MTW Viking Expansion Revisited - Help With Belated Mod?

[OldMan]

Sorry, Drone! Has been a while since I've been here! You asked me a question, who knows when, and I never got back to it!

My apologies.

Raz, I solved the problem by taking your advice and bumping up numbers. Vikings are now re-emerging with Viking troops.

Drone, for era restrictions, I bumped most of the Viking troops up to "Early, Late" and/or "All Periods".

[drone]

No worries, real life does happen. Welcome back.

[OldMan]

Thanks for the welcome! Just got away from MTW for a while. I'm like that. I kinda "cycle" through my games (all old games) and spend a couple months beating it (again) then going to the next.

Well, it seems that in fixing the Viking re-emergence, I messed up the Almohad re-emergence, and probably the Egyptian and Turkish, too. My Vikings are now coming fully equipped with Thralls and Housecarles. Some archers and stuff like that. They don't come back strong, like the other factions do, but I'm okay with that.

Now, since I modified things so that the Vikings came back strong, now the Almohads are coming back loaded with -- yep, you guessed it -- archers and urban militia! Sheesh!

I wish I understood the numbers. Since I don't, I'm just making educated guesses at what the numbers mean. (Been a few months, so I don't even remember how I did it, would have to review. I think some of the pointers are here in this thread).

Some label problems, too. The Irish Rui Ri wants to be referred to as the Irish King once in a while, and some faction introduces itself as the Bohemians in a marriage letter, when they are actually another faction (forget which). I'm not too bothered about those, though.

Building AI. Now, that is a problem. The Golden Horde can NOT develop the way the AI has it build it's buildings. It's building all the wrong things. On the other hand, they are a Barbarian Raider, and so are the Vikings, and both have different building requirements. Oh well, I guess the Horde won't be much of a challenge when you're playing against them, and the Vikings are a challenge only for a short time. (Most of the time. One game I played, the Vikings ran wild all over Eastern Europe. The Horde, I've never experienced them developing. They always get squashed, which if they aren't around on the year that the Horde emerges, then they emerge again. So, when I'm down in that area, I try to ally with them to keep that from happening).

Anywho, imperfect but fun to play. And thanks for your help and advice, Drone and Raz.

[OldMan]

Well, every time I think I'm about done, a new issue pops up. Whew.

I tried to play out a battle with the Mercians, whom I gave access to Chivalric Knights. Yep, CTD.

I also know with the Mercians, the banner shields are black. Maybe this has something to do with the issue. Dunno.

Also the issue may be the same as the issue where we had to go in and use Peasant0 etc.

I will try to fix the banner shields first, then go from there.

I am open to any suggestions.