Black & White 2 Redux mod

Can obtain BoTG Spells in the future?

Hi,
I've tested extensively this mod for a few weeks now and I think I can tell something about it right now.

I very like the first norse land. It's quite exciting seeing multiple norse tribes in their little daily skirmishes through the land. A bit more of such solutions would make maps even more interesting.
Building dwelings seem a bit strange for me. Increased building requirements are ok with one exception. In my opinion there is too small diference between say villa, house and hovel. I would sugest lowering building requirements for house and hovel in order to make it more convincing to build. Between those three it would seem to me that villas are in favored position.
Being an evil god (over 76% evil) I tried raising undead from the cementary. It works, and oh good that feeling! Really nice and worth all those sacrifices. Those platoons seem to have one big problem tho, unless it is intetional. While clashing with enemy forces enemy paltoons' experience levels seem skyrocketing. While begining fighting with conscripts after few seconds (about 10) I end up fighting with elite warriors.
When I've built an altar I've noticed that it's using BOTG model for 10 miracles. I've wondered if it will be possible to use them later in the game. I've ended campaign and I've never seen them. Well, I honestly was counting for a different outcome but oh well, redux spells are also cool as heck. If I could point something here, I would try something that moder "Egerion" did, that is using scripts for every and each land to spawn bubles with those miracles on our alters. He did it in his mod "BoTG Spells in B&W2;", really good work.
I can't believe how good warfare in that game has become. Changes are simply genius. The stuff works really good both with the meele and ranged platoons. Experience level solution is smart one in my opinion but it's a real struggle to push your platoon experience level beyond 6 If it's not a catapult. Maybe something to make it a little bit easier or maybe add and aditional cheat after ending campaign that could allow us to play with that kind of stuff? Speaking of catapults I've noticed one issue but I don't know what exaclt could be done here to improve it. I think we are lacking an option to effeciently use catapult in defense, something like holding position and shooting in everything in range automatically. I've not seen any other issues than that.
I've seen that you are currently in development of unique gameplay option for good gods (counterpart for 76% evil gods). If I could sugest something I would sugest increasing impresivenes on meadows and planted trees near roads, to make more rewarding creating gardenlike cities. If it would be a bit underpowered something else could be added to it.
Soundtrack is just a masterpiece. Dynamic soundtrack during extensive warfare activities can be simply glorious.
There is also problem with those pesky crashes now and then but I suspect it's because game is near it's limits after that moding or something, don't know.

Overall I had a blast. You really gave this game a second breath. New lands, quests, BOTG adaptation... It's simly huge. I couldn't even list every single stuff I adore here, just pointed out the most important ones. Really good job, something I wanted to experience in 2005.

If I made mistakes in my post please forgive me. English is not my native language and I got a bit emotional sharing my opinion here :)

I installed the mod, launched it after the installation - and it appears to have worked (i.e. I could select the additional creatures from a new game). However I couldn't see how to access the different level modes like Skirmish.

I closed the game to check if I was missing some instructions, and then couldn't find a way to launch the mod again. The 'shortcut' the installer created on my desktop is just an empty file called 'Black & White 2', not actually a shortcut.

But unless I'm missing something obvious, the instructions don't include anything about creating a shortcut, or (to solve my initial problem) how to play with the new features of the mod?

Hi there,

I love this mod, I've wanted something like this since I got the original game back in '05.

There is a particular issue I'm having when playing, however.
The mod will crash seemingly randomly, with a preceding bug that doesnt show the most recent saves. The game will then crash without warning. Though I had little issues with most of the lands, I had heavy problems with the last Japanese Land, forcing me to save every 5 mins, so as to not lose progress (it was attempt no.5 at that point). I was wondering if this was something that could be looked into. Many thanks!

Hi,
Please forgive my bad English while reading the comment, I'm French.
Thank you for your hard working on this mod :)

However, there is some problems I want to report. If needed, I played the campaign with maximum difficulty and all redux feature unlock (in god playground).
In the last Japanese land, if you take the town in the center, japonese armies will disorganise around the mountain. It's a minor problems here.
But in the first Aztec land, it will be more dangerous. Because the aztec armies will disorganise around your capitale. It's a big deal if they begin taking your town center, but most of their soldiers are still dispersed out of your influence ring, and you can't do anything while the capture progress.
In the second Aztec land, it's the same, but it's the player army which disorganised around the aztec capital.
In addition, the game might crash on the three aztec land, even when you try to save the game.
And in the first battle of the god campaign, I'm unable to continue because the game crash constantly around the prison (I'm not sure it's the cause of the problems).

I hope it will be helpfull to enhance the mod and you won't have too much difficulty to read.