Idea: Pirates! Total War

[Reimu Hakurei]

Spanning from from either 1595 or 1630 up to 1753 or 1726, not decided yet, focusing on the Caribbean mostly, but also including Northern Yucatan and Southern Florida.

Planned factions:
-British Colonies (unplayable or playable, not decided yet)
-British Pirates (playable)
-French Colonies (unplayable or playable, not decided yet)
-French Pirates (playable)
-Dutch Colonies (unplayable or playable, not decided yet)
-Dutch Pirates (playable)
-New Spain (unplayable or playable, not decided yet)
-Spanish Pirates (playable)

At the beginning of the game, British Pirates are allied to British Colonies, French Pirates are allied to Colonies, Dutch Pirates and allied to Dutch Colonies, Spanish Pirates are allied to New Spain. You have a French/British/Dutch/Spanish consulate in the beginning, that allows you to train their units (French Gendarmes, Flemish Pikemen, French/Dutch/British Musketeers, English Billmen, Spanish Dragoons, Spanish Conquistadores, French Adventuriers, etc.). Your British/French/Dutch consulate will give you missions and constantly ask you to plunder Spanish ports, however, if you want, you can turn your back on your colonial cousins, and start building up your own pirate empire! You can even team up with the Spanish, or any other colonial power should you turn on your home country.

Planned units for the Pirate factions:
- Pirate Swashbuckler (armed with pistols and cutlasses, can shoot in close range, and then engage in melee combat effectively)
- Pirate Arquebusier (needless to say anything, available until the invention of flintlock musket)
- Pirate Musketeer (first it's matchlock muskets, and then replaced by more powerful flintlock muskets)
- African Gunner (same as Sudanese Gunners, maybe with different clothes. There were a lot of African slaves in the Caribbean, and the pirates actually freed them and treated them as equals, unlike the colonial powers which enslaved them, so it would make sense to include them)
- some type of cavalry units, can't think of any Pirate Cavalry
- possibly some elite pirate units, can't come up with any now
- Snow (a ship)
- Schooner (a ship)
- Sloop (a ship)
- Brigantine (a ship)
- Frigate (a ship)
- Galleon (a ship)

Planned buildings:
- Corn farm (replaces normal farms, needs corn resource in region to be present in order to be built)
- Sugarcane farm (totally new, needs sugarcane resource in region to be present in order to be built)
- Banana farm (totally new, needs bananas resource in region to be present in order to be built)
- Papaya farm (totally new, needs papaya resource in region to be present in order to be built)
- Tobacco farm (totally new, needs tobacco resource in region to be present in order to be built)
- Brewery (requires a corn farm to be built first)
- Rum Distillery (requires a sugarcane farm to be built first)
- Smuggler's Dive (replaces brothel, requires either Brewery or Rum Distilery to be built in the region first, improves happiness, and allows to hire merchants, assassins and spies)
- Gambling Den (upgrade of Smuggler's Dive, further improves happiness, and also increases trade encome and taxable income)
- Tavern (upgrade of Gambling Den, allows for some elite pirate units to be hired)
- Inn (upgrade of Tavern, allows for some more elite pirate units to be hired)
- Black Market (replaces normal markets for pirates, improves trade income, allows to train merchants, also allows to hire spies)
- Pirate Cave (improves taxable income, and improves law and order though insisting fear)

Stuff that I can handle:
- Text writing
- New buildings, resources
- Making a new world map (although never tried before, I can probably do it with GeoMod)
- Adding historical events, such as Invention of Flintlock Musket
- Adding new music
Stuff that needs to be done by someone else:
- Modelling new buildings
- Modelling new units
- Possibly importing from Empire: Total War, a game that I don't have.

[gostava]

nice idea and make all faction playable

[Reimu Hakurei]

nice idea and make all faction playable

And what should French Colonies do with the French Pirates then?
Very well, they should be all playable...
Btw, should Spanish Pirates be added?

[gostava]

i think yes add Spanish Pirates
and forget about make all playable

[Reimu Hakurei]

i think yes add Spanish Pirates
and forget about make all playable

Allright, as you wish.

[jerusalem_13]

i think import from Empire: Total War impossible

any way nice idea

[Reimu Hakurei]

i think import from Empire: Total War impossible

any way nice idea

So, how do we have Flintlock Musketeers who look like Line Infantry from ETW?

[jerusalem_13]

So, how do we have Flintlock Musketeers who look like Line Infantry from ETW?

importing some units from etw is easy for modeller ... but meant about the ship gow do u want to make it

pirates totalwar

[Lord Hamilton]

Good idea overall mate; only question though is how effective a mod about Pirates will/can be without real-time naval battles?

[Visarion]

I would love to see Captain Jack Sparrow in this mod or someone inspired by him!

[Reimu Hakurei]

I would love to see Captain Jack Sparrow in this mod or someone inspired by him!

You will see
This mod will be heavily inspired by Tropico 2: Pirate Cove thogh... you know, the buildings, the ship types, etc.

[Mhaedros]

The thing with Empire-> is that the map is unchangable

[Reimu Hakurei]

The thing with Empire-> is that the map is unchangable

This is Medieval 2 Kingdoms, not Empire.

[Mhaedros]

I know, but people was talking about porting it

[nessj999]

So, how do we have Flintlock Musketeers who look like Line Infantry from ETW?

yeaah my mod

oh and i support you ^^

[NekoGenijalan]

I say this is fantastic idea! Go for it man. Hopefully when I learn some modding I will join you! But for now here is image from a game called Port Royale. It has some setlements as well some resources. Good luck with this. And i also recommend this game. Maybe you'll get some nice ideas from there This map covers the time frame you plan to cover. Have a nice day! WArning big image!

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[Reimu Hakurei]

I say this is fantastic idea! Go for it man. Hopefully when I learn some modding I will join you! But for now here is image from a game called Port Royale. It has some setlements as well some resources. Good luck with this. And i also recommend this game. Maybe you'll get some nice ideas from there This map covers the time frame you plan to cover. Have a nice day! WArning big image!

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Yes, I remember Port Royale... an awesome game, I loved playing it!
Now, all we need to do is making a 3D map out of that, to make it fit Medieval 2.