MESOAMERICAN TOTAL WAR

I've been thinking about starting this project for a long time. I've decided I have enough resources and means to make this mod now. But what is it going to be about?

The basic concept is that there are going to be native american factions only. No conquistadors. Time period is going to be like medieval times in Europe so IV-XV centuries. But don't worry it's not going to be a one big campaign. There will be probably three campaigns set in different times and with some different factions too. For example in early campaign there will for sure not be the Incas who appeared much later, and so on.

As for the senate and the tripple alliance thing I'm not yet sure but have made some initial arrangements.

Factions:

Tenotihuacan
Aztec
Tarascan
Toltec
Tlaxcalan
Mixtec
Zapotec
Copan
Tikal
Chichen Itza
Caracol
Calakmul
Mayapan
Inca
Chan Chan
Collas
Chanca
Huanca
Chachapoyan

This list will probably be updated and rearranged later, it's just a temporal arrangement. Tenotihuacan faction represents the Great Temple of Quetzatlcoatl in that city, an influential political center for medieval Central America.

Units:

I'm researching the units and for now I have a pretty good general view on Mesoamerican warfare. For more important conclusions I've made for now is that there are not going to be any ships in this mod. There will only be land warfare. This is because Mesoamerican cultures didn't develop fleets and ships for military usage, nor even for trade purposes (at least not on a noticable scale).

Tipes of units to appear in this mod are mostly: slingers, macemen, javelinmen, swordsmen, spearmen, axemen, archers, dartmen, bolla throwers, all of various types, plus a number of special units like priests (will remake druids) and animals and supernatural beings too. I think supernatural creatures will give the mod a very much Mesoamerican feel as for example Kings of the mighty Classic period city of Tikal in the southern lowlands carried the title Ch'ul Way Ahaw, Holy Transformer Lord, surely exalting their ability to become Otherworldly beings in times of necessity such as combat.

Buildings:

There will be all kinda new buildings: from Sacred Huacas to Great Quetzatlcoatl Temple to Cori Cancha and so on. RTW walls and cities will only need a texture change to look Mesoarmerican, at leat for the time being.

Other things:

I'm planning to use the Senate missions extensively and to adjust them to Mesoamerican reality. The Xochiyaoyotl (The Wars of Flowers) will replace Senate's conquest missions. The granted exotic units will be the superlatural units, very rare and very powerfull (compensating the fact there will be no real cavalry in Mesoamerican TW).

This post will be updated later, a lot.

Regards
EC