Idea: Kingdoms Extended

[CtrlAltDe1337]

Let it be known that I am not a modder, but I've been thinking about this idea for a while now. What if someone made a mod that extended the maps, added more factions, more units, etc to Kingdoms while still keeping it close to how CA made it. The map extension is mainly what made me think of this.

It would be really cool to have the Americas campaign extend more into NA, allowing the addition of more indian tribes and European settlements. You could also take it further south and add the Portuguese expeditions.

Also, the Crusades campaign looks dreadfully bare; what about adding Georgia, Armenia, and the various small emirates, plus extend the map slightly more to the east and possibly west.

For the Teutonic campaign, you could add Sweden in.

I don't know how the Britannia (did I spell that right? ) campaign would work with extending the map into France, but at least more Irish factions and new units could be added.

maybe I'm just dreaming too much, but it seems like a good idea to me.

[Zapp]

For the Teutonic campaign, you could add Sweden in.

OH GOD YES.

And then we could expand the map a bit more north to add the Swedish crusades to Finland.

[zznɟ ǝɥʇ]

I agree fully with the American suggestion, NA is just too part, there were many thriving cultures. I'm sure someone is already planning something.

[IrAr]

I like your crusades idea. With such a small, focused map, high detail can be achieved!

[Kiki52]

I think the HRE and Denmark should also come to Americas too because that is what some did in real life. So you'd have Spain, France, England, HRE, and Denmark all fighting amongst themselves to gain new land and prospects and money.

[Hunter Makoy]

i think that was part of the idea behind kingdoms. when thinking of the modders, and alot of the mods being made and suggested, having these smaller focused maps makes alot of sense, not just from a game-maker standpoint, but also from a modding stand point.

i had been working for a while on making a mod to put in the saxons and recreate saxon england and the norman conquest. but y should i mess with the whole grand campaign map when my real only focus is england? now with the britannia map, i can make a much more focused change rather then having a mod with lots of change to england, and the rest being very untouched.

[Spurius]

Britannia/France expansion and the Crusades are easiest - can be taken from existing maps, so are essentially a no-brainer. Adding stuff to both the Americas and Scandinavia (esp Finland) would be more work and require original art.

Here's some ideas for a new cut of those maps:





France is a bit of a bummer like this, but take a bigger part and you get lots of nonsense too in the other edges - maybe rotating it a bit could help out.

[Shaun]

I definitely think that some more units for the Americas campaign would be nice, for the Europeans, that is.

However, why add France to the British campaign? I also do not see the point in turning the Crusades campaign into an "Eastern Europe and Middle East campaign" either. I like them being small and to the point, but only with more units ... and maybe some more factions for the Crusades campaign.

[Spurius]

France would be interesting for a hundred-years war type of thing, and the Brits held quite some territory there, anyways.

Same goes for the Crusaders, both Venice and Genua had big stakes in there, up to the Crimea. The Mongols even got to there, etc - and would make room for a few extra interesting factions in the East as well, IMHO.

[Shaun]

France would be interesting for a hundred-years war type of thing, and the Brits held quite some territory there, anyways.

No, you mean the English.

[Stepjan from Serbia]

I'd love to see a Kingdoms-style campaign with the Balkans, I think a lot of good work could be done on that. My username kinda gives away my bias, but whatever, I just want to play as my country

[IrAr]

For the British mod, just have Normandy as the only French regions.

[Spurius]

Ew, pardonne my French.