3.5. Savanna

Region:

(none)

Characteristics:

• An inter-zonal map between better watered mountain and desert or desert and tropic
• A map characterised by broadly spaced clumps of trees which are a mixture of oaken-leafed evergreen, deciduous baobab, palm type trees and scrub type plants
• Typically a rather flat plane map having an occasional hummock rises here and there.
• Relatively open but does have occasional ‘strag’ trees and rocky outcrops here and there.
• Note that Savanna biome maps are limited to elevation heights of mid-level and below, low-level.
• Rains are predominantly and frequently heavy in summer but never snows, dry 'winter' season.
• Savanna has very little water on it though it may have an occasional lake, stream, or river and dry sandy or muddy lakebeds with water holes; streams may run for wahile and then empty into shallow marshy lake having no outlet to the sea in some cases.
• It is very green during the rainy season and for awhile thereafter (Autumn) but rather sere at other times of the year.
• It is well endowed with animals including dangerous ones.
• Somewhat light on forest and stone but good for ore.
• Defensively or agressively the map may be fairly well balanced to open to aggression.

Typical Savanna type variations:

• Fortress
• Nomadic
• Herocide

Packeting Parameters:

Elevation Meshes

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

Terrain Textures

• DIRT1
• DIRT3
• GRASS5
• SAND2
• FORFLOOR5
• ROAD1
• ROAD2
• WATER1
• WATER2
• WATER3
• RIVER1
• RIVER2
• RIVER3
• RIVER4
• RIVER5
• RIVER6
• RIVER7

Flora Tree Objects

• TREE4
• TREE22
• TREE27
• TREE39
• TREE40
• TREE41
• TREE42

Flora Plant Objects

• PLANT1
• PLANT2
• PLANT4
• PLANT5
• PLANT11
• PLANT17
• PLANT18
• PLANT22

Fauna Objects

• ANIMAL1
• ANIMAL3
• ANIMAL4
• ANIMAL10
• ANIMAL11
• ANIMAL14
• ANIMAL15
• ANIMAL16
• ANIMAL18
• ANIMAL21
• ANIMAL26
• ANIMAL27
• ANIMAL28
• ANIMAL30
• ANIMAL32
• ANIMAL35
• ANIMAL36
• ANIMAL39
• ANIMAL40
• ANIMAL41
• ANIMAL42
• ANIMAL43

Geological Objects

• GEOLOGICAL1
• GEOLOGICAL3
• GEOLOGICAL4
• GEOLOGICAL5
• GEOLOGICAL6
• GEOLOGICAL7
• GEOLOGICAL12
• GEOLOGICAL19
• GEOLOGICAL27

Savanna Land types:

3.5.1. Sahel

• Situated southside of the Atlas mountain range in North Africa.
• Is a somewhat open map having almost all of the characteristics stated above except for having no river of significant size.
• Civ Territories are divided as appropriate to the map.

Savanna Water types:

3.5.2. Gambia River

• Characterised by having a river running through it east to west opening out onto the Atlantic Ocean toward the western edge of the map.
• The river has a few shallows crossings and is loaded with crocodiless along its course.
• Riverside stone or ore seam gathering is fraught with danger.
• Civ Territories are divided proportionately north and south of along the course of the river).