Scenario - Italyization

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Italyization

This scenario is completely set in Italy, during its entire history, from the ancient people, to the end of the Kingdom of Italy (the historical ending year is about 1945).

Featuring civilizations:



Traits:




Featuring religions: Jupiter, Christ, Odin, Meithras, Lugh, Tinia, Maymon.



Wonders: (note: still to be balanced)



No corporations. There are "secret" associations instead: Mafia, 'Ndrangheta, Camorra, Carbonari, Sanfedisti, Calderai, Sublimi Maestri Perfetti. They affect the game in several ways other that the corporations do: they modify the trade routes between cities with the same associations of with rival associations, they modify the chance to spread other corporations and the cost of espionage missions.

Great people are now unnamed. Famous "names" are given to "Illustrious personalities" (similar to Founding Fathers of Colonization). You can gain an Illustrious personality by adding up points in a number of ways (from your great people points, your great general points, from your civics, by using your missionaries, by fighting battles, etc), and when you reach a threshold, you receive a random Illustrious personality, depending on the type of points you have (religion, culture, etc.). Illustrious personalities have unique bonuses, most of them are brand new! Some Illustrious personalities are Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Dante, Scipione, Carlo Alberto, Macchiavelli, Vivaldi.

Illustrious personalities:



Featuring world wonders: some of them are the Great Colosseum, the roman Pantheon, the Circus Maximus, Mausoleum of Theodoric, St. Francis basilica, cathedral of Mediolanum, David of Michelangelo, the Leaning Tower, the Divine Comedy. Some of their effects are brand new!

Some of the BTS original Unique Units are still in the game, as barbarians. So periodically some Numidian Cavalries, Janissaries, Egiptian war chariots, Dacian Tarabostes or War Elephants can appear near to your empire to attack you.

New resources, new civics, new techs, new buildings (and some of the old ones are removed; for example, there is NO incense in Italy). And some new events based upon those new items.

It features a kind of "rhye and decay" system, that will cause new and more recent civs to appear in the game, replacing an existing one. For example, while you are facing Romans and Etrusks, and when you enter in the middle ages, Ostrogoths could appear at any moment, invading Roman land with a huge army and trying to take them over. (they could even choose YOU as their victim!)

Units will be randomly given and taken bonuses of several types, at any moment. For example, when you are attacking an enemy city you could discover that your CityRaider3 Swordsman is momentarily unavailable to attack (he has been given the DefendOnly flag), or instead he's gone berserk (available to do collateral damage!!!). These special bonuses last for few turns.

Defensive buildings will be available for your workers to build. You can build ballistas (in the middle ages) or pillboxes (in modern age); these are immoble units, with a good defensive power. You can't build them. Also, you can have up to 5 units of that type (if you want more, you have to disband some of the existing ones). You will periodically be asked if you want one, and your workers will take care of it (a random worker is picked, and while building the pillbox in the plot where he is, he cannot be moved for the next 5 turns).

There are no shrines (well, there's a world wonder with the same effects applied for the current state religion. Besides, cathedrals now add the religion commerce bonus for the city where it's built).
Now holy cities are useful in a different way: they give espionage points against every rival city you know in the world.

A scenario allows to play in a premade huge map of Italy!

There are a lot of other changes. I've given a summary of the main features. Besides, the work is still in progress.

Note: The scenario will be available in English and Italian. Other languages will be in English.


Some screenshot attached.

As far as I know, Odin and Wodan are the same god: Odin/Wodan/Wotan, depending on the germanic dialect. Also, Dagda is very Irish. Lug( or Lugh) would probably fit better for a celtic god as he was reverred in Gaul and many places owe him his name in all celtic areas. You could probably replace one of Odin/Wodan with Mithraism or Judaism.

Will this MOD support random maps?

Thank you for your feedback. I'll see what I can do, and possibly change these Gods.

About maps, the mod currently has a single random script, with particular settings (a kind of Big and Small, with snaky continents and some islands, to simulate the Italian lands. Also, it's a flat map.). If I can, I'd like to have also a fixed map of Italy (but I don't know how to do it, maybe it must be set plot per plot by the map script...!!!)

interesting project
how will civs be born, all the same start ? Who's the leader of Tuscany ?

At the time, all civs start at the same moment. However, given the short duration of modern techs (game is over for early 1900 techs), modern civs (like kingdom of Piemont) could be a little more useless than the others.
I'd like to find a way to make them start one at a time, as the history says. Any hint about that is welcome.

Lorenzo de Medici is the leader of Tuscany.

have a look at Rhye's and Fall of Civs, that mod features timed spawns of Civilizations. You can even ask the creator for hints on how to implement it, he is italian.

onedreamer said:

have a look at Rhye's and Fall of Civs, that mod features timed spawns of Civilizations. You can even ask the creator for hints on how to implement it, he is italian.

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I nearly forgot this point!

Asking Rhye is a good idea, he is sure to give helps

a fixed map of Italy (but I don't know how to do it, maybe it must be set plot per plot by the map script...!!!)

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Easiest for a fixed map is to use the WorldBuilder. You can also place civs starting location etc.
As for civs spawning at given time, Rhye's and Fall from Heaven both so it. I'd like to point out however that Rhye's method is fine for AI nations, but you must wait for sometimes a long time if you want to start as a "late" nation. It's probably better for the player to allow the various ai's to get free points in an advanced start setting so you don't have to wait it over.

Thanks to LDiCesare, I've adjusted religions: Lugh instead of Dagda, and Meithras instead of Wodan.

Also, first post updated with more civilization infos.

btw, I think C.Roland made an animated Lorenzo some time ago.

Bellissimo!

A large Italy map would be appreciated.....

The "rise and fall" of civilizations could work in this way.

When a player selects a civ, the game will start in the related year; so, if Ostrogoths are selected, the start year will be about 200AD.
However, game length will always be the same (500 turns at normal speed, whatever civ you pick). So, even if you pick the Kingdom of Piemonte, you will still play 500 turns, in the historical period between 1800AD and 1950AD.
When the game starts, everyone will receive all the techs to reflect the starting year.

As the game goes on, and passes from ancient to classical era, and from classical to medieval, and so on, existing AI civs will be replaced by the new ones.
Here's an example. When entering medieval era, Etrusks become an old civ, and Longobards will appear, and a small Etrusk city will automatically be assigned to Longobards. This new civ will receive a strong army and will be set at war against Etrusks ("total" war), so that they are doomed to be destroyed.

However, this way, the game could become too simple for the player, for he has no real rival (every rival will eventually die). For this reason, newer civilizations could receive larger armies and more bonuses and advantages, to allow them to be competitive. The last AI to enter (maybe, the Kingdom of Piemont) will start as the smallest, but his army will be so mighty that he's quite dangerous anyway.

Any feedback?



p.s. this mechanics would work in single player only. Multiplayer will be played in the classic style.

Great people are now unnamed. Famous "names" are given to "Illustrious personalities" (similar to Founding Fathers of Colonization). You can gain an Illustrious personality by adding up points in a number of ways (from your great people points, your great general points, from your civics, by using your missionaries, by fighting battles, etc), and when you reach a threshold, you receive a random Illustrious personality, depending on the type of points you have (religion, culture, etc.). Illustrious personalities have unique bonuses, most of them are brand new! Some Illustrious personalities are Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Dante, Scipione, Carlo Alberto, Macchiavelli, Vivaldi.


That is Creative!! Great idea

I'm excited to see this kind of Great People cause I'm getting tired of the identical Great People system in the core game.

Some new info and some screenshot added to the main post.

Judging from the new screenchots....Seems that the language of this MOD is Itallian. Do you have any plans to translate it into English?

I was wondering about that too... Anyway, from the looks of it this is very promising!

PS: Aren't the Colosseum and Circus Maximus the same building? (I noticed them both in the Wonders spoiler.)

Although I'm developing this scenario in Italian, I'm also working to translate it in English. The first release MIGHT be in Italian only (not sure), but an English version will follow shortly anyhow.

Colosseum and Circus Maximus are two distinct buildings.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colosseum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circus_Maximus

New feature:

Units will be randomly given and taken bonuses of several types, at any moment.
For example, when you are attacking an enemy city you could discover that your CityRaider3 Swordsman is momentarily unavailable to attack (he has been given the DefendOnly flag), or instead he's gone berserk (available to do collateral damage!!!).
These special bonuses last for few turns.

I'm teaching the AI how to do an early rush.... could it be a good idea?