The Birth of Europe

[Caledonian Rhyfelwyr]

First off, apologies for the formatting, but I seem to lack any formatting options now. Anyway, for me, M2TW is the last classic Total War game. RTW has EB, and I would love to see a mod do something like that for M2TW - give a truly historically accurate experience. Hence this idea. I'm not new to modding, and I plan to build upon many features I have already added (check the link in my sig). For example, the ability to convert any faction to any religion, 4 turns per year with seasonal affects, wonders, new religions, a government buildings system, an ethnic traits system, a regional recruitment system, and of course new historically accurate factions, units, and regions. I have already made the faction symbols and added regions almost up to the 199 limit. With the permission of several other mods, including Broken Crescent and Wrath of the Norsemen, I have also added many new units, which look infinitely better than their vanilla counterparts! These have been incorporated into the new recruitment system I have been developing. Blood Broads & Bastards, and artwork from a host of other mods, has also already been implemented.I propose that this mod be set between 1073 AD (shortly after Manzikert, Norman England, and formation of Leon-Castile), and 1218 AD (arrival of the Kara-Khitai hordes). I would like to rename the mods title, 'Birth of Europe', to its Latin form. I chose that title because it was at this period that modern European nations begin to take some sort of shape.At this stage, a fair bit has already been done. However, at this stage I would like to recruit researchers and historians, and eventually also modellers and skinners to make units that aren't covered by existing mods.Even if you don't feel you have much to offer, I am keen to build a team, so if you are interested at all, and feel that M2TW needs an EB, then sign up here!

[G|I|Sandy]

Why nobody replied to this yet and I didn't see this last week!? I really like your ideas. Currently I am working on a western european roster covering 12th century. This work will take at least another two or three months i think, but it will be released as an open-source. This means anybody will be able to use it in their modifications. Unfortunately I do not want to commit into big projects like yours due to inconsistency in my modding interest and time (work + grad studies). But you can definitely ask any small help related to modelling. If this grows bigger and my position about big projects changes I might be helpful later on. I will try to post something here in a few days or weeks, to maybe encourage you to continue with the project - that is to let you know that your western rosters are covered. And btw the units I am making are 100% new. Not a single piece from vanilla or other mods, so I and others won't have any issues.

Sandy