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Ignore my previous post. I figured out the problem.

I love the mod. It presents more of a challenge when playing as Rome to have colonizing, powerful barbarians on their doorstep. :)
 
i've tried a fair amount of mods, this is so far my favorite.

currently playing as the numidian country massaesyli. have taken carthage down and spread to the north.



thanks for creating such a great and challenging mod.
 
Something I recently did:

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That is the extent of what changes I have done to provinces at the moment; the diagonal line will be taken care of obviously, just felt that the other three ones I did get rid of was enough work for the moment :p.

The reasons for those two provinces are to slow down Roman northward expansion, Mutina since the ai seem to dislike conquering isolated inland provinces; hopefully it will slow them down somewhat. Cenomani and the changes with Vindelicias borders are to prevent immediate colonization of Raetia after conquest of Gallia Cisalpina.

Will mainly try to give some (but definately not all) minors more provinces (in those seen in the screenshot I plan to divide Etruria so that the Etruscans will have two provinces). Have some general ideas on what I will try to do in various areas at a minimum and may post them soon, but any suggestions would be welcome as always.

However, you should be aware of that this will not necessarily end up in the next version of this Mod (but it will probably be formally included eventually). There are three things that may cause me to upload a new version:
1. The beta become an official patch, since I will then upload a version compatible with it.
2. I do enough other stuff (like the law stuff, did only a few since the general idea is one thing, ideas of actual implementable laws is another).
3. I have done enough map stuff to feel that it is worth to formally include.
 
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Descartes said:
Very good! :D
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Glad you like it so far.

With regards to Etruria, I plan to split it roughly where the soldier is standing (draw a diagonal line from the top of the flag to where the spear goes from wood to metal and continue to the coast more or less). What do you think would be the best city for the northern province, and what should the provinces be called.

Thinking of Tarquinii (with city Tarchna - Tarquinii which is what we already have) for the southern one and Volaterrae (city Felathri/Velathri - Volaterrae). Capital in the north since the main purpose for Etruria is to block too early colonization of Liguria by the likes of Rome which they won't do well if Epirus conquer their northern province.

Some cities located in the provinces seem to be:
Northern:
West:
-Volaterrae
-Populonia
-Vetulonia
East:
-Arretium
-Cortona
Southern:
West:
-Volci
-Tarquinii
East:
-Volsinii
-Clusium (barely: is very close to the planned border (if not on it))
-Perusia (as above)
 
I agree Tarquinii should be the name of the southern province, but maybe you should consider Arretium instead of Volaterrae for the northern one. It was an important Etruscan city, after all, and it seems to have flourished under Roman control (which makes it a better choice for later periods).
 
Descartes said:
I agree Tarquinii should be the name of the southern province, but maybe you should consider Arretium instead of Volaterrae for the northern one. It was an important Etruscan city, after all, and it seems to have flourished under Roman control (which makes it a better choice for later periods).
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Seems reasonable. Still, Velathri is a better sounding name then Arretium (but not as nice as Fufluna :p).
 
Added the second Etruscan province and got rid of the diagonal line. No screenshot :p

A brief overview of some of what I plan, more specifically in Italy and Greece. In Italy, giving Samnites two provinces, Corfinium & Bovianum. Not sure what resource to give Bovianum though. Nothing else there except possibly dividing Ager Bruttius in some way.

In Greece: giving Epirus a second province (Ambracia: capital in Epirus province would become Phoenice). Orestis in upland Macedonia. Making room for an Athens province (and consequently adding Athens as a country). Messenia split from Sparta. It will go to the Achaean League giving them two provinces (and potentially giving Sparta a mission of their own :) ). Split Aetolia province in 3 (yes 3!) provinces. Acarnania (initially Macedonian) in the west with city Stratos. Aetolia in the middle, and a second Aetolian province in the east; not sure of name: Phocis and Naupactis are two possibilities.

Edit: The Argolis/Corinth province (city will remain Corinth, province name may change) will also have its borders altered, so that it have the easternmost part of Achaea, so the direct link Achaea-Aetolia (or with the other changes; eastern Aetolian province) will no longer be there (though there may be a strait added around there).
 
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I present you Italy:
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And Greece:
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The Greek one is the most recent, but after it I did fix the names of the seazones, changed the connection Euboea-Argolis to Euboea-Attica and renamed Sparta-province to Laconia.
 
Nice ones!
On Greece though, I think you should get rid of the Thessaly-Attica connection, making Phocis a tad bigger. Argolis should also be reduced in size, giving its southern part (just south of that bay it now encompasses) to Sparta/Laconia instead.
 
vanin said:
Nice ones!
On Greece though, I think you should get rid of the Thessaly-Attica connection, making Phocis a tad bigger. Argolis should also be reduced in size, giving its southern part (just south of that bay it now encompasses) to Sparta/Laconia instead.
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Agree 100% with giving that part of Argolis to Laconia, meant to do it, but simply forgot about it :D.

As for the Thessaly-Attica connection. Well we have there one Locris (can't remember if it is the Opuntian or the Ozolian one) in the Thessaly province and there is also Boeotia around there (but in eastern Phocis and western Attica as the map is), regions that should be controlled by the Macedonians IIRC. As such I am at the moment of the opinion that that connection should stay. Technically Aetolia and Athens probably shouldn't share a border, if not for the fact I want Aetolia to start with two provinces, Phocis should probably best be used as a Boeotia province (in which case it should get that coastal strip).
 
Next I think I will do Magna Graecia. Currently plan to divide Ager Bruttius into two provinces: Croton and Rhegion. In Sicily I plan to add two provinces, Messana and Akragas. Two new countries to be added, Mamertines and Rhegion (controlled by Campanian mercenaries that took power around the time the game start (as I could see maybe a few months in), conquered by Rome shortly after Pyrrhus left Italy). Magna Graecia, the country (which is independent for a very, very short time at the moment), will be renamed Taras and just represent Taras (no core on Croton nor Rhegion).

Edit: With Rhegion the Mercenaries should take control in 275, not earlier, but still before that it was friendly to Rome (together with Thurioi and Lokroi). So should still be included.
 
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Todays progress:

First Sicily.
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Yes, the Rhegion flag is ugly, I changed it after this screenshot to something slightly less hideous.

Then Thrace.
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If Getae province seems big it is because the Thrace provinces are smaller then they would have been had not the Danube gone to far south (also the northwest part of it I plan to lop of). Planned on also having Thracian Chersonesos, but there was this fact that it should start owned by the Seleucids so it is not in for now. Will focus on Dacia next, trying to improve it somewhat. Will also try to improve to shape of Tylis.
 
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