WarMap v1.0: Released

[IceTorque]

Sun Tzui, G'day m8.
I just checked the imperial german bodyguards, they appear with the same unit card as a family member, but says general when you hold the cursor over it. I only tested for a couple of turns recruiting from Rome. Siege equipment is only available when sieging and is not recruitable from the siege_engineer building. For the same reasons many online games request no art. This can be easily changed by removing the ':' in export_descr_buildings txt.

e.g. change this
;recruit "sassanid heavy onager" 1 requires factions { eastern, }

to this
recruit "sassanid heavy onager" 1 requires factions { eastern, }

-IceTorque

[Troy Lawton]

Ice Torque

Fantastic mod I'm really enjoying it and I know this is going to sound stupid but in the latest relaeas for BI I don't have any resources on the map or pretty little icons in the trade screen. Is it my install or the mod itself

Cheers
Troy

[IceTorque]

G'day Troy, I'm glad you like it. The trade icons are not present on the BI-WarMap II, because of the need to somehow limit the amount of armies/battles. BI's horde feature does not suit the strict homeland ZOR used on the original WarMap, hence the need to remove the income bonuses received from the icons. So now a faction needs at least two regions to support one stack, unless your playing on VH campaign difficulty where the AI gets a bonus. This is also why all units take two turns to recruit.

Even with the above settings, I found that on both versions, the number of battles was close to being almost too many. Which brings me to WarMap III, which is a scaled up version of BI-WarMap II running on the RTW exe. ( scaled up from 1021x675 to 1021x721 ) This is basically the same gameplay/units as WarMap I but with only 112 regions, 2 turn recruitment, no homeland ZOR and no resource icons.
( WarMap I has 165 regions ) Also game start is as per vanilla, low level settlements and many rebel provinces.

I am play testing it now, and I think the balance between battles and game progression is much more enjoyable. I prefer one decisive battle to ten non-decisive battles. For those that may be interested, WarMap III will be available for download in less than one week.

-IceTorque

[Troy Lawton]

Thanks for the quick reply IceTorque. I certainly will be downloading the new version. Love the big map!

Cheers
Troy

[oakleaf]

hi i downloaded the 1.6 version of your mod. i just dragged and dropped the data folder, like it said. but how do i actually play this?

when i click single player, then main campaign it's just the straight old BI. how do i choose your mod?

[IceTorque]

oakleaf, you need to select the provincial campaign.

[Troy Lawton]

Ice Torque

Fantastic mod I'm really enjoying it and I know this is going to sound stupid but in the latest relaeas for BI I don't have any resources on the map or pretty little icons in the trade screen. Is it my install or the mod itself

Cheers
Troy