Rise of Quetzal TW

[Werety]

Mod in Development

Rise of Quetzal is a mod focused in the pre-hispanic Mesoamerica, timeframe 1400-1600, the mod add new religions, new buildings, new units and new 3d models for settlements in map campaign. This mod relate some historical events who don't show in vanilla Americas campaign, the born of the Triple Alliance with the Aztec Empire replacing the powerful Maya Empire in the Yucatan penninsula who decline slowly and is divided with Lordships and Ethnic divisions in a permament war, the Tarascan Empire who fight with the Chichimec tribes and try to expand their lands to east, finaly the small independent kingdoms, tribes and lordships try to survive to Aztec expansion, Chichimec invasions, tribal Migrations, and the lethal jungle of Yucatan.

This mod make a deep rework of some factions of vanilla Americas campaign to represent the different cultures and beliefs of the different Kingdoms, Empires and Lordships, now some factions have a huge bonus in campaign to represent their nomadism life or religious organitzation, that include a rework of buildings, units, and agents. That includes the Spanish empire, which is more lethal and unstoppable than ever for the Mesoamerican factions, whether it is due to its strange diseases that kill thousands or its powerful military units and horrific gunpowder weapons.

Factions

Aztec Empire
Tlapanec Kingdom
Chichimecs Tribes
Guamare Confederation
Tlaxcallan City States
Purépecha Empire (tarascans)
Mixtec Empire
Lenca Empire
League of Mayapan
Lordship of Cupul
Lordship of Ah-Canul
Lordship of Ekab
Lordship of Uaymil
Lordship of Chakan Putum
Lordship of Chactemal
Huastec Empire
Acalan Kingdom
Mam Kingdom of Zaculeu
Lordship of Iximche
Quiche Kingdom of Q'Umarkaj
Lorship of Cuzcatlan
Zapotec Kingdom
Totonac Domains
Kingdom of Itzaes
Kingdom of Colimotl
Kingdom of Xalisco
Chalca Confederation
Spanish Empire (emergent)
Rebels/Independent Kingdoms

Religions

Christianism
Aztec Polytheism
Maya Polytheism
Purépecha Polytheism
Chichimec Polytheism
Tribal Religion (heretics)



Campaign Map Photos

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Tribal Recruitment Areas in the map

The Rise of Quetzal add some new resources, obviously the exploration of the Conquistadores who made in the Mesoamerica discover some of them who actually are common in our mind, but before the landing in Mexico are totally strange, thats why the resoruces of Rise of Quetzal are reworked to adapt the native resources who trade Aztecs and Mayan peoples, the list of the resources are these:
Gold, Silver, Bronze, Obsidian, Corn, Beans, Potatoes, Exotic Spices, Peppers, Exotic Wood, Sacred Codex, Slaves, Gemstones, Tobacco, Chocolate, Jade, Pottery, Amber, Salt, Fish, Cotton, Textiles, and Pulque(sacred drink)
The mod include special resources like the Jungle Villages and Mayan Ruins who have some buildings related, scripts and special events incorporated to make the gameplay more interesting.

These special events are constructed to create a better inmersion of the player in the Mesoamerican cultures with their myths and legends, making a little fantastical touch for this events who permits the player explore the jungle with agents and generals to try to find and activate some events who show a piece of history of the mesoamerican culture, including sometimes a big treasure, additional special units, unique ancillaries and traits or "strange" events like "Lights in the Sky", "The Gates of Xilbaba","Giants of the Jungle" or "The Nahual", these "strange" events involve some misterious forces of the nature who can kill you or show powerful knowledges and items.

New models for Resources


Aztec Units


Maya Units


Tarascan Units




List of new buildings

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Aztec Building set


Mayan Building set

Mod basic content added
New Buildings for each faction, a lot of shrines, temples and sanctuaries and historical buildings and resource-related buildings
New unique units for each faction, warrior-priests, specialized warriors, native tribesmen and more
New mercenaries for tribal areas in the map, now each region have their unique mercenaries
New ancillaries related by temples, buldings, special events and dates
New events about the mythology of the Mesoamerican mythology and more


You want see more? join official discord: https://discord.gg/72fRWE6F8x

Moddb WIP thread: https://www.moddb.com/mods/rise-of-quetzal-tw

[Jake Armitage]

congrats for the release

[sullivanclan1]

Love it already dude! I hope i get to play it soon dude!

[Werety]

Add Modb link to first page

https://www.moddb.com/mods/rise-of-quetzal-tw

[MagusCaligula]

Hello, I was thinking to do a mod like this for a while for the americas campaign, I guess I can help you instead as I don't want to make another mod all on my own again and you seem to have the bases already and good knowledge about those civilizations, so if you want I can help you. I can overhaul the ui a bit, add some heavy scripts. I don't know if you know my mods, but I had in mind to use a similar government/recruitment system.

[Werety]

Well all the help is appreciated, but dont know what mods you talk, you have any example?

[MagusCaligula]

Well all the help is appreciated, but dont know what mods you talk, you have any example?

Well just released the latest one : Regnum Caelorum. Besides that have other which are campaign only: Bronze Age Empires, Aurei Imperii, Diadochi: Alexander's Legacy, Hellenika Toal War.

[Werety]

Looks you like classic age, nice mods bro I download the BAE, I never play a mod about this age.
Btw, maybe need help with some UI, basically the faction symbols, I want to do round shields not triangular shields for the faction selection menu and some interfaces of the game, and maybe need a little help with complex scritps, but this is the last step of the game for me.
If you have discord contact me or join my discord in the signature bar

[MagusCaligula]

I've pmed you in discord

[Werety]

New model for merchat in mesoamerican culture (WIP):



In this image you can see the model without hair pigtail and near a new resource model of Sacred Codex



A image of the WIP of the merchant model

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[Werety]

Working in a new model of "Witch"



Alternative model with a staff and different clothes

[makanyane]

Great to see all the parts getting sorted, and that you're posting the updates here

[Werety]

Yeah, now have 2 different models for the witch, and can do more with the knowledge you teach me

[Werety]

ENG: I'm happy to announce that the descr_strat file is 99% done, and now only the faction symbols and scripts are left to do. (And the english transaltion of course)

ESP: Me alegra anunciar que el archivo descr_strat ya esta realizado al 99%, y que ahora solo falta por hacer los simbolos de faccion y los scripts, y la traduccion al inglés claro.

[isa0005]

Hope this is still being developed! Keep up the great work!

[Fahnat]

Oh please, let this mod be finished!
One of my hopes in playing a total war mod was this setting and time period.

[Werety]

Actually the most part of the mod is done, only need to work in the mercenaries, faction symbols and scripts, and btw, I add a lot of new units created from 0 for some factions, I hope launch the mod soon, but you know, Im alone modder, time EVER is relative when I need release a mod.

[Werety]

Hi, its me again,

Im little busy to open the forum these days, but we still working in the mod, now the mod evolved thanks to the hard work of mangopango who can create cool new units, now the Rise of Quetzal mod have complete new units in the rosters of Chichimecs Tribes, Guamare Confederation and Tarascan Empire! actually we work to add more units and create unique rosters for the major factions of the mod, like Aztec and Maya factionsm thats include a big task of balancing units and huge rework of the recruitment, adding a AOR small system for some regions and factions.

Some news pictures of the map, you can see the new models of settlements, resources and merchant and witch for mesoamerican factions.

Lordship of Tenochtitlan and Chalca Conferderation zone


Tlaxcallan City States


Mixtec and Zapotec cities


Tarascan Empire unique roster thanks to mangopango


You can see more photos of the new units in my discord or in moddb.
Discord:https://discord.gg/u6VFKgDzpX
Moddb: https://www.moddb.com/mods/rise-of-quetzal-tw

[Fahnat]

Anxious to play the mod.
Want to make a trailer type video for it.

[Werety]

Im glad you like the work we do Fahnat

And when we launch the mod and you want to do a video, I very appreciate a lot

Actually Im working to solve some issues in the buildings files, and try to balance the new units with the buildings to make a recruitment more realistic. We add more unique units for chichimecs, aztecs and mayan rosters in a future.