I have no graphics or data to add but since my work has been slow of late I have had some time to brainstorm a few ideas for this oh-so-awesome mod idea.
Is it possible to mod some of the greater demon summons as pretender choices? I'm sure it is, but balancing them might be an issue. But I feel like they MUST be available as pretender options, what with metal being the 'Devil's music' and all.
A few other pretender options-
Prince of Darkness- I believe there is something already similar in game, don't play with the dead nations all that often so I don't recall. But this PoD should be a human sized chassis, similar to a crone but male. He is an ancient rock star who has become so powerful that he seeks to don the mantle of godhood! Though his speech is muttered and often unintelligible, his message of metal in song form is unmistakable! Maybe make him start with Death and Astral magic, strong dominion though methinks.
The Led Zeppelin- A great iron dirigible that has been afloat since time immemorial. I honestly don't know what one could do to make this a viable pretender, I just know that a giant burning Zeppelin MUST be in here somewhere!!
A 20 inch replica of Stonehenge- What else is there to say.
I'm not familiar with some of the other genres of metal to offer any pretenders that could be based off them. I like my metal music, but once it becomes a shrill, double drum bass growl fest I generally lose interest. I'm more knowledgeable - if you wanna call it that - with 'Classic Rock' and late 80's early 90's 'grunge metal' than anything else. Speaking of, a Curt Cobain hero unit would be sweet. He should be a heretic though, since the advent of grunge killed 80's style metal as we know it, and he should freespawn grunge fans who could use the same mechanic as Pan revelers but they should increase sloth in a province as opposed to turmoil.
I'm still in love with the idea of this mod, and if I actually get any time to sit and make some graphics I'll add them, since I know Burn has his hands full with other, more pressing mods at the moment. And of course, I'll post any other unit/ pretender ideas I can come up with.
Is it possible to add sound into a mod? Cause this is definitely one mod that SCREAMS for custom sound files.
EDIT- oh yes, almost forgot. A nation name, as Burn has already pointed out, can be a bit tricky to figure out. So here is my suggestion: Metallonia (pro.: "metal-OWN-ya")
A hero unit or 2 for each genre of music would be cool too. A flute playing Jethro Tull for Folk, a Ronnie James Dio hero (complete with leather armour and broadsword!!) for Hero (?) Metal.
One more thing, for one of the genres, progressive I think, you say the fans should be size 6 for their egos. I know this is a silly mod but we want it balanced so I thik instead of making prog fans literal giants, the unit pic should be a reg sized human unit, with an ethereal outline of a much larger representation of them around the reg size unit, the large ethereal part being the manifestation of their ego.
