DRUVATARS CRUSADE~~~

**Druvatar De Bodemloze** · July 21, 2009, 12:34 AM

I am playing with GiGantuses bare kingdoms with the french map from "Ajout de ville" ( which adds a many and many,many more regions in north Africa and the middle east, so I have edited Desc_Strat to give the game 700 turns 1 turn per year from 1000 A.D. to 1700 A.D. and also edited the victory conditions for my favorite faction "Milan" to hold 75 regions and destroy the moors and egypt also I have made the papal_states states a regular faction which can be destroyed and made Milan the new papal faction[see tutorials pg 2,in mod workshop] (so I have already conquered all of Italy and have taken Tunis and tripoli ) now it will get interesting! (oh important factor! ally with the HRE and no one else buy bologna from them in the agreement then throw everything you~ve got at Venice take it and offer them reconciliation )if you want to do something similiar it is easy....
just download the file

This isn't a "big" map, its the same size as vanilla but w/ a lot more provinces
This is a better link for the map - Click the green text.
http://www.universtotalwar.fr/Forum/index.php?showtopic=1017
If you want to import the map into your own mod you need just a few files from the link above.
From data\text folder - imperial_campaign_regions_and_settlement_names.txt - If you don't want the French names, edit this w/ notepad. The names to the right are what appear in game.
Then from the data\world\maps\base folder - all the files.
And finally from the data\world\maps\campaign\imperial_campaign folder - all the files.

(qouted from post by Vegas_Bear
have fun!
Druvatar

**Viking Prince** · July 21, 2009, 01:39 AM

A freaking zip file to just view a map? Can you provide a screenie or a pic of the map?

**Druvatar De Bodemloze** · July 21, 2009, 01:51 AM

ok but keep in mind this is not my work! just sharing what I have found....

**CasualPhil** · July 21, 2009, 02:53 AM

^

that

**Antwerpen** · July 21, 2009, 03:11 AM

Nice, didn't think it's possible to make Milan the Papal States.

**SoulBlade** · July 21, 2009, 03:23 AM

It's a little.. ehm... imbalanced? Sooo much regions, your generals will become dubious from the huge incomes.

**Viking Prince** · July 21, 2009, 04:35 AM

With all of the rebel space, is it usual for the AI to simply sit and fiddle why the human faction grows to dominate the game? Also -- does the Mediterranean dominate the trade income game even more than the vanilla map?

Still it might be interesting to give it a try.

Keep us well informed.

**The Noble Lord** · July 21, 2009, 07:53 AM

Nice

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**Silent Assassin** · July 21, 2009, 10:54 AM

Looks like I will have to let go of LTC and the Third Age mod to try out other mods out there, it is time for me now to try something else .

Thanks Druvatar for your suggestion

**Anatorax** · July 21, 2009, 11:22 AM

How did you (or your friend) manage to put so many provinces in game? It has much more of them than the Stainless Steel mod, but they have used everything up to the limit, as far as I know.

P.S. Doesn't the game become a siegefest with so many cities on such a small map? (Siegefest - when battles are mainly sieges, because cities are so close to each other.)

**Druvatar De Bodemloze** · July 21, 2009, 01:19 PM

@VP yes from what I have played the Ai does tend to do that but it also can be very aggressive running into stiff resistence from the moors as far trade is concerned I need to play more to see...........

@Anatorax my "friend" did not do this, I came across it randomly just perusing threads I have no idea I think the limitation is in terms of the size of the map alot of mods do not add too many regions because as you say it runs the risk of becoming a "seige fest"

@Rebel6666 just take the files indicated from the mod and copy them into the proper places in your bare kingdoms, retrofit 1.0 e.g. folders and it will not overwrite either TATW or SS good luck!