As RTW was my first Total War Game, I played the prologue at the start to learn the basics. Afterwards, I played the Imperial campaign, but found that long campaigns were a bit to long for me. I've played several short campaigns, but like the long ones, they still get a bit stretched near the end- you know what I mean, with the huge stacks just duking it out randomly. You reel in 20k a turn easily, only to spend 23k on troops and buildings in all of your cities, and on army upkeep.
What I really like about the campaigns is the start, where everyone's on equal ground, theres a few rebel settlements in between you and the other nations. No one can just jump into the enemy and dominate half of their towns in 3 turns. This is what has drawn me to the tutorial- would it be possible to mod the tutorial so that the tutorial itself isn't there, only the game itself? Or is the entirety of it hard coded? I tried messing with the descr_strat and campaign script files, but I'm no modder and the game crashed as soon as I started.
The point of my rambling is this: does anyone have a mod that allows you to play the tutorial, a mod that makes the campaign much smaller, or if one does not exist and it isn't too hard to do, could someone instruct me in how to mod the files, or even make the mod?