The Tournament of Shadows - Asia-centric mod

[Sheogorath]

By the point of the mod, I think India was already effectively British-dominated.

So, for the sake of expediency, it would probably be best to leave off making an EIC faction until the big boys were done.

Keep in mind, that list was simply the factions I think the primary focus should fall on, not a comprehensive list, which would be fairly long, I hope, since ETW will apparently lack a faction limit.

Minor factions would (hopefully) include such countries as Khiva, Kokand, and Bukhara in Central Asia, along with the Indian princely states not yet under total British control.

Hopefully it will be possible to give China some nice rebel emergent factions as well, especially the Taiping. How could we miss a chance to give a leader the title of 'Brother of Jesus'?

[Greyblades]

I quite like this idea and I cant wait to see the Lion and Bear trying to turn asia against the other. Allthough I have a question: how will you make it historically accurate if you end up having 1/2 of Britains revenue not actually being on the map?

[Sheogorath]

I quite like this idea and I cant wait to see the Lion and Bear trying to turn asia against the other. Allthough I have a question: how will you make it historically accurate if you end up having 1/2 of Britains revenue not actually being on the map?

I think an initial solution may simply be setting up one of those 'trade zone' things off in the west Atlantic to represent Canada and the Caribbean. We'll have to see how those work. Either way, whoever owns the trade zones could be said to 'own' the area.
Maybe, later on if there's sufficient interest, a North America theater can be added so that the massively historically important Canada/Russian Alaska border conflict can be properly represented

India will still be on the map, definitely, after all, that's what this whole thing is about.

[chairman]

If the map includes China and you try to represent the Taiping Rebellion, you should try to include France as well. I'm thinking specifically of the 1860 Anglo-French expedition and the French Indo-China (even though most of their expansion there didn't come until later).

Also, with China, it would be nearly a crime not to have the Opium Wars and the Sino-Russian conflicts in Manchuria, Mongolia and Central Asia.

Chairman

[Sheogorath]

Aye, as the default Europe map would still be there, I imagine all the European factions would remain as well.

However, initial focus would be on those factions I listed earlier, as they were the big players in the mods main theater. France would be a secondary concern.