While this was historically more of an issue for the Western Roman Empire it might hit both roman states equally in this game. But the Eastern Roman Empire might be the country most threatened in the scenario. Alone due to the fact that they share a big border in the east to the 3rd big player of the scenario: sandwiched by the Sassanids!
So, there arent so many nations as in the original campaign but i think this can be a very interesting scenario for all nations to play.
Status of the scenario: I started modding this scenario a few days ago and some things are already done but even some more( a lot of ) things need to be modded in.
It's so much i feel from time to time overthrown and any help by 1 or 2 co-modders would be very apreciated! If you are interested feel free to contact me or write a message here
.This is in yet:
Map.Countries: WRE, ERE, Sassanids( some provinces missing ), Alamans, Francii, Burgundians
Via Appia: yet only northern europe(Italy, France, Spain, Germany). In game this is represented by paved roads in the regions along the historically routes of Via Appia.
Region.Rome: Thats the only region i modded building-wise so far, just for fun now. It got some historical buildings(Colosseum and Circus) and some other stuff i found on city-maps of ancient rome like thermae etc.
Heres the map so far:
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Ok, this is what i plan to do:
* Full via appia
* Balanced countries in a historical manner: Filling the regions with buildings. As you can see on the screenshot, the WRE has alot of -income, it would be unplayable at this time. This is cause every province is empty now except the region rome but there are ppl living in the regions. So every region need to be ajusted with buildings to represent a financial and cultural situation the romans had historically. At the end, as im talking about Western Roman Empire, it shouldnt have a money surplus like carthage but on the other side it shouldnt go bankrupt within 2 turns. The same goes for decadence. I need to put as much cultural buildings into the provinces to get an acceptable ratio to decadence, relativly to history and gaming ability.
* A few additional historical Buildings: Something like the Hagia Sophia would be cool, or anything else. Interesting field for research!
* Integration of border fortification for the WRE(Limes, Border-Legions) and that wall in scottland
* A few new units: yea some new units would be cool, but i cant handle images or grafics in any way! So i need to take what is there. Though i would love some axe warriours for the Iutes or Angles
. * New Countries: as most countries needed are already in game( thanks alot for that), there are a few not, as for example germanic tribes as the Quadi or the Vandals. I hope i can just create "new" countries by adding a new tag OR if that doesnt work i will just use an existing tag and retranslate stuff.
* Text: Description for every countries, for the new buildings..
* Ruler names for that timeframe
* Leader names for that timeframe
* Introductionary Events, say hello to the player
* Other events, but not too much as this would excess the size of the work for this scenario
* i dream of special gaming rules for some countries as they exist in the standard campaign for the diadochi for example. Especially rules for both roman states. But i havent looked into the system for now how to establish such rules, hope it isnt that hard to do so.
* Objectives for all countries: Early, middle and later objectives can be added
* Creating countries that arent active yet and got the potential to rebel like Syragius in gallia.
* economy: i want goods to be produced as historical as possible. got several economic maps here out of that time and want to integrate that in game. As much as possible gameplay wise
.* historically raids and rebellions: you can define in the files when a country starts raiding/rebelling/attacking( at least i understand those lines yet) in early/middle/late times. You could define when the francs are more likely to attack rome for example. I could orientate on historical dates but a history-strong player might have an easy game then as he predicts the attacks then. Lets see...
Well thats it for now. Again, if anyone is interested to join up, that would be great and for sure a lot of fun! As i had lota fun until now modding it to the state it is.
! I don’t know much about modding and I’m busy right now, but maybe that in the future I’ll be able to give some help, once I’ll have mastered the basic modding tools
