3.9. Tropic

Region:

Characteristics:

• Characterized by jungle with lots of forests and and usually open clearings/passage ways.
• Has an abundance of animal life on it, including dangerous ones.
• Abundantly endowed with wood, but except in one case, Paradise Lost, it is always a surprise as to how well endowed the tropic map will be with either stone or ore.
• Except for rain forest types that are always wet or have rainfall at any season, is characterised weather-wise as having only 2 seasons in the year, "summer" as the dry one and "winter" as the rainy one, divided equally.

Typical Tropic type variations:

• Fortress Paradise Lost
• Nomadic
• Herocide

Packeting Parameters:

Elevation Meshes

• Primary (Lowlands).
• Secondary (Midlands).
• Tertiary (Highlands).
• Quaternary (Ocean Floor).

Terrain Textures

• DIRT1
• DIRT3
• GRASS9
• SAND2
• FORFLOOR9
• ROAD1
• ROAD2
• WATER1
• WATER2
• WATER3
• RIVER2
• RIVER3
• RIVER4
• RIVER5
• RIVER7

Flora Tree Objects

• TREE3
• TREE13
• TREE15
• TREE19
• TREE24
• TREE39
• TREE42

Flora Plant Objects

• PLANT1
• PLANT4
• PLANT5
• PLANT11
• PLANT15
• PLANT16
• PLANT17
• PLANT18
• PLANT20
• PLANT21

Fauna Objects

• ANIMAL1
• ANIMAL3
• ANIMAL4
• ANIMAL7
• ANIMAL11
• ANIMAL14
• ANIMAL15
• ANIMAL16
• ANIMAL26
• ANIMAL32
• ANIMAL33
• ANIMAL35
• ANIMAL36
• ANIMAL40
• ANIMAL41
• ANIMAL42
• ANIMAL43

Geological Objects

• GEOLOGICAL1
• GEOLOGICAL3
• GEOLOGICAL4
• GEOLOGICAL5
• GEOLOGICAL6
• GEOLOGICAL7
• GEOLOGICAL8
• GEOLOGICAL12
• GEOLOGICAL15
• GEOLOGICAL19
• GEOLOGICAL22
• GEOLOGICAL23
• GEOLOGICAL27

Tropic Land types:

3.9.1. Cameroon

• Characterized by the deepest, densest, darkest 'rain forest' jungle terrain.
• Foot units cannot move through forest on this map.
• Raining miserably most of the time with few periods of bright sunshine, the ground is a saturated sponge that slows movement.
• A dense jungle 'knock-off' of Black Forest in AoK otherwise having much the same characteristics.

3.9.2. Paradise Lost

• Represents the legendary Lost Mines of Solomon region of the Great Rift Valley of East Africa.
• Characterised by occasional high mountains.
• Includes volcanoes and cliff escarpments.
• Includes waterfalls, rivers, lakes that are usually connected by the rivers.
• Open areas of meadow prolifically populated by animals for food along with some that are dangerous.
• Dense and highly floriferous forests.
• Perpetual springtime or summer with frequent but not overwhelming rains during winter (that lasts half the year).
• Well endowed with all resources wood, stone and ore.
• This map is the highest resourced and most eye-candied map in the regular game.

Tropic Water types:

3.9.3. Congo River

• Characterised by a large broad river running through the basically flatland map, with navigable tributaries running off it to either side.
• Dense jungle terrains and clearings to either side of the rivers.
• This map must be played as a watermap as there are no passages between clearings and settlement areas which are accessible only via waterways.
• There are no shallows, rapids, or waterfalls on the broad Congo River or its relatively large tributaries to bar watercraft passage.
• It can rain pretty frequently year-round on this map but not to the extent of that seen on Cameroon; it is always 'green'.
• Crocodiles can occasionally be a hazard to hominid units on this map immediately adjacent to and along watercourse banks.