Regia Marina - A New Italian Campaign

[dizzy]

Mare Nostrum
The Regia Marina of the Regno d'Italia

by
Dizzy

Description:

This mod features you as the Ammiraglio of the Royal Navy of the Kingdom of Italy in the year 1900 where Russia and the USA are replaced with Spain and the Ottoman Empire for a more exclusive European playthrough that focuses on the immediate and pressing situation surrounding Italy.

This campaign is alternative history with a Spanish American War that never happened, a USA that embraces isolationism sitting out world affairs and Spain is still a global power with all her overseas colonies. The Ottoman Empire will realize, unlike they did historically, that having a navy is a requirement and not an option to be a great power. The Turks start out weak with a dock-size of 2000 tons, a navy procured from foreign yards and a naval budget in tatters, as was historically accurate. They will eventually prioritize their economy and their naval budget will eclipse other nations. 

The map changes reflect the historical holdings of the Ottoman Empire in the year 1900 starting with Libya, Rhodes, Albania, and their home areas of Turkey and Persia of which the latter now has Oil. The Home Areas of Eastern Spain, Southern France and the Italian East Coast have been changed allowing them to be invaded.

Included in this download are new optional Flags seen in the pic on the left (click it) along with the budget of each nation using Very Large Fleets size:

Battleship Roma

Starting Economy, Very Large Fleet Size, Year 1900 and Low Tension Economy of the campaign played through to 1925 and then in 1940

[/b]Stats

Leader: Sultan
Government type: Eastern (reacts to Mainland China Events, read that as Middle East)
Build area: The Mediterranean
Game naval budget: 15,446
Historical naval budget: 8,000
Global Naval Power (Ha! Yeah right! But you won't be laughing for long...)
Rapid economic growth
Undeveloped shipbuilding industry
Poor Education
Some Corruption
Dock size: 2,000

Battleships and Battlecruisers are named for Sultans, historical ships, tallest three mountains of Turkey and several prominent land areas
Heavy Cruisers are named after provinces
Light Cruisers are named after towns (I think)
DD, KE, AMC, Q-ships are named after Admirals of the Ottoman Navy and others
CVs and CVLs are named after lakes and rivers
Aircraft Manufacturers are as follows with English translation in parentheses:
Ankara Havacilik;ANH- (Ankara Aviation), Yilmaz Agir Sanayi;YAS- (Yilmaz Heavy Industries), Osmanli Insaat;OI- (Osmanli Construction), Günes Uçus;GU- (Sun Flight), Izmir Hava;IH- (Izmir Air), Istanbul Motorlar;ISTM- (Istanbul Motors), Öztürk Çelik;OTC- (OzTurk Steel), Dögan Uçak;DGU- (Dogan Aircraft)
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Docked Battleship Roma

Notes:

The Ottoman Empire did not own Persia in the year 1900. Persia was used because Iraq is not on the map and Persia is. It represents their naval presence in the Indian Ocean sea zone.

This mod was thoroughly tested through 1940 using v1.09, yet I may have missed something. Report anything unusual and comments negative or positive are welcomed. Check back for updates and tweaks.

V2 and V3 changes the Home areas from both Eastern Spain, Southern France and the Italian East Coast allowing them to be invaded. Or they can be taken as a prize after a collapse with enough points, this includes the AI taking them from you as well. Be warned, though, that you lose base capacity when losing one of the colonies which may significantly impact a nation's ability to conduct naval operations in that zone. Also make sure you exit and reload the game if you take a former Home area so the economy correctly counts your new colony.

To do:

This mod is not tested for an Ottoman Playthrough but it should work ok. I'll make a separate mod page for the Ottoman Empire at a future date with changes to MapData that will allow them to capture India and other colonies.

How to install:

Step One: Drop the Data and the OPTIONAL Flags folder of the 7zip file in the main Rule the Waves 2 folder and overwrite any Spain, Flag, BNat1900 or MapData files. No other files will be overwritten.

You're Done! Enjoy.

The MapaData file adds Oil to Persia and removes the Home Areas in Eastern Spain, Southern France and the Italian East Coast. BNat1900 changes add 1 to the RGP2 values of all nations which adds a little more budget after 1916 to help compensate for AI aircraft spending. Otherwise these files are unchanged. Make sure to backup your Spain, Mapdata and BNat1900 files in your Data folder.

Credits:

cv10 for his crazy cool Japan2 mod and help with answering questions, natogeneral for his RTW1 nations pack and Super Trouper for his unique Byzantium mod which was the inspiration for doing this one.

Attachments:

Regia Marina_V4.7z (127.9 KB)

[dizzy]

This is a chart showing the starting Economy in the year 1900 and the Low Tension Economy for years 1925 and 1940 for the Regia Marina Campaign, above, using Very Large Sized Fleets with several additional colonies added to Italy through conquest. 

Click below to see the chart of Starting Economy in 1900, and the Low Tension 1925 and 1940 Economy numbers.


This is the percentage growth each nation had between years 1900 to 1925  and 1925 to 1940 and finally the overall growth between years 1900 to 1940. The Ottoman Empire had a whopping 584% growth in naval economy over 40 years!

Nation	1900 - 1925	1925 - 1940	1900 - 1940
Italy	184%	145%	268%
United Kingdom	129%	156%	202%
France	180%	148%	263%
Austria-Hungary	227%	156%	356%
Ottoman Empire	311%	187%	584%
Germany	189%	141%	267%
Spanish Empire	183%	158%	291%

[dizzy]

This mod needs an update after the revelation recently disclosed by a member of the NWS team that colonies of 10 or more in value may not be invaded. I’ll be updating this mod soon with new colony values since learning of this new information. Some colonies will change from 10 to 9 in value, yet others will remain at 10 in order to allow them to be taken as a negotiated peace settlement, but not be invaded. Several larger colonies may thus be valued in this manner. I will make another post in the coming days to inform of the updated mod when it’s completed.

[dizzy]

Updated to V4. Some colonies have had their values reduced from 10 to 9 to allow invasions to work. That is all.

***Note: If you update in the middle of a campaign playthru, these changes won't affect your game. If you want to update your save game, go to the save folder of your game, open mapadataX.dat and search for any 'PossessionXXValue=XX' of 10, 12 or 15 and change them to 9. Invasions will now work for those colonies. Search for 'Value=10', make sure it's a possession and change to 9, do the same for values 12 and 15.

[seawolf]

Is it possible to make the Ottoman Empire playable? Maybe replace Germany with Greece?

[Super Trouper]

Nice work dizzy! This sure makes the mediterranean a hectic place!

In relation to what seawolf said, if you decide to populate greece at some point I offer you the usage of any of the ship names in my Byzantine mod; I know it can take quite a while to come up with a suitable list.  

[aquelarrefox]

i made a compilation of mods, i incluide it, i have permision to upload it? thanks