If your looking for an expanded troop tree, expanded armory, ability to have lords and land, and a generally harder game i mixed together "Native Expansion" and "Heart of Mercy". I took all the fundamentals from heart of mercy and copied them into the "N.E. Mod"
N.E. https://www.mbrepository.com/file.php?cid=10&id=904
Everything seems to work except for a double health bar ... the custom one from "H.M." and the original on top of each other... but its only a few pixels of overlap ...
the game is rather hard now ... with 600 people in a town and the fact that they are much stronger ... "it gets tough"
Howto
Combined folder files together "Languages, music, resource, scene obj, sounds, textures"
copied from H.M. to N.E.
conversation.txt,
Factions.txt,
game_variables.txt,
main.bmp,
menus.txt,
mission_templates.txt,
module.ini, Presentations.txt,
quick_strings.txt,
scripts.txt,
triggers.txt,
variables.txt.
i think thats all ...
New game -- Import Char --- etc etc --- owned in first battle for under estimating teh enemy
Skoad ---
My health bar is totally black in the arena... but just there ...
do you occupy a castle currently? maybe the trigger is dependent on you having your kingdom established? it takes me approx 7 games days to recruit 1 lord ...