Casus Belli: The Island King - Idea phase

**Wintermist** · April 11, 2010, 06:20 PM

Casus Belli: The Island King The justification for war. A Medieval II: Total War - Kingdoms mod in design phase.

Content Post 1; Mod information.
Post 2; Screenshots.
Post 3; Downloads.

The idea First of all, this is still in the idea phase, which is a mod with fewer factions, set on an island map. The mod will use the names of factions as they are today, but with a completely fictional background and story. It may be early to create this thread since it's only me so far, but I like to get organized from the start.

If you've read The Westlands Cycle series by Katharine Kerr you'd have a general idea of how I want things to work. The general idea is for everyone to fight for supremacy, to be the High King of the island.

More information will be added here as it's compiled and created.

Economy I want economy to play a large part of the game. Initially you will have to struggle to wage war on more than one front, and once you grow large, the other factions will see you as a threat and try to form alliances against you. This will require some AI tweaking and I'm not even sure it can be done, since I'm not familiar with what is possible and what is not.

Diplomacy Oh yes, it has to be important. I need the AI to realise when one faction is too strong, and begin to work against it. Since there can only be one winner of the game, every single faction will want to be it. That said, the AI will work together with others to bring down someone else who is a threat to the balance.

It will take timing, planning and guile to remove a faction from play, and once you are strong enough, you are on your own. So, basically you start out getting help from others, but later on end up fighting on your own against united weaker factions.

**Wintermist** · April 11, 2010, 06:21 PM

Screenshots

Battle No screenshots yet.

Map No screenshots yet.

Other No screenshots yet.

**Wintermist** · April 11, 2010, 06:21 PM

Downloads

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Patches No downloads yet.

**Hrobatos** · April 11, 2010, 06:44 PM

first of all you should make review of the mod idea, and its stil far to early for downloads

**Wintermist** · April 11, 2010, 06:46 PM

I'm just making a structure

It's how I do things.

**Hrobatos** · April 11, 2010, 06:49 PM

yup, but this is Wips, Ideas, and Proposals
when you make the mod, wouldnt it go to released mods section?

**Wintermist** · April 11, 2010, 06:51 PM

Haha yeah, but I just want a proper structure from the start. It's just how I like to work, to see things neat and tidy.

**Hrobatos** · April 11, 2010, 06:54 PM

well good luck

**Wintermist** · April 11, 2010, 06:55 PM

Thanks

**DAVIDE** · April 12, 2010, 05:34 PM

I dont know if you can use Casus Belli name, considering it's already been used by: Casus Belli

**Druvatar De Bodemloze** · April 12, 2010, 06:09 PM

you need to explain your mod concept more in depth not just give a refferance to others peoples work and you haven`t even given a link to that writing. I personally am unfamiliar with "The Westlands Cycle series by Katharine Kerr " and you have written nothing to inspire me too do independant research, until you present a clear and focused mod vision!~ unfortunatly this is just another vanilla clone with a fantasy motif! give us something meaty!

**Wintermist** · April 13, 2010, 01:19 AM

Originally Posted by davide.cool

I dont know if you can use Casus Belli name, considering it's already been used by: Casus Belli

Yeah I saw that, so I changed it to Casus Belli; The Island King. Casus Belli is latin and basically means justification for war. So an English version would perhaps be Justification for War; The Island King. I don't think it will ever be confused with the Rome Casus Belli to be honest. And they don't even seem to be doing anything for Medieval II: Kingdoms.

Originally Posted by druvatar

you need to explain your mod concept more in depth not just give a refferance to others peoples work and you haven`t even given a link to that writing. I personally am unfamiliar with "The Westlands Cycle series by Katharine Kerr " and you have written nothing to inspire me too do independant research, until you present a clear and focused mod vision!~ unfortunatly this is just another vanilla clone with a fantasy motif! give us something meaty!

The Westlands Cycle is a series of books, all fantasy. The theme I'm taking from it is that every area has it's own smaller king, but there's one High King who they all pay tribute to. There's war going on between the smaller kings. This will be very similar to that. I am going to explain it much more later on as all I've done in this thread now is making a structure for myself to add information into. More will come