for the last couple of months or so, i have been attempting to create a mod which will bring the battles to the americas just after its discovery, and it will have the spanish and portuguese (and possibly the english, french and dutch following at some point) to the new world and into direct conflict with some of the better known native names of the time (though that is all loosely relevant, rather than acurately depicted) as in caribs, arawaks, incas, aztec, chibchas, tupi-guaranies.... and so on, even maybe get the people from the easter island (rapa nui), which i understand to be some form of polynesian culture. The map is finished, but untested, some shields done, currently doing research on the names file (hard, hard work) and the startpost file is half way, although i have ideas for units which may include a form of the famous argentinian gauchos (stone slingers on horse) and some variants of the ones used on MTW, maybe some archers that can be specialized for jungle use, and of course poison darts blowers (though, i doubt i can master the graphics enough to achieve that)... but what i thougth should top the cake was to be able to 1st: show castles for the westeners on the strategic map and aztec style pyramids for all the indian nations (so far i have not had much joy at it, the game only allow the use of one type of castle line in the build_prod) and 2nd: to replace the castles in the battlemap for building resembling those found in inca, maya and aztec city ruins + maybe a few head-stone figures as seen at easter island, nazca drawings on the battle region of nazca, trees more appropiate for jungle scenery and so on... just ideas, which im not sure if could be brought into reality but still lot of fun to work on....