How To Produce A Reduced Map, as per the Epirus Campaign

[Bombax]

I wanted to follow up my previous post with a clearer question:

How can I blank out areas of the main campaign map? I'm hoping to produce something along the lines of the map used in the introductory Rome v Epirus campaign - i.e. where much of the map is 'browned out' and not playable.

Any advice gratefully received!

[Pocus]

Sorry for the late answer, and you were totally right to PM me, so I got a notification. I don't mind, within reason, to have PM about Empires.

You need to disable regions, editing a value (for each concerned region) in the corresponding regions.xls of the scenario.
I'll post the latest xls database in a few mn in this forum.

The column you want to edit is column N, DISABLED, set it to 1.

You can also lock or unlock regions dynamically, see in scripts\events the following functions

Event_AtStartRegionsLock()
which is locking some regions at start

and then
Event_RegionsAutoUnlock()

which is unlocking dynamically regions, depending if their neighbors saw the (blinding) light of civilization (might be the Roman heavy freight train ...)

[Bombax]

Sorry for the late answer, and you were totally right to PM me, so I got a notification. I don't mind, within reason, to have PM about Empires.

That is really kind of you Pocus, thank you!

I'll give this a try tomorrow!!!

Many thanks,
Jay

[Bombax]

This works beautifully (though the column to edit is actually O rather than N, at least in the version I'm using).
It's fantastic to be able to create cut-down campaigns so easily, so again - thank you Pocus!

Cheers,
Jay.

[Lebo44]

Hi,

I want to try something different - reducing the number of regions. For example I want to use the standard scenario map but have whole Italia as a single region.

Is it possible to merge regions somehow but leave the overall size/shape of the map intact?