Walkthrough is finished. I pretty much covered all facets of the game as a Nomad/Tribal nation. First post updated with links to the best episodes and videos. Super action packed AAR where I constantly pushed the game. :!: https://www.slitherine.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=117928 Much food for though...

Yeah the Safavids, just outside the possible time frame for the game (FoG2M army lists stop at 1500). It is interesting what Wikipedia has to say about the ethnicity of the Safavids: "An Iranian dynasty rooted in the Sufi Safavid order[32] founded by sheikhs claimed by some sources to be of Kur...

It couldn't be that simple, I'm afraid... For example, Khwarezm and Aq Qoyunlu are considered Persian in the game, because of many generations of prior Persianization. And they both could have formed Persia but didn't.

It is the way of things that realm formation is limited to certain factions, yes. Only certain French factions can form France, for example.

So who would qualify? The Buyids I suppose. Daylamites like the Baduspanids and Bavanids? Annazids (although they were more Kurdish)? Perhaps others?

This was considered, but the problem here is that there were a lot of factions in this time frame that did indeed satisfy the Isfahan + 20 conditions (Seljuqs, Ilkhanate, Khwarezm, Timurids, etc) yet none of them historically bothered to call themselves Persia.

I'm working on putting these changes in, and you may be amused to know this occurred during research:

Grabbing a claimed region in war should give you a big Auth boost. Another source would be winning battles, where Auth gain is tied to destroying enemy units, IIRC. Placing your monarch in command of said army will double such gain, but you have to be careful, because it will also double Auth loss i...

Same problem here, so its a server thing I guess.

This looks awesome!

Am I the only one who did not really have major court expense issues in the previous patch? My play style is to place my all my Freemen in Infrastructure as the default. So, when my CE went pear shaped, like everyone else's did, all I needed to do was shift nearly all to Commerce. I had basically se...

Yeah, this would be great for countries like Bohemia and Hungary that had German immigrant mining communities. Plus historic events like Cumans being invited to settle in Hungary and Byzantium, or Turks settling in Anatolia post-Manzikurt.

Yep this is a problem that came up in the Steam forums just yesterday, apparently you can select not-yet-existing factions in multi-player. I'm guessing this will get patched soon! In the meantime ... yeah a bad strategy.

Of course.

Initially, but individual pop culture can convert over the course of the game of course.

kronenblatt wrote: ↑Mon Aug 19, 2024 8:26 am How do I mod that a region has population of different cultures, i.e., not only one, already at the beginning of a scenario?

That is not currently possible, but the possibility has been under discussion ...

Pocus wrote: ↑Sat Jul 27, 2024 11:04 am I believe Jim completely disabled MS Drive to ensure there were no cloud operations. It would be interesting to know what was needed. Other players will need to know that until the 1.03 official release is out.

Yep!

Yeah the PickPriority in SETUP_FACTIONS will list the faction on the Pick a Country screen when you begin a scenario, and the number determines how high up the list of country choices it will be. So "1" would be at the top of the list, for example. The number of digits also indicate whethe...

Fatimids in 1.01 get plain old Christians now, to represent their Coptic population, rather than Christian Heretics. So a lot less unrest generated!

Regarding the creation/addition or modification of ingame countries, what would be the check-list? Which files are to be tampered with? Factions.csv (in the Data folder) would be the place to go for adding a faction. Just put the faction in a new line, with its own unique 3-letter code, and all the...

I feel the Armenian region could use some work. Vanand is the only country with Armenian culture and they start off ruled by Christian Heretics. Even if this reflects some historical reality, having an official religion of heresy is terrible. Your people have an Unrest modifier of 8 and Waldensian,...