Aksum Shotel (DEI version)
**This is a feature included in my AfricaFix (DEI version) mod.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3265411954
Greetings.
I love Divide et Impera for its attention to historical accuracy. That being said, the history nerd in me hates that the shotel unit is available to Medewi and not available to Aksum, the people who INVENTED it. In all my research, I can’t find any instances of the shotel being used outside of Ethiopia/Eritrea. Yet and still, the unit was included in the vanilla game because it looks cool.
This mod does three things…
1) Renames the unit to Shotelai (Shotel Warriors) using Ge’ez language of the Aksumites
2) Makes the unit require the Ethiopia Area of Recruitment resource
3) Makes the unit available to ALL factions in the game (you just a need a level two barracks on Ethiopian soil)
4) Gave the unit the sickle weapon and adjusted a few stats
Also, if Dresden and the awesome DEI team are listening, Aksum should have the Desert Nomadic. That region hadn’t been under Egyptian influence since the New Kingdom. Many of their gods came from south Arabia.
