#CIV 5 IN GAME EDITOR MULTIPLAYER WINDOWS 10#

Once you have them all, assembling the map is a work of art to get the grid aligned etc but you end up with what a friend called a really 'cool” map. And literally cut and paste.Įach page has game icons and margins printed along the bottom etc so they need snipping off. How many depends on how big it is and how much overlap you have. So I end up progressively with umpteen A4 landscape sized pics of the map saved in a single Word file. And click “page break” before doing the next one. (Other keyboards and PCs etc may do it differently) So in that largest scale I move the cursor over the map on screen (in the Civ III Edit mode it is a rectangle) and slowly ( and carefully ) rectangle by rectangle go down and then across and up with plenty of overlap pressing that key for each rectangle and then doing a paste into “ Word” ( already loaded up in “ landscape”). On my lap top keyboard there is a key marked PrtSc = Print screen. You can leave some for smallish barbarian types like Italian Hill tribes, Galatians, or anything you may not have a lot of but want to have around and you can have rules that trigger them as active. The triggers for war?Ĭiv III also has a barbarian tribe icon that looks like a hut. So a state for me has typically one city and three towns joined by roads.

I then join up cities and towns with roads. This icon looks like a medieval tower and does for a capital city. Then I insert what are called in CIV III “ goody huts”- I use them to represent towns and distributed evenly around the map I place enough “ fortress” icons to match the number of states I want. The CIV III terrain types pretty much dovetail with FOG(AM) terrain types which is really handy when you get a battle in a square- you already know what it is and if there is a river or coast for example. It is your design so match it to your campaign design and concept. I don’t bother with deserts or jungle - I have no 28mm far eastern armies and a desert is a hole in the world that might as well be water. Add rivers hills forests etc where you think it helps and delete any terrain that is unhelpful. So iron, Ivory(elephants)and horses may be useful and I keep and cluster some wheat, cattle and game (in forests eg for Celts and Germans)and some gold and gems. The rest you can keep, delete or re locate, depending on whether you want an economic element to the campaign. So no saltpeter, rubber oil, aluminium, coal, uranium, tobacco, sugar. Using the various edit functions in the pull down menus I delete most of the strategic and other resource icons keeping any pertinent to an ancient world campaign, scrolling down and across systematically to find them. Click on the mouse to get a pull down menu to overlay a grid and zoom down to the largest scale. When you have done that find the land mass/area that is most interesting to you and start editing ( if it’s boring have another go). Have a practice first before really doing it and forget how the various icons etc work in the game itself. Using the “generate map” function get it to create a map– size etc does not matter too much but” huge” and “continents” gives you lots of choice.

#CIV 5 IN GAME EDITOR MULTIPLAYER WINDOWS 10#

If you are a CIV III Conquest user and use the CIV III Edit programme (even if you can’t get the game itself to work on Windows 10 the Civ Edit does!) you can create ,and print off an original map. WARNNG If you are not a CIV III user most of this will be gobbledygook to you so read no further! This may be of interest to some who like to use original maps for campaigns but find endless reams of paper and coloured pens a drag and their imagination and artistry overtaxed easily jaded.

Civ 5 in game editor multiplayer