Quote Originally Posted by CavalryCmdr
I know making such a request is rather unorthodox right off the bat, but..
I am stuck with dial-up and was wondering if there is any way to get just the map (not the .rwm)and descr_strat. I've been reading your research since you first started it on Rome, and belive you have truly got a good thing going with it. I have anxiously been awaiting a copy of your map to be available to try with my AI mod.
Sure. PM me an email address and I'll zip the map files up with just the strat file. nb the map isn't as good as my previous one. I was after perfection on my previous attempt and when i couldn't get it I uninstalled everything and deleted the lot. This one is just an improvement over vanilla (in terms of path-finding) rather than a massive improvement. Also I went for work-arounds straightaway for some of the recalcitrant problems (like the Helsinki stall) and just moved towns etc to cure them rather than "fixed them".

So the increased movement is important, as for example, some regions where there is a pathing problem I just moved the towns so that they were within one turn's move once roads were built (providing a bit of randomness). So the problems are still there but they get over-ridden by the road-building. I'll leave the descr_character out as the only change I made was to increase move points to 120 but you should know that is part of the fixes.

Also with my strat the factions will all be in the red at start as I increased their start armies a lot but reduced unit costs. Doesn't seem to hurt the AI factions on "Hard" or above, except Portugal which is poorest to start with.