playing medmod for the first time

[Noir]

I like the homelands a lot - although i would make them even more limited than what they currently are(no almohads in castille aragon and leon, no spanish in Cordoba, Serbs in Serbia and Croatia only, Bulgars in Bulgaria only - no celts in Elnglish provinces other than Northumbria); i also like the "styles" of the rosters (french feel finally french - Italians the same etc); subtracting the hybrid units is probably a good thing for the single player game - the Ai is good at match ups so it helps a lot in the battlefield. The starting positions are heaven and they are historically accurate too (so glad to see Constantinople with all the religious buildings in place as it should be!! - Rome with a cathedral etc).

The new provinces are great.

I might get the GA file (region owner table) calibrated for the early campaign and see how the game copes with that.

One thing from XL that could serve well here are the increased farming outputs relative to trade; however the Ai seems to be doing relatively ok.

Perhaps a fair decrease in build times for the castle line of buildings (and possibly a minor one for the military buildings too but of a minor order) to create a more dynamic game and make up for pillaging.