Cassidy
Arcane
NEW VERSION:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/wvtdecqohekkn00/MagnaVinland04.zip
Highlights: Slavic Pommerania, Chinese Madagascar, Croatia, Dracula as Elector Prince of the HRE in Hungary, Zoroastrian Persia, Defenestrations and Hansa fixed.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/wvtdecqohekkn00/MagnaVinland04.zip
Highlights: Slavic Pommerania, Chinese Madagascar, Croatia, Dracula as Elector Prince of the HRE in Hungary, Zoroastrian Persia, Defenestrations and Hansa fixed.
Code:
Magna Vinland Ragnarok 0.4 modmodmod for Mare Apertum and Magna Mundi Platinum 2
Magna Vinland Ragnarok is a modification built over a mix of alternate history, low fantasy
and cosmic horror that includes a 400-year old Norse colonization of North America that
westernized neighboring natives, a pagan revival in Northern Europe, much more dangerous
Turks and five new religions fully integrated in the Dei Gratia submod.
This changelist obviously may contain spoilers. See changesragnarok02.txt for more details
NEW SCENARIO CHANGES
Africa
* New Country: Mada, formed by the descendants of the shipwreck of Zheng He expedition
in Madagascar, that gave birth to a diverse frontier country far more westernized
and modern than the Ming. They are very small, but extremely safe at the beginning, and with
natural potential for colonial expansion because of their ideas and mercantile superiority over
the right centers of trade of Asia, and thus recommended as a "tutorial country".
* The Ming start the game with one colony in continental East Africa and more in the islands and
in some islands of the Indian Ocean. Note: The Chinese Admiral Zheng He actually reached East
Africa, but historically the Ming never had any colonial interests. In the case of America,
however, Zheng He reaching it is as likely as the existence of the lost city of Atlantis.
Central and Eastern Europe
* Fixed the events related to the formation of Teutony, the "German Prussia" in this Alternate
History.
* All members of pagan Nordland are now completely playable and able to form Germany. Any
other country within that has grown powerful and prestigious enough can take the title of
"Emperor by the grace of the gods" from Cleves through a political decision, but a Dutch
country will be forsaking the formation of the Netherlands if this choice is made.
* A significant number of cities start as Hansa Cities
* New Country: Pommerania. Failing to defend itself, Lithuania was forced to abandon their
protection of Pommerania and now the Wend Pommerania, the last bastion of Slavic paganism,
must try to survive on their own, while surrounded by fanatical knightly orders.
* Lithuania lost Gdunsk to the Teutonic Order.
* What is left of Hungary is ruled by a Romanian dynasty, and by 1453, their king
is the infamous Vlad III Dracula. Hungary also is an elector of the Holy Roman Empire.
* Pommerania, Friesland, Holland and Bremen are members of the Hansa.
Balkans and Middle East
* Croatia starts as an independent country and member of the Holy Roman Empire. A Bogomil
Crusade happened, which although not entirely victorious for the HRE, it still forced
Serbia to abandon all territories with a Catholic majority and allow them to join the
Holy Roman Empire as Croatia.
* New Country: Persia. The Komnenos Restoration gave a slim chance for the last Zoroastrians to
reclaim their defeated country, and they succeeded, but not completely, and the later Mongol
invasions would greatly reduce their territories. Under Xerxes III, they dream of reviving their
long lost empire and their dying Zoroastrian religion.
America and Scandinavia
* Two civilized native cities are part of a new and more powerful Hansa: the Hansatlantic League.
* The Republic of Vinland starts as the presiding member of the Hansa. However, they will lose
their membership if they start expanding
* Odinhóll was renamed to Garðinn (The City)
* Turku, Reykjavík and Eiriksfjord are Hansatlantic Cities
General
* Being Catholic and not having at least 1 of tolerance to heretics while having any hussite
presence will cause some defenestration during monarchical successions. Thuringia and Hungary
in particular are vulnerable to this, and new Hussite Wars may and will happen.
* Meanwhile, the Protestant Reformation has become much more dangerous and impactful than it
historically did. The Papal States may and will have to wage wars to force countries to convert
and/or to conquer the Holy Land to keep the Catholic faith relevant outside of Rome.
* Draculesti Hungary has an unique modifier, aptly named "The Lord Impaler". This is one of
many unique national traits yet to come.
* Several new religious decisions for the Rodnover(Slavic Pagan) faith
* The historical Hanseatic League became something greater, that spans over the entire Baltic
and North Antlatic from Europe to North America. However, many of their members are also growing
too large for the Hansatlantic League to survive, and those who aren't are threatened by
powerful enemies. Plus, the Hansa is identified as a mostly pagan institution, and is naturally
reviled by the Christian aristocracy.
* Zoroastrians can build three different fire temples in succession by provinical decision. The
last of these temples can only be constructed after the coming of the Saoshyant.
* The ruling dynasty of Zoroastrian Persia can achieve the status of Saoshyant, the prophecized
savior that will bring the final purification of the world according to their faith, but it
won't be easy, for it requires transforming Persia into a true empire again.
* Mass desecration, slaughter and/or destruction may happen if Zoroastrians conquer Mecca,
depending on which fate Persia chooses for the city. Pagans on the other hand will gain an
enormous quantity of gold if they conquer Rome, from the looting of Papal States coffers and
razing of churches.
* Added Exploration: The Pacific Coast of the New World for sufficiently westernized Ming, Japan
or Mada, that will allow them to colonize California, Alaska and anything that isn't already
colonized. Likewise, after this colonial route is concluded, it will be possible for any of
these countries as long as it is not too backwards to chart Australia or New Zealand by
decision.
* Several regions in the world map have been altered to serve decisions that rely on their
existence.
* Several other new events and decisions for some of the new countries and some of the old ones.
Old decisions and events with issues were fixed.
* General optimization of events inherited from Magna Mundi. Redundant script lines were removed,
typos and errors fixed, among other things possible thanks to a nifty tool called Audax
Validator for checking mods for all Clausewitz engine games.
Planned changes(If mods don't fix Europa Universalis IV enough for this mod to jump to the
new game before they get done):
* Have narrative events that explain all major points of divergence for all countries which
history was changed.
* Unique mercenary companies that will be possible by using extra country tags with an exclusive
land unit tech tree, updated by event to match the technology of their time, and a decision that
adds a core of such nonexistant "country" to the player's capital at the expense of greater land
maintenance costs to allow these unique units to be recruited. These unique mercenaries will
oftenly be superior units to their contemporary, but the way they increase land maintenance
and the fact they can only be recruited from the capital will limit their use. They can be
disabled by decision to return land maintenance costs to normal, but disabling them will disband
all their units.
* If Rome falls to heathens or heretics, remaining for decades in their control, and Jerusalem
isn't in Catholic hands, after the reformation already happened, the spread of other Christian
faiths(minus Orthodox, unless Constantinople was reconquered by an Orthodox country) will rise
dramatically and the Catholic religion will begin to suffer a sharp decline.
* Complete overhaul of the espionage system. It is currently worthless unless you resort to
excessive save/load scumming or have more gold to fabricate cores than infamy to spare and
want to conquer the HRE, because of over-nerfing.
