A small mod that was requested, increasing campaign AI aggressiveness and monetary bonuses to make it more active. The mod alters the files description_strat.txt and campaign_script.txt.
There are three variations;
Unaltered - unaltered files if you want to revert to vanilla.
Light - removed recruitment limitation script and altered ai from the balanced "knud" to aggressive "genghis".
Full - removed recruitment limitation script and altered ai from the balanced "knud" to aggressive "genghis" and gives ai factions a fixed income of up to 50 000 per turn. What I play with.
The ai label genghis is supposed to make ai factions focus on cavalry. Due to the recruitment constraints of the mod this does in my experience not lead to unbalanced all-cavalry armies, far from it. I find ai factions fielding balanced forces based on whats available in the respective regions and
Download the attached file and unpack it using 7zip or any similar tool.
Choose your preferred version, copy and paste the two files here and overwrite as requested:
...\Medieval II Total War\mods\ebii\data\world\maps\campaign\imperial_campaign
Happy campaigning! Even the Gauls will eventually expand now.