Kingdom of Ireland Mini-Mod

**Rhyfelwyr** · 02-12-2007, 00:40

As a Scot who loves playing as, well, the Scots, I've always thought the British Isles need some spicing up, its too easy to roll over those wimpy English hiding behind their sharpened stakes! I've also noticed a lot of interest in a mod to add Ireland as a faction to the game, and so I thought I would have a go at it. This mod is no MA or MTR, it is a basic mini-mod, which will follow historical accuracy and gameplay along the same route as CA took for the rest of the factions. For this mod I aim to make the following changes:

Add Ireland as a faction in place of the Saxons
Provide a realistic family tree for the start game
Unique names for Generals, Princesses etc.
A unit list for the Irish containing a few unique units
Split Ireland into three provinces
Provide appropriate banners, icons, etc for the Irish

Faction Info:

The faction icon for Ireland will be a golden harp set on a green background. I have yet to research the family tree for 1080, I guess it will be pretty crazy with all the powerful families that lived there. Help with a list of names for Generals etc would be appreciated. I plan to split Ireland into the provinces of Armagh Region (in the north), Casiel Region (in the south), and Dublin region (a small region in the east). As the Irish faction, you will begin in control of only Armagh and Casiel. As for the unit list, I was thinking along the lines of:

Gaelic Rabble (reskinned Highland Rabble)
Gaelic Warband (reskinned Highlanders)
Gaelic Nobles (reskinned Galloglaich)
Gael Gaedhil (reskinned Viking Raiders)
Sergeant Spearmen
Armoured Sergeants
Dismounted Norman Knights

Kerns
Peasant Archers
Gaelic Noble Archers (reskinned Highland Noble Archers)
Bonnachts

Hobilars
Mailed Knights
Norman Knights

My modding skills include text editing and skinning and making faction icons etc through Photoshop. Still, any help would be appreciated.

**Zanderpants** · 02-15-2007, 09:16

You should try to get in touch with Ranika for the historical info, he's the go-to guy for this culture. I believe he's stretched pretty thin, but good luck, sounds like a great mini-mod!

**commando** · 02-15-2007, 13:38

thank you

**Bobolini** · 02-15-2007, 20:48

Some Kings to start with:
Muirchertach O'Brien
Turlough O'Connor
Rory O'Connor
Tiernan O'Rourke
Muirchertach MacLoclainn
Dermot MacMurrough

**Bobolini** · 02-15-2007, 21:24

These are Welsh who were expelled to Ireland and later returned to Wales to claim victories
Rhys ap Tewdwr
(son) Gruffydd Tewdwr
Cadwgan ap Bleddyn
(son) Owain Bleddyn

**Lord Condormanius** · 02-16-2007, 00:07

This is what I have come up with so far. I have an extensive names list and what not. I added, what I think to be, appropraite units and took away the others(huscarls, theigns, etc.)

what I can't seem to do

-change the faction's 'accent'
-change the banners
-change the color of the army, agent units on campaign map
-there are probably a few other things that I am missing

any help would be great...

And feel free to ask for any of my stuff that you might need...

-LC

**Abokasee** · 02-20-2007, 19:43

Originally Posted by Zanderpants

You should try to get in touch with Ranika for the historical info, he's the go-to guy for this culture. I believe he's stretched pretty thin, but good luck, sounds like a great mini-mod!

Should of told him to lay off the guiness instead of the taquial...

Wales, as a faction, well its possible, but its going to be extremely fiddly have 3 small factions on one island, let alone enougher 2 only a short boat ride away

**der Kaiser** · 02-21-2007, 01:24

Well, fiddly it may be, it would certainly be cool. Historically speaking, during the Norman Invasion, Wales was divided into 5 regions, you would have to lower that down and maybe fiddle with the map a bit. The regions were: Gwynedd, Powys, Deheubarth, Gwent and Morgannwg. It was ruled mainly by Bleddyn ap Cynfyn, who was King of Gwynedd and Powys during 1066.

The armies were a lot of Skirmishers, that fought mainly in Raids and ambushes, when they abandoned that, they lost most of their battles.

**der Kaiser** · 02-20-2007, 10:26

So, how is this going? It looks really great so far. Keep up the good work!

You know, maybe you could make other rebel factions into real factions, make the game a lot more realistic, I would think. You know, like the Swiss and whatever.

**der Kaiser** · 02-20-2007, 10:42

Oh yeah, I just remembered something. Wales, that'd be very cool to have as a playable faction. If you think that making more of the rebel provinces is a good idea, I can help out with names and history and whatnot.

**Lord Condormanius** · 02-23-2007, 19:21

I was fooling around a little bit and came up with some (very raw) stuff. Units screenshots posted here https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...39607#poststop The unit names are just temporary placeholders for now and can be changed at any time.