Idea for mod about Renaissance Italy!

[attilavolciak07]

Wouldn't it be cool if we had a mod about Italy during renaissance times? I am just jotting things down and stuff, like the factions and units, but I have no coding, mapping etc. skills, unfortunately.
Here is a list of possible Italian and non-Italian factions and some units in the other posts.

Faction List: Italian
Venice
Milan
Genoa
Florence
Duchy of Ferrara
Papal States
Kingdom of Naples
Savoy
Republic of Siena
Rep. of Lucca
San Marino
Duchy of Modena
Rep. of Ragusa
Bishopric of Trent
Montferrant
Saluzzo

Faction: Non-Italian
Hungary
Holy Roman Empire
Ottoman Empire
Austria
France
Switzerland
Aragonese Empire (in control of Sicily and Sardinia)


Map

[IVIarkI2I]

Great Idea but this idea was here hope that this will be more active mod

[attilavolciak07]

I want to try to add all the different currencies the different states had like the Venetian lira and the Milanese scudo, I think I can do it.

[attilavolciak07]

This will be the 'Guard of the Council' unit for San Marino and a few others. It is lik the generals body guard.


Here is the Swiss Guard which will be available to the Swiss and as mercenaries to the other factions.

[attilavolciak07]

Okay, I have come up with an official group of factions. (I can add more if you want to suggest some) Some factions made the cut, some didn't.

Factions-Italian

Venice
Milan
Genoa
Florence
Siena
Ferrara
Papal States
Kingdom of Naples
Savoy
Lucca
Modena
Ragusa (Ottoman satellite)
Bishopric of Trento
Montferrant

Factions-Non-Italian
Hungary
Swiss
France
Spain (Aragonese)
Ottoman Empire
HRE (emerging)
Austria
Tunis

Factions cut

San Marino
Saluzzo
Benevento
Sicily (basically a Spanish possesion with no real independence)

This will most likely be the map, maybe extended. I and making one that shows factions instead of the modern day borders but you get the point http://www.abcteach.com/maps/italy.htm

[SigniferOne]

Take a look at Machiavello. Such a mod already exists.

[attilavolciak07]

Well, then I guess I'll rival it.

And it doesn't look the same, they have the English included an many more my map is just italy, some of france, swiss, Austria, Adriatic coast and tunisia

[Augustus Lucifer]

Well, then I guess I'll rival it.

And it doesn't look the same, they have the English included an many more my map is just italy, some of france, swiss, Austria, Adriatic coast and tunisia

It's hard to rival a mod when you don't have any coding, mapping, etc. skills :hmmm:

There's probably twenty more mod propositions than there are active modders above novice level on average, and a mod takes more like 20 members for a large project, if you except some like Lusted or Halie or Caius who are one man modding machines. That results in hundreds of ideas falling far short of resources to support them.

Your best bet unless you intend to undertake this mod on your own with little help wherever it is later offered, is to see if you can join up with a mod that has a similar focus, learn some valuable modding skills, and then use that mod as a platform for an extension mod (like seen with RTR PE, RTR MNM, RTR Imperator, RTR Extended Realism, etc., numerous stainless steel mods...), which covers the area you seek to address. Then you'd have information and units for some of the factions, and would just have to trim it down, do map work, and make some additions to new factions.

Good luck either way.

Cheers,
Augustus

[attilavolciak07]

I have almost 5 of my friends from school helping out, we just need to work on the map, everything else could be taken care of

[H.r.E.]

no they were seriously not split