Hey Lomion,
As I see it you are modding my map so that it plays like a standard game with changed rules so that it suits the needs of balance for the map. I see no problem in that and when you finish it I guess other people would like to try it, at least I would, so feel free to do so.
The direction Im taking my own scenario is this:
RECOMMENDED DIFFICULTY: Demigod or above.
STARTING AGE: End of the Ancient Age(first era)
VICTORY TYPE: Quest
RULE CHANGES: Settlers cannot longer be built. They are produced by every nations palace once every 50 turns.
TERRAIN:
-Since many nations are situated almost exlusively over tundra it has been changed to work like plains: It can no longer be mined but it produces more food and can be irrigated. Movement over tundra now also costs 2.
PREMISE:
A large battle between a good and an evil alliance. In practice there are really 4 alliances, 2 good (elves and old worlders) 2 evil (Chaos and dark elves).You can win the scenario only by achieving a quest victory. But the quest victory itself has a twist: at least two of the items that you have to build are modded so that you need specific resources to build them which can only be found deep inside the territory of your enemies.
RESOURCES:
-Gold is now a luxury
-Gromril is now a luxury and is also needed to complete your quest victory along with raptors, elephants, warpstone, beastmen and brightstone.
-Notice that some forests are landmark forest terrain, thus they are more productive than regular forests. They can be found mostly in loren, the chaos wastes, naggaroth and ulthuan.
ALLIANCES:
Old Worlders: Empire, Westernland, Bretonnia, Estalia, Tilea, Kislev, Loren, Dwarves
High Elves: Ulthuan
Chaos: Chaos, Chaos Dwarves, Goblins, Orcs, Norsemen
Dark Elves:Naggaroth
Neutral (non-aligned & not playable nations): Albion, Slann, Sylvania
The reason for including two evil and two good alliances was made to reflect the elves tendency to go their own way. The High Elves are in a locked war against both the Dark Elves and Chaos, but not necesarilly in good terms with the other nations. The same thing applies to the Dark Elves. Loren is allied with the old world instead of the high elves because I did not want the wood elves to have to conquer a large part of the civilized nations first to get to some real orc bashing and questing in the evil lands, it is not accurate. The neutral nations are not meant to be playable and have a special purpose: Sylvannia is being pumped up to act as a super barbarian tribe. The Slann are an alternative option to completing your quest victory and Albion can be conquered to serve as a stepping stone if you choose to invade your enemies by sea. This is specially useful for attacking Chaos and the elven factions.
NATION DESCRIPTIONS:
Empire: As the civilopedia says the Empire is indeed the largest and most powerful of the human nations. To reflect this they have the most cities and start with three pre-built wonders: Grand Cathedral in Altdorf, Tarnhelms Keep in Tabelheim and the Moot in Averheim. Also the Order of the White Wolf can only be built in Middlenheim, as in the real warhammer universe. They are somewhat buffered from the evil forces by Kislev but have to deal with Sylvannia constantly.
Bretonnia: They start with Errantry War prebuilt, which compared to other nations does not seem much, but since the Skaven south of you are much more dangerous than in the real game it is a great advantage. Also they are the second most powerful human nation and start far away from real threats.
Estalia and Tilea: They are far removed from any threat except the Skaven, and start with the Silk Route and Spice Route pre-built respectively to reflect that they are trading nations. Their strenghts are also their disadvantages: they are small and isolated.
Westernland: they are sheltered by the empire from land attacks but are quite small. The should watch out for Norse raiders and build a strong navy. Start with both the lighthouse of Maanan and the Suiddock prebuilt.
Kislev: Of all the good human nations they probably have the hardest time. They are going to get hit early and hard, and since it's a locked war you are going to be in a constant state of siege. To compensate for this they start with the rangers of taal wonder prebuilt, so they get a powerful wonder produced unit early on. Also the wonder is modifyed so that it gives a barracks in every city too.They get their expansionist trait changed to militaristic.
Dwarves: Along with Kislev they bear the worst part of the onslaught, at least in their 3 northern cities. Other parts of their empire are more protected by the prescence of mountains, specially their capital. They start with bugman's brewery prebuilt in their westernmost city.
Loren: They are the smallest Old World nation but are also surrounded by mountains and friends on all sides, so they don't really have to worry about being overrun anytime soon. They start with the tree of ages prebuilt in their capital. Since they are the only landlocked playable nation they have the hardest time fullfilling the quest victory by sea.
High Elves: They are on an island so they have the easiest ride of all the good nations. They only have to worry about 3 things: 1) dark elven corsairs will invade through the rebel cities in the northwest of their territory and their intial army might not be enough to stop them so they must build up fast. 2) They have the fastest ships but they are weak, so late game they might have a hard time with naval supremacy 3) They have no real friends and might find themselves at war with all of the other nations. They don't start with any prebuilt wonders but are the only ones that can build vaul's anvil, the white tower and the new Lothern Lighthouse wonder (a Suiddock type wonder).
Chaos: I'm seriously considering making Chaos non-playable, but might not do it just to let players feel like a real god. They have the most cities, great unique wonders, and I'm changing the availability of their demon and beastman units so that they just pour hordes and hordes of invaders upon the other players. Their only weakness is that they have very poor infraestructure and no real trade throughout the game. All their units can move without penalty through tundra and some through forests, but not through swamps. They start with Chaos moon prebuilt, and are the only ones that can build the altar of ultimated darkness and a new Demon Sumonning wonder (think barbarian invasions in RFRE to get the idea of how this wonder works).
Orcs and Goblins: They start with Waaaghs prebuilt, since the AI does not use armies effectively if you choose not to play either of this civs they will instead produce a special superstrong waaaaagh unit. Since there are not any orcs MU that I know off i will be using something like the troll or wolf chariot for graphics. The waaaagh unit will be about as strong as a great dragon though it will have a movement of 3 with no flying abilities. Also the waaaagh small wonder doubles your cities growth rate now. Orcs get agricultural trait instead of expansionist. The goblins start with the cursed pit prebuilt in their capital and the orcs with the new greenskin infestation wonder that places granaries in all their cities. All their units have no movement penalties when travelling over swamps.
Chaos Dwarves: They are the only nation of the chaos alliance that does not behave like a swarm with über powerful wonders. Instead their land is richer than the rest of the chaotic factions and start surrounded by their allies, so in may respects they play similarly to the Old World nations with an initial build up phase followed by a conquest phase. They start with the gates of Zharr prebuilt and since most of their cities are built on hills this makes them a hard nut to crack. The greenskin units that they build can move freely over swamps.
Norsca: This is the weakest nation of them all since its very poor and its far from its other allies. In fact Norsca was just meant to be another neutral nation in a locked war only with the northern old world nations, but since I ran out of alliance slots I included them as a chaotic faction and got done with it. They have the advantage of being isolated and they start with the norse sagas wonder prebuilt which also works like a great library now to compensate for their almost complete lack of infraestructure and little hope for development. They have only one sure path to success: combined military and naval power so that you can raid, plunder, raid and then plunder some more in good old viking fashion.
Naggaroth: Consider this nation the poor man's version of the high elves. They do begin with the Black Library prebuilt and have some corsairs and black arks at their disposal to begin conquering. They will have to use this early advantages to expand fast to either albion or ulthuan since their homeland is quite barren, even with tundra being pumped up. Their power will diminish if they just keep a low stance. They are not part of the evil alliance and the main forces of chaos are right north of them, buth in reality because of terrain they can only invade them by sea or with air units. Still they should try not to go to war with them. Their units move freely over tundra. They have the seafaring trait added thus they are the only nation that has three.
Albion: Albion lies in the sea lanes between the old world, ulthuan, naggaroth and the chaos wastelands. They are not a playable nation, but it might be wise to conquer the whole of albion or maybe at least a city or two to stage your maritime campaigns. But beware, rumors abound of the prescence of dragons defending this lands of mist.
Slann: The old Slann are an alternative to fullfilling your quest and you might never have to hear from them throughout the game. They have all the resources needed for both sides to complete their quests so you might choose to invade them instead of invading the lands of the other alliances. This might be a good idea in the case of nations like Estalia or Tilea that are removed far from the greater conflicts so you might complete the quest for your side while your allies hold off your enemies. But beware, the lizards are no pushover. The lizardmen themselves will not be able to complete the quest victory.
Sylvannia: They act like super barbarians. I'm changing many things in their game play to make them a real thorn in the empire's side. First of all vampires have hidden nationality now and are slightly cheaper. The mausoleum acts as a great library so they are never far behind in technology and also produces a super vampire army unit (much like the orcs' waaaaagh unit) instead of a skeleton spearman. Their cities are defended by blood dragons, which I have also changed: they are inmobile, cost no upkeep, cannot be built nor disbanded, start as elite, have a +5 hp bonus and a defense of 20, so you only have a real chance to take them out once you get the most advanced magic spells and flying units.
Skaven (barbarians): They have their greatest concentration between Tilea and Estalia. Right now I'm changing this area so that they have their camps built over impassable terrain (even by flying units) so you can never get rid of their camps (remember, no settlers to wipe them out with culture). I'm thinking of using desert since it's basically absent from the rest of the map. They have also their stats greatly increased and set their activity level to raging, so they will give the nations near them a run for their money. They also appear in other regions of the map but not over unconquerable territory.
Amazons???: I might be a good idea to include amazons in the scenario, but i'm still thinking how to do it and if it's worth the effort. I'm thinking probably of including them on an archipielago off mainland Lustria.
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So I've posted a new version with tonned down resources. Every civ still has acces to at least one luxury and all the resources they need for their special units, but I eliminated about one half the bonus resources. I also made slight changes to some of the terrain and added one more city to Bretonnia. I've left the old version up just in case someone liked it or wants to try it. The new file is in OldWorldModerate.zip 
