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Angry Salami
Jul 27, 2013

Don't trust the skull.
There were a few Civ4 mods that did a similar thing - the fantasy Fall From Heaven mod had it, and even had one civ that started with weak goblin scouts that could capture wolves to upgrade to a wolf cavalry unit, which was pretty neat.

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Angry Salami
Jul 27, 2013

Don't trust the skull.

NewMars posted:

The rhino=unicorn thing isn't a thing the mod made up by the way. Unicorns and their association as a misinterpretation of rhinoceros by people who've never met them is a very old and heavily debated thing, with the other major possibility for what they actually were being aurochs, of all things.

Marco Polo, for example, describes 'unicorns' that he saw in his travels that are quite obviously rhinos. He seems somewhat disappointed by them.

Angry Salami
Jul 27, 2013

Don't trust the skull.

Obliterati posted:

most notably the peoples of the Yucatan absolutely did know what wheels were because they used them in kids' toys, even though their environment prohibited, say, wagons.

There's some evidence they used pulleys in the construction of the larger temple complexes, so they found uses for wheels, just not as transportation.

Angry Salami
Jul 27, 2013

Don't trust the skull.
Rhino!

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