Building upon the mod Foothold in India, Tournament of Shadows aims to diversify the major European factions of Empire: Total War.
Tournament of Shadows
An Empire: Total War Modification
What is Tournament of Shadows?
Tournament of Shadows is a mod for Empire: Total War that aims to give flavor to the major European factions and make them more unique than in vanilla. ToS is built upon ilia_r_s/Erzya’s Foothold in India mod, which itself strives to make the Indian factions and the Middle Eastern/Caucasus factions more unique. While the aim of ToS is not to completely overhaul the game or even necessarily to be 100% historically accurate, quite a few things will be changed for flavor or gameplay purposes - to the best of my abilities as a very green ETW modder.
Or maybe you were asking about the name? “Tournament of Shadows” was the name that Russian ambassador Karl von Nesselrode gave to the Great Game, the extensive 19th-century geopolitical struggle between the British and Russian empires in central Asia, Persia, and India. As ToS is essentially a fork of Foothold in India, a mod that still uses “The Great Game” as its internal file designation, I felt the name to be appropriate.
Installation Instructions
Installing ToS is extremely simple. After a fresh install of ETW, unpack the mod’s .7z folder into ETW’s data folder. No user scripts are required, but only two sub-folders (both for campaign) and one file (sounds_sfx.pack) in the data folder will require overrides.
For a more detailed rundown on the installation and gameplay features of ToS, please check the main mod description!
Changelog, Beta 0.1.1
- Fixed tgg_battle_groupformations_sinuhet.pack to have the proper .pack file extension instead of .pack.bak, a holdover from Foothold in India's modular system. This small fix should also allow tos_majors_battle_standards.pack to work alongside tgg_media_manics_flags.pack as intended.
