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Cultural Conquest - Expanded - FEU 1.3

Have you ever wanted to play Rome but have good archers? Or phalanxes? Or cavalry archers? Well, now you can, with Cultural Conquest.

This mod adds a 'culture' to every faction. This culture is what recruitment is based off. So a settlement with Roman Culture can only recruit Roman units, and one with Gallic can only recruit Gallic units and etc.

The aim of the mod is to simulate that you can't just recruit your own people from newly conquered lands, that you have to get locals to fight for you.

If there's any bugs or problems, please let me know.

What does this mod do?

This mods a couple of different mechanics to the game:
• Culture/Religion mechanic
• New Factions
• Administration/General Traits
• Recruitable Mercenaries
• New Recruitment System
• Independence System
• Faction Fighting Traits
• Empire Growth Mechanics

To break these systems down a little bit.

1. Culture Religion Mechanic

Each region has a culture/religion associated with it. This culture/religion is spread using the characters that your faction makes or the temples.

Culture/religion is the requirement in this mod for unit recruitment. So, a region with 50% Julii and 50% Iberian will be able to recruit both Julii and Iberian units. This truly allows for a fully multi-cultural empire.

Every character in your faction starts off with a culture/religion trait, but that’s not all. They pass their traits onto their kids, generally. So, if you bribe someone from a different culture, you can begin the process of slowly converting your entire empire to this new culture. Of course, you can also leave your generals in a city with a foreign temple and he’ll potentially become a lover of that culture instead of his own.

You’ll notice that when you conquer a new region, you can’t build your own temples there, or that there is a long list of potential temples to be built there. Well, if a general/spy/merchant/diplomat spends a turn in an area, the ability for a new type of temple to be built there will appear. This way, if you want a pure empire, that can be done too as you spread your own culture all over the world.

2. New Factions

This mod adds a couple of new factions to the game. These are: Lugii and Rugii for the Germans, while Germania is now the Cherusci. The Gauls are broken down into the Arverni, the Boii and the Aulerci. Finally, the Greek City States are broken down into the Peloponnesian League, Mediterranean League, the Anatolian League and the Bosporan Kingdom. There is also an Illyria faction, a Caledonia faction and a Sarmatian faction.

3. Administration/General Traits

There are now traits to help track the career of your generals or governors. Whether they are a career bureaucrat who never leaves the city, or a general that never enters one. Your Generals also gain traits for battles won or lost, cities taken, and time spent in the field.
To gain the General trait, a general has to win a battle. Afterwards, spending time in the field advances the trait. To advance the Governor trait, a general must spend time in a city.

4. Recruitable Mercenaries

Mercenaries can be found in the field cheaply or be recruited more expensively in a market. These are strong professional soldiers, as such, they have high upkeep and excellent stats, at least until you can bring out your own high tier units to fight them.

5. New Recruitment System

You can no longer recruit units infinitely. Now, there’s a pool, that begins as soon as you complete a barracks, archery range or a stable. Each building has a separate pool, and you will be able to recruit units upon completion of a building. However, your fighting population can run out. And once they’ve run out, they need some time to become recruitable again. It takes 10 years for a pool to replenish itself, which allows you to recruit an additional unit. Your barracks, stables and etc will let you know if any units are available for recruitment or not.

Now, when you have large battles using all of your armies, be very careful, because unless you have a large empire to draw units from, you will run out.

6. Independence System

You have a very large empire, and you’ve decided to focus on expanding it further, which is fine, however, the people at the edges, far away are feeling neglected. Year after year, they pay taxes, and they don’t even have a governor. Who are they paying for? Why are they paying? Sometimes, even their men go off to fight in wars. Well, no more.
If a city is completely ungoverned for 20-40 years consecutively, it will become independent and look out for itself.

7. Faction Fighting Trait

Every faction a General fights, he now keeps track of. If your general beats the Julii enough times, he’ll claim the title, Julii Hammer.

8. Empire Growth Mechanics

Outside of certain specific cities, you can no longer grow your towns to city, large city and huge city level.
This is until your realm grows large. As you grow larger, you acquire greater engineering knowledge from your larger number of subjects, as such, your cities can be expanded to be bigger. The larger your empire, the larger all your cities can be. And this applies to the barbarian factions as well.

If you need any further clarification, feel free to ask below.

Here is a discord link to the Rome Total War community server: https://discord.gg/SrbuYNjg

My mod is discussed in the cultural conquest section.

I'd like to credit Eduardo and Lanjane with general help with the mod, Rendaus for letting me use their campaign region mod and Danymok for letting me use their units mod. I'd like thank Lehy for being instrumental in the banner and faction icon work. Intellego has also been a great help in the banner work, so thank you to them as well. I’d also like to thank JaceX of Rome Expanded for letting me use the better battle AI they’ve made as well as the senate peace script. Now when you go to peace with the Romans, it will happen with all the Roman factions at once.

This faction expansion update which fills out a bunch of the empty portions of the map.

I'd like to thank Eduardo and Legionary2 for helping me code the script to make the recruitment change possible. I’d also like to thank Aristoxenus for helping me come up with second names for the Caledonian faction.

***Use the realistic colour unit settings please
***The Vanilla version of the mod is not required to play this version

Thanks,
Best regards,
MilkermanHave you ever wanted to play Rome but have good archers? Or phalanxes? Or cavalry archers? Well, now you can, with Cultural Conquest.