CAMPAIGN MAP
The game world will span from Constantinople and Egypt all the way east to Afghanistan and Northern India.
FACTIONS
[Muslim]
- The Ayyubid Sultanate:
Your first faction leader will be Saladin, historically representing Egypt after he seized it.
- The Abbasid Caliphate:
Represents the Caliphate under An-Nasir, the first and last strong and independent Caliph that overthrew the Seljuks
- The Great Seljuks:
Represents the nomadic turkish empire that took over the mid-east but will be very large and unweildy at first (like the Seleucids from RTR)
- The Turkish Sultanate
They are the Turks of Anatolia, from the Rum Turks all the way down to the Ottomans, I expect them to be a clone of current vanilla Turks.
- The Khwarezm Shah
They are the ascendant Persian kingdom starting in northern Iran. They will be a very important faction and the centerpiece of the this mod.
- The Sultanate of Ghazni
They are basically the Afghan/Turkish faction that was based in the valleys of Afghanistan.
- The Ghorid Sultante
They are the Afghan faction that will begin north of Ghazni and whose main objective is the invasion of India.
- The Kypchak Confederacy
They are the Muslim faction of the far north. They will basically be a hybrid of mongols and turks and have mainly cavalry units.
[Christian]
- The Byzantine Empire
Basically a clone of the vanilla one
- The Kingdom of Jersalem
Represents the latin crusaders kingdom that will start completely surrounded by Egypt under Saladin.
- The Kingdom of Armenia
Basically Cilician Armenia, will start with Adana.
- The Kingdom of Georgia
They will start at the Caucusus with Tbilisi, freshly independent from Seljuk rule.
[Emergent]
- The Mongol Empire
The same as the vanilla except worse. They will spawn north of Samarkand and will come in more than 6 stacks. They will be very very tough and will be worst for the Khwarezm. This will be softened by the fact that the faction has plenty of lands in India, south Persia, and the Caucusus to fall back on.
- The Timurids
The same as thye vanilla except not as bad. They will spawn in the middle of Persia and will have 2 or 3 stacks at most. But will have a super duper general named - you guessed it - Timur the Lame.
[Hindu]
- The Rajput States
They will start south of the Sultanate of Delhi and will be a formidable faction to that will seek to retake India from the invading Muslims. Will have their own Hindu priests too.