A while ago I decided to set forth on a mod for M2TW, covering three areas
Rather than just never doing anything with it, I've decided to do an AAR for a campaign with the part that's working. A link is in my signature to the files to add to Retrofit, I'm using a slightly different version here with vanilla M2TW because I wanted to test it and also I prefer the AI army composition on vanilla compared with Retrofit.
Without further todo, here is my Spanish campaign. Campaign difficulty "Hard", Battle difficulty "Very Hard"
Pretentious? Moi?
I aim to grab as much free land in Iberia as possible and bide my time against my neighbours, neither threatening them nor being overly nice. If neither of them missteps then the Moors will be targeted, otherwise their religion will cause issues.
I'd like to ally with HRE but it makes more sense to go with Milan, Denmark and Byzantium to give a nice wide alliance that's not too likely to come apart. I might flip my decision and go with HRE and Byzantium. Byzantium will need plenty of help to survive, I'll give
them as much cash as I can spare.
We'll see how things go with France, England and Scotland up that side.
I'll try to get all Spanish settlements to cities for trading purposes but that will wait until some castles are captured/developed in
non-core regions.
- Setting a random AI for each faction - this is complete and working
-Changing the map to prevent pathfinding issues - given this is just importing someone else's work it's easy on one hand but it's not complete as such since I want to rejig the settlement sizes, garrisons, types etc
-Changing units so that recruitment is tied in with the ability to make armour - half-done, ish
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Rather than just never doing anything with it, I've decided to do an AAR for a campaign with the part that's working. A link is in my signature to the files to add to Retrofit, I'm using a slightly different version here with vanilla M2TW because I wanted to test it and also I prefer the AI army composition on vanilla compared with Retrofit.
Without further todo, here is my Spanish campaign. Campaign difficulty "Hard", Battle difficulty "Very Hard"
Faction | Player | |
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SwampRat | A noble faction, the hero (or possibly villain) of our piece | |
Portugal | savageAI | Spain's neighbours and either a pet or a conquest |
Moors | XCAI CAI | Dastardly contenders for the Iberian peninsular |
England | MediMod 0.95 | A far off damp and miserable place/people |
France | MediMod 0.95 | Team bleu |
HRE | Lusted CAI | |
Venice | Lusted CAI | Merchants |
Sicily | MediMod 0.95 | The Italian mob |
Milan | Xeryx CAI | |
Scotland | MediMod 0.5 | Damper and more miserable than the English |
Denmark | UAI1.6 | Foreigners in funny hats |
Poland | UAI1.6 | A people best known for making shoes and metal shiny |
Hungary | Xeryx CAI | A poorly fed nation, with vampires |
Byzantium | MediMod 0.75 | A proud nation but likely to be repossesed by the Germans |
Russia | UAI1.6 | Ra Ra |
Turks | Lusted CAI | A delightful people |
Egypt | MediMod 0.5 | Famous pedestrians |
Mongol | LustedAI | |
Timurids | UAI 1.6 | |
Aztecs | LustedAI | |
The Pope | Not randomly set | Deus ex machina, a likely thorn in the side of our hero |
The (short term) plan
I aim to grab as much free land in Iberia as possible and bide my time against my neighbours, neither threatening them nor being overly nice. If neither of them missteps then the Moors will be targeted, otherwise their religion will cause issues.
I'd like to ally with HRE but it makes more sense to go with Milan, Denmark and Byzantium to give a nice wide alliance that's not too likely to come apart. I might flip my decision and go with HRE and Byzantium. Byzantium will need plenty of help to survive, I'll give
them as much cash as I can spare.
We'll see how things go with France, England and Scotland up that side.
I'll try to get all Spanish settlements to cities for trading purposes but that will wait until some castles are captured/developed in
non-core regions.