And now the big news.
The mod has been re-uploaded. The changes between the previous and the current version are quite large, so I decided it would be better to consider it a new mod on Steam, rather than an update of the older version.
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The new version of Ibn Battuta's Legacy is available on
Steam Workshop as well as on
Paradox mods platform
I am still merging the changelogs from various working versions I had into one full changelog, but I already have it graphical:
Let's first look at Bohemia. There are no new baronies, compared to the previous version, but I slightly changed the counties, so that now Velehrad is now a better capital of Great Moravia.
Some changes happened also to terrain of Bohemia - most importantly, the barony of Doudleby now has wetlands terrain instead of hills.
Another new thing about Central Europe is that I changed the extent of Slovien culture and expanded it a little eastwards:
Now, before we move to the Sahara and Sub-Saharan Africa, there were some small changes also in Egypt - namely the desert corridors between Cyrenaica's Inland, the Siwa oasis and Egyptian oases of al-Wahat.
As I already teased, there are also changes in Nubia region. The duchies setup has changed in order to allow the split of Nubia kingdom into Makuria and Alodia kingdoms and with them creation of Nubian empire, which now consists of Makuria, Alodia, Blemmyia and Darfur:
This was enabled by adding few new counties:
Changes in the Sahara are best displayed on the video I showed in my previous post:
... but they can also nicely be seen on a screenshot of West and Central Africa, which shows the areas of West African Savanna - the new terrain added in my other mod, which is incorporated into Ibn Battuta's Legacy:
The most substantial changes of the mod (for now) and this big update are in Sub-Saharan Africa, especially its central part between Lake Chad and Bight of Benin.
As already noted, one change is the addition of (lower) Benue as a major river, but more changes took place there:
Let's start with kingdoms:
the kingdoms of Borgu and Igbo-Benue has been replaced by several other entities, better fitting the era of Crusader Kings.
There are 2 entirely new kingdoms: Benin and Kwararafa, and another 2 kingdoms were renamed: Igbo-Benue to Nri and Borgu to Banzaland.
The kingdom of Nri (former Igbo-Benue) is now named after the historical kingdom of Nri, which, however, covered only small section of the region, but was the most influential state of the Igbo people. On its edges it has 2 new duchies - Akpoto, named after the Akpoto people, who are the first known inhabitants of the Niger-Benue confluence, and Ejagham - a duchy, which covers areas of large number of smaller tribes on the edge of our map bordering the Igbos from the east.
In the Niger delta there is the new kingdom of Benin - even smaller, but even more influential kingdom of the Edo people. It's territory is small, though, so to be slightly larger, it also includes the duchy of Ijaw, named after the Ijaw people. But now let's move on to the completely newly overhauled areas to the north of these 2 kingdoms.
Banzaland is based on the Hausa concept of Hausa vs. Banza states. Its de jure duchies are the 3 of the most stable Banza kingdoms: Zamfara, Kebbi and Nupe, plus it also includes Borgu, a kingdom which is usually mentioned among Banza states.
Another of the Banza states was Kwararafa - a kingdom of the Jukun people, which was in the Benue valley and expanded from its 11th century origins in
Upper Kwararafa downstream.
I was able to add all these kingdoms only by adding far more counties and baronies than we have in the vanilla.
All the red underlined baronies are new, the blue ones are renamed.
On the counties section you could see that number of counties was also added to Hausaland, which received another small overhaul:
With this great many new baronies and counties, I was able to finally break the overextended Hausa and Nupe cultures into something slightly better, so there are 2 new cultures in the area, the Akpoto and the Jukun:
These are the biggest changes. However, there are few small adjustments. Firstly, in the Niger bend area, I not only adjusted the Songhay area, but also added one more barony and county to the Gurma area:
And lastly I made several adjustments to the Ghana/Wagadu area
