Mission Farmers’ Republic
Mission Farmers’ Republic
The story
The South African Republic, also known as the Transvaal Republic, was founded by descendants of Dutch colonists after gaining independence from England. The republic is largely surrounded by British territory and an invasion is looming. A connection to the ocean is needed to trade goods and weapons, but all ports are in British hands. All but one: the port of Lourenço Marques in Portuguese East Africa.
A commission has been established to create a plan for the construction of a railway from the capital Pretoria to the port town of Lourenço Marques in Portuguese East Africa. As a young, ambitious transport engineer, you would love to lead that commission. Prove to the government that you are the right person for the job!
The mission
This completely new mission is part of the Inventors & Adventurers campaign.
Typical features:
New supply chains and industries, like gold, diamonds, prospectors, soldiers, jewelry, clothes, cigars, and so on.
Elephants, zebras and giraffes
Various AI lines with which you’ll have to cooperate and compete.
Typical music during the game (Creative Commons Attribution license). Also, the national anthem of the South African Republic is played at the start of the game.
About the map:
Huge 1:2 map. Large part of the map is just ocean, though, hence performance should be ok.
Hand-painted map of the former South African Republic as well as parts of the Orange Free State and the Natal province (now South Africa), Swaziland (now Eswatini), and Portuguese East Africa (now Mozambique).
Large cities like Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban, and Lourenço Marques (now Maputo), and several small villages.
Lots of mines, farms, and other industries
Note: The campaign aims to portray key milestones in transportation history as vividly as possible in their historical context. They also deal with dark chapters in the world’s events, whereby the corresponding episodes are never supposed to be downplayed, and the victims within them are never ridiculed. After all, it shouldn’t be left by the wayside that the history of transportation was often and still is a story of conflicts, oppression, and sometimes great suffering. Accordingly, the value judgements conveyed in the individual missions do not reflect the developer’s own values.
Required items:
Campaign Inventors & Adventurers
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