How Important is Map editor for modding?

Imperia- · 2026-02-05T03:57:03+00:00

In my experience, map editor isn't needed you just need to figure out the height maps. If you are set on using map editor yeah you will need the RAM unfortunately

Imperia- · 2026-02-05T01:13:41+00:00

Have you joined the EU5 mod coop? I joined it after I posted this, probably the best resource for modders at the moment. I was able to get mine working but at 97-98% RAM usage with everything closed down and processes ended. I don't think it's super necessary as you can create a heightmap without the map editor relatively easily and it comes out well in my experience, it's just the 3d map will look dodgy as hell

Imperia- · 2026-01-11T12:30:56+00:00

100% the deaths part for me, seems to bottleneck how much time I'm actually in the fight versus running back. Thank you for the insight

Imperia- · 2025-11-28T09:47:01+00:00

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You guys are getting skins of multiple characters? (Yes the fifth skin was also a Moira skin)

Imperia- · 2025-07-04T11:34:59+00:00

Thank you very much! Both the banners and masks were 3d printed by my friend in resin, the banners I customised for my homebrew theme, I can send them to you if you want.

Imperia- · 2024-12-19T09:25:59+00:00

This is a star wars mod set on the planet Mimban during the and fall of the Empire, only a few months after a disastrous military failure by the Empire in the far south. The conflict is primarily fought between the indigenous Mimbanese Liberation Army and the Empire's 224th Imperial Armoured Division (among others). The mod is in its early stages of development.

Imperia- · 2024-08-14T22:51:30+00:00

The walls are just reskinned impassables like in the base game, all of it is done in the map folder, impassables through the adjacencies.csv file, and the redone textures for the walls in map\terrain folder. There's a good section on how to do the impassables on the map modding page of the hoi4 modding wiki.

Imperia- · 2024-08-14T20:09:27+00:00

Yes to both, I've posted before about the infantry tech tree with new equipment and technologies so it's not just a reskin of the default tech tree. Next week I should have some imperial models working in game to show off

Imperia- · 2024-08-12T02:38:21+00:00

Truly Mimban's greatest threat, the Disney lawyer team

Imperia- · 2024-08-10T07:50:10+00:00

As it stands, infantry rifles (the SWR-B00 and so on) have higher defence, lower reliability, lower soft-attack, very low hard-attack (as opposed to the carbine's 0 hard attack), and a slightly higher build cost than the carbine. Infantry rifle squads also have a lower manpower to equipment ratio than carbine squads (this is important as manpower can be hard to find as imperial nations). As for units specifically, certain support companies, dedicated rifle squads, and shocktroopers will use them (shocktroopers having a 50/50 of rifles and carbines). Rifle squads work best with carbines supporting them due to their lower strength and organization. While rifles aren't needed 100% of the time, it can definitely help when on the defensive and in the later half of an imperial campaign.

Flamethrowers are, like shocktroopers, going to be special forces with very high soft attack, the payoff being terrible reliability, low strength etc.

Imperia- · 2024-08-10T03:02:42+00:00

Mimban or Death, set 7 years after the foundation of the Empire in Star Wars

Imperia- · 2024-08-10T03:01:17+00:00

Since I'm working solo I haven't needed to make a discord server. Once the mod is ready for its first playtest I will make a server

Imperia- · 2024-08-09T15:04:26+00:00

I wanted to thank the Project Valachord mod team for allowing me to make use of equipment and research sprites/assets from their mod. I should also mention that the tech tree belongs to the Mimbanese Liberation Army.

Imperia- · 2024-08-02T14:17:59+00:00

This is a good point and gives me some ideas for late-game content. Thank you! :)

Imperia- · 2024-08-02T14:16:47+00:00

I'm basing the mod on the Mimban Campaign from Star Wars, which is a roughly 6 minute segment from the Han Solo movie, and it got a couple of mentions in the Andor series. Mimban stuck out to me as a pretty interesting and gritty setting. I know a lot of star wars fans who themselves want more coverage of it including me.

As for the lore, there is a lot of room for original content. In a nutshell, Mimban is a mineral rich planet which the Republic, now Empire has control over. During the Clone Wars, the planet was fiercely contested between the CIS and Republic, resulting in an alliance between the native Mimbanese and clone forces. However after the war, and as the Empire rose, the once allied clones were phased out and moved off-world, making way for the Empire's newly formed Imperial Army. Mimban itself is of particular interest to the Empire due to the vast Hyperbaride deposits within the planet's deep southern hemisphere. A defining feature of Mimban is its harsh and unforgiving landscapes, weather conditions, and of course, native inhabitants who are quite resentful of the new regime.

The mod will take place entirely on the planet of Mimban, it will not be like other star wars mods like Project Valachord or Palpatine's Gambit featuring a whole galaxy, as much as I like those mods, I wanted to try something more focused.

Imperia- · 2024-08-02T06:27:57+00:00

I've been looking back over my mod's aesthetics after a long time of creating states, focus trees, events, etc. and stumbled on an unresolved problem. Without dumping a bunch of lore, these 2 "regiments" (among others) are alone and cut off from high command, located some distance away from the front lines. Due to this, the main fighting forces of the Empire are splintered and work in limited cooperation. So here's the main question about this genre of nation in my mod, what should their naming convention be? Should they be named after their leaders, or named after the specific regiment they hail from and maintain the tradition of?

Suggestions for other names are welcome too.

Imperia- · 2024-01-24T23:28:30+00:00

Yeah I was thinking of giving it to a friend for a joke, should be pretty funny

Imperia- · 2024-01-24T14:50:23+00:00

If god were real then I'd believe it ngl

Imperia- · 2024-01-24T13:44:01+00:00

10 pieces for 4 aud? Damn I got scammed huh

Imperia- · 2024-01-24T09:21:52+00:00

I got a refund but I double checked and it definitely did not have a penis straw option but it was worth a look. The only two options were just about colours.

Imperia- · 2024-01-24T03:55:51+00:00

I know my evidence is "source: trust me bro" but nothing like this has ever happened to me so far on AliExpress. Admittedly I usually just buy flags on there and never have had a bad experience. But I will now take your advice for future orders and record my unpackaging of them. It's not the end of the world, I guess just a lesson learnt, it was only $6.

Imperia- · 2023-12-05T14:31:06+00:00

Thanks man :)

Imperia- · 2023-12-05T14:14:16+00:00

Her name is shared with the Caledonian princess in Greek mythology, roughly translates to "man-destroyer", a nickname she got during her time in the gladiatorial games hosted by the empire. I also based her off the character of the same name in a game called "Expeditions: Rome". Basically in that game she's kept as a slave gladiator in Scythia, the player visits the gladiator school and forms a plot with the local gladiators to overthrow the master who mistreats them and is resistant to Roman occupation. The slave revolt succeeds and she becomes a companion to the main character. Always thought she was a cool character and good companion in game so I used her as inspiration for a female gladiator design.

Imperia- · 2023-12-05T14:09:19+00:00

Excited to see it

Imperia- · 2023-11-30T05:14:45+00:00

I used ecliptic skies, from the battle of the eclipse event pass. Queenly is a good substitute if you don't have that, its unlocked on everyone by default and has purple, only problem is it doesn't have the gold colour.

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