Diadochi - Alexander's Legacy mod for Medieval II: Total War: Kingdoms

Diadochi is a mod set at 272 BC during the Hellenistic period. As of now THERE ARE NO REAL TIME BATTLES, on encounter battles are auto-resolved automatically by script.

Features:

- Campaign set at 272 BC
- Improved AI
- Scripts for immersion and to help AI in finances and military
- New traits and ancillaries to give the flavor of the era
- Complex recruitment with a government system
- Immersive strat models of the era
- 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:

- Makedonia
- Epeiros
- Ptolemaioi
- Arche Seleukeia
- Baktria
- Pontos
- Pergamon
- Koinon Hellenon
- Syrakousai
- Kimmerios Bosporos
- Roma
- Maurya Samrajya
- Hayastan
- Pahlava
- Sauromatae
- Saka Rauka
- Getai
- Odrusai
- Ardiaei
- Malkuta Nabatu
- Saba
- Kush

Cultures:

- Western Greek
- Eastern Greek
- Roman
- Indian
- Eastern Imperial
- Scythian
- Western Tribal
- Arabian
- African

Credits:

- Rise of Persia for Rome TW (original campaign map)
- De Bello Mundi (strat models, terrain textures)
- Paeninsula Italica II (base interface)
- Normal's Rome II Unit Icons (unit cards)
- Mobjay's Rome II Golden Emblems (strat banner symbol)
- Europa Barbarorum II (successor trait, wagon and trade ship strat models, mouse cursor, scripts)
- PiterAI (AI)
- z3n (Pathfinding)
- Gigantus (Recruitment Limitation Script, other scripts)

INSTALLATION:

1- Extract to your Medieval II Total War\mods.
2- Go to the new folder Diadochi_v09 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 = 1
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 Diadochi_v09 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 Diadochi_v09 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: Diadochi
- You can now launch the mod always from your desktop.