Basic unit is the colonial farmer armed with a miscellany of old muskets. Basic unit is a hunter-gatherer hunting group.Įuropean colonials - firearm type weapons (musket and rifle), close and then open order tactics, firepower range advantage, poor in close fighting.
The game will balance out as follows:Īfrican tribal groups - javelin type weapons, skirmish tactics, development into melee tactics with iklwa type weapons. I've been conceptualizing this project for some time now, it was originally meant to run with the old CHINA map from MTW. The period will run from 1800 to somewhere circa 1890 (when was gold discovered around the Transvaal again?) but it will definitely not include the great Anglo-Boer War. Technically the area being covered will be kwaZulu Natal, parts of Mozambique, Orange-Free State, the Transvaal but focusing mainly on that particular area and chronicling the rise of the Zulu empire under Dingiswayo and then Shaka and the latter's successors. Post here if you want to join the team, make a contibution or give any historical information or pm me. Later on the Zulus will get riflemen as they did in real life by stealing the weapons of dead British soldiers.
#Total war zulu mod mod#
The mod will be as realistic to the time as possible without making the game boring. The tech trees will be altered massively so that the zulus have an advantage in number of men but not in skill. The Zulus will be the senate and the tribes they encompassed will be the roman factions. The factions will include as many of the native tribes as possible as well as the Boers and British. Here is the first unit, the main zulu warrior infantry (impis) Any help of course is always welcome and we will probably be co-operating with the africa colonization mod with some things. The team so far is me doing the modelling and Dclare doing the campaign map. The map will be of South Africa and Zululand but the historical battles will probably be in other areas of Africa as well.
It will go from the rise of Shaka at the start of the 1800's to the zulu's downfall about 1870.