Map Name: Tribal War - Ancient Israel Mapmaker(s): Seamus76 & V.J. Number of Territories: 84 Special Features: Two open War Zones. What Makes This Map Worthy of Being Made: There are no maps of Israel, which no matter what the time period, a map of this region deserves to be made.
Description: "All these are the twelve tribes of Israel" Genesis 49:28 Tribal War- Ancient Israel is based on the division of land to the 12 Tribes of Israel. This map incorporates resource collection (4 weapons), build-a-bonus (Capitals), auto-deploy territories, gameplay from standard CC maps, and continues the Tribal War series style including two "free-for-all" regions.
TERRITORIES
84 territories in total 12 will be Tribe Capitals, and are included in the Tribe Bonus listed below. 6 will be Cities of Refuge, and are included in Cities of Refuge Bonus listed blow. 4 territories will be weapons, and are included in Weapons Bonuses #1 & #2 listed below. The Dead Sea will include 2 territories, which will be killer neutrals.
BONUSES
Region Bonus = 10 regions in total (bonuses +1 to +6) Tribe Bonus #1 = Capital Bonus: +2 for every 3 Capitals held Weapons Bonus #1 = +2 for each Sickle Sword (2 total) (always start +3 neutral) Weapons Bonus #2 = +2 for each Slingshot (2 total) (always start +3 neutral) Levite Cities of Refuge Bonus = +1 Auto-deploy on each (6 total; will always start +3 neutral) Impassables = Seas, Rivers, and Mountains
STARTING POINTS
Currently 69 territories can be starting points (excludes 6 Levite Cities of Refuge territories, 4 Weapon territories, Rimmon (Zebulun), Abdon, Beth Shemesh, Gibeon, Bethshan, and 2 Dead Sea territories which will all be coded neutral. 15 total.)
This is an awesome Idea. I noticed that you left out the levites. I know they didn't own any land, but I didn't know if you could add them in somewhere. Could you have the cities of refuge be levite cities of refuge? just an idea. I love the idea with the dead sea being deadly.
"Although Levi was dishonored by being denied territory, the tribe of Levi became the highly honored priestly tribe of Israel. It won this honor because of its reverence for Yahweh during the Exodus."
But as far as I know the Bull is the sign of the Tribe of Ephraim. Unicorn is not mentioned in Jewish literature. The sign of the tribe of Menashe (Menassah in your map) was the Onyx. Other signs are OK. (You might find the snake, in some places, as the sign of Dan, and the Sun and Moon as sign of Issachar. But the scale and the Donkey are also commonly used.)
The Levi tribe always had a very important spiritual roll, but no land of its own. When Salomon built the temple in Jerusalem, This tribe was in charge of working the temple. Maybe you could ass them as part of Cities.
Regarding the map layout, the exact layout of some of the tribes is not clear and debated between researchers, but this layout is correct according to some of the maps out there. I understand you made the Jordan river as part of the dead sea for gameplay reasons?
Quick point, this needs to have a name change to Tribal War - Eretz Yisrael. I know this may be semantics but it is a historical map and as you have used the tribal names, the country name should also be used.
Here is an exert : The classical rabbinical writers regarded all the cities controlled by the Levites as being cities of refuge The Cities of Refuge were towns in the Kingdom of Israel and Kingdom of Judah in which the perpetrators of manslaughter could claim the right of asylum; outside of these cities, blood vengeance against such perpetrators was allowed by law.[1] The Torah names just six cities as being cities of refuge: Golan, Ramoth, and Bosor, on the east of the Jordan River, and Kedesh, Shechem, and Hebron on the western side.
sorry if you already know this, I am just trying to help.
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koontz1973 wrote:Quick point, this needs to have a name change to Tribal War - Eretz Yisrael. I know this may be semantics but it is a historical map and as you have used the tribal names, the country name should also be used.
The tribal names he used are in English. Some of them are bit different when you write them in Hebrew with Latin characters.
Anyway Israel Shouldn't be Yisreal! When you write ישראל In Latin characters you still write "Israel" It is just different pronunciation than what commonly used in English.
CURRENT UPDATE INFO-2012-10-22: Sorry for the delay. Here is the second version of the map which now includes 2 war zones, which was something I was working on, but needed to work some things out in my head before I could put this together. This actually includes many of the changes and suggestions initially offered, so I hope you like it. I have also updated the legends, with the exception of the "Impassables" legend which I am working on.
I really like the idea of two war zones, one on each side, which I think builds on our first map and takes it to a new level of strategy. The plan is to include Warrior names in the war zones, rather than territories, or symbols. This keeps the number of symbols down, and makes the gameplay a little more simple to follow, compared to Tribal War - Florida. It also allows me to use actual city names throughout the rest of the map, rather than using a tribe code or abbreviation system.
If this is a direction everyone likes I'll start work on the impassables and territories. If not I'll go stick my head in the oven...just kidding...maybe.
Seamus, text, for the love of god, change it. It is very hard to read instructions on this map and considering this is the large, imagine the angry mob when you do the small map. Your having the star of David being the impassable , that may not be a good idea. Try to find something new.
Apart from that, very little for you at the moment.
by koontz1973 on Mon Oct 22, 2012 11:44 pm Seamus, text, for the love of god, change it. It is very hard to read instructions on this map and considering this is the large, imagine the angry mob when you do the small map. Your having the star of David being the impassable , that may not be a good idea. Try to find something new.
I'll work on the font, I need something along the same lines to keep with the theme but maybe thinner. There must be something else out there, but my initial searches turned this up as the best, but again I see it too and will come up with a solution.
As for the impassables and star of david image, that's funny, it's actually just a background image with the actual river and mountain images going on top (which are still in the works). It just looks weird since there is nothing in there at the moment. I'm actually planning to move that image to the bottom right corner anyway.
Your having the star of David being the impassable 
