This mod is a setup change (a "bookmark") to just after the battle of Ipsos, focusing on the Diadochi experience. In addition to the set-up changes on the map, there are a significant number of flavor events related to territory changes and wars, marriages and deaths. (This mod has been around for some time, I'm just now posting about it in the forums).
Steam link:
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Note: Mod is currently bugged (1.5), will be resolving soon.
Here's the set-up in the East (there are no changes outside the regions shown here):
The general changes follow the territorial changes after Ipsos with Ptolemy taking Palestine and setting up the contentions that would lead to the Syrian wars and Seleukos splitting Anatolia with Lysimachos (this latter border is unclear from the sources available so I've taken some liberty in drawing the lines). There are a few details to note: Cappadocia was shifted upwards so that Seleukos and Lysimachos could share a border (important if they are to fight and exchange territories per the game rules). An unforgotten detail is that Cilicia, a land often changing back and forth between the Seleukids and Ptolemies, was initial held by Kassander's brother, reflected in the start here. I have made several smaller states to be absorbed into the larger powers but I intend to add a small Pergamon (and remove the game event) so that players can enjoy the Attalid challenge.
But the main focus of this mod is on the continuation of the Antigonids through Demetrios (the mod nickname "Aeneas" is due to the similarity of fall and flight to the West that the two share). The Antigonids (now in red) have a few territories remaining lower to them: the Ionian coast, Cyprus, and the Phoenician coast. Antigonid players will have a good opportunity to retake Cilicia early on (as Demetrios did) but have to worry about Seleukid and Ptolemaic interests in the region. A post detailing the events will come later, but flavor included generally follows Demetrios per Plutarch's sketch of his life. As many of you may know, Demetrios would eventually retake Macedonia and the Antigonids would rule that kingdom until Rome conquered them a little over a century after game start.
Steam link:
Steam Workshop::Aeneas (301 BC)
Here's the set-up in the East (there are no changes outside the regions shown here):
The general changes follow the territorial changes after Ipsos with Ptolemy taking Palestine and setting up the contentions that would lead to the Syrian wars and Seleukos splitting Anatolia with Lysimachos (this latter border is unclear from the sources available so I've taken some liberty in drawing the lines). There are a few details to note: Cappadocia was shifted upwards so that Seleukos and Lysimachos could share a border (important if they are to fight and exchange territories per the game rules). An unforgotten detail is that Cilicia, a land often changing back and forth between the Seleukids and Ptolemies, was initial held by Kassander's brother, reflected in the start here. I have made several smaller states to be absorbed into the larger powers but I intend to add a small Pergamon (and remove the game event) so that players can enjoy the Attalid challenge.
But the main focus of this mod is on the continuation of the Antigonids through Demetrios (the mod nickname "Aeneas" is due to the similarity of fall and flight to the West that the two share). The Antigonids (now in red) have a few territories remaining lower to them: the Ionian coast, Cyprus, and the Phoenician coast. Antigonid players will have a good opportunity to retake Cilicia early on (as Demetrios did) but have to worry about Seleukid and Ptolemaic interests in the region. A post detailing the events will come later, but flavor included generally follows Demetrios per Plutarch's sketch of his life. As many of you may know, Demetrios would eventually retake Macedonia and the Antigonids would rule that kingdom until Rome conquered them a little over a century after game start.
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