Focused Map – Fate of Iberia

Reduces the playable area to Iberia, Southern France, and the Northwestern coast of Africa. The intent is to focus on the features of the Fate of Iberia DLC.

I’d like to play without the bloat of tens of thousands of characters in far flung realms with which I’ll never interact. Late game lag reduction is a big bonus. The smaller map mods in the workshop are still too broad or went a little too narrow for tastes, so I made my own.

• Southern France is included to enable the Muslim decision to ‘Avenge the Battle of Tours’ and the outsider decision to claim an ‘Iberian Foothold.’
• North Africa is included as a Muslim counterbalance to French involvement. Both can provide valuable support to their respective religions in the struggle, especially when holy wars start happening.
• The Papacy in Roma and the Sunni Caliphate in Mecca have been included to ensure there are no hiccups with religious interactions, namely the Mozarabic decisions and allowing Muslims to go on Hajj.
• Haestein is included because he just happens to be at the tip, but still inside, of Southern France’s regions.
• Eudes Robertine, originally outside of Southern France, is included because he’s a rival to Haestein.

• Most regions have been made impassable. The titles and characters from those regions have been removed.
• Only the Iberian bookmarks are available when starting a new game. Relevant characters from other bookmarks have been migrated to the Iberian ones.
• For the 867 start, Charles II ‘the Bald,’ comes south to reign in Aquitaine. For the 1066 start, Philippe I of France, will do the same.
• The Karling decision to ‘Restore Carolingian Borders’ now only requires regions in Southern France and Iberia. This ties in very well if you choose to play an ‘Iberian Foothold’ campaign.
• The kingdom of France/West Francia is now a titular title since the king’s historical seat of power is not within the playable area.
• Eudes Robertine is given his uncle’s holdings in Bourbon in order to stand even a tiny chance of being a proper rival to Haestein.
• The ‘Unite Africa’ decision now only requires the playable regions within North Africa.
• Removed some decisions that were showing up but didn’t work with the map, such as the ‘Secure the Mediterranean’ decision.

I ran the game for 200 years in both starting dates without seeing any issues.

Not compatible with anything that changes 00_landed_titles.txt, provinces.png, and possibly title histories.

Community Flavor Pack (CFP)
Ethnicities & Portraits Expanded (EPE)
Historic Invasions (HI)
Regional Immersion and Cultural Enrichment (RICE)
Very Immersive Events and Tales (VIET)

My other Focused Maps.

Starmender has a series of moderately smaller than vanilla maps: Smaller World Map

The_Ramdom_Cheese has a series of small to very small maps: Just Maps