This is a collection of a couple of submods for Imperial Splendour 2.21b made by me and some by other users. The goal was to allow a slow paced gameplay and preserve the status quo of territorial possessions, as much as possible, also providing a slightly more challenging campaign.
This collection was set up by me for personal use. Usually I'd play with 1,5x building times, less income in general and 6 turn per year, among other minor modifications which were excluded here, but may be added in the future. It's also important to clarify that most testing was done while using an adapted version of Bran's campaign AI, which obviously differs from IS 2.21b CAI.
Tortuga Diplomacy
Most diplomacy mods cause a general peace on late game due to the absence of cap on the War values. Unlike in later titles, the War factor vanishes after peace is made, leaving no negative effect in aftermath. The Peace value was also tuned down - leaving it high will cause former enemies to trade and eventually become friends.
With this mod warring factions will sue for peace, while you will still be able to experience conflicts by mid/late campaign.
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Tortuga Civil Unrest
This mod aims to make the management of public order slightly challenging for the player and make revolutions and revolts more frequent. Effectively it diminishes the government bonus to public order, while increasing penalties for foreign occupations. If one raids or sabotages towns before capturing a Region, the resistance to foreign occupation can go as far as 20!
Still, to really flesh out revolts, a restructure of all public order system of the game is needed. So, don't wet your panties, this simple submod doesn't do any miracles.
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Tortuga: Slower than a slug
This is a modified Startpos for 6 turns per year. Throw it into the IS folder.
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Below is a list of recommended mods. All of them compatible with Imperial Splendour 2.21b:
Stronger Garrisons by Alwyn
It replaces some of the Firelock Armed Citizens with Invalid Garrison Regiments. The latter supposed to be a collection of drill instructors, invalid veterans and wounded soldiers. Their stats are similar to line infantry. For eastern factions, you get Swordsmen.
Recommended version is: stronger_garrisons_mod_100_v10.7z]
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Period Portraits by Onkel Tuka
IS 2.21b keeps the creepy vanilla portraits, if you don't want your generals looking like a date rapist, download this mod. It features over 4.000 real period portraits. Some still end up looking like sex offenders though... May be the powdered wig.
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More reasonable diplomacy mini-mod v1.0 by Alwyn
If Tortuga is not working for you, you can try the new version of Alwyn's mod for diplomacy.
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PS: I'm not a native speaker of English, sorry if there's any questionable grammar in this post.