Ancient Civilizations mod for Medieval II: Total War: Kingdoms

Ancient Civilizations is a mod set at 395 BC during the late Achaemenid Empire. As of now THERE ARE NO REAL TIME BATTLES, on encounter battles are auto-resolved automatically by script.

Features:

- Campaign set at 395 BC
- Improved AI
- Scripts for immersion and to help AI in finances and military
- Complex recruitment with a government system
- Immersive strat models of the era
- Immersive traits and ancillaries
- Immersive building trees
- Immersive interfaces, info images, events, etc
- Complete overhaul to all interface stuff and audio for an immersive gameplay
- 4 Turns per Year
- Overhaul to almost everything
- Functional Hot-Seat campaign

Factions:

Playable factions:

- Sparta
- Athens
- Syracuse
- Macedonia
- Etruscans
- Rome
- Carthage
- Berbers
- Egypt
- Satrapy of Syria (Persians)
- Satrapy of Cilicia (Persians)
- Satrapy of Lydia (Persians)
- Sarmatians
- Gauls
- Thracians
- Illyrians

Other factions:

- Thebes
- Taranto
- Rhodes
- Persia (vanilla papal faction)

Cultures:

- Greek
- Italic
- Phoenician
- Desert Tribal
- Egyptian
- Persian
- Scythian
- Western Tribal

Credits:

- De Bello Mundi (terrain textures, settlements, trade ship models)
- Riczu (diplomats, ships, Gallic generals/captains models)
- Algaman (generals/captains models)
- Paeninsula Italica II (base interface)
- Normal's Rome II Unit Icons (unit cards)
- Mobjay's Rome II Golden Emblems (faction symbols)
- Europa Barbarorum II (mouse cursor, some traits and scripts)
- PiterAI (AI)
- z3n (Pathfinding)
- Ancient Conquest (campaign map, factions/faction descriptions)
- Gigantus (Recruitment Limitation Script, other scripts)

INSTALLATION:

1- Extract to your Medieval II Total War\mods.
2- Go to the new folder AC_v08 in your Medieval II Total War\mods.
3- Use the "Executable" batch file to launch the mod.
4- Play and have fun.

If the game is opened in a small window do this:

Open Configuration.cfg with a text editor (preferably Notepad++) and you see this part:

[video]
movies = 0
windowed = 1 ## Windowed mode (windowed = 1) is usually more stable
borderless_window = 1
no_background_fmv = 1
show_banners = true
# widescreen = 1
# unit_detail = high
# grass_distance = 9000

Change windowed = 1 to windowed = 0

Then in game options chose the native resolution of your monitor, after that you can change to windowed = 1 again and you'll still have full screen.

How to create a shortcut to launch the mod from your desktop:

- Go to AC_v08 folder, right click on the Executable file and chose "Create shortcut" and move the shortcut to the desktop.
- Copy/paste the icon that is also in AC_v08 folder to the desktop.
- Right click on the shortcut you created, chose properties and "Change icon...", then chose "Browse..." and then chose Desktop, you should have the icon there, just chose the icon.
- Rename your shortcut to whatever you want, for example: Ancient Civilizations
- You can now launch the mod always from your desktop.