• Civilization: Mongolia - Unique Unit: Keshik - replaces Horse Archer
• Leader: Cro-Magnon Khan
• Difficulty: Noble
• Map size: Standard
• Map Script: Custom
• Climate: Custom
• Starting Era: Ancient
• Speed: Normal
• Options: No Hills. No Barbarians. Wild animals pose a threat from the beginning and are unusually abundant, but will not respawn (extinction happens). All huts have been removed.
• Rivals: 7 AIs
• Victory conditions: All enabled except for Space.
• Submissions due by October 1, 2010
  PLEASE NOTE THE DATE.

C-IV Gotm LVIII:
Stone Age Challenge

Somewhere along the Mongolian steppe, a nomadic band of mammoth hunters and their domesticated wolf companions, having trudged for months over barren desert and through boreal forest, rejoice as the chilling wind and blanketing snowfall fade. The whole of the group stares across the frozen tundra and, without speaking, simultaneously begin to dream of something better . . . It is the late Pleistocene, 18,000 years ago. Not the best time to be a furless primate. Great icecaps extend southwards from the poles, covering much of the land. Active volcanoes belch molten lava and plumes of ash. The world is still home to the great mammalian mega fauna: wooly mammoths, mastodons, saber-toothed cats, cave lions, and giant cave bears. In this game of the month you will traverse impoverished terrain and confront wild animals that are present in abundance from the game’s beginning. The complete absence of iron, copper, aluminum, coal, uranium, and oil resources, along with no hills to mine, ensures that you will remain in a perpetual stone age. Note, consistent with the game’s theme, some resources may be found outside of their traditional ‘habitats’ -- such as the presence of elephants on ice and flood plains on tundra (please consider them mammoths and glacial melt zones).

Cro-Magnan Khan is Agressive and Expansive; starting with Hunting and The Wheel. The Aggressive trait grants a free promotion (Combat 1) to all melee and gunpowder units and allows Barracks and Drydocks to be constructed at half production costs. Expansive provides +3 health per city and halves the production cost of Granaries and Harbors.

Your Unique unit is the Keshik, replacing the Horse Archer. It does not receive defensive bonuses, has 1 First Strike, has +50% attack versus Catapults and ignores movement costs. The Keshik requires Horseback Riding, Archery and Horses.