Hello, and welcome one more week to Tinto Flavour, the happy Fridays in which we take a look at the flavourful content created for the super secret Project Caesar! But before we start, I want to share with you that we have a new job opening in Paradox Tinto: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/come-work-for-tinto.1727521/
Today we will be traveling throughout the Sahara toward the Sahel, where the Empire of Mali stands, ruled by the infamous Mansa Mūsā:
The mighty Mansa Mūsā is still ruling Mali in 1337 (we don’t know exactly when he died, so we decided to have him as the ruler at the start of the game). As usual, please consider the UI, 2D and 3D art as WIP.
And here are the lands of Mali:
Some more fun camera rotations this week! Today, with the flat map mode on again.
Mali starts with one Vassal, which is Jolof:
Let’s take a look at some Government-related features of Mali, which can be checked in the Estates window:
There is one starting government reform for Mali, the Manden Kurufa:
You might also notice that all Estates start with a privilege with the same icon, as it’s a similar one, made to portray the religious diversity of Mali, a country ruled largely by Mande-speaking Sunni people, but with a fragmented, but tolerant, society:
The second screenshot comes from a tooltip on the Religious panel and shows the religious distribution of the country. Please note that we’ve already done the ‘Pagan’ split, but haven’t yet incorporated feedback from the West African Tinto Maps, nor reviewed the starting population.
There are also a couple of unique privileges for the 'Umarā', the Nobility of the country, that may be available later on after an event triggers:
Mali also starts with a couple of unique policies enacted, the first for the Distribution of Power estate law, and the other for the Levy Law military law:
Mali also starts with 3 Works of Art:
Let’s now take a look at some unique advances:
This advance is the one that unlocks the Manden Kurufa government reform.
Mali is famous for its gold exports, yeah…
Mali has a bunch of unique units, also:
Here are the Levy units unlocked by it:
You might note that the description of these two levy units refers to the Farari Corps, which is the following advance:
That unlocks the following Regular units:
Another unique advance:
That unlocks the Jonow Auxiliary, an Auxiliary unit:
Finally, another military advance, that unlocks one more unit, and two more buildings:
Let’s now take a look at the narrative content. This event will trigger while Mansa Mūsā is still alive, as an announcement of the potentially harsh time to come:
This is the disaster that may end up triggering for your country, ‘Decline of Mali’:
It will trigger a number of nasty events, such as:
This event allows you to start playing with Songhai instead of Mali if you select the third option.
If you overcome the disaster, you’ll get a reward, in terms of Prestige, Stability, etc. (we need to do some balance tweaks on it, so there might be more!).
Nonetheless, besides the disaster, you can also get nicer events while playing as Mali, such as some about the development of Timbuktu:
And that’s all for today! I hope you enjoyed it! Next week we will travel back to Europe, to the lands of the Crown of Aragon! Cheers!
Today we will be traveling throughout the Sahara toward the Sahel, where the Empire of Mali stands, ruled by the infamous Mansa Mūsā:
The mighty Mansa Mūsā is still ruling Mali in 1337 (we don’t know exactly when he died, so we decided to have him as the ruler at the start of the game). As usual, please consider the UI, 2D and 3D art as WIP.
And here are the lands of Mali:
Some more fun camera rotations this week! Today, with the flat map mode on again.
Mali starts with one Vassal, which is Jolof:
Let’s take a look at some Government-related features of Mali, which can be checked in the Estates window:
There is one starting government reform for Mali, the Manden Kurufa:
You might also notice that all Estates start with a privilege with the same icon, as it’s a similar one, made to portray the religious diversity of Mali, a country ruled largely by Mande-speaking Sunni people, but with a fragmented, but tolerant, society:
The second screenshot comes from a tooltip on the Religious panel and shows the religious distribution of the country. Please note that we’ve already done the ‘Pagan’ split, but haven’t yet incorporated feedback from the West African Tinto Maps, nor reviewed the starting population.
There are also a couple of unique privileges for the 'Umarā', the Nobility of the country, that may be available later on after an event triggers:
Mali also starts with a couple of unique policies enacted, the first for the Distribution of Power estate law, and the other for the Levy Law military law:
Mali also starts with 3 Works of Art:
Let’s now take a look at some unique advances:
This advance is the one that unlocks the Manden Kurufa government reform.
Mali is famous for its gold exports, yeah…
Mali has a bunch of unique units, also:
Here are the Levy units unlocked by it:
You might note that the description of these two levy units refers to the Farari Corps, which is the following advance:
That unlocks the following Regular units:
Another unique advance:
That unlocks the Jonow Auxiliary, an Auxiliary unit:
Finally, another military advance, that unlocks one more unit, and two more buildings:
Let’s now take a look at the narrative content. This event will trigger while Mansa Mūsā is still alive, as an announcement of the potentially harsh time to come:
This is the disaster that may end up triggering for your country, ‘Decline of Mali’:
It will trigger a number of nasty events, such as:
This event allows you to start playing with Songhai instead of Mali if you select the third option.
If you overcome the disaster, you’ll get a reward, in terms of Prestige, Stability, etc. (we need to do some balance tweaks on it, so there might be more!).
Nonetheless, besides the disaster, you can also get nicer events while playing as Mali, such as some about the development of Timbuktu:
And that’s all for today! I hope you enjoyed it! Next week we will travel back to Europe, to the lands of the Crown of Aragon! Cheers!
