One Ruler on Earth: Total War mod

One Ruler On Earth is essentially a spiritual successor to Falcom Total War 3: The Total Conquest, with new factions, units, and a campaign map made from scratch.

The 4GB patch is very highly recommended, as it will prevent the vast majority of crashes by allowing Medieval II to access more of your computer's RAM. It will not interfere with playing the base game or any other mod in singleplayer or multiplayer modes.

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New map: The map from Falcom has been replaced with an equal area projection, which will help make some regions on the map (i.e. Italy) less cramped. A deep sea region has also been added. Players can also now visit New Zealand, as well as sail under South America. The regions and settlements will be adjusted accordingly.

New setting: The campaign begins in late 1204, in the aftermath of the Fall of Constantinople and just as the clans of Mongolia are being united under Genghis Khan. The end date has also been pushed forward to the 17th century in order to keep the timeframe roughly the same length as vanilla, as well to finish the campaign with what is traditionally seen as the beginning of the early modern era. The campaign map, factions, and starting positions will reflect this period.

New factions: Factions that were no longer existent by 1204, were in already well-populated regions, or were completely isolated from everyone else have been replaced, with the goal of filling out the world map more efficiently while also keeping everyone in relative proximity with one another. Take control of new powerhouses like Persia or Hindustan, or try your luck as a historical underdog like Vietnam or Korea!

Horde factions: The Mongols and Mexica will begin the campaign as hordes, with the initial objectives of unifying Mongolia and settling into the Valley of Mexico respectively.

Playable Papacy: The Papal States will be a fully playable (albeit very easy) faction, with a unique roster and the ability to declare crusades even when under player control—something not possible when playing as them in vanilla.

Technological adoption: The Mexica, Maya, and Quechua will eventually be able to unlock gunpowder and cavalry through enough "contact" with factions from the Old World.

New units: Every single unit roster is being reworked and there will be no vanilla units in the final product. No more factions with only 4 units, and the vanilla factions will finally get the updated looks they deserve!

Standardized unit balancing: Major discrepancies in unit costs, recruitment times, and combat performance between factions have been ironed out. The goal is to make every faction viable in battle, with the difficulty coming in the form of a tricky campaign rather than overly handicapped armies.

New events: The Second Council of Lyon, banning of football in England, Diet of Worms, the Pope's discovery of his love for coffee, and other historical events will have an effect on the campaign.

Chronological armour upgrades: Higher tiers of blacksmith buildings will be unlocked as the campaign progresses, in order to have troops appearances match up with the passage of time. Bronze is available at the start, silver upgrades will become available in the 15th century, and gold in the 16th century.

Mod Team:
-Metal.Pigeon: Mod leader & unit modeler
-TheVarangian: Campaign mapper
-Voxhales: Campaign mapper & buildings
-BucketHell: Campaign mapper & 2D artist
-stevietheconqueror: 2D artist
-Kim Yo-Juul: Buildings/coding

Contributors:
-EL92: Persian units
-IGdood: Historical advisor

And of course, thanks to falcom4ever for making Falcom Total War 3: The Total Conquest and letting us work on this mod.

Assets:
-Age of Tigers OSP by dariel on TaleWorlds
-American units by Jaguar Paw on TWC
-Asia Empires and Shaoding by againster and friends from DOMOD
-Bellum Crucis and the Complete Sicilian Unit Roster by +Mr.Crow+ and friends on TWC
-BETTER GRASS and BETTER WATER by DAVIDE on TWC
-The Broken Crescent team
-Byzantium Reskin by Arthalion on TWC
-The Complete Byzantine Unit Roster team
-The Crusades: Way to Expiation team
-Enhanced 2D Interface by cedric37 on TWC
-High Quality Sky Textures 1.0 by Hereje on TWC
-The Italian Wars team
-Lord Calidor's Weapon Pack by Lord_Calidor on TWC
-Men-at-Arms Armour Pack by Narf_of_Picklestink on TaleWorlds
-Middle Eastern city strat models by Aura on TWC
-Real Shields 0.33 by nikossaiz on TWC
-Resource works by paleologos on TWC
-The Rusichi: Total War team
-The Sengoku: Total War team
-The Tsardoms: Total War team
-Vietnamese items by as0017 on TaleWorlds
-Western Unit Overhaul by G|I|Sandy on TWC
-Various models by Jukoman on TWC
-Various models by Sumskilz on TWC

Music:
-Civilization V
-Civilization VI
-Kevin MacLeod
-Medieval: Total War
-Medieval II: Total War & Kingdoms
-Rome: Total War
-Shogun: Total War
-Shogun 2: Total War
-Total War: Attila
-Total War: Three Kingdoms