Trins Minimal India Improvement Mod

[Trin Tragula]

So what's this?
As there seemed to be interest in a map mod that changed the map of India without adding a lot of things this is a very light version of my Oriental mod. This mod does not add a single province, event, decision, etc to the game while still improving India a lot.
The changes are entirely restricted to India.
This may be used as a base for any mod that want to have a better setup than vanilla without specializing in changes to the area or for any player that wants to play the normal EU3 game but with a better Indian setup (if you do add this to a mod credit would be nice though )

As the mod is entirely subjects to the normal EU3 rules I can't promise much for the balance. Tax and manpower values should be balanced within India but they're still higher than in the vanilla setup which may or may not upset the general game balance (as this is meant mostly as a module to build from I haven't done a lot of balancing but I may change stuff if there is interest in this and I get suggestions).

Features:

• A revamped map of India, but with the same amount of provinces as vanilla uses (in a way it has less provinces as two provinces are now impassable that weren't before.
• A new terrain map for India
• More detailed histories for all tags, wars, alliances and provinces inside India
• New culture groups and cultures within India.
• 19 added tags (I really tried to keep this down but even with this province setup going below these are hard) and 4 removed tags (Rajputana, Bundelkhand and Deva Bengal as they are not needed, Manipur was removed as the province was removed).
  The total tag count compared to vanilla is 15 new tags.
• New flags for a few tags apart from the ones that were added.
• No changes to any other area of the game. No new events, etc.

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[Guillaume HJ]

Wow. When you said "I might try to see what I can do" I expected a draft map drawn, not an actual mod! This is amazing, and will be a huge help.

[Trin Tragula]

Well I figured I might as well It's all scavanged from my bigger mod really, just adapted to fit the smaller map.

There are some rather big abstractions in that map but I still think it beats vanilla by rather a long shot I was a bit surprised by how much detail I could get in there while still keeping with the same province number restriction.

[Guillaume HJ]

Yeah, I had a similar surprise working on Africa a few days ago - never thought I could cram this much into it (probably could have crammed in a bit more, but I didn't feel like cooking up separate flags for Wagadugu, Yatenga and Gurma, so kept them all-in-one as Mossi.

[chatnoir17]

It looks great! May I use your mod in my Eurus mod?

[Trin Tragula]

Yeah, I had a similar surprise working on Africa a few days ago - never thought I could cram this much into it (probably could have crammed in a bit more, but I didn't feel like cooking up separate flags for Wagadugu, Yatenga and Gurma, so kept them all-in-one as Mossi.

I had similar experiences when I redid Egypt, the Maghreb and Anatolia for my mod but it still gets me every time. Tinkering with maps is really one of the most enjoyable parts of EU3-modding imho.

And flag modding is one of the more frustrating ones. Paradox uses very loose criteria themselves for those though so sometimes I think one can afford to pick a less than ideal flag, after all distinctive flags is not something every region in the world had at all times (some of my Indian ones are simply the name of the state on a colored background).

It looks great! May I use your mod in my Eurus mod?

Sure Also see my PM to reply to your earlier message.

[Guillaume HJ]

Yeah, I've engaged in some, ahem, creative flag-making. But it's a bit annoying, so when it's one three province minor or three OPMs...I might go back and add the missing two at a later date, but it's not high on the priority totem pole at present.