Can't get the idea of this mod off my mind...

[caravel]

To split Sicily you'd need to use a magnified sub map, otherwise it'll get too tight and crowded. You need to be able to fit several army stacks, several agents, titles and the fortress into the available space. The Pocket Mod map has a problem with Tripoli being too small. To fix this I would probably have to either increase it's size or use a modified maptex.tga with a sub map - which I'd rather avoid.

[sharpshooter]

Interesting to follow this thread ... thanks for the time on it people. Good luck with the mod Kaidonni - I think you should do it.

@ All

Are Jihads moddable, or strictly attached to the Muslims? I didn't see an answer to that ... and are they attached to the REL_MUSLIM, or MUSLIM_CULTURE ... or even to the FN_ ?

What I'm wondering is - could you, for example, have a faction with one type of religion and but another type of culture to work around this and still get a Barbarian horde, as Kaidonnis wants?

@ Caravel

Currently a pious general is the best choice of governor for a pious province.

Do you mean a province with high Zeal?

@ YLS

always thought it was funny to have a pious heretic for some reason,

Most famous heretics were pious - they weren't atheists. For example, Jan Hus and John Wycliffe came across as much more pious than the cynical church hierarchy whose practices they were opposing.

The word comes from the Greek, meaning "able to choose" - in other words, a free thinker. Heretics mainly rejected church doctrines and chose their own interpretations - as in the case of Hus, who refused to recant, even at the stake when offered freedom for doing so, unless he could be shown to be wrong according to the scriptures.

Just thought that might set your misgivings to rest.

[caravel]

@ Caravel

Currently a pious general is the best choice of governor for a pious province.

Do you mean a province with high Zeal?

A high piety province. A general is a better governor of a province with piety that most closely matches his own. Try placing a high piety muslim general as governor of a province that is over 50% catholic and watch the provincial happiness drop.

[ULC]

Originally posted by Sharpshooter
Most famous heretics were pious - they weren't atheists. For example, Jan Hus and John Wycliffe came across as much more pious than the cynical church hierarchy whose practices they were opposing.

The word comes from the Greek, meaning "able to choose" - in other words, a free thinker. Heretics mainly rejected church doctrines and chose their own interpretations - as in the case of Hus, who refused to recant, even at the stake when offered freedom for doing so, unless he could be shown to be wrong according to the scriptures.

Just thought that might set your misgivings to rest.

Hmm, thanks for the info on the origins of the word heretic. I currently own several books on history (one exciting one which starts around 3200 b.c. and ends with the fall of the Western Empire). I understand that heretics tended to be rather pious, what I was humoured by was the fact that CA used a burning book to represent the heretics, which seems strange. Book-burning Heretics? I thought that was the Catholic churchs' domain ?

.... , back on topic!

[dimitrios the samian]

Hi Kaidonni ,, I would also like to see your Mod come to fruition !! Just wondering if you ever downloaded or played a Mod similiar to what your proposing ,, Im fairly certain it was called "Patrician Rise of Rome" ,, Pm me if you would like a copy as I don't think it is available for download anywhere .. cheers .

[Tony Furze]

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/...d_6093031.html

For Medieval Total War only, not Viking Invasion

[ULC]

Nonetheless, he could glean something from it. Patrician was well done, especially within the limitations o the vanilla MTW engine.

A suggestion to your roster would be to add more Celtic/Germanic/Iberian factions. These were VERY fractituos people, and can't really be represented by single unified factions. As a suggestion, split the "Gauls" into the Aedui and Averni, split the "Germans" into the sweboz and the Teutons and/or Cimbri. Also, add the Getai for balance in the east. Sorry if it sounds like I'm making your game a EB clone, but I don't want such a good idea to end up like RTW either...