Didn't Dal Riata fall like two or three decades earlier? Sudreyar's faction description (or was it former Dal Riata capital description?) mentions how Sudreyar formed out of conquering Dal Riata and (for the purposes of not making Sudreyar too big in the game) gave DR's former land in Scotland to SRYR's vassal, Galloidel.

Just to know, are you a Scot? Do you speak Gaelic Scottish?

Its cool to see Gaelic speakers! Yeah I agree, CA has no will of putting effort like in the good old days, its just: Generic unique culture, no uniqueness between cultures, all Irish have the same units while they could had added more uniqueness into some tribes, the Fortriu could had more Pictish units for example as they represent the last stronghold of Pictish culture in what is today Scotland, even add some painted warriors, it might be historically innacurate , but well... Egypt in Rome 1 argument haha.

Dear modders you are a blessing you take your own personnal time to make more fun what paid employees and directors could not, so thank you a thousand times

ALBA GU BRATH!

One fix that I recommend to this mod is that when you start the campaign and the campaign is loading... it highlights the faction of Mierce. During the campaign, West Essex disputes my crown. When I dispute they declare war on me... apparently based off me being Mierce, which I am not.

lol the bloods of Eire, Armuhl and of Wales runs in these veins, along with that of the Picts; lol thus whilst certainly as a Morgan descendant I Must appreciate Buubba'd 's whitticism in the matter as well from that view, ;) , 'Dal Riata' might well be said to be a "part of me": I respect and appreciate your endeavor here therefore highly.

Well nice

I love scotland... i try this mod my friend.

Fèin Urram

And this is why us welsh/saxon families avoid scotland.

they get offended easily

Great wee mod this. Go raibh maith agat!!!

It's a matter of debate. Many historians do think that it was destroyed by the Vikings, causing its nobility to flee east and eventually Gaelicise the Picts. That's the theory that the Creative Assembly went with.

No. It's independence ended when it was either conquered by or joined with the Picts.

Wasn't Dal Riata conquered by the Norse though?

fellow scotsman I respec that

Thanks for making this, it's exactly what I have been looking for. I get to play as my people!

Sweet. It might not be everyones taste, so pls check for yourself first: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pjbl6DuQ8gE

Hi Turumba, if you post the link - I'll stick it in the description. Would be useful for people wanting to play!

I like your mod and I started a campaign on yt. Thx for your effort, Mael Coluim. Let me know, if you want a link!

NICE ONE MATE, ticketty-boo

Hi Pm61

My initial plan was to actually make Dal Riata (as well as the other Scottish Gaelic factions in game) vassals of Circenn - and then rename Circenn to Alba. I just didn't get round to getting that far.

Anyway, glad you enjoyed playing!

The more plausible accounts indicate that Dalriada and Pictavia were already united under one king as Alba/Scotland, several decades before 878CE.
So, it would seem to me that Scotland should be best represented by the TW developers, by including all of what was more clearly documented after 900CE, as the Kingdom of Alba, or at the least, a group of minor province rulers sworn to a single Alban King.
If the developers are concerned with balancing gameplay, it would seem more historically accurate to demonstrate this balance by allowing for conquest to be tempered by the distraction of Viking raids increasing proportionately to the territory held, than to break up the historical Kingdoms into smaller territories.

But none of this has stopped me from enjoying the game.

Thanks for making this effort.

thats probably why using it w 12tpy breaks the startpos in a weird way then, sorry for not reading the description thoroughly lmao

Hi Hooligan,

This one already is a 12TPY mod

would it be possible to make this compatible w 12tpy

Looks great Drunk Flamingo, well done!

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?792314-Tutorial-How-to-fix-the-faction-mechanic-bar-for-any-unlocked-faction

Yeah I'd be interested to see how that works out! Luckily I've managed to get this one working fine now with no issues but the more factions the better. I'm also wanting to figure out how to implement regional recruitment rather than faction wide - so any ideas on that one I'd really appreciate as well!

You basically just have to modify the scripts to work for that faction instead of the current one, then (hopefully unncessary) I plan to use UI scripting to remove any elements I can't get working. I'm working on it for someone else's faction unlocker so https://discord.gg/p3Ethr if you want I can ping you when its finished.

How did you manage to get rid of it, Drunk Flamingo? I've seen quite a few faction unlocking mods which couldn't manage it.

If you want me to fix the culture mechanics bar for you so you can stop deleting mierce let me know :P