FIRAXIS crossed the line

[Wernazuma III]

I could somehow live with the messed up causality of Alphabet and Writing System and other historical inaccuracies of CivIII, but now I've lost my faith that FIRAXIS does care even the slightest bit. It's unbearable:

Civilization III: Conquests will feature a brand-new single-player campaign that will model eight different famous historical campaigns, including the battle for Mesopotamia, the battles between the Mayans and Incans, the struggle for control of feudal Japan, and even World War II.

The famous wars between Incas and Mayas?
Just because the average ignorant can't tell the difference, does that mean that one doesn't have to care?
I'm disappointed!

[MattH]

It's probably their copywriter...

[vmxa1]

Man if that is crossing the line for you, the threshold is very low.

[bobbo008]

he has a fine point. how can we expect to "relive history" when they dont even know what history is...

[Chilean Presidentâ„¢]

Agree
Besides the game have multiples civs and we can 'see' a battle between America vs Carthage, that is not reason for telling us that the new xp have "famous historical campaigns" and mix up the Mayans and the Incas. It's incredible.

[statusperfect]

it's a funny thing a person with that avatar is talking of crossing lines

cheers

[Alex]

hehe, they have faith in the ignorance of the regular north american young man...

[Spiffor]

I rather think there will be an open "precolombian America" scenario, in which all present Civs will end up making contact and probably fight.
However, I can't imagine the game being shipped with a scenario called "The Mayan-Incan war" The press report is likely to have shortened it.

[Theseus]

I actually find Central / South American history quite frustrating... there were NO civ-level wars until the Aztecs... sheesh, what were they thinking?? As we all know, ultra-early war ROCKS!!

[WarpStorm]

There is no reason why there has to be war in this scenario.

[Gravity Happens]

I think that the Mayans and Inca WERE contemperary, but the Incans were a lot older and on the decline when the Mayans popped up (could be the other way around, I'm not sure). But anywho, I'm just excited about the new stuff. WWII sounds like it will be tons of fun! WWII in Civ2 had SOOO much potential, but it should've been included in the Scenarios expansion pack with new units (tiger tanks, U-boats, Russian red guard infantry, shock troops,) and a floatilla of air units. I'm really hoping that the Civ III conquests version will have a bunch of awesome troops and airplanes...

[BigDork]

Originally posted by Alex
hehe, they have faith in the ignorance of the regular north american young man...

Wait, you mean the Mayans and Incans didn't have a war? Next you'll be telling me the Bolivian navy isn't one of the strongest in South America.

[Rhothaerill]

Originally posted by BigDork
Wait, you mean the Mayans and Incans didn't have a war? Next you'll be telling me the Bolivian navy isn't one of the strongest in South America.

I wonder how many people will get that?

[FrustratedPoet]

Originally posted by WarpStorm
There is no reason why there has to be war in this scenario.

Other than the reason that it specifically states "the battles between Mayans and Incans"?

[Danarchy]

Originally posted by BigDork


Wait, you mean the Mayans and Incans didn't have a war? Next you'll be telling me the Bolivian navy isn't one of the strongest in South America.

You're crazy. Everyone knows that Paraguay has the strongest navy in South America.

Anyway, I was reading something earlier about how Pizarro killed the leader of the Incans, so I guess they were around in later years. Unless I'm mistaken and it was the Mayans.