Black Sea: Total War

[Nevada]

Hi there,

I just started a Mod for M2:TW, It's called "Black Sea: Total War"

But now a few facts so you can come to know what the mod shall include.
Only gos knows if this mod will be for kingdoms or the maingame.

the mod aims good historical accuracy and great gameplay, in battles and also on the campaign map.

The mod starts in 1186, one year before the Crusade of Richard the Lionheart, who will spawn at Acre during the Campaign.

Factions (not final):

Catholic:
Kingdom of Denmark
HRE
Republic of Venice
Papal States
Knigdom of Sicily
Teutonic Order
Kingdom of Poland
Kingdom of Hungary
Grand Duchy of Serbia
Wallachia (Bulgaria?)

Orthodox:
Grand Duchy of Novgorod
Grand Duchy of Moscow
Grand Duchy of Ryazan
Grand Duchy of Kiev
Kingdom of Georgia
Basileia ton Romaion (Byzantine Empire)
Kingdom of Cilician Armenia

Islamic:
Seljuks
Saracens(=Egypt)
West-Iran (Abbasids, Ilkhanids, Khwarezm Shah?)
Sultanate of Rum
Mongols

Pagan:
Grand Duchy of Lithuania

Map:
so, and that the Factions have enough place to kill themselves, they need a map.
and here it is(I'm working on the Map at the moment, i'll post screens in a few weeks):
The Map ends in the West at Rome, in the South at Acre, in the West at the Aral Sea and in the North with Helsinki.


Teamrecruitment:
We need everything except a mapper! (that's me)
please post if you want to join the team as
Historian
Coder
Scripter
2D-Artist
3D-Artist
etc..

Teammembers at the moment:
Alpha_Lupus (making a few signatures with Vanilla Units)
Timur Leng (learning skinning and modelling at the moment)
JERUSALEM (historian)

Mods I want to include (I'll ask the makers later because when the mod gets dead before coming alive, it's not such a blame):
Darthmod 1.4D
Retrofit mod
and perhaps a few others.

So far, that's a short information on the mod and i hope somebody will join.....
edit:
Darthmod included.
Retrofit Mod included
Lithuanians of the lithuanis mod included (i don't know if they will be in the alpha, cause i have problems with including them into the mod)

the official Board for Black Sea: Total War went online:
http://s3.invisionfree.com/BlackSeaTotalWar/

[Nevada]

hi,
the map progress goes pretty good, i just need to place regions, factions, armies, agents and ressources.

but we have no modeler/ skinner /scripter/ skilled coder.
i can do a little bit of coding, but i don't knopw how to script or model.
alpaca's script tutorial was just a small help...

If you want to join, please post here!

[Nevada]

i just wanted to tell you, that the mod is dead.
you can close the thread

[Nevada]

ok, the mod is alive again (i found a few new teammembers that want to do more than beta-testing), i continued working on the map today.

I'll post a few screens during the next few days

[IrishArmenian]

Can't wait for a preview! This mod has really captured my interest!

[Nevada]

thanks.
the first preview will definetly be on the map, as this part of the mod developes the best way. i'll also release an alpha with the map with the preview. i'll also work continuously on the map and react on your wishes (as my heights aren't that perfect^^)

[Nevada]

NOTE: THIS IS NO PREVIEW AND THE MAP ISN'T FINAL; THE SCREENS SHALL ONLY SHOW HOW THE PROGRESS GOES.

https://img232.imageshack.us/my.php?image=uralgr8.jpg

these are the powerful ural mountains in the eastern end of the map. the other side will probably be rich like in the vanilla america, but the rebels there will be very hard and numberous.



https://img132.imageshack.us/my.php?image=nearlyreadypolandof3.jpg

this is the western end of the map. it shows the the teutonic order (here represented by france) and the HRE and poland.
The regions shown on the minimap are mostly the vanilla starting positions and need to be renamed.

I also got to place ressources, agents and armies.

[Nevada]

good news: the regions are nearly done and i got disgruntled goat's permission to use his amazing skins for byzantium

[Justiciar]

Excellent! Keep at it, sir.

[Nevada]

that's what i do.^^
can you do anything in modding?

[Nevada]

hi,
Here are some more screens of the map!

And once again: all images still don't represent the final quaity of the map!:tongue:

Sicily (you may know the picture from a few sides before, but this is only missing ressources and smoothed coasts!)
https://img221.imageshack.us/img221/3485/sicilyrn9.jpg

And then Wjatka, a small province in the north of russia, at the moment I used england for some kind of steppe faction:
https://img221.imageshack.us/img221/8232/wjatkazo9.jpg

And now the Karpatians around Bran:
https://img221.imageshack.us/img221/3455/karpatiansse0.jpg

And last but not least Novgorod in winter times:

https://img364.imageshack.us/img364/9370/novgorodot0.jpg
thanks for looking at them,
Nevada

[Nevada]

so, i think i can release an alpha candidate before christmas

[NagatsukaShumi]

Looks to be coming along nicely there Nevada.

[Nevada]

thanks, i hope to release an alpha this week

[Nevada]

Hi guys,
now, after a long time and after my brother destroyed the modfolder completly, the great da has come!
NOTE: THIS IS ONLY AN ALPHA VERSION; SO MANY THINGS WILL GET BETTER IN FURTHER RELEASES!
*drumms please*:tongue:
https://img144.imageshack.us/img144/2166/releasea01ko4.jpg

The Alpha Candidate a0.1 is going to be released.
I know (or at least I hope) you don't want to wait any longer, so here's just a short featurelist and then the Downloadlink at the bottom.
https://img86.imageshack.us/img86/9773/mapfezl6.jpg

The Map:
-This is a completly new map with many many new provinces
-there aren't any new factions, I just changed the color to give an at least a bit better atmosphere during playing this.
- I didn't place any rebel army, nor are there realistic buildings :no: in the most settlements, as I wanted to learn a bit of scripting to give you a better experience, and I was also writing exams the last days.

https://img232.imageshack.us/img232/9285/uralgr8.jpg (https://imageshack.us/?x=my6&myref=http://my.imageshack.us/v_images.php)

one big map feature is, that you can discover the rich Syberia (the area will be covered like america in the vanilla). but be careful! there will be (in further versions:whistling) a powerful tribe and they won't allow you to gain their lands, so you need to conquer them.
Why I didn't take the Aztecs? that would be more unrealistic than letting Milan be Kiev.:cool:

Other features:
-A new script: in this script, you'll gain money when you conquer a certain region as a certain faction. (e.g. "The Seljuks capture Constantinople"), there's also a spawning faction: the Crusaders (aka. the Normans). They're at war with egypt and allied with Armenia, as this was also a Christian faction.
- Stoned forts (in the tutorial I used for this, the game didn't show stoned battlemap models with eastern forts, I couldn't test this, as the AI never attacked one of my forts)
-Boiling Oil
-Kingdoms-models for castles and fortresses.

Planned in the next version:
Script:
more Invasions, like the Mongol Invasion and a few more events
Campaign:
at least 2 playable new factions (and I mean playable, not completels finished)
Map:
More regions, especially in the area where the new factions stay.

Installation:
This mod is for kingdoms!

This is an Installer version. If needed, I'll also give you a .rar version.
There you only need to download and follow the instructions. This will create an uninstall.exe and a desctopshortcut.
the .exe is 108MB huge and the modfolder on your PC will have ~363MB

THE INSTALLER DOESN'T CREATE AN BlackSeaTWa0.1 subfolder under mods, you need to put the data, the .cfg and the.bat there or it won't work!
thankd for telling me this , I just got over it, as I created the final installer tomorrow, but then i had to go play icehockey (at least 5 hours today^^)
I'm really sorry for the late support!!


Download here (http://files.filefront.com/BSTWa01exe/;9309166;/fileinfo.html)



Signatures (you always need to show them in your sig):

https://img149.imageshack.us/img149/1153/bstw2qj5.jpg
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https://img153.imageshack.us/img153/1689/seljukdmk5.jpg
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https://img153.imageshack.us/img153/6269/crusadersjl5.jpg
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https://img142.imageshack.us/img142/2186/venicetj0.jpg
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https://img151.imageshack.us/img151/2820/saracensqy5.jpg
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https://img153.imageshack.us/img153/807/polandyq7.jpg
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https://img153.imageshack.us/img153/3348/hretr0.jpg
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https://img151.imageshack.us/img151/2628/novgorodbo1.jpg
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Permission and (c) :
Permission only with accredation or the accredation of the creators of the included mods (which are listened below)

-Modfolder based on the Retrofitmod 1.00 (by unspoken knight)
-Campaign and Battle AI by Lusted
-Disgruntled Goat's skins for Byzantium and Russia (in this version it' the Principality of Novgorod)
-Ornamentum skins for denmark (as far as they work as I don't have the full support of the Ornamentum team) by danova and GobZol
-Hungary skins and banners by the Magyarmod (by Csastadi(sry for the missing accents, but they aren't in such a huge number on a german keyboard)

Credits:

Modleader/Mapper/Menudesigner

"Nevada (aka.Hector)"

Testing

"Bomberheucki"
"Alpha-Lupus"
"Balduwin"
"Spectre =CH="

Supporters (or members who helped the team or once belonged to it, call it free employers)

"Osterhase"
"Boztorgai_Khan"
"Firekiller"

Special Thanks to

-the TWC-Community for all the mods and Tutorials
-GrnEyedDvl's great mapping tutorial and his great help
-the [COJOT]Clan for endless games and a great Community
-"Duffman" for his "support", i came farther than you ever thought I could!!!
-Dimitri_Harkov for his help with scripting
-Rammstein, for introducing me into modding
-DrIstvaan, who was always friendly, even after I left RenTW for my own mod
-my great testing team, even when it was at least so fascinated that anyone could make a new map, so they weren't that critical:doh:

Thanks for downloading and playing this and a Merry Christmas and a happy new year,

Nevada

[Justiciar]

Great work, and merry Christmas, sir. :2thumbsup:

Now I just need to buy the game.

:hanged:

[Nevada]

that's bad^^

[Sgt. Harper]

hey there, your mod looks good so far. very interesting area and period you chose.
i like the idea of wars between the russian duchies.

how far into it are you now i was wondering?

do you still need any help? cause id liked to if i can.
i dont think my modding is up to a great standard, average just maybe.
but my history is a+ so might be able to help there i was thinking with unit names and descriptions, factions and so on...

anyway let me know, and good luck if not.