True Earth

Thanks for this, Korver! A fantastic tribute to one of the most incredible civilizations the world has known. 

The army of Mehmed the conqueror, the war on Constantinople, spectacular ancient war scenes like on those historic movies from the sixties of last century. Once again you showed how limitless SC4 is regarding content you can bring into the game.

There were certain projects, never completed to a whole, to turn SC4 into a settlement game of extraterestrial planets. There is plenty of content to turn it into a medieval cities game.

Now you showed us you can turn it into an ancient history game too. Of course the game engine itself don't forsee to simulate epic battles. But as you show - still you can create them. You really break limits.

Browsing through your journals - it's like seeing different games, this one has clearly some 'world of empires touch'. Epic.

Makes me think - if we had only more modders, more available brains and hands to work on this - we could even have different editions of the NAM: an ancient/medieval NAM, with carts running on a plaster-textured RHW and the monorail being viaducts etc, and utopian NAM, with futuristic mods. 

Somewhere in the forums I wrote, everything has been done already. Well, thank you Korver, for showing me - this ain't true. It's like you open doors to completely new creative potentials.

Reminds me a Stronghold I and II 

This is your most EPIC update ever!!! Pretty much Fantozzi took the words out of my mouth...

Something very interesting indeed!

I got derailed by some RL stuff but that means I can see the whole thing in one fell swoop ! It is magnificent (as usual). The battle scenes... The elephants in the Alps...Hadrian's Wall ... the walls of Constantinople ! (I kinda hope there will be the harbour, but I realize I have become greedy when your fresques are concerned...) Yegad, what's next ???

PS : I expect you to have counted every soldier in the last battle scene  mosaic ? Don't make me recount.

Damn son! You built an entire MMP army/horde and made it work!

Its interesting to look at these works now after you demonstrated elsewhere how its put together.  Makes it look like work to be more appreciated. Thanks.

Unbelievable updates! Every time I log in, there are more sumptuous images. This is truly a wonderful cj 

Oh my, have I missed a lot since the last time I visited to be absolutely amazed by your work again! From the witness of the peak of the Roman Empire, chariot-racing through all the delectable details, I go for round two to make sure no grand particulars were missed and then observe all the structures and the Colosseum in all their glory born from the Great Fire. Soon after, I walk through the valleys of ongoing war, pillaging, and utter destruction brought forth by Mehmeh II and fade into the hundred thousand satisfied--oh, where's Waldo by the way?  Thanks for taking us on a surreal journey Korver I'm sure your upcoming work will be just as exciting if not more ambitious. I wait with my eyes peeled 

That's a lot of Ottomans.  And I like how the Hagia Sophia is still the Maxis landmark, but you've removed the minarets.  I guess it makes it more historically accurate.

@mike_oxlong Thank you very much for the nice comment!

@Fantozzi Thanks a lot for the great comment! I always try to see what new and unique scenes are possible - which is one of the main reasons why I've been doing some of these historical updates. The idea of an ancient simulator like you mentioned would be pretty sweet though

@jakis Thank you for the comment! Just checked out some screens from that game and it looks pretty awesome

@TekindusT Thank you very much! Always cool to hear that about my work

@_Michael Thanks for the comment!

@tariely Thanks! I gave some thought to doing the harbor but I had to cut things a little bit short due to the lack of buildings.

@The British Sausage Thanks! Took a while to custom lot and MMP all of them - but it turned out pretty nice.

@RandyE Thanks! I'm glad you liked that little guide I made

@mattb325 Thank you very much for the kind words!

@Finnbhennach Thank you very much! I'm glad you enjoyed this ancient journey - I wanted to capture as much of the empire as possible, from the beginning to the end, with a number of the big events along the way - to make it really seem like you were there

@Mr Saturn64 Thanks! Yeah, I really wanted to use the Maxis one - but that also meant the minarets had to be removed as they wouldn't be added until later in that century . Glad you enjoyed it

No words can explain how awesome your work is. 

The army of Mehmed II picture reminds me of those battle scenes from the Lord of the Rings with hundreds of thousands of people 

—SC4L0ver.

Thank you very much @SC4L0ver! I actually thought about Lord of the Rings more than a couple times while working on these updates - glad you liked it. Maybe I'll have to do a few more updates with war scenes like these down the road

fantastic- where can we get the soldiers?

 

@pentapolar-1 Thanks for the comment - they're custom made along with most of the other stuff in this entry and they're still in a work in progress state.

Many thanks for replying