Colonizaion Total war

[alex5152]

hey guys im creating a new mod called colonization total war (may change name in future) and im looking for people that would provide their help to me, initialy The map consists of whole north america, central america and a bit of south america and a tiny peice eastern asia, I would prefer this mod not to be historically exact but to just make a game fun to play.For now the things to do are: skins, map (10% complete), new factions and a couple of scripts.

heres a rough aproximation of map preview, i had the original one i used as a sketch but i cant seemto find it but this one is kindof a bit streched version of my



the factions:

England
France
Spain
Portugal
Aztecs
Mayas (thinking about them)
Russians
Sioux
Cheerokee (sorry if spelling is wrong)
Netherlands

thats 10 factions for now but i will add more,


Right now I need information about important settlements in America (ex. 13 colonies, mayan and aztec cities, couple of columbian cities) and a mod team:
-skiner/modeller
-codder
-a provider of regons and cities in america in 16 century-17 Century


ill be updating the progress of the mod every week

[Piptoo]

well good luck to you! If you make some nice things I am shure people will help you with your mod.

[Varian]

maybe for south america you should add the incas, up north in Canada you should add inuits and in texas you should add 2 factions, apaches and lakotas

[Nakharar]

i really liek the idea especiiaqly russia etc, but putting only 2 native american factions is a waste... Put alot(alot of work) or dont put them at all.

I would reccomend making all the native american places rebels apart from aztecs or ones that you canget units for easily. That way colonization is easy how it was, with big native american stacks here and there and then the real intresting war is fighting other European powers, if you dont go with this just join the frontier, apart from Russia its the same thing bassicly

[alex5152]

well i made this post yesterday in the night so i didnt have time to think about factions and i dont think the inuits had any considerable military force,because i never heard of em in any battle, but i will add around 10 to 15 indian factions, but my first goal here is to make the map regions first( i got around 20 regions right now and planing to make around 100-120 for first beta, it will have russia, england, france, netherlands(maybe, if yes it will be denmark renamed) and portugal). then ill begin with factions and all of that stuff.

[alex5152]

well i got a small problem of blue triangles on the coastlines but im working on it

[bleach]

i really liek the idea especiiaqly russia etc, but putting only 2 native american factions is a waste... Put alot(alot of work) or dont put them at all.

I would reccomend making all the native american places rebels apart from aztecs or ones that you canget units for easily. That way colonization is easy how it was, with big native american stacks here and there and then the real intresting war is fighting other European powers, if you dont go with this just join the frontier, apart from Russia its the same thing bassicly

Got to disagree with this for a few reasons

Rebels are passive, boring, and too easy to steamroll. With so many empty faction spots he could easily fill up most of the continent with different tribes, which would be much more fun to fight, and more challenging.

Even if most of the factions wouldn't be suitable for playing (many clone units, limited build options)--players would at least be fighting -something- which could actually hamper your expansion.
It's not like the Europeans just conquered all the way to the west coast in 10 years (which will happen if there are just rebels out there).

Plus Europeans could divide and conquer: trade with some Indians, ally with some, fight some at the same time (which is, again, the way it actually happened).

I would make the maximum amount of Indian factions, and also give the Euro factions very limited recruitment so you have to be very economical with your forces, or rely heavily on foreign mercs.

One other thing.

Exactly when are you going to start the campaign? Because the first permanent English and French settlements were in early 1600s. If you start the campaign that late, then there won't be any Aztec faction(not necessarily a bad thing, the Maya were still around)

EDIT: You could also add the Swedes to your faction list

[alex5152]

well i was thinking about it and i already said this was gonna be a non historical mod so it can realy be like the english and french have one settlement, and the spanish could have cuba and a bit of mexico but the aztecs would still have some settlements, and i will make for beta release with all indian factions as clones of azecs (maybe a second group of mayan clones) and after will be modding or decloning 1-2 factions each month or something like that (depends on team size). But i think i could add the sweds like an emergent faction,