Anglo-Spanish War

[Hereje]

(Mod's name could be changed)

Main Features

• Start date: 1558 AC
• New campaign map of western Europe
• New factions including the emergent United Provinces of the Netherlands
• New religions
• Retextured units for first released version

(more features and submods will be added in the future)

Campaign Map

• A map totally redesigned and worked about western Europe. Since Scotland to Morocco and since Portugal to the Alps.

Radar map:

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Map screens:

Faction list

• Spanish Empire
• Kingdom of England
• United Provinces of the Netherlands (emergent)
• Portuguese Empire
• Kingdom of France

Flags:

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Team

• Hereje

Are you interested in to collaborate in this mod? Please, send me a PM!

[TheHappyCrusader]

Looks interesting, I'll have to keep an eye on this.

[Hereje]

Looks interesting, I'll have to keep an eye on this.

thanks for your support.

[toluas]

A lot of the Anglo-Spanish fighting in fact took place on the oceans worldwide, so your map kinda makes me wonder...

[Frundsberg]

I have to agree with Tolous- this was a Trans-Oceanic War. I live in Florida , USA and every year the city of St. Augustine reenacts "Drake's Raid" of 1576. Drake died 1599 raiding Spanish Cities and Ships in the Caribbean.

[Hereje]

A lot of the Anglo-Spanish fighting in fact took place on the oceans worldwide, so your map kinda makes me wonder...

I know, but as you can see France is in the middle, and France will be like a wall between England and Spain, so you have to build a powerful armada to attack your enemy and then conquer his lands.


PD: Shields and map_FE added.

[Hrobatos]

seems like an interesting idea, but wouldnt ETW be better for the mod? ofcourse IF you could make the new map...

[Weltschmerz]

Interesting proposal but why not adding the Kingdom of Fez in Morocco and an algerian Barbary State (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_Coast), perhaps with the Ottoman Empire as emergent. Also Scotland could be a good faction to fill the north of England.

[Hereje]

Interesting proposal but why not adding the Kingdom of Fez in Morocco and an algerian Barbary State (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_Coast), perhaps with the Ottoman Empire as emergent. Also Scotland could be a good faction to fill the north of England.

Not for the first released.

[Gromovnik]

This is a really interesting idea, I'd love to play this mod. And Reconquista, of course.

[matija191]

there is no Scotland...

[Hereje]

there is no Scotland...

Maybe as a patch after the first released.

[IVIarkI2I]

how about Kingdom of Ireland?

[Hereje]

how about Kingdom of Ireland?

England's posesion.

[Hereje]

New campaign map screens!

[IVIarkI2I]

love the map +rep

what about this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Ireland

Iknow Henry got the crown but making them new faction can clearly show diffrence betwen religions, and it would be more itneresting to see Ireland on isles

[Hereje]

Maybe Ireland wasn't 100% independent. Like Crown of Aragon inside Spain.

[Seleukos_I.]

Looks great +rep

[Antagonist]

Great idea for a mod project, I hope you can attract more team members. Very interesting period to depict, European history could've developed very differently if one or two of the twists and turns of that war had gone another way.

I'd definitely argue for a Scottish faction at some point, but perhaps even more-so for an Irish one. It's true that the case for an Irish faction in mady mods is often exaggerated because Ireland wasn't really an independent unified faction for most of the era, but in this precise period and with such a relatively smale scope, I think a strong case can be made.

The history is complex to get into, but basically Ireland was nominally a kingdom united under personal rule with England, but in practice most of it was controlled by independent lords, a mixture of Norman baronial families who had "gone native" to varying degrees, and Gaelic chiefs who were basically the last independent Celtic princes. From the beginning of the Tudor period on England had basically been waging continuous war to (re)conquer the country, which reached a climax during Elizabeth's reign.

These small struggles weren't a big deal (i.e. worth depicting) initially, but they rapidly grew in scope, especially as a religious dimension appeared: the Reformation never really took off in Ireland, and soon Irish lords began to present their conflict as a religious revolt against Protestant domination. This led to Irish lords being supported by money, arms, military experts and ultimately troops from Spain. This ultimately led to a final great rebellion in the 1590's, known as the Nine Year's War or Tyrone's Rebellion (wiki) led by the most powerful Gaelic lord, the Earl of Tyrone. This engulfed the entire country and was supported by several attempted Spanish invasions, and though the Earl was eventually defeated, his revolt was the largest and most expensive ground-war of Elizabeth's reign.

Their army would be interesting to depict as well, being an eclectic mix of archaic and exotic-looking "barbarian" clansmen and reformed modern troops like calivermen and demi-lancers. There's an excellent overview of Irish forces during the period here. I can PM you more info if you want.

Antagonist

EDIT: Actually, I'm not sure if you've already seen it, but that series of articles by George Gush at myArmoury is one of the best online overviews of Western European armies you can find online, he has excellent and detailed pieces on the Spanish, French, English and Scots as well.

[Hereje]

Thank you very much for the information, Antagonist. Really interesting.