortest distance. > - [Iceland](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland#/media/File:Map_of_Iceland.svg): > A map of an island the size of Borneo, but in the center or south of the island there is an unclimbable snow mountain like the mountain in Hokkaido. > - [Sápmi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A1pmi) (or Lapland): > Similar to Scandinavia, but only has the sea on one side and the sea is larger. There is no royal house. > - [Svalbard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard#): > Similar to Caribbean, rich in whales, but all three lands are smaller, closer to each other and surrounded by sea. There is a chance to find a small piece of land representing [Franz Josef Land](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Josef_Land#) on the edge of the map. There is no royal house, and there is a water trade route instead of a land trade route. > - [Novaya Zemlya](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novaya_Zemlya): > Similar to Panama, a slender land divides the map into two seas on the left and right, but there are no small islands in the sea, and the land is straight from north to south without bending and may be narrower. There is no royal house, and there is a water trade route instead of a land trade route. > - Ural Mountains: > Slightly higher mountains throughing the map, with flat plains on the left and right. There are rich mines in the mountains. East of this map is Asia. * * * Africa: > [@Civ Concept: Zimbabweans](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/civ-concept-zimbabweans/232522/1): > > To fill the rest of Africa. > > **Congo Basin** > > - Almost the same, just replace the Yoruba with the Luba. > > **Lake Victoria** > > - Almost the same, just replace the Sufi with the Luba. > > **[Zambezi Basin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zambezi_Basin)** > > - Located south of the Congo Basin and Lake Victoria, west of the Swahili Coast. Roughly covers the modern Zambia and northern Zimbabwe. > - With rainforest similar to the Congo Basin and tree savanna similar to the Swahili Coast. > - 2 Luba and 1 Tswana settlements, or 1 Luba and 2 Nguni (subgroup: Ngoni) settlements. > - Has a Trade Route. > > **[Copperbelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copperbelt)** > > - Between the Congo Basin and the Zambezi Basin. > - The overall style is similar to the Congo Basin, but filled with a lot of copper mines. > - 4 Luba settlements. > - Has a Trade Route. > > **Angola** > > - Located southwest of the Congo Basin. > - There is the coast. The shore is a drier, fertile area with open spaces, while further inland is dense rainforest. > - 2 Jesuit holy sites and 1 Luba or Khoisan settlement. > - Has a Sea Trade Route. > > **[Namib Desert](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namib)** > > - Located south of the Angola. > - A desert with a coast. > - Almost all the Treasure Guardians are Colonial Looters. > - 1 Khoisan settlements. > - No Trade Route. > > **[Okavango Delta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okavango_Delta)** > > - Located northeast of the Namib, west of the Zambezi Basin. Roughly covers the modern northwestern Botswana. > - There are rivers and oases with many animals in the desert. You can fish but have no water drop-off point for home city shipments. > - 2 Tswana and 2 Khoisan settlements. > - No Trade Route. > > **[Kalahari Desert](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalahari_Desert)** > > - Located east of the Namib, south of the Okavango Delta. Roughly covers the most of the territory of modern Botswana. > - Dry inland desert with a few natural salt mines. > - 4 Tswana settlements, or 3 Tswana and 1 Khoisan settlements. > - No Trade Route. > > **[Bushveld](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushveld)** > > - Located east of the Kalahari, south of the Zambezi Basin. Roughly on the border between modern Botswana, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. > - As the name, a veld area full of bushes, with many trees and berries. > - 2 Tswana and 1 Nguni (subgroup: Matabele) settlements. > - Has a Trade Route. > > **[Lowveld](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veld#Highveld_and_Lowveld)** > > - Located east of the Bushveld, south of the Zambezi Basin. Roughly covers the modern southern Zimbabwe and southern Mozambique. > - Similar to Bushveld but clearly less trees. A few capturable wild Sanga Cattle and gold mines there. > - 2 Nguni (subgroup: Matabele), and 2 Tswana (subgroup: Basotho) settlements. > - Has a Trade Route. > > **Highveld** > > - Located south of the Bushveld and Lowveld. Roughly the area of Gauteng in modern South Africa, where the Boer states were established. > - Even less trees than the Lowveld, but more capturable wild Sanga Cattle. > - 2 Tswana (subgroup: Basotho) and 2 Nguni (subgroup: Xhosa) settlements. > - Has 2 Trade Routes. > > **[Great Karoo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karoo)** > > - Located west of the Bushveld and highveld, south of the Namib. Roughly the modern Northern Cape of South Africa. > - Even Dryer than Highveld, and also capturable wild Sanga Cattle there. > - Many Treasures are Livestocks. > - 3 Khoisan settlements. > - Has a Trade Route. > > **Natal** > > - Located southeast of the Highveld, separated by Great Escarpment. Roughly the modern KwaZulu-Natal of South Africa. > - There is the coast and hills. > - 4 Nguni (subgroup: Zulu) settlements. > - Has a Sea Trade Route. > > **Cape of Good Hope** > > - Located south of the Great Karoo, separated by Great Escarpment. Roughly the modern Western and Eastern Cape of South Africa. > - Many Trade Posts, and they provide a higher number of resources. > - 2 Nguni (subgroup: Xhosa) settlements, or 2 Khoisan settlements. > - Has a Land Trade Route and a Sea Trade Route. > > **Madagascar** > > - A big island which has a high mountain in the center and surround by sea. > - 3 Jesuits holy sites. In there, they will speak French instead of Spanish. > - Has a Sea Trade Route. [Previous page](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/some-ideas-for-new-maps/218921.md?page=1)