MTW-Redux Beta Released!

[Axalon]

**** Wes! That was a fast response!

It makes me happy to se some traffic around here once again. With people such as yourself, happy writer Faenaris, former lurker Faremisch and silly ‘ol reduxy me perhaps we *just* might get things a bit more active around here.

Your approval and enthusiasm for reduxed Iberia certainly is clear to me. What was the name you had in mind? Just curious here - was it Almeria? I could probably live with that name you know. I was going to go for “Cartagena castle” but I could live with “Alcazaba castle” and Almeria - if that makes the scholars happy….

As for the other stuff on the map (considering the unfriendly parameters I have to work with); killing Libya is out of the question – sorry but there you have it. It is not that you don’t raise some interesting points (as usual) it’s just that it would so seriously disrupt the entire region and foul up things big time for the Moors as well. Arabia stays as a possible and functional safe ground and last retreat point for the Saracens – since that place hardly ever get hit by a crusade or a major invasion (not by the AI anyhow).

If anything I would prefer to somehow find a good way of cutting Cyrenaica/Libya in half - I probably would do it if I got the chance – but that unfortunately requires an additional sea-region as well to work properly. And, in order get things working in the game it must be a former island to take that place which also is not connected to any other land-region - or the ships and ports won’t work as supposed to – it is all hardcoded in plain MTW you know. Now the only candidates I can think of – that are still available and possible are Crete and Malta and I am reluctant to remove either of them. If anyone of them must go it probably would be Malta. But I feel that Malta has a bit of a strategic value for the game – especially so for the player. So it essentially is a no go….

I would also consider cutting the Sahara in half as in Mauritania (west. coast) and Sahara (east, inland) but that requires me to remove yet another province and I can’t think of any good candidates for it so far – by all means I am willing to listen to further suggestions here on that note. I have already moved around and redrawn stuff in the russian region you know in order to create Couronia/Courland. And cutting Volhynia in two is also a thing I would have prefered to do as well – but as stated before; I am working with MTW and not VI….

Well Wes, what do you think about all this?

- Cheers