PikeStance

PikeStance TWC Profile Page HISTORIAN - EDUCATOR – PHILOSOPHER – MODDER He is a native of New Orleans, Louisiana (USA) who is currently living in Changchun, China (Northeast of China) as a secondary social studies teacher at the International school. PikeStance has been a teacher for 12+ years with 8 years teaching overseas. He previously taught in Beijing, Shanghai, Dubai and Abidjan. He joined TWC in May 2011 to share his love and passion for TW Games. Apart from TW games, He also enjoys playing other strategy games like, Risk, Settlers of Catan, Diplomacy, and Go. He is an active player on the KGS server as Pike) Additionally, He has also played the famous Conquest of the Empire, Fortress America, and Axis and Allies (The first release versions). Miniature war-gaming is also a passion of his playing mostly Napoleonic Wars and the American Civil War). He owns the following Total War games; Medieval II, Empire, Napoleon, Shogun II, Rome II, and Attila. He also owns the following Paradox game; Victoria 2, Europa Universalis IV, City Skylines, Stellaris, and Hearts of Iron IV PikeStance is involved in the following projects Modding Projects (Imperial Splendour/ Personal TWC Genealogy Project Historical Society and Repository Project Blog Project Visual Arts project Wiki Project		Bio Joined the site in May 2011 Rank: Citizen Patron: Omnipotent-Q Patron of _Tataros_ Magister Militum Flavius Aetius Alwyn Lord Oda Nobunaga Massive_attack Hayabusa Sushi Darios Destin Faroda z3n Tenerife Boy Bran Mac Born M(a)x1mus Zipzopdippidybopbop izzi VadAntS STAFF & COMMITTEE POSITIONS Wiki Content Staff: 2017 - Present Modding Awards Committee: 2014- 2017 Vault Staff: 2013- 2017 (In Hiatus) Librarian: 2012- 2013 ELECTED POSITIONS Magistrate: 1 Term Sept.-Dec. 2016 Censor: 3 Terms Jan.- Apr 2015 Nov. 2015- Feb. 2016 May- Aug. 2016 Curator: 1 Term June- Aug. 2015
Modding Project HISTORY LIVE LABORATORY I am primarily interested in modding Campaign and Battle AI behavior. In additional I also mod economic factors as well as making changes that are more historically accurate. My primary modding is in the DB tables with some minor modification with the startpos. It is my personal goal to learn to mod scrupting Lua as well. Through my modding activities connected with the Imperial Splendour mod, I will occasionally develop aspects of the game for the community at large to use. This page is design to allow easy access to all of the mods have released. Member of the MODDB Community IMPERIAL SPLENDOUR IMPERIAL SPLENDOUR- TEAM LEADER as PROJECT MANAGER. (He is an DB Editor/ Historian). Imperial Splendour attempts to create the best Empire: Total War experience possible without destroying the essence of the game, with an eye towards expanding and enriching the experience, while adding to the game's realism whenever possible. Our main work has been to complete the former IS 2.1.4 release so as to update it and enable you to get the best Empire Total War experience. We are currently on version IS 2.2.1b. The greatest innovation in that release of Imperial Splendour is the evolution of the uniforms, separating the Grand Campaign into three periods (Early, Middle, Late). Each period allows you a different roster so as to be the most historically accurate. The uniform changes by stages and by revolution, so as to be consistent to correspond with major conflicts of the 18th century. A second aspect of Imperial Splendour is to offer a unique game- play experience with each faction. Are you interested in modding or joining Imperial Splendour Development team; then visit here!OR, contact wangrin (Mod Leader) or PikeStance (Mod Manager) Release Submods Pike's Tactical Commander Tactical Commander is a battle realism submod for Imperial Splendour. The Current Version is 2.0 The Tactical Commander is a trial Battle Mechanic adjustment submod with the purpose of providing a more historically accurate portrayal of 18th century combat while creating a more challenging game-play. There are, however, a number of challenges. We are limited to what we can and cannot modify and the A.I. is limited to what it can handle. The following is the result of countless hours of testing and adjustment and it is a work in progress. Imperial Splendour is committed to producing the most historically accurate modification possible without sacrificing challenging game- play. The goal of this mod is to create a more realistic feel to battles. It is also meant to be MORE challenging. In some cases, sacrifices of realism was made to create a more challenging outcome. Visual: The men in units stand too far apart. In this mod, units stand in tighter formation reflecting historical accuracy of the time. Morale: Units are more sensitive to casualties than in the actual mod and in vanilla. In land battles, units are more sensitive to casualties, so units will no longer continue to fight losing 40% or 75% of their men. Units are also more sensitive to being attacked in the flanks, so it is advisable to retreat if the possibility of being flank exist. (The rear has not bee reduce in order to promote retreats). Units will also recover from being routed. They will generally retreat a safe distance, but too far from the battle. Cavalry are also very sensitive. Three things happens in a charge [1] You win the initial contact / the other 'bounce" [2] Your unit 'bounce' and the other side wins the contact OR [3] Both units 'bounce' In this case, 'bounce' means route. While cavalry units will recover, in some cases, they do route off the map. This is historically accurate. It is important to use your mounted units carefully. However, there is still never a bad time for a cavalry charge! Fatigue: The mod does not use 'fatigue' Instead I use 'cohesion'. That is how effective can units stay under command and follow orders. Shooting, running, fighting all reduces cohesion. AS a unit loses cohesion, there effectiveness and accuracy is reduced. Also Cavalry units will lose cohesion when charging and attacking units. You will not longer be able to charge about the battlefield. Weapons: Artillery, Naval, and land units have had their effectiveness or accuracy reduced to be more accurate. Artillery reduces morale of units it is shooting at. CAI Overhaul Beta Testing Our goal at Imperial Splendour isn't just to create a unique game play experience for the player, but to create a unique game play behavior for the AI as well PRIMARY: We are working on creating unique modification for AI behavior. This entails significant modification of AI behavior and personality. SECONDARY: To improve the economic realism of the game as well as creating more realistic large scale battles. Rise of the Republic Battle Enhancement for v2.2.1b This is an enhancement of the effects that is seen in the Rise of the Republic. Better smoke and firing effects and no tracers. No Projectile Trails Submod This is for Both 2.2.1b and Rise of the Republic. All of the "annoying white streaks are gone. Your only clue of a bad shot is when the bullets hit the ground! No Rain Mod It removes rain from the battle map Vanilla Mods Orange Crush Are you tired of the Orange Horde destroying your game with unhistorical behavior? Do you wish it would act as it did in the 18th century? I believe I have a solution for you. From the trial lab of Imperial Splendour, I give you the Orange Crush! This mod changes the way Maratha behavior based on historical facts. The Vanilla game did very little to differentiate one faction from another. As a result, Maratha would behave like a European colonial faction. Its focus as been restored to recapturing "India" from the Mughal Empire. My purpose was not to prevent the possibility of the Maratha from capturing most of "India," but to inhibit its growth to allow European powers to arrive. Also, it prevents Maratha from "exploring" outside of "India" and prevents Maratha from sending predatory armies outside their historical interest. This is the Beta version of the mod, so they may still be some issues. Please report any problems in this thread. African Slave trade Mod First, The Imperial Splendour Development team would like to thank argonian68 for his tutorial for adding the slave trade. You can see his tutorial here. My goal is to create the best Empire: Total War experience possible without destroying the essence of the game, with an eye towards expanding and enriching the experience, while adding to the game's realism and historical accuracy whenever possible. (Imperial Splendour) Historical Context There was a huge demand in Europe for sugar, tobacco, and coffee. Initially, Native Americans and indentured servants were used. However, Native Americans either became ill or ran away easily. Most indentured servants didn’t survive their indentured contract and it didn’t take long for the harsh conditions to reach Europe. A new labor source needed to be found. It was. Africa! The Slave Trade from 16th to the mid- 19th century, about 12.5 million slaves had been shipped from Africa, and 10.7 million had arrived in the Americas. The volume of slaves carried off from Africa reached 30,000 per year in the 1690s and 85,000 per year in the 18th century. The main destinations were the Caribbean colonies and Brazil, as European nations built up economically slave-dependent colonies in the New World. Slightly more than 3% of the enslaved people exported from Africa were traded between 1450 and 1600, and 16% in the 17th century. It is estimated that more than half of the entire slave trade took place during the 18th century, with the British, Portuguese and French being the main carriers of nine out of ten slaves abducted from Africa. Geographical Context As you can note from the two maps (Slave trade map & ETW trade Nodes) there is a clear correlation between the location of the nodes and the location the slaves were acquired. Mod Content The Mod changes the image of ivory tucks to choice of three slavery images. It also changes the text from "ivory" to "Slaves," "Ship(s) of Slaves" when you mouse over the images. THERE WILL BE THREE CHOICES AVAILABLE TO CHOOSE FROM; Sea Power Mod OBJECTIVE The objective is to create a more authentic and historical gameplay. HISTORICAL CONTEXT Europeans powers already had 1st rated ships (Ships of the Line) at the start of the 18th century. MOD CONTENT - It allows for the construction of Ship of the Line ships at game start. - In order to allow balance the Naval technology will be change to allow more advantages in fire power, accuracy, speed, and maneuverability. - There will also be a limit set for the number of ships that can be built consistent with historical records. - The cost of the Ship of the Line vessels will be increase to had a premium for protecting them. - Ship of the Line vessels are restricted to European powers & the United States. No More Winters Mod MOD CONTENT The MOD visually removes the season of winter. Consequently, battle will also not have any snow on the ground. The "season of winter" still exist in the game files. The mod loads the summer world image instead of the winter image. Since the game still recognizes the season of winter, you still will have the probability of snow during battles. If you like rain or snow, this mod will not change that. In fact, the mod does not alter that specific game file. So, if you currently have a climate mod, this mod will not conflict at all. It is also possible to change the text from Winter to whatever you want. Personally I would switch Summer to Fall or Autumn and Winter to Spring. However, this would be imperfect if you do more than 2 turns per year. Whatever you choose it will be imperfect unless you come up with something out of the box. For this reason I am no rush to create a "text" file alteration. IMPLICATIONS You are now free to implement as many turns per season as you would like without dealing with the "zebra effect" of the seasons. Up until now, the best soloution had been to have three turns per year to have two summers and then one winter. However, this means each turn is 4 months long. If you do not like the fact it takes you 8 months to go from Madrid to Lisbon, then this may be the MOD for you. HISTORICAL CONTEXT The vast majority of battle were not fought in Winter. The weapons were not conducive to winter campaigns. Moreover, the game does not have climate attrition. You will lose little historical significance by removing winters in the game play.
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HISTORICAL RESEARCH SOCIETY HISTORICAL RESEARCH SOCIETY Creator and member of Historical Research Society. In the process of creating a comprehensive resource repository called the ARCHIVUM Archivum The Archivum is for the storing of historical resources which includes web- links, nooks, journals, documentaries, etc... The Archivum is intended to be use by historical researchers, modders and writers of AARs. If you are interested, Please join Test