I don't know about adding settlements, I didn't look into that... but surely there's a tutorials for that, too...

also:
I've made a unit (Taalbaston guard), using the empire halberdier model (the upgraded one) and skins...
It's working well, the only thing is that the soldiers are invisible (except the officiers which I did not modify...) ... sooooo, any ideas?
I searched for typos and such, but if the problem would be like that, the game would simply crash at startup I guess... so I guess it's a texture problem, but I didn't find a solution
Ideas?