Okay, been thinking a bit over Christmas about this mod, and have worked a number of extra things out...
How about the implementation, for review panel images, of the building designs from Rome: Total War? It'll save me A LOT of work at the end of the day, and the building info scroll could have the info scroll pics from RTW, too (both a colour and more grey-scale or brown-scale or whatever version, like in MTW for the building info scrolls - the colour one would apply to when the building was completed, the more monochrome one just for the info pic where the writing is overlayed). Same for units (at least for the info pics). Also, what of the character portraits, is it possible to implement them somehow?
I'm going to allow six 'Cultures' (NOT to be confused with the building architecture usage of the same term), basically re-logoed and re-named Religions.
1) Catholicism > Roman
2) Orthodoxy > Hellenistic
3) Islam > Eastern
4) Judaism > Egyptian
5) Paganism > Barbarian
6) Heretical Cults > Carthaginian
Although agents will not spread Culture, they will reinforce Zeal for the Roman and Barbarian Cultures because of renamed Crusades and Jihads. Crusades now become Conquests, which can be called for by the Romans on the enemies of Rome (there are to be two Roman factions - SPQR and another one whose name is somewhat elusive - the Army of Rome or something, I dunno what will be the most appropriate). Hordes are accessible by the Barbarians, allowing them to unite against a common enemy and reclaim lost territory.
The map will be inspired somewhat by Macsen Rufus' map in his Alexander campaign for ATW - in that, instead of the original MTW map (or the DATW map, as kindly offered for lending by the DATW team), I want to opt for an actual map from an atlas, preferably of a similar time period. Or the same time period.
Now, would I be right in assuming I can't somehow attempt to implement the campaign map pieces (settlement pieces, not armies or agents) from RTW? And what about the faction symbols, somehow, from the various modifications (if I can get permission)? Might hopefully be a matter of getting the files from one game to the other and modifying them slightly so that they work in MTW's game engine...
And on the renaming of Piety to Ethnicity, and the re-wording of the descriptions of character stats, such as how 4 Command might be described? Is that possible?
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