This is a good starting point for people who want to look at modding. Its also not a bad cahllenge for veteran players.
Put this into your mods directiory, turn it on in the "Game Tools", then start an early game.
Code:
#modname "fledgling nation"
#icon "../guihead.tga"
#selectnation 79
#era 1
#name "Home"
#epithet "fledgling nation"
#end
It adds the empty nation #79 to the early era group. Its very bare. A challenge to play as it is, or a great motivator for filling it in the way you think it should be done.
Some slots are more complete than others. At the time of this patch (3.06) you might look at
13 Tir na n'Og - Land of the Tuatha
14 Fomoria -
20 Gath - Time of Nefilim
45 Gath - Anakim
65 Gath - xxx
69
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
You could also obviously move nations, such as putting all of the Ulm into one era to play them against each other. But you might have to rename them to early ulm, mid ulm, late ulm or something like that since some nations name-clash when running together.