Desert Settlements

**Sextus Molestus** · November 03, 2009, 09:25 AM

When turning fog of war off today, I noticed that there were rebel settlements in the two deserts, one in the Arabian desert and one (Dimmidi) in the African desert (my geography is laughable, is this the Saharan?). I seem to recall some mod taking these out in order to make AI movements more realistic, but perhaps it was XGM. My question is, can I capture these settlements?

I'm playing an older version of XC by the way, not sure exactly what version.

**Zarax** · November 03, 2009, 11:25 AM

No, those are still uncapturable...

**LCD Soundsystem** · November 03, 2009, 05:29 PM

you could cheat...

**Hakomar** · November 08, 2009, 07:58 AM

Can I just ask why they are uncapturable?
I too heard it was because of a better AI, and Megas Alexandros also has it.
How exactly does it work?

**Zarax** · November 08, 2009, 08:00 AM

Well, our desert settlement is used to cover all the areas that were just sandy wastelands and shouldn't be conquerable.
Many other mods also use those for scripting purposes...

**Sextus Molestus** · November 08, 2009, 08:03 PM

How are they unconquerable? Can you simply not lay siege to them? If so, how is this implemented? I apologize for my laziness, I know I could just test it ingame, but...ah well.

**Zarax** · November 09, 2009, 03:16 AM

They are surrounded by mountains so they cannot be sieged.

**Sextus Molestus** · November 09, 2009, 05:35 AM

Ah. So that's what that rugged landscape is. Many thanks.

**Zarax** · November 09, 2009, 05:36 AM

Just note that there is only 1 of such settlements in XC and that's Dimmidi.

**Sextus Molestus** · November 09, 2009, 02:19 PM

Then what of the settlement that is situated in the middle of the Arabian peninsula that controls most of the desert there? As I've said, I'm using an older version of XC, it's one that was right around the time the Julius Caesar provincial campaign was being implemented as a sort of beta.