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India in Alexander Campaign

In vanilla Alexander DLC you can play as the Indians in custom battles and you can fight them in the historical battle of the Hydaspes, however, this faction is not in the campaign map. This mod aims to fix this situation.

The mod includes three campaigns: the Alexander campaign, the Indian campaign and the Persian campaign.


-------------------- COMMON FEATURES IN ALL CAMPAIGNS:--------------------
- India is now a faction in the campaign map
- The Indian subcontinent has three new regions
- The mod includes Indian portraits for generals and agents
- It was implemented a “Terra Incognita” system in the map. In vanilla, most of the regions are gigantic; it ruins immersion conquering the city of Petra and, suddenly, the entire Arabian Peninsula is yours. Considering that you only have 100 turn to complete the campaign, adding new regions is not an option. The solution that I found is the implementation of “Terra Incognita”, i.e., there are portions of the map (mostly desert and steppe) that don’t have any region on them because they are not relevant for this campaign.
- No changes were made in the unit stats to allow you to have a vanilla-like experience. The only exception was the reduced upkeep cost for the Indian generals to prevent India to go bankrupt just because of their generals.
- A special version of “the walking people” mod is included.
- New portrait for Darius III.



-------------------FEATURES IN ALEXANDER CAMPAIGN (MAIN CAMPAIGN) --------------------
- The Alexander campaign is essentially the same as in "vanilla". The only change I made was the Macedonian victory conditions: the player now has to invade India in order to win the campaign.


----------------FEATURES IN THE INDIAN CAMPAIGN (PROVINCIAL CAMPAIGN) ----------------
- You can have access to this campaign by selecting the option "choose custom campaign" (see screenshot above) in the campaign menu.
- In this campaign, you can play as India.
- The Macedonians have stronger armies and they are no longer at war with the rest of the world. These changes aim to help the AI. The Macedonians also prefer naval invasions to incentive them to invade Persia.


----------------FEATURES IN THE PERSIAN CAMPAIGN (PROVINCIAL CAMPAIGN) ----------------
- The source of inspiration for this campaign is the WRE in Barbarian Invasion. You start the campaign ruling a huge empire but you are surrounded by potential enemies and there's internal unrest.
- You can have access to this campaign by selecting the option "choose custom campaign" (see screenshot above) in the campaign menu.
- In this campaign, you can play as Persia.


------------------------------------ KNOWN ISSUES--------------------------------

Since the game was not prepared to have India in the campaign, there are some issues:
- The Indian cities have Egyptian models in battle maps.
- there is a small bug in the description of some temples. For some reason, the game doesn’t accept the changes I made in the related file.



------------------------------------ CREDITS-----------------------------------------

- Special thanks to @Cyrus the Great for providing information about Hindu temples and special buildings. He is also the author of the introduction text for the Indian faction.

- Thanks to Makanyane for his fantastic "Provincial Campaign Menu Addition" mod ( https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2485617008 )