Chad 🗿

[chrome walrus]

Welcome to one of Africa's largest countries, Chad a large game reserve has been put in place, the trophy fees of the rare animals you can't hunt anywhere else pay for their species survival and you have been put up as the game Warden.
The south of this reserve is shaped by wetlands and scrublands with prized trophy's like giant eland Beeing a good reason to come here, in the central savannahs many species of plains game may be hunted including the greater kudu, roan antelope and African leopard!

The vast expanded if the northern Sahara desert are one of the reason why one might wanna come here specifically as a place like this with high numbers of animals can't be found anywhere else in Africa, the most przzed trophy's include such as the addax and scimitar Horned oryx

Getting to the good stuff the species such a reserve could feature.

desert
C5-scimitar Horned oryx (rare)
C4-addax (extremely rare)
C3-dama Gazelle (extremely rare)
C1-four spotted sandgrouse (common)
C1-spotted sandgrouse (common)
C1-sand cat (uncommon
C4-rhim gazelle (common)

Mountainous desert
C1-barbary patridge (common)
C5-barbary sheep (common)
C4-cheetah (rare)
C2-dorcas gazelle (common)
C1-rock hyrax (common)

Species of the savannah and grasslands
C2-oribi (common)
C4-cheetah (rare)
C7-roan antelope (uncommon)
C6-African leopard (rare)
C2-red-fronted gazelle (common)
C7-greater kudu (common)
C1-helmeted guineafowl (common)
C5-warthog (common)
C5-hartebeest (common

Species of the marshes, scrublands and forests
C9-giant eland (uncommon)
C4-bushbuck (common)
C2-common duiker (common
C4-waterbuck (common)
C4-red river hog (uncommon)
C1-african pygmy goose (common)

Some of the less desert areas of the map

More stöd areas

[split zealot]

Vro, this is so SIGMA!!

[chrome walrus]

I think with current populations and population tr med we can justify the rare species as their number is higher then this of the German speaking countries European bison and similar to those of the Nepalese tigers and snow leopards

[pearl atlas]

Yes gimme this

[indigo ice]

Aren’t they in a raging civil war?

[chrome walrus]

The last civil war in Chad ended like 15 years ago may be you mixing things with nearby country's like Lybia or Sudan. I also choose Chad because many conversation efforts are in place and it has high counts for certain species like 600 scimitar Horned oryx

[split zealot]

I'd love to see abandoned Toyotas with machine guns on top, lol

[chrome walrus]

It's on the same scale in travel advisory like suriname, mexico, china and Egypt so it's not that bad especially for north Africa but not super safe @indigo ice

[chrome walrus]

Kinda gruesome for the game

[split zealot]

Forest elephants?

[chrome walrus]

Eh Chad and especially this map isnt really rein forested and more Arid or subarid so no forest elephant would love seeing them in Cameroon or liberia tho

[pearl atlas]

Chad doesn’t have Forest Elephants, but they do have a small population of African Bush Elephants

[silver rover]

I have heard that Chad is the place to go for Western Greater Kudu (If I recall correctly)

[normal osprey]

Yep

[chrome walrus]

I see that (added)

I believe that Barbary sheep can be hunted irl (in Chad) so they will be classed down from rare to common on the map

I also further separated desert and desert mountains, creating a new biome based of of chads northern mountains, here you can find Barbary sheep, Barbary patridge, dorcas Gazelle and possibly even a tiny predator like the fennec fox or caracal

[chrome walrus]

Some trophy's shot in Chad

[chrome walrus]

I added two new species to the list, the African cheetah is the first of the two, it would inhabit both open savannahs and the high mountains where leopards are not present with thus a higher population there, the over all population is low with about 15-20 cheetahs on the map and their range covering ca 1/3-1/2 of the map. This would bring with it new rares like king and spottles

The second species is the rock hyrax, you could see them commonly in the mountains of the desert, you should have a keen eye to spot these small critters tho.

The general strategy in hunting these would be trying to find one with your binoculars and then slowly creeping up until your in shooting range ti then snipe them with a small game rifle

Now that I've started with the mountain species I might as well continue

The dorcas Gazelle can be found all throughout the mountains, in valleys and on plateaus but it generally doesn't traverse steep cliffs, they would be found exclusively in the mountains (based of the Tibesti mountains) with their range covering ca 1/4-1/5 of the map, as they don't have drink zones like all other desert and mountain species you would hunt them by stalking and glassing similar to springbok on Vurhonga.

The Barbary partridge is exclusive to the mountainous zone as well with the largest numbers Beeing found near the sparse vegetation, you could either flush them and shoot with a shotgun or shoot them with a small caliber rifle on the ground, they are similar to the chuckar and red legged patridge. This is also the only species of of this map I have seen in the wild myself.

Last but definitely not least of the montane species is the Barbary sheep or sometimes called aoudad it lives on the steep cliffs of the mountains and is one of the most popular game animals of the reserve due to them getting their water from plants you would have to hunt them in their feeding zones similarly to mountain goat or chamois.
You can find them in small groups or alone.

[silver rover]

I recall that they used to be huntable in Chad, and theoretically they still could, they just need to make sure animal numbers are still good and all that other important stuff. There was a French hunting guide by the name Alain Lefol that used to take hunters out for Aoudad in Chad between the 70s & 80s until war came to the country then he started up for aoudad and greater kudu in Chad until 2006, so fairly recent (Source: https://www.africahunting.com/threads/in-memoriam-legendary-chasseur-professionnel-ph-alain-lefol-has-passed-away.74121/)

Another species I have heard about being hunt in Chad is the Striped Hyena. Also I am not sure if they are huntable but Chad is home to the West African Crocodile, which is more famously known as the Desert Crocodile

[chrome walrus]

Ooh Imma have to look into that more, safari hunting is definitely a thing there although i don't think it's that heavily practiced compared to other countries

[silver rover]

Yeah it was a major conflict zone for many years so I am not surprised

[chrome walrus]

It has been pretty peaceful recently and became better after the discovery of oil, compared to some neighboring countries it's fairly nice but yeah on a global scale It still needs some more.

[dense oriole]

What country is it

[chrome walrus]

Chad it's a very large country in north, central Africa

[dense oriole]

Thanks

You should add Bongo and Sitatunga, they are closely related species and can hybridise and both live in Central Africa.

I might make a post about them, cuz they like my fav species of Antelope

[chrome walrus]

They're very cool and I'd like to see both the lowland bongo and the sittatunga but they are more made for very twin heavy environment Chad is mostly Arid so there is no significant population. The related bushbuck and greater kudu are on the lost tho if you like em a map in https://discord.com/channels/393040947006406657/1132780319058174073 or liberia

[ember radish]

In Chad, the common patas monkey (Erythrocebus patas), also known as the hussar monkey, is also hunted.

[chrome walrus]

I like it look like some German emperor and has a mustache, added

[ember radish]

I like this map because of Aouda 😊

[chrome walrus]

Yeah there super cool, the entire area based of the tibesti mountains would be super cool

[chrome walrus]

The scimitar horned oryx is a rare large antelope related to the gemsbok it would be found in non alpine desert and semi-desert environment, although it would have a relatively great population of almost 30-40 individuals they would be very easy to find as there would only be 3-5 herds on the map

[indigo ice]

Do we get to shoot the collared ones?

[chrome walrus]

No lol, could feature them in missions tho. I featured this one because I like the landscape and its horns. Also this is in one of the areas of Chad that should be featured on the map

[chrome walrus]

#1336821988718809119 message
Check out this kudu

[spare narwhal]

Shouldn't giant eland be class 8?

[silver rover]

They are far bigger then any Cape Buffalo

They are fine as a Class 9 Species

[spare narwhal]

Should've gone deeper,mb, I just went off of google

[chrome walrus]

Bump

[chrome walrus]

Oasises in chad

It would be absolutely stunning to hunt for rhim gazelle, partridge and Barbary sheep in these beutiful mountains

A savanna in east central chad

Forests of the south near the Cameroon border

Lake Chad

The Sahel ecoregion

The lelwel hartebeest

[chrome walrus]

More floodplains of lake Chad great for defassa waterbuck

And of course the beautiful giant eland

Possible bovids would consist of
-dorcaz gazelle
-rhim gazelle
-red-fronted gazelle
-dama gazelle

-addax
-scimitar horned oryx
-greater kudu
-waterbuck
-kob
-bushbuck
-sitatunga
-giant eland
-roan antelope

-oribi
-common duiker
-bohor reedbuck

-african buffalo

-barbary sheep

-topi
-hartebeest

[dense oriole]

Would this be a game safari or wild map?

[rustic scarab]

this looks very cool🗿

[chrome walrus]

Wild map of course!

[dense oriole]

I personally don’t think EW would add Scimitar-horned oryx as their population is extremely low and wild ones cannot be hunted

[chrome walrus]

We can hunt a lot of animals that are just as rare, I don't think it's super likely but would it benefit the game and the player experience, yes so why not add them?

[dense oriole]

Because you can’t hunt them, just my thoughts

[chrome walrus]

You can't hunt tigers, wild yak, snow leopards at all and you can't hunt European bison, black grouse, ferruginous duck in the maps they are in

[split zealot]

Sigma 🗿🍷

[ember radish]

Central African Savanna Buffalo (Syncerus caffer brachyceros)
Photo Credit: Royle Safari

Photo Credit: Royle Safari

[chrome walrus]

Absolute beutys!