Although there are mod projects with ideas for muskets such as NTW etc I think there is still room for an alternative to this, namely based around the Russian Revolution. The mod could be aimed at MP and custom battles etc, but I have several ideas that could if implemented make a very unique mod.
The main arguments for the SP would be:
1. religion is political movements and have a much stronger role in the mod since there would be far fewer than 30 factions...and therefore much fewer factions per 'religion'. Obviously religious buildings and characters could be 'propaganda officers' etc
2. time, the era of the Russian revolution was played out over a twenty year time span at the most... therefore we are looking at making the most of seasons etc.
3. campaign map. The map would be more or less the former USSR and some borderlands too, what we could look at is some kind of groundbreaking way of modding railways, perhaps somekind of alternative 'road' that allows a much greater speed of movement for armies once placed on there.
4. cities and battle maps. medieval cities are not really fair representations of post-feudal Russia, so separate hand-made custom maps could be made for the mod so that a style of snow drenched inner city fighting could be made a real feature of the game. I think some of the flavour of Stalingrad could be very nice here.
-Some interesting points might be the music for instance, I already have lots of grammaphone recordings from the revolution era and the wars which would sound very effective when accompanying the red army marching across the steppe!
There now follows several miscellaneous posts to get your imaginations going...
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