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Africa Plus [NEEDS UPDATE]

The goal of Africa Plus (BAP) is to bring additional depth and flavor to playing in Africa. This mod was originally a project focused on improving just West Africa, but has since grown to encompass the whole continent (though the focus of the work remains uneven). Recent updates have focused on adding greater depth to the regions of Nubia and Ethiopia, through an overhaul of East African cultures and the addition of a unique form of Ethiopian Christianity.



BAP's main focus is a thorough religious and cultural rework of the African continent. BAP adds more than a dozen new faiths, with new tenets, whilst heavily revising vanilla African religions. The mod also adds over two dozen new cultures in West and East Africa, whilst also overhauling ruler titles, name and dynasty lists, in total adding more than nearly 3000 new names, as well as thousands of fixed localisations for things like vanilla African religions, cultures, ruler and council titles, names of counties, duchies, kingdoms and more. BAP also adds fun and interesting new decisions, characters, events to add flavour to Africa with a mix of increased historicity and playability (fun!).

Please join us on the mod's Discord to give feedback, make suggestions, or help out: https://discord.gg/tY4bTRGsNg



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• Muslim Enhancements
  
• Ibn Battuta's Legacy 2 (IBL)
  
• BAP
  
• BAP-ME Compatch
  
• BAP-IBL Compatch
  
• RICE
  
• EPE
  
• EPE-ME Compatch
  
• BAP-EPE Compatch
  
• Culture Expanded

12/06/2023 - See HOTFIXES for BAP 1.6 (1.6.1) section below.



09/06/23


This is the sixth major update for BAP, and after previous updates to Eastern Africa included, we have now taken 'central' and Eastern Africa from vanilla's 8 cultures to 20 cultures! In this update we have added 6: Maba, Fur, Nuba, Dinka, Kwama, and Berta (AKA Proto-Funj!).



A big thank you to BAP community member Nix, who lay the ground work for this update with research, sketching the initial set up of each culture, and creating name_lists for the Dinka, Maba (too big for me to have time to localise yet sorry!), as well as providing me the resources to complete the Fur name list as well (amongst other things). Thank you so much Nix! This overhaul is not 100% done and more depth will be added in later post-release updates when I have more time or can convince Nix to help me :) What's definitely coming post-release will include a unique Maba name list, and material permitting more unique localisation for Kwama and Berta as well.

In addition, this rework brings one new pagan faith to BAP, Nhialicism. Centred on the veneration of the ancient sky and rain god Nhialic, this faith replaces Kushitic paganism for areas in southern Alwa, and west into the Kordofan region (that is the Dinka and Nuba counties in-game). The Daju controlled counties remain a Kushtic hold out however, so those who wish to RP as a Nubian pagan these counties are for you. The Kwama area at the very bottom of Alwa is now also pagan (Waaq). These changes mean that for Christian rulers of Alwa there is a new challenge, only the northern part of the kingdom is feudal and Christian, with the southern half both pagan and now of different cultures. This is a much more accurate set up (it obviously is far from perfect though but this is a game after all), as in reality whilst a thoroughly Christian kingdom Alwa nevertheless ruled over a large territory that retained its traditional social and religious organisation – with little penetration of Christianity into these regions far from the Alwan capital of Soba. So unlike their northern neighbour of Makuria, the Alwan king will now have to manage tribal, pagan, and different culture vassals. Don't forget that one of these counties (now in Kwama-land) the county of Fazghuli, has a gold mine – so best not let it slip from your fingers in a revolt!

BONUS: Coptic culture! With integration of some changes from CE, Coptic culture is now present on the map in most of Egypt – something I had planned for a long time but never got around to, this is long over-due.


-Now players using any of BAP's over a dozen new West African faiths (plus the Amazigh pagans out there) will be able to take the vanilla Feudalise realm decision for West African pagans [thanks to SketchySnel for this suggestion].
-Idoism has had its holy site moved to a more accurate location in c_ayn_farrah [thanks to Atomic Chungus for this suggestion]
-Illuism now has own religion description separate to Amazigh paganism proper [thanks to Moiros for this suggestion].
-Banzaland has been renamed 'Banza Bakwai' for a slightly more flavorful name in-line with the Hausa tradition, as opposed to 'land' suffix we had before [thanks to Moiros for suggesting a change].
-The Holy African Empire is now a titular title instead of having a defined capital in Cairo, meaning it takes the players current capital. [thanks to Secret Sith for this suggestion]
-Form the Kingdom of Nobadia decision now viewable only by duke-level rulers or below [thanks to Bagration for this suggestion].
-Torou paganism now has its description loc displayed correctly [thanks to Vakiadia for this].


Fixes/Changes
-Fixed broken loc for the Donzow MAA from the Donzo Ton tradition
-Fixed coding error in scope for Harari and Gurage hybrid cultures [thanks to @Drottenssten].
-Fixed Behafaridism/zurvanism not getting Islamic Syncretism correctly as in Vanilla after BAPS doctrine effects had been applied [thanks to @Drottenssten].
-Changed Behafaridism/zurvanism from righteous to pluralism doctrine, as in vanilla they are righteous like other Zoroastrians - but if they are syncretic they shouldn't be righteous?
-Changed and Orisa to Oloku from doctrine lay clergy from theocratic clergy (as the latter is excluded for faiths with a Head of Faith in vanilla) [thanks to @Drottenssten].
-Made it so any hybrid culture formed from a culture who should have access to unique BAP innovations, will retain access to these innovations after diverging (checks for the original culture or if the hybrid cultures parent is a valid culture)[thanks to @Addx .
-Added the Donzo Ton tradition to Malinke culture, can't believe I also to actually give Malinke this!
-For Bozo culture, Wetlanders tradition replaced with Joking Relationships (Bozo already have Masters of the River tradition which reflects some wetland bonuses)
-Maba culture ethos changed from communal to egalitarian
-Nuba culture heritage changed from Eastern to Central African.
-Zaghawa culture hertiage changed from Berber to Central African [thanks to @Huria


Updating and maintaining Africa Plus has taken hundreds of hours, please consider a donation to show appreciation, and encouragement - anything is appreciated :)


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