Indians to the Alexander campaign

[The Blind King of Bohemia]

Well I was messing around and I achieved this, though it still needs a lot of work (Buildings, Egyptian portraits). Just thought people might want confirmation of this. I'll probably change the culture to eastern

[Barbarossa82]

Good work! If those campaign map figures were already in the game, then that strongly implies that India was intended to be present on the campaign map at some stage, and then dropped. I wonder why?

[Silver Rusher]

Hang on, weren't the Indians already included in the game?

[The Blind King of Bohemia]

Hang on, weren't the Indians already included in the game?

In custom battle and at Hydaspes but apart from that mate they didn't make the campaign

[Silver Rusher]

In custom battle and at Hydaspes but apart from that mate they didn't make the campaign

Well in that case, brilliant work BKB!

[Mooks]

Think they rushed the game? I cant think of a reason why they would but its possible.

[Kralizec]

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2. The state of a game at the time of release by Creative Assembly.



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[econ21]

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beta (plural: betas)
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2. The state of a game at the time of release by Creative Assembly.

That's a bit harsh. CA games are remarkably stable and polished, IMO. (Try playing some betas of mods and see what a real beta is - CTDs and all.) The fact that modders can add substantive content to TW games is a major positive feature of the game series, not a negative.

[Kralizec]

That's true, and to give CA credit, most of the bugs that players describe as "game crippling" in various versions of RTW didn't bother me that much actually, and overall I enjoyed playing RTW and its excellent mods.

However there's a difference between making a game moddable so that modders can make adjustments to suit personal preferences, and rushing out a game through the publisher so that it's up to modders to add features that SHOULD have been part of the original game.

I can't think of a single good reason not to put the Indians in the campaign. Can you? Because I'd be glad to hear it.
Hence my caricature of the game as a paid beta, rushed out so that it's up to modders to make the game as it should have been.

[econ21]

I can't think of a single good reason not to put the Indians in the campaign. Can you?

No, I can't and it is a big shame. It would have been a really good denouement to the campaign.

[Roy1991]

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beta (plural: betas)
1. The second letter in the Greek alphabet; β.
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You should be happy EA didn't make RTW.

[The Blind King of Bohemia]

I have now released this mod for those interested:

BKB Alexander Mini Mod Thread

[player1]

I think it was an AI issue.
They were unable to stop Persians from conquering them quickly.

[symball]

they should have given them more elephants :)

actually I think this is always going to be a problem until we get a worldwide map- there is always going to be a culture or empire that is under represented by the arbitary limits of the map you use- parthia anyone?