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Gaius' Land Map Pack Vol.1

A collection of my favourite land maps, including a Random Map Pack featuring all 20 of them.

Credit for the creation of the maps themselves of course goes to their original makers, I have merely cleaned up the code and added LudiKris capability where it was missing.

Several maps have been altered slightly: the random choice percentages for terrain creation have been adjusted or eliminated (e.g. 'Highland' has a higher probability of being a Frozen Map now, and 'Dry Arabia' is always Desert, never Green), or the chances of more or less objects being created (e.g. Deer on 'Valley' and 'Vital River') were optimised.

Three of the 20 maps have extra resources for a quick start or extended team games:
'Rich Cenotes' and 'Rich Lombardia' both feature 4 extra Sheep, a total of 8 Deer close by, an additional 4-tile patch of each Gold and Stone in the 'medium distance' location, and more Gold and Stone patches spread over the map than usual.
'Rich Mountain Pass' offers Deer patches of six animals each instead of the usual three as well as considerably more Gold and Stone patches (those have been modified for each possible map size to avoid Huge/Gigantic/LudiKris maps being covered in Gold).

Please note that several of the maps contain terrain and/or objects exclusive to the DLC available for Age of Empires 2 HD. Hence you can only play those maps if you own the expansions "The Forgotten" and "African Kingdoms".

Have fun playing the Map Pack, comments are welcome.


The Collection contains these 21 maps:

Acropolis
Bedouins
Cenotes
Dry Arabia
Ghost Lake
Green Arabia
Highland
Hill Fort
Kilimanjaro
Lombardia
Moats
Mongolia
Mountain Pass
Serengeti
Socotra (Standard Villagers, additional workers only for Regicide)
Valley
Vital River
Rich Cenotes
Rich Lombardia
Rich Mountain Pass
Random Map Pack (5% chance for each map to come up)