Literally 7 years late to this thread, but wanted to chime in as the chief story writer/conceptualizer for Homeland and Homeland II. I'd mostly moved on from day-to-day involvement at Creation when TSG really started firing up, so I can't speak to any final decisions as to how the creators envisione...
So I'm finally circling back to Myth II after decades away, and went ahead and installed 1.8.4. I had to use the demo as I'm still trying to track down my old CD (assuming I can ever find it and it still works when I do). I got everything working, then downloaded two plugins — Homeland and Homeland ...