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The Blind King of Bohemia

06-27-2006, 16:24

Here is a small mod for Alexander which I made. Its nothing special, so don't expect something like RTR or EB. Here's the features:

* India and the Hellenic League have been added to the campaign, and you can now play as Persia and the Barbarian factions.
* Reworked campaign - a lot harder and more hectic now I feel.
* India have new names and the traces of Egypt have been removed (no more Pharoahs mentioned in the descriptions, and I used Hindu gods for the shrines).
* 9 new provinces added, including ones to the Balkans, Arabia, Africa and India.
* Units brought over from the original Rome game.
* Slight changes to the strategy map, including new character pieces and different colours for the Barbarian factions.
* All factions now available for custom battles.
* Campaign longer and death of Alexander doesn't end it.

Yeah that's about it, as I said nothing great but it took some time to put together so I hope you enjoy it. And don't expect full balancing - for instance its really easy for Persia for obvious reasons but their economy is surely impossible to stabilize and make the game fair at the same time.

As I said simple is the key. Its stable (as far as I'm aware) and its fun, and that's the important thing. I don't care if a certain city is not where it should be, or if the name is wrong, but I think its mostly accurate anyway where possible. And if I'm wrong about the Hindu names and Gods, I'm really sorry if I offend anyone I just kind of got them off the Internet in order to make the faction seem a little bit more unique. As you can imagine I'm not an expert on the subject.

Known issues which may be corrected in the future:

* No new descriptions and victory conditions pics for added factions - all just use Macedon's for the time being. If someone could do these that would be great.
* India have Persian portraits
* India still called India, meant to change name, possibly to Punjab, will fix.
* India can build Catapult Range and beyond; will also fix.
* India possibly can train peasants - if true please don't, you're not meant to.

I think that's all, but left me know if there are any other major problems you encounter. Anyone here's the link. I know its not great but please bear with it as I'm trying to get it uploaded somewhere faster so if you could make do with this for the time being it should be a lot quicker later:

BKB Alexander Mini Mod Link (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=M1L3E7S1)

Again I hope you enjoy it. Install it into your 'Alexander' folder. You may well need to delete the 'map.rwm' file first. Thanks.

Silver Rusher

06-27-2006, 16:34

Yippee! Thank you very much BKB.

Byzantine Emperor

06-27-2006, 16:56

I was doing something similar to this but you beat me to it...

Good though, downloading now.

The Blind King of Bohemia

07-05-2006, 17:11

You can now get a small patch for this mod which corrects/adds the following things:

* India can't build catapult range and anything higher now so they always keep archer units.
* Province of India renamed
* Peasants now can no longer be trained
* All mines now generate revenue
* India are now able to build Circus Maximus, and hence Elephants.
* Barbarian units have proper upkeeps
* Illyrian Warrior tga included for those having problems with it.
* Hephaeiston added for Macedon with new trait added (ahem)

Here it is, its only small but corrects most of the faults mentioned:

BKB Alexander Mini Mod Version 1.1 Patch Download Link (http://www.totalwar.org/Downloads/Mtw_Uploads/MTWbeta/BKB_Alexander_Mini_Mod_Patch_version_1.1.zip)

It requires a manual install but I've laid the folders out in the order the files should go in so you shouldn't find it too difficult.

Fate

04-03-2007, 16:49

Is this mod in it's own folder, or do i have to edit my files to install it?

If its the second, thats really inconvenient as im using the original download version, no the disc one.

the greek

04-08-2007, 15:27

The link isnt working can somebody fix it soon cos this mod looks asome:2thumbsup: :laugh4:

the greek

04-08-2007, 15:34

no wait its working sorry im new here~:cheers:

P.S your mod sounds great

Thracian_hero

05-19-2007, 18:00

I installed this mod , but the campaigns don't start , even when I want to play with Macedonia . I can't play my saved games too .:help:

Caius

05-19-2007, 19:27

I installed this mod , but the campaigns don't start , even when I want to play with Macedonia . I can't play my saved games too .:help:
Do you have Alex?

Thracian_hero

05-19-2007, 19:47

I installed the mod , but i can't play any campaign now . I can't load my saves too .:help:

Caius

05-19-2007, 19:51

Use -show_err at the end of the RTW shortcut:

"C:/Program Files...RomeTW.exe" -show_err

Run the mod.It wont work, but this have to show you an error when you exit.Tell us the error.

Thracian_hero

05-19-2007, 19:55

I've played the expansion before , but since I installed the mod I can't start any campaign .:help:

Caius

05-19-2007, 19:57

You may well need to delete the 'map.rwm' file first. Thanks.
Had you made this?

Geoffrey S

05-19-2007, 20:02

It's generated by Rome when a campaign is started and contains info necessary for that game; changes mean it may reference wrong things, thus it needs to be deleted so a new one is generated.

Thracian_hero

05-19-2007, 20:08

Use -show_err at the end of the RTW shortcut:

"C:/Program Files...RomeTW.exe" -show_err

Run the mod.It wont work, but this have to show you an error when you exit.Tell us the error.
I'm sorry but I didn't understand you . English is not my first language . I didn't see a message showing me error .

Omanes Alexandrapolites

05-19-2007, 20:25

Hi Thracian_hero,
The esteemed Caius Flaminius' suggestion, is that you place "-show_err" on the end of your shortcut to Alexander.

To do this simply right-click on your shortcut and add to the "Target" path - " -show_err". I'm sorry I can't be more specific about this, but I'm sorry to say that I'm not familiar with Alexander, my sincere appologies. After that, report the error message given within this thread and one of the brilliant modding people may be able to resolve your horrible problem.

Hope this helps, cheers!

Thracian_hero

05-19-2007, 20:31

I deleted all "map.rwm" files , connected with Alexander but nothing happens .I saw "cliffs_debug.tga" and "corrected_regions.tga" files in the RTW folder . Where shall I put them ?

Thracian_hero

05-19-2007, 20:40

Omanes Alexandrapolites

05-19-2007, 20:47

I recieve a message that this path is not validSorry, I should have mentioned this. Apologies. The new path has to be typed without the grammatical marks I placed in, and will also have to be outside the " marks of the existing file path for it to operate correctly, sorry for not saying this before.

Thracian_hero

05-19-2007, 20:55

Like this : "C:\Program Files\Activision\Rome - Total War\RomeTW-ALX.exe"-show_err ? .

Thracian_hero

05-19-2007, 21:06

Thank you all . Maybe I don't have to worry you anymore with my problems . And maybe I have to do something useful instead of playing stupid computer games that don't have almost anything common with real history !

Caius

05-19-2007, 22:20

Thracian_hero

05-20-2007, 08:11

I installed this mod because I don't have working cracks for RTW and BI and RTW Alex was crashing to Desktop everytime I wanted to play battle . And when you can't play battles you lose 90% of the pleasure . It was very boring for me and the campaign map is very incorrect . Can you give me links for cracks for RTW and BI please ?

Thracian_hero

05-20-2007, 12:48

:oops: I didn't read the Forum Rules

Caius

05-20-2007, 16:37

:oops: I didn't read the Forum Rules
Be carefull Thracian_Hero, broking the rules can get you banned here.