Game Overview
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*** Advances Through History ***
This game includes 38 unit types and 14 terrain types, along with 3 material types, and it has 121 types of advances.
Number of sides to play may range from 4 to 15, defaulting to 2.
Side advantages may range from 1 to 5, defaulting to 1.
Terrain view is always accurate once seen.
Sides move simultaneously.
Unit Types:
Colonizers (Settler Unit)
Corvees (Forced Labour)
Sappers (Construction Crew)
Donkey Train (Caravan of Donkeys)
Caravan (Camel Train)
Warrior Band (Ancient Fighters)
Spearmen (Spears with Shields)
Swordmen (Men with Iron Swords)
Slingers (Sling Throwers)
Archers (Bowmen)
Horsemen (Archers on Horseback)
Cavalry (Horsemen with Lances)
Elephants (Archer Platform)
War Carts (Javelin Platform)
Chariots (Archers on Wheels)
Battering Ram (Gate Breaker)
Siege Tower (Tower on Wheels)
Ballista (Giant Crossbow)
Onager (Big Catapult)
Siege Ramp (Artificial Mountain)
Reed Boat (Primitive Ship)
Longship (Ship of Ulysses)
Barge (Transport Ship)
Bireme (Two Rows of Oars)
Trireme (Three Rows of Oars)
Phalanx (Heavy Infantry)
Legion (Roman Legion)
Tribe (Nomadic Community)
Village (Minor Settlement)
City (Major Settlement)
Stockade
City Walls
Temple
Workshops
Granary
Scribal School
Ziggurat
Palace
Terrain Types:
sea (ocean and salt lakes)
lake (fresh water lake)
swamp (fresh water swamp)
salt-marsh (salt marsh)
desert (sand or rock desert)
semi-desert (arid semi-desert)
steppe (steppe)
plain (flat or rolling grassland)
forest (forest)
mountain (mountains or rugged terrain)
ice (permanent ice fields)
road
river
ford
Material Types:
Food
Ores
Ideas
Advances:
Barley (Ancient Cereal)
Carpentry (Woodcraft)
Cattle
Charcoal Burning
Clay Tokens (Inscribed Clay Beads)
Einkorn Wheat (Diplod Wheat)
Elders Council
Flax
Handicraft
Hemp
Idolatry
Leatherworking
Mud Bricks
Pottery
The Shaman
The Sheep
Barter
Beer
Bellows
Construction
The Donkey
Emmer Wheat (Tetraploid Wheat)
Gardening
The Harness
The Kiln
The Loom
Pictograms
Potash
Potter's Wheel
Priesthood
Ropemaking
The Spindle
Tribal Law
The Village
The Yoke
Artisanry
The Assembly
Boatbuilding
Canvas
Ceramics
Cloth
Festival
The Furnace
Herbal Lore
The Horse
Irrigation
The Market
Mining
Numbers
The Pulley
The Shrine
The Sledge
Syllabary
Trance
Modern Wheat (Hexaploid Wheat)
Wooden Plow
Solid Wheel
Astronomy
The Camel
Copper Melting
Cylinder Seal
Divination
Dyeing
Glassmaking
Joinery
Land Survey
Lime
The Merchant
Metalworking
River Transport
The Saddle
Sailing
Stonecutting
The Temple Estate
Till-Farming
Township
The Wagon
Writing
Arithmetic
Astrology
Book Keeping
The Border
Bronze
Calendar
The Contract
The Elephant
The Ensi
The Forge
The Leasehold
Map Making
Masonry
Medicine
Navigation
Omen Books
The Scribe
The Spoked Wheel
Agriculture
The City State
Code of Laws
Engineering
The Foundry
Iron
The Letter
Mathematics
Military
Trade
Court of Law
Diplomacy
Geometry
Kingship
Literature
Road Building
Taxation
The Bit (Advanced bridle for horses)
Architecture
Currency
Government
Philosophy
Elected Council
Judiciary
The Republic
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