Zimbabwe Immersion

v1.7

Welcome to Zimbabwe Immersion! This mod adds an immersive experience for the country of Butua in Africa.

Find the Lux in Tenebris (LIT) compatible version here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2374021545

Updated

– Added new national ideas for Zimbabwe and added more cultural names
– Added an additional modifier to each Fetishist Cult to be more on par to Hinduism, another deity religious type.
– Added 17 new and unique events
– Added custom event pictures for all 32 unique events
– Added another mission to the tree
– Fixed a few bugs

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Why this mod?

Africa has not received much love from Paradox other than the Mamluks and a few other North African nations. Other mods, including the excellent Missions Expanded have filled in the gaps with adding new immersion for other African countries such as Mali, Kongo, and Kilwa. This mod has been created to fill in another gap by adding an immersive experience for Butua.

Butua Historical Background

You may be wondering why an immersive mod for a country that starts as a vassal in the beginning? Butua, and its people the Shona, have an incredibly rich history. Butua and Mutapa were the remnants of the Kingdom of Zimbabwe, a powerful kindom in the region for about 300 years. With the dissolution of Zimbabwe, Butua chose to keep the tradition of Zimbabwe alive, while Mutapa chose a new path. It is this reason that Butua is the natural candidate for a revival of Zimbabwe.

It is also important to note that the Shona people were known as fierce warriors. The Rozwi Empire that came to be after the fall of Mutapa pushed Portugal out of their lands completely until their own empire fell due to in-fighting. Scholars actually debate that many of the same military tactics used by the famous Zulu against the British were actually created by the Rozwi two centuries before.

What does this mod do?

This mod gives much needed flavor and immersion for Butua. What if Butua was able to unite the Shona people again? Could it unite Africa?

It adds the following:

– Its own unique mission tree with 74 missions.
– Adds 32 new events, including event chains to convert to Islam or Christianity. Also adds an event chain, based on circumstances, to change to the Rozwi Empire (in name only).
– A unique decision to form the Kingdom of Zimbabwe which changes the name, flag, colors, and national ideas of your country.
– Changes Unit sprites from the generic Central African units to a new set using units from Rights of Man DLC, to make it more fitting for a growing power.
– Changes the positive local missionary strength for Fetishist provinces back to 0. This was done as many African tribes were very religious and even to this day practice much of their old traditions. The game having fetishist provinces easier to convert is just not very historical overall.
– Adds an additional modifier to each Fetishist cult to be more on par with Hinduism and to balance the game more.

Planned Updates

– Bug fixes when needed
– Possible changes to Fetishism to add more immersion and realism

Compatibility

– Is compatible with most mods unless it changes the Butua mission tree
– This mod adds custom event pictures for all 32 events. Each event picture was vertically doubled to work with the mod, Great Exhibition’s custom window size. Because of this, if you do not use Great Exhibition, the images will over-extend due to the smaller window, cutting off text. No game-play bugs, just a visual bug. Highly recommend using the Great Exhibition mod, with or without this mod!
– May or may not be compatible with any map mod that add or change province IDs. This is a vanilla map version. I have also created a compatible version for Lux in Tenebris map mod. You can find that version of the mod here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2374021545

Shout Out
Just wanted to give a formal shout out to the Missions Expanded team. Your awesome work inspired me to create my own mod. Keep up the great work!