Sorry about that, I was in a bit testy mood last week..... BTW, I'm currently PWNING everyone in my current Monarch-level game.... I'm playing as Nippon, and I started on a rather isolated continent with the Dolgans and Skaven, both of whom tried to attack me early on, but because I out-expanded them, I beat them both back to 1 city each, and only tolerated them as long as they behaved themselves, which they didn't, so they got wiped out, but not before one of my suicide war-galleys managed to find the other continent, and I met the Tileans, Norsca, Khemeri, Naggaroth and Cathay. I also managed to snag the only source of Brightstone by landing a settler party at the only unclaimed location on the Tilean-Khemeri continent, shortly before the Dark Elves and Khemeri wiped them out. The dark elves then made the mistake of attacking me, and I got everyone to dogpile them (including the 1CC skaven
), and was able to take over a large island to the north.
Sometime after this, the Dark Elves managed to wipe out the Norsca, and I grabbed two nice city locations near where the Norse capital was...
Then, I fortified and filled the city on the Khemeri continent full of troops (it also had walls, a keep and a castle rushed in it), and sent all my fireblast spells (auto-produced by all the wizard's guilds on the main continent), in preparation for Khemeri's inevitable attack, which came not long after I was done prepping Naha's (the city on the Khemeri continent) defenses. I managed to get everyone to dogpile the Khemeri, and in fairly short order, I managed, with the help of the dark elves, to wipe the Khemeri out (and thankfully before they built the spell of awakening!).
Not long after that, the dark elves attacked me,
while I had an active ROP with Cathay
So, Cathay and I managed to spank the Dark Elves pretty good, everyone made peace, and I'm getting close to the domination limit... My main focus is to get a marketplace, merchant's guild and bank in every city, and a seafarer's guild in all coastal cities, since maintainance/unit support costs are
killing me, and I need all the gold I can get... As a matter of fact, early on, I started reducing captured cities down to 1 population producing "foreign" workers that had 0 unit support costs, and re-joining all my native workers back to my cities as soon as I could. I'm also building huge troop concentrations in my cities (actually former Norse cities) on the Dark Elves home continent in preparation to stomp the dark elves good next time they get uppity and try to attack me... I have at least 3 armies on that continent loaded with Mercenaries (I built all the unit auto-producing wonders thus far), Ironguts, Earth Elementals, and Gryphon Riders....
In other news, I am planning an unofficial expansion, updating the mod with about 70 new unit gfx, made by our talented fellow members, but its far from ready.
As somene said the other day, it takes Sandris less time to make units than it takes me to add them. I also have to get my personal version sorted out first, and then make another as close to the original as possible with only a few name changes like i.e. I replaced the Araby Pikeman with one of Sandris` spear dudes, so I renamed the unit to Guard. I may change it to Heavy Spearman. Anyway, its not a pikeman anymore, so I might have to move it from Polearms. I will open these things for discussion when the time comes.
When I release it, I`ll mention Hikaro and his Lighthouse in the Credits
I'm also working on a Lite patch of my own... Mainly to get all the Amazon units "decent" (i.e. reduce the mod's ESRB rating from Mature to Teen), with no more topless Amazons, plus a few additional units/tweaks to de-suckify the Amazons (with the units they got now, it's no wonder they never last long in any of the games I've played with them in)... One of which is a unit, available with Awakening called the "Valkyrie", which has similar stats to a Grail Knight (and just happens to use a recently created unit of mine's graphics
)
), and I'd like to say great job 
This mod will in all probability not get any more updates, but if it does I'll add you.
! I love the whole Warhammer universe so this is just what I'm looking for.
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