The Tournament of Shadows - Asia-centric mod

[Sheogorath]

So, with release day approaching and my 1337 modding 5|<1llz no better than last week, I'm open to any modelers, coders, mappers or whoever else has some skill which may have some impact upon the mod.

All volunteers take one step forward.

[Subotan]

(I'm presuming that you'd have all the original factions from E:TW as well, sans the Americans)

China
Japan
Iran
Afghans (Not sure what they were called at this point)
Kazakhs/Uzbeks
Various Indian states
Burma?
Korea?
Georgia?

I also recommend that it start slightly earlier, as it would be a bit boring IMHO if you had an all-powerful Russia and Britain, with no room for the other factions.

[Sheogorath]

As I said, all factions of the area and era will be represented as historical, possibly with future factions acting as emergent factions.

However, the FOCUS will be on a few primary factions at first, in order to produce something playable.

A full faction list would probably include all of the major Khannates as separate factions, with minor ones either integrated or represented as a generic 'small khannates' faction, considering a proper map of Central Asia would look rather like a map of the German States. However, Khiva, Bhokara and Kokand will definitely be represented as the 'major powers' of the area (that being a very relative term).

As to the era, while France would start out weak (and possibly under occupation, if I recall rightly) it would certainly by no means be 'out of the game', and Prussia would have plenty to do. Austria was a bit tipsy at this point, of course, but could still sort of hold its own provided somebody helped them stamp out all their various internal revolts.

I believe the Ottomans more or less sank back into corruption after this, but the Turks did make a rather good comeback in the 1850's, and the ability to achieve that would certainly be within reach for a Turkish player via the technology system.

So while, at the start, Russia and the British would certainly be dominant (having rather nicely covered themselves in glory (amoung other things) in the Napoleonic wars), they were definitely not alone on the world stage. I still maintain the opinion that no single power of the era could take on another single power and achieve the total defeat of the other without itself suffering seriously from the effects of many decades of war.

Either way, that's the gist of it.

[Beskar]

Is it possible to simply add China, Japan and Australia (etc) to the current map?

[Sheogorath]

Is it possible to simply add China, Japan and Australia (etc) to the current map?

What I think would be done would be to extend the India map north and East, although, for performance purposes, it may need to be divided into a southern and northern portion.