You can now download 'Sikh.pack', with Sikh religious buildings, if you want to play Punjab!
The most annoying thing when playing as a minor faction is the Fog of War bug at the begining, which I am sure everyone has encountered. Well, now, thanks to erasmus777, you can play as a minor faction without the FOW bug! I never plan to expand this any further, but I just felt that this would be very useful to anyone who wants to play as a minor faction, and not have to get their hands dirty with any modding .
You now have two choices on what to download - with or without protectorates available. If you want the vanilla handover of 13 Colonies, Louisiana and New Spain to happen, choose Early Campaign No FOW Bug!.zip , if you want to play as 13 Colonies, Louisiana and New Spain, and the handover not to happen, choose Early Protectorates.zip. Or you could download both and swap at will.
Everyone thank erasmus777 for this!
This is mainly HusserlTW's work - he spent the time compiling the Line of Sight information for the factions, I have just made all the minor factions playable as well, added VCs and put it here. Most of the credit goes to him! Thank you HusserlTW!
Thanks to Cursisanafou, you can now play the grand campaign without the FOW bug! Thanks a lot for that as well, Cursisanafou. Also, thanks to Deadly Blowfish for the original late Grand Campaign startpos.
New 18\5\09
All factions now have victory conditions, and some of the small FOW issues have been fixed. Enjoy
New 20\5\09
Uploaded late campaign startposes with 2, 4, or 8 turns per year.
New 24\5\09
Have fixed fleets for pirates and portugal - if there are any other factions with fleets far away from their starting provinces that you can't see - tell me which factions so I can update this (I only know of Portugal and Pirates). Thanks!
New 21\6\09
You can now download 'Sikh.pack', with Sikh religious buildings, if you want to play Punjab.
New 24\6\09
Early Campaign can now compatible with 22\6 patch. Enjoy!
New 28\6\09
HusserlTW has kindly made a startpos compatible with 1.3. I have added VCs, and it is available for download NOW!
New 9\7\09
Early Campaign with protectorates playable now available. Diplomacy working 100% thanks to HusserlTW, and it is scripted so the handover won't happen.
Instalation
Just back up your startpos.esf, and extract this startpos.esf into your data\campaigns\main, and enjoy! For protectorates, extract the scripting.lua into the same folder as the startpos.
To install Sikh.pack, extract it to your data folder, and turn it on with the Mod Manager!
You can find your data folder here:
C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\empire total war\data
Some screenies:
Mughals:
Denmark:
Portugal:
Venice:
Late Campaign
The late campaign is now available. I thought that 50ish turns was slightly too short for a full blown campagin, so I have also uploaded version of the late grand campaign with 4 turns per year, and 8 turns per year, as well as the original 2 turns per year. The grand campaign starts much later than the normal grand campaign, and there are new factions to play as, and the map has changed completely, leading to a much different gaming experience!
HusserlTW has very kindly made a file with emergents playable. Download this link if you want to play it!
Originally Posted by
HusserlTW
Update for emergent: portraits in menu-factions, victory conditions, remove FOW cherokee and inuit.
Download link
Credits:
just for his esf editor and turns per year editor
koras321 for his addition to the esf editor which made this possible
erasmus777 for how to remove the FOW from minor factions
Lazy Knight for LOS info for factions
Cursisanafou for late GC startpos
Deadly Blowfish for the original late GC