Recently William have been playing Warriors Orochi 4 (a crossover game between Dynasty Warriors and Samurai warriors) and was very dissatisfied with the character casting as while he doesn't mind that in Warriors Orochi 1 to 3 it lacks European characters but in Warriors Orochi 4 when the main setting is Zeus kidnapping renowned warriors there needs to be more a hell of a lot more European characters.
William was very dissatisfied with that and it's not that Europe lacks decent warriors, he'll the entirety of the medieval period is filled with large wars and centuries long grievances.
Where else in the world can you see wars that spans multiple decades(30 years war, 80 years war…), there's even one war that lasted for a little over a century (hundred years war)
Europe doesn't lack war and certainly doesn't lack heroes.
There is Gotz von Berlichingen also known as Baron Ironhand usually the title is metaphorical but in this case he has a literal iron hand as he previous one got shot off by a cannon… by friendly units.
There's Vlad the Third also known as Vlad the Impale, he is known for impaling an army of Ottomans creating a forest of Impalement that scared off another Ottoman army, he also served as the base for Dracula.
Gustavus Adolphus also know as Lion from the North some historians even calls him the Father of Modern Warfare for his innovations. He was the one that made Sweden from a backwater place into a world power that could rival Russia.
Hernan Cortez the legendary Spanish conquistador that lead 500 men and conquered an Empire.
John III Sobieski the Lion of Lechistan, the king of Poland that personally lead the famed Winged Hussars and repelled further Ottoman incursion into Europe.
Ivan IV Vasilyevich also known as Ivan the Terrible, not as well know but he is also the First Tsar of Russia, during his rule the infamous mad king doubled the then Grand Duchy of Muscovy and turned it into the Tsardom of Russia.
Europe has all these great heroes but the only one we see is Joan of Arc and Achilles
For Christ sake at least add a few Greek heroes like Leonidas or Alexander.
But Noooooo all they had is Joan of Arc and Achilles which left William very disappointed and so he decided to make a mod in Medieval 2 Total War that has Japanese, Chinese and Europeans in it.
Why Medieval 2 you might ask as surely a more modern game such as Warhammer 2 or the actual 3 kingdoms total war have is better right?
Well there are may reasons to it, first is modability. The older Total War games are much easier to mod and that there is also lesser restrictions as developers doesn't want random randos releasing mods or as they call it DLCs that they plan to sell to you.
The second reason is that due it being an older game the requirement for PC is naturally lower. Of course William has a top of the line PC but that isn't the point, the point is that it means he can have an even bigger maps, more unit counts and larger units.
Imagine having half a million man battles, such a thing would be impossible with modern games.
A few weeks into making it William finally successfully moded in China, William imported most of the assets from Dynasty Warriors as they have the best 3 kingdoms designs out there, although he did have to turn down the polygon counts on the models for them to not eat too much processing space.
Another week and William is just about finished modding in his first European nation (Spain) into the game.
How? you may ask as the Geographical distance between the two nations is very larger.
Simple really as William simply created a large island with a few territories (all maxed) to serve as the base for Spain. William plans to do the same for other European nations in the future.
Anyways just as William is creating the hero units for Spain a lightning struck his house and next thing he knows he wakes up in an unfamiliar bed.
——Exposition ends—-
'Wha…. Where am I?' William wondered as he looks around at the unfamiliar room.
The room looked to be luxuriously decorated with carvings and wooden panelling all around.
'I think this is called Barque… or was it Racoco?' William wondered as he observes the intricate carvings all around.
As he's looking around William then noticed that his hand seems to be a little different, in fact now that he thinks about it his body seems to have also changed.
His stomach was gone!
In the past year or so due to staying at home for periods of time William gained a bit of weight.
William got up from his luxurious bed and went over to a large mirror to look as himself.
And what he saw surprised him.
'That…. That face! Isn't this the character I was designing last night?!' William was startled as the face that reflected on the mirror was the character he was halfway designing before he blacked out.
William already made a few heroes such as:
Gonzalo Fernandez Aka the father of the Spanish Tercio, it is a military formation that became the dominant fighting formation all throughout the Pike and Shot era (16-17 century).
Hernan Cortez the legendary conquistador that lead 500 men and conquerors the Aztec Empire.
Francisco Pizarro another conquistador that lead 180 men to conquer the Incan Empire.
Christopher Colombus the adventurer that discovered the Americas.
Their character design naturally looks quite different from their real counter part as William made them looked a lot more handsomer and gave them an anime like appearance to better fit with the theme of the mod.
Then William halfway designing his forth Spanish hero when he was struck by lightning.
William was thinking of making it Charles II but before he could type in the name he already got Isekaied.
Naturally keeping up with the anime tradition of no ugly people William took great liberal creativity into turning the inbreed Habsburg into a handsome young man golden blonde hair.
Blonde hair? Well in anime Europeans tended to have blonde hair.
So now William stares at his own reflection thinking ' so glade I made him into a handsome young man' as William dreaded the thought of being an ugly inbreed Habsburg with physical deformities.
As he was staring at his own reflection a bunch of maid walks in to the room.
"Master William it's time…." They stopped as they stared at the standing William stunned.
They gasped as if just seeing him standing is a great miracle.
"Master William?" A maid asked with uncertain voice
William frowns a bit as he was sure that the character he is currently occupying is supposed to be Charles II of Spain.
"Yes?" William replied
Gasped
"He talked!?" The maids gasped as they talked amongst themselves.
"Master William you… you can talk?" A maid asked
"Yes I can" William replied confused.
"Governor Colombus needs to know this" A maid said as she heads out to deliver the shocking revelation.
While the one runs out to deliver the new the rest of the maid calmed themselves as they continues on what they were supposed to do
"Master William it's time to get dressed~" they said playfully as if they're talking to a child.
Before William knows how to react the maids already surrounded him and started stripping his coat and nightgown off.
"Wai…what!?… stop!" William screamed as a modern William is not used to having maids dress him up.
Not to mention he's was a nudist so William is naturally very embarrassed to be seen naked a crowd of women.
"Master be a good boy so that we can dress up" a maid said.
William struggled a bit but eventually he relented and gave up struggling.
A few minutes later
William now dressed in what looked to be like an elaborately decorated 17th clothes is left standing is left standing in the room.
The maids went away as soon as William got properly dressed.
Not long after a somewhat elderly man who looks to be in his 40-50s walks in.
William naturally recognised this man as he had personally created this character model.
"You…. You are Christopher Colombus ?" William muttered
"Ah I see that what the maid said was true, after what happened last night and now this! this must be a sign sent from god!" The governor said.
William is not sure what's going on so he pretends to go along with what Christopher is say while playing the amnesiac card.
This is the usual routine of every person that got isekaied.
"I… I… who am I?" William asked
"You my lord is Willhelm (William) Carlos of the house Habsburg, the rightful ruler of New Castile…" he goes on a bit giving William the general understanding of things.
According to Christopher William was burn a blessed Devine child that was destined for greatness but due to a curse by a witch which stunted his mental growth.
Naturally his parents were furious and began a large scale witch hunt burning anyone suspected to be a witch.
Unfortunately due to his mental retardation which made him unfit to lead a nation to deal with intricate plots and intrigues so they sent him out to the colonies to live out the rest of his life in relative peace as comfort, thus the crown is passed to his younger brother.
Christopher went on a bit of a tangent of the stuff he has done to make the colony as great as it is today.
With he has built multiple castles, forts, large ports for trading and swelling population , Christopher Colombus attributes all his achievements must be the will of God.
He eventually arrives to what happened last night.
"There was a bright light and the next moment the mainland is gone, now with you regaining you sanity I know for a fact that this must be the work of god almighty, he must have great plans for us here" Christopher finally finishes his exposition dump.
"I see now, this must be the work of god" While he isn't sure to sure about the will of god but for now he'll go along with it nobody in their right mind would say No to living as a little lord.
—— story end——
The villain tag is there cuz 16th century Spain, not to mention Lu Lingqi (Lu Bu's daughter) is best girl.
There are a few hot women such as Xingcai, Diaochan, Wang Yuanji, Zheng Ji, Yueying (in the older Dynasty Warrior games with the headpiece)…. Well now that I think about it practically every female in the game is pretty hot.
Even so Daughter of final boss is still best girl.
I think in the future I'll be changing the rating to Mature.