1830 Campaign - WIP image - Foothold in India: The Great Game mod for Empire: Total War

Well, unfortunately I can't do design, so the first version will most probably be a PoC with 18th century visuals.

Also, unfortunately there is no good way of extending the existing map in Empire, so Africa will remain restricted to the existing regions of Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, Tripoli and Egypt. Although, I'll try to make the most out of them using rebel factions, improved garrisons and unique units.

However, a lot of good stuff, from technical side, can surely be implemented, and that is:
- Remaking the political ownerships of provinces and armies, to represent the 19th century realities
- Remaking diplomatic relationships
- Replacing some factions with others: that way I can sacrifice the existing Native Americans and small Italian states, which historically were conquered by 1830, for more factions in the Balkans, Latin America, India and Middle East; modding startpos is a very tedious task, but when it's done, it's 50% of the job

As for the gameplay, the following things are surely possible:
- Breach loaders
- Gatling guns
- More deadly artillery
- Some very limited technological unit progression; I'm not a fan of the system existing in ETW II, so maybe I'll implement something different, if I find a way; maybe even scripted
- More appropriate tech tree, maybe even ported from Napoleon

Also, I plan to make Napoleon Total War style artillery, formation spacing and battle mechanics tuning - the default ones for the mod. I find Napoleon systems a bit more polished, and it should generally make the battlefield experience smoother.

If you know a designer, who could help me create unit models - and especially icons and info pics in the style of vanilla, or who could simply redo all icons from scratch - please let me know.

Thanks so much!