This a submod for my mapmod Ibn Battuta's Legacy, but will do a deeper changes in history, culture and other aspects of game in order to keep Ibn Battuta's Legacy more compatible for those who only want the map changed.
The main goals of this (sub)mod are:
1) Weaken super-strong Egypt (especially the Fatimids) and prevent its ever-happening and virtually unstoppable expansion southwards into Nubia and Ethiopia/Abyssinia as well as into Arabian mainland.
2) Prevent successfull holy wars of catholic powers like France and Aquitaine into North Africa, mainly by improving these regions' inland provinces, technologies and perhaps also other tools.
3) offer little more historical setup also to other regions (in first phase especially Middle East and Africa as well as Central Europe, later and to lesser extent also other)
Features:
- added sunni vasals to Fatimids
- Egyptian Western desert is made Bedouin/Berber (depending on start date). Its rulers are tribal tributaries of Cairo-based monarchies, so the resources of Fatimids/Tulunids are more limited
- improved wealth and technology of North African (Maghrebi) inland provinces/duchies in order to make those more prone to Catholic holy wars, especially before 867
- Christian provinces in the Maghreb replaced by Muslim provinces in 867 to A) reflect historical reality better, B) give local rulers better chance to raise stronger armies against Christian holy wars.
- Added some more cultures mainly to North Africa to propperly represent the various Berber tribes
- Edited military capacities of muslim states, mainly in order to increase the power of desert tribes and weaken sedentary dynasties, especially in Egypt
The goals of this mod are NOT:
1) making perfectly accurate historical setup. The main goal is to improve gameplay experience, especially in the regions primarily targeted in Ibn Battuta's legacy mapmod (Middle East, Africa, Central Asia, Central Europe). This mod will NOT add all historical characters or cultures, neither it is here to fix all vanilla little inaccuracies (that certain character should have a trait which he doesn't have, or should die/born 3 months earlier/later than he does).
If there are some major inaccuracies which should be fixed with regards to more historicaly plausible results in game, don't hesitate to post your suggestions. But please keep in mind, if the request would be done in a demanding way and will smell of a historicall-accuracy-nazism, I will not take it into account.
IMPORTANT:
As it is submod of Ibn Battuta's legacy map mod (steam) it is necessary to edit the IBWA.mod.mod file so its crucial lines are like this:
Code:
name="Improved Islam-Ibn Battutah's World"
archive="mod/ibwa.zip"
dependencies={"Ibn Battuta's Legacy(+) map improvement for CK"}
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