Bookmarks of the British Isles

Uploaded · Published September 16, 2024 · Updated November 25, 2024

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Author: iPlayPoorly

Last revision: 23 Nov, 2024 at 21:36 UTC (5)

File size: 150.32 MB

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Description:

What is this?:

This mod is, foremost, a personal learning tool. It adds a series of bookmarks for pivotal wars within the British Isles. This is a WIP and there are 13 bookmarks available:

867: Northmen’s Wrath
937: Battle of Brunanburh
1015: North Sea Empire
1040: Tragedy of Macbeth
1066: Fate of England
1139: The Anarchy
1171: Laudabiliter
1189: Third Crusade
1215: First Baron’s War
1264: Second Baron’s War
1296: First War of Scottish Independence
1332: Second War of Scottish Independence
1346: Hundred Years’ War, The Black Prince

Every bookmark starts with an ongoing war akin to the Viking/Norman invasions in the vanilla bookmarks.

This can be played on its own but I’m only correcting things inside the British Isles themselves. If you want the rest of the world to be accurate then you need to play with something like More Bookmarks+. I’m working on a version that integrates MB+, meaning it will be require MB+.

To-do list, in order of priority:

Get 1015 to work and finish Cnut the Great bookmark.
Finish the Black Prince bookmark.
Add province histories. Based off of MB+
Add new cultures. Based off of MB+
Adjust early province culture in preparation for Arthurian bookmarks.
Adjust early province religion in preparation for Arthurian bookmarks.
Possible Shakespearean bookmarks or characters.
Finish the foundation for the Tragedy of Macbeth bookmark.
Finish the Laudibiliter bookmark when Roads to Power releases.
Finish the Arthurian bookmarks. Abandoned
Add new provinces. Abandoned
Add missing important historical characters.

Notable Changes:

The biggest problem is that CK3’s history files are, understandably, incomplete. A lot of people are missing.

Corrected major borders as well I could, given the in-game boundaries between counties.
Used existing characters, if there were any, to fill in empty titles or replace RNG characters. Much of this is probably ahistorical and will require another pass.
I snuck in new loadings screens and made them truly random because I’m very sick of seeing the same one every time I open the game, which happens frequently while working on this.

Known Bugs and Incompatibilities:

I couldn’t see away around overwriting the following;

frontend_bookmarks.gui, which makes minor changes to the UI of the bookmarks selection screen (showcased in the preview images)
culture histories, which deals with innovation progression so that you’re not starting 1333 with 1066 tech.

The 1015 crash is caused by something within the tax collector system of clan governments, which is used by Muslim realms. I disabled the entire system because I can’t pinpoint the precise root cause. MB+ has resolved the problem. Playing with it will restore the tax collectors if it’s lower in the load order.

Known Compatibilities:

Compatible with pretty much everything, even other bookmark mods.

There’s only a bit of funk with MB+ because of their custom titles. Especially noticeable with the Kingdom of the Isles (Mann and the Hebrides) where MB+ uses their custom k_ellan_vanin and I use the vanilla k_mann_the_isles. Doubly noticeable with the 937 bookmark.

Credits:

Stolen Artwork