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[Caledonian Rhyfelwyr]

:hmmm:

I am thinking out loud about what the next steps in my modding career should be. Basically I have three options just now:

1. make a Nubia faction and maybe others as part of this mod
2. make a larger scale realism mod, i've dreamed of one covering Europe, to the Indus, to central Africa
3. play some M2TW, seems hypocritical editing the game when I've only completed 4 campaigns, all as Catholic factions (Scots, France, Venice, Sicily)

[Drtad]

Very nice work on those units, Caledonian.

Just a few small critiques:

Mali's ethnic group was the Mandinka, and they were enemies of the Ghanaians (the Soninke and subsequently the Sosso). So shouldn't the unit names be "Mandinka" instead of "Ghanaian"? Eventually after the Sosso's defeat at the hands of Sundiata, Koumbi Saleh became an allied and eventually vassal of Mali, so a few units could be named Ghanaian to represent the auxiliaries the Mandinka could recruit from Ghana.

[Son of Mao]

I think you should join some mod team that is missing people to create the proper team to complete the task they envisioned.

[Caledonian Rhyfelwyr]

I've chosen option 3, going to play some M2TW and propably try out some mods. I might start to mod this again once I get Empire:TW up and running...

So Sher Khan, is everything in good order except the models_strat stuff?

If you have all the files there could you prepare them for download with one of those batch files, I do not know how to do that...

[Caledonian Rhyfelwyr]

Quick update on how things are going. Basically, I've now played through vanilla M2TW as most teams, just a few left to go. Don't feel like so much of a hypocrit now.

Its fun playing the game, but I am really starting to get withdrawal symptoms from modding. I can't do anything without thinking about adding another team or unit or something like that.

So I may well return to add to this mod once I've had a shot at Kingdoms. Would anyone be interested in a African campaign set around perhaps 1050, with the Murabitin, Ghana, Mali's city states, and perhaps either north into Iberia or east to Egypt and the Zagwe Dynasty etc, for one of the Kingdoms campaigns?

[Nik100]

Reupload the file please. I want to play very much!

[Borislav]

Nice

[mondpeiler]

hey, just stumbled across this.
very nice idea!
I mean, the date is very old, but can anyone tell me, if this is somehow included in any "ready/released" mod?

[Caledonian Rhyfelwyr]

Ah, this brings back memories.

I am sad to say, that those files have long gone missing. The download links were down years ago, and all those files were on my old machine, and they were IIRC lost when it had some problems.

It's a shame but what can you do.

[MansaSakura]

Check the Regions and Provinces mod. Most of these files are in there.