Samanid 9th century

[Mountainhouzhe]

Hello all, I would like to introduce a personal mod I was developing in the last months.
It focuses on the Samanid dynasty in the 9th-10th century.



In the embedded picture is the area of interest shown.





Besides the Samanid I consider as main factions:

in Iran: Saffarid, Tahirids , Alavid of Tabaristan/Daylam, Afrighids of Khwarzm, Abbasids

in India : Gurjara Pratihara , Pala, Rashtrakuta


in the Steppe/Transoxiana/Altai: Qarlugs, Khyrghiz, Kimek, Oghuz, Khazar



Other factions are:
VolgaBulgaria, Hindu Shahis, Zunbils, Sindh, Qocho, Carmatians, Hamanid, Armenians, Khotan, Tibet, Alans, Pagan/Pyu, Thaton, Nanzhao.


(These are not full faction names)


As of now my main time went into the map and a settlement database.

For the map I was using GIS data for the height- and ground map and Demis for the rest.


The settlement database is saving Settlement positions in longitude, latitude coordinates and maps them to game pixels.



My main source for the settlements are the excellent books "The lands of the eastern caliphate“ by G. Le Strange and "A Historical atlas of South Asia“ by J. E. Schwartzberg.



A main planned feature of this mod is implementing a minor settlement system.
These settlements are represented by buildings and by using the excellent M2TWEOP project from youneuoy ( https://www.twcenter.net/forums/foru...erhaul-Project ) to make changes in settlement size visible on the Strat map. (This add-on makes it also way easier/possible to downgrade buildings and settlement levels, for example by Sacking or Devastation)



Currently I am working on:

Searching for dynastic emblems/symbols.

Changing rivers, Mountainpaths. Roadpaths

Additional Buildings and Settlementsize

Changing StratMap Textures, Models




Later I plan on adding more features of M2TWEOP, like switching trading resources changing province founder during game….


I would appreciate suggestions and information (historical records, like size, main trades) of settlements ( India, Taklamakan, Khazar) and dynastic emblems/symbols.


Best regards







Mountain Examples:

map_grounds:

[sullivanclan1]

Will you include at least three or four asian factions?

[Mountainhouzhe]

I am still not decided on using shadow factions or not. I would like to but these take a lot of faction slots.

I consider adding Pyu/Pagan in Myanmar, Nanzhao on the fringes of Yunan.
Are these counting for you as Asian factions

There is already a Tibet faction.
I think (need to read more) the Qocho faction has a good amount of Chinese population/institutions as the area is part of the hexi corridor.

What factions are you interested in / would like to see?

Edit: I just came across the Thaton Kingdom, a Mon kingdom in lower Burma, which seems to be partly on the map. The thing is I dont know if I can find units for these factions...

Here are the changes on the Map.
Best regards

[sullivanclan1]

I need to look up more factions before I give you more possible factions to add to your mod.

[Elendil 03]

Good luck with your project!

[Mountainhouzhe]

Thank you, I am working on a supporting script for importing units and test the mod with them.