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Tozama
07-08-2004, 14:29
I will soon start trying the full-fledged mods but recently after reading some posts at the Guild here I did alter the game text file (at work, cannot recall the name of it now) to make some AI factions play differently.
I took some of the ones that were not expansionist and made them expansionist.
This simple change to 2 or 3 factions totally changed what was becoming the same old same old of the campaign game.
The Spanish did not control all of Iberia and North Africa.
The Italians (set to aggressive) were very aggressive and conquered a good part of western Europe by mid-game.
The Turks and Byz also were in much different patterns than the usual game.
Its been a lot of fun mainly because its been so different than my past campaigns.
I recommend anyone getting bored with MTW try this or the mods to add new flavor to the game.

nizar
07-08-2004, 15:12
Currently I'm playing medmod_Iv 3.14, love it

Can't wait for the next version and rtw of cause

Spartiate
07-08-2004, 20:45
I like to make the Aragonese more aggressive and to give them a starting capital of 50,000 Florins.Then i give them a Castle11 and a shipyard with several ships.I give Aragon spices,silk and gems as resources.Then i leave them the hell alone and sit back and watch...............preferable from the far side of the map. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/cool.gif

z|co
07-09-2004, 18:16
I did the same thing awhile back. I was amking the people of novgorod playable, and the faction mindset thing. I put everyone on expanionist if they weren't already. All catholics where made expanionist crusaders, well just the ones who could actually crusade. Nevertheless it was an enjoyable change.

Each time i played it i got different results. Italy took constantinople, Greece, Naples, Sicily, and surrounding provinces quite quickly. While in another game they went west and north, reaching as far as Anjou, also quite early.

As playing as tyhe novs in early you'd expect it would be quite easy to take the rest of the russian provinces, but when everyone is so aggressive, it was really quite hard to stop myself being overwhelmed by Polish and Byzantine forces. Thank God for those Boyars, they take care of those pesky high valor Kat princes.