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I see So it is only the English who can have Norman Foot Knights? And only in Early? Damn shame because they look good and are incredibly tough. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...s/bigthumb.gif Can't wait to start training some Templars. I've been training a load of Fanatics and man do they kick some serious butt A whole rabble of them routed the proud army of the King of Navarre http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg.../gc-jester.gif .
Some more questions BKB.
Will there be any new provinces in Super Late? And what is the final list of factions?
New provinces. Ruthenia, carinthia and the balearic islands are the ones you haven't seen. New factions: Flemish, lithuania, the hospitillars, serbia and wallachia are the totally new ones for the era
It'll be the Knights of St John for me http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...evalcheers.gif The Serbs and Wallachians will also be fun to play. I love that part of the map.
Amen to that I can't wait to play as the Knights of St. John as a faction Hopefully the leader will hold the title of Grand Master
Im looking foward to more of the eastern factions, that's where most of my games with eastern promise will take place.
By the way is the name eastern promise a sure thing already?
Or are you still juggling names for the mod? http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg.../gc-juggle.gif
Eastern Comprimise hehe Eastern Delima oh man im super tired i think im going to go bed now.
Yes he will. And the name Eastern Promise is probably final at this point.Quote:
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I launched a crusade against Epirus from 100% zeal Ile de France and got 700 Fanatics. No Templars or Order troops http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...cons/mecry.gif .Quote:
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thanks for the reply bkb, here a few more questions
-i noticed that crossbowmen now have long range. this seems a bit weird, i mean, i don't really know the actual range of the crossbow compared to the normal bow, but in game terms it makes useless the arbalest, since you always trained them to have the killing power of the crossbow upgraded with longer range, now it just has a little more AP bonus, i think it was better the way it was before.
-also i saw that the knight templars and knights of st. thomas of acre's upkeep cost is 50, while the support for norman knights is 105. my proposal is that all western mounted knight units cost 105 upkeep, and foot knight units 90. i'd be happy if both unit tipes took 2 turns to build, to reflect their true elite, créme de la créme status, but its up to you
-also saw that in the early map, crossin from hungary to bosnia has a river pass, but not from hungary to bulgary or croatia. shouldn't this two also have river passes? my eastern european geography is a bit rusty but i think the danube river goes between them...
-how about doubling or tripling the cost and upkeep for mercenaries? i think this would balance its use a bit, since the ai doesn't use them and is quite easy to go on shopping spree and inmediately fortify weak parts of the empire
-i invaded estonia, in 1220 with an army of 960 consisting in 5 units of cmaa, 3 units of knights of acre, 4 units of order crossbowmen and 3 of order sergeants. the rebel army had 8 estonian infantry, 1 woodman, 2 crossbowmen. my general was of 1 star (no v&v), theirs had 3 (no principles, most honest), i really didn't worry to send a good general to battle, since i thought their infantry was a joke (strong charge, fast, large shield) so i readied my cmaa in 2 ranks and charged head-on against 5 of their est inf, while on the wings the knights of acre charged home (in three ranks) to other 2 est inf. to my surprise, the est inf quickly destroyed one of the knights (suffered heavy loses tho) the other was losing badly, and my cmaa were beeing cut to pieces. shocked, i sent my crossbowmen to try to save as many cmaa as i could, and make my general make a large envelopment to attack them from behind and after a while they finally routed. the aftermath: 67 knights left, 89 cmaa and 81 order cbw of what should have been an easy victory.
all of this was to ask: isn't the est inf a bit OP? at least it should have an more threatening unit desc, so you don't think it'll be a walk in the park...
-and the crusades thing, i launched i think 4 crusades to varied locations from scotland (60 zeal) and in all of them i got only fanatics, exept in one when i got 150 order foot spears
phew, that's enough for now
cheers
First time i've had to play the mod because of my VI problems and all i can say is Well done BKB. My joint favourite mod with HTW
it makes sense to me that order knights have lower upkeep. I think that the order subsidises them. so it makes sense. Also on taking 2 turns, BKB i think just lowering the time it takes to build the guard is more suitable. I mean with 75 upkeep, i don't think that many people can spam them. Also 25 florins is probably a bit cheap up it to 40 probably and the mounted to 80, then lower the feudal's to 100 and the chiv's to 80, i hope it makes sense from an idiotic moron http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...icons/wink.gif great mod http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg.../gc-party2.gifQuote:
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When playing as the Cumans is there any way to change your leaders icon on the strategic map so it looks like the Khan one as i have noticed it only turns different when you move the khan somewhere is there awy to keep it looking this way instead of the cathlic leader
I have sorted the problem out BKB this is what you do:
Go into piecs in campmap go to units then pagan and on all the ones that say waiting change to awaiting which their is only one then after you have done that in the normal folder go in to your moded folders super early and super high and go into units pagan and change the one that says waiting so it corrsponds with the other awaitng one. https://forums.totalwar.org/forum/no...evalcheers.gif
When playing as the Cumans is there any way to change your leaders icon on the strategic map so it looks like the Khan one as i have noticed it only turns different when you move the khan somewhere is there awy to keep it looking this way instead of the cathlic leader
Regarding this to sort out the problem you must go into pieces for you campmap folder then go into your standard units folder then pagan look for the folder that says waitng change to awaiting the go into the Super early one and do the same then do the same for your super high one.
soz for the double post it kept saying it was not working https://forums.totalwar.org/forum/no...ns/gc-oops.gif
Ae there any tools that will allow me to view the TGA files???
Vin, look for a package called acd-see, that reads tgas.
Thanks for sorting out that problem out with the cumans https://forums.totalwar.org/iB_html/...ns/biggrin.gif
I've just noticed that no ships can move from out of the Sea of Mamara into the Black Sea.
How's Super Late going by the way? https://forums.totalwar.org/forum/no...cons/smile.gif
I'm just balancing the game so far which is nearly done.
i was wandering if it is possible to change Khan Tugors portrait and change his Haeirs portrait how is it possible as i would like to have a go at changing kings & khans portraits with other ones used in the game . https://forums.totalwar.org/forum/no...ns/gc-help.gif
bkb when the late is released ??
Cheers, BKB...a very impressive mod - I'm already hooked.
A couple of thoughts, though;
Since you added in Apulia specifically as a province, and gave southern Italy to the Sicilians in Early, shouldn't they also be given access to the Norman Knights, considering that Apulia was in the hands of the de Hautevilles at the time, who were about as Norman as you get. ;)
Also, MY GOD Doesn't England get the rough end of the stick...the poor buggers are like the HRE and the Byzantine Empire in terms of the sheer number of nearby enemies, but without the wealth, influence or power.
On the one hand, its made for one of the best series of battles I've ever played - an conquest of France and the subduing of Wales sorted out the income problem, but things went pear shaped when Navarre and Aragon started sniffing around. The King dutifully rushed off to fight a couple of very bloody battles in Gascony, Provence and later in Aquitaine when they were supported by the people of Genoa.
During this brave retreat, Scotland began hammering Northumbria and Ireland invaded Wales. By the time the Norse were knocking at York, the Welsh had resurfaced, personally evicted the Irish and now turned their attentions to Wessex. Mercia was the only English land in England not captured or under siege - their saving grace was an unassuming general nonetheless gifted by God, who defeated the Norse, Scots and Welsh time and time again. The King's valiant retreat through France saved Wessex when he arrived home, with not a lot of his army left, and then the battles to reclaim England began. Bitter, bloody, but eventually successful, reclaiming all the lands (including Wales) except those in France...leaving England free, but utterly, utterly broken.
But yes...on the other hand, I did feel more than just slightly victimised.
On the note of solving the problem, there has to be a way to deal with the overcrowding of factions in that area. So far, the Welsh are still very easy prey for the English, and have nowhere to go but straight into England. Same, to a slightly lesser extent, with Scotland. France again, has England as its natural enemy - Aragon and Navarre, if they don't pick each other or Valencia or Spain (which, generally, they don't seem to) come straight up into England. The Norse go straight for England, and Ireland seems to find it tempting too. Its just all a bit much.
I agree with the suggestion of making land bridges from Ireland to Wales and Scotland - which would at least stop those three from always heading straight into English soil since there's nowhere better to go.
If there were land bridges, then (fingers crossed) England wouldn't need such large armies to hold its northern borders, since there'd be more of a stand-off between the factions. With the armies reduced, there wouldn't be so much of a need for the rather, erm...impressive infrastructure in some of the provinces, or for the vast quantity of expensive units, which means less costs, which means a happier AI, who doesn't do idiot things to secure its financial base.
I'm against removing any of the factions, especially since you've put work into them, but removing Wales and using the free space to enter another faction (Burgundy?) into Early would be another possibility...although whether it would really help the poor English is anyone's guess. I figured Wales on account of it generally being crushed within a few turns or so, which is what I and a couple of others have been saying here...but maybe that's just old habit from the un-modded M:TW.
Oh, other thing, those crossbows are set to long-range, aren't they, or am I just imagining it? I know the crossbow wasn't a bad ranged weapon, but it didn't equal or outrange the longbow, and I think most shortbows were about comparable.
Anyway, great mod.
The mod is great. It would be even greater than it is if the game made by Activision would be a bit smarter than it is.
1. a turn should be a season, just as in shogun (it's illarious to wait a year for producing either baltic tribemen or an elite cavalry unit). If a turn would be a season, tribemen could be summoned in a season (becouse they already exist, they are villeins wandering through the land of the country, harvesting crops, mining etc), while elite units, depending on their value and combat strength could take longer to train.
2. if every province would have a summoning index ( a ratio between the anual income an the population it would support) it would make it possible to summon for free a number of basic units (as those of a bit trained peasants like celtic warriors, baltic tribemen, few militia units). I propose this becouse I find it impossible to play with the Bulgarians for example. Their units are so expensive and the income is so low that I see no chance of survival.
3. 3 years to build a boat?...isn't it a bit too long for a damn BOAT?
Otherwise, the idea of so many factions is a good one, and with slight modifications to the game it would add balance and realism.
https://forums.totalwar.org/forum/no...ns/biggrin.gif Hi Harald,Quote:
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I understand your problem with these things. But there are a few ways round them, if you do a little or a lot of modding.
For 1. You can reset the starting year to zero in the Campmap/startpos files e.g Superhigh and play years as turns. Think you might be able to change the text years and type in turns in another file somewhere.
Or you could make provinces accessable that aren't adjacent, again in Campmap/startpos. That way units can jump over a province or ineffect move two places. Just a matter of lots of scripting.
As for problem 2. You can change units so they have very low cost and building requirements in the respective unit_prod file in the main Total War file . Or increase the number of units you start with again in Campmap/startpos.
3, Is the easiest. Download Gnome editor from the The Org, Total War site. Us it to open up the file, High or early modded_crusader_unit_prod11 (or which ever unit_prod file you want mod) You'll find these in the Total War directory file. Once the file is opened, Find the ship you want to edit, go along to column 5 and change the number there to anything you like. This will tell the game how long this unit takes to create.
All the info to do these things is available on this website.
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ALRIGHT BKB HERS THIS SITUATION, I FINALLY DOWNLOADED THE CAMPMAP, SO I FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS UP TO WHERE U COPY AND PAST THE SHIP PEICES THEN WHEN THAT FINISHES OFF THE OTHER FOLDERS DISAPPEAR OUT OF THE BKB07 FOLDER, I WASNT CUTTING, I WAS COPYING AND PASTING, ANY WAY WHEN I CHECKED TO SEE IF ANY OF IT WORKED, THE SUPER EARLY AND LATE TITLES DISPLAY NO MAP, BUT THE ORIGINAL EARLY LATE AND HIGH TITLES DISPLAY THE NEW MAP WITH OLD FACTIONS AND ALL THE OWNERSHIP OF PROVINCES IS ALL GARBLED WITH ENGLAND OWNING GASCONY AQUITANE SAHARA LEON AND ARMENIA AND THE REST OF THE FACTION ARE THE SAME, SCATTERED TO ALL CORNERS OF THE MAP,SO NOT ONLY CANT I PLAY THE NEW MAP I CANT EVEN THE PLAY NORMAL SUPERMOD OR ORIGINAL MTW:VI, JEEZ BKB WHY DO MAKE INSTALALATIONS SO DAMNED COMPLICATED
How can i change the portraits of a faction leader so i can select what their king looks like thnx
Why don't you uninstall everything then reinstall MTW and VI again and then install BKB's mod?Quote:
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PS Take caps lock off because my ears are hurting.
Mate have you downloaded the auto-install? It contains everything and you don't need to do anything. Just check out the first page.
How can i change the portraits of a faction leader so i can select what their king looks like thnx. Please reply bkb as i would like 2 know how to do this thanxs
I'm not a 100% sure to be honest. I think it has something to do with the 'misc' folder in Portraits and also the relevant files in the 'Names' folder.
m8 when the late is released ???
Hello I'm new here and thought i would just add my input. :) This is a highly impressive and very fun mod, that almost makes it seem like i am playing a totally new game Really, thank you to the author who made this.
I did have a few problems and probably its already been addressed (i can't read all 59 pages ;)). One thing i did have a problem was when a Muslim faction princess kept pressing towards me to marry her. It would kind of freeze with the message portrait not found. I didn't know what to do, but if people had this problem, you just press ESC. Then you can carry on.
Another was, when loading for some battles, for some reason it would go back to desktop, i'm not sure why this is. https://forums.totalwar.org/forum/no...s/confused.gif
Either way all in all, a splendid mod and full credits to the person/people who contributed.
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Sapcebar also works toget rid of the freeze
Well That sounds like the shield bug from the old super high zip version
Download the exe version to get rid of that problem. If that isnt it I dont know what it is.
The shields are in the auto install, so that should not be a problem.
What factions were in the battle that crashed mate.
Welcome to the org as well by the way https://forums.totalwar.org/forum/no...icons/wave.gif
Late will be released in a week or so. I've been busy at present with real life matters. I hate those things https://forums.totalwar.org/forum/no...ns/biggrin.gif
Hi again and thank you for the warm welcome. :)
The crashing thing happened just before the battle scene actually loaded up, kind of like half way. I was playing as the Teutonic Knights at the time and the Hungarians invaded (Moldovia). It also happened once against the Golden Horde (Khazar).
Maybe because i changed a few things in my config this happened? I changed some buiding times to make it built quicker, though i recently went back to default. :)
Either way, i haven't experienced any problems after that, but i'll post if there are minor problems.
I'm really looking forward to this Late Period Mod update. :D
I was wondering, what is the time limit on this mod (super early, super high)? Is it the same as the game? (something like just after mid 1400's).
Well thank you.
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1453 When constantinople fell is the end of MTW.
There is a mod that can make you play forever tho
Mmm. Who was in the armies? I think it might have been some dirty mercenaries hanging about the cause CTD. This will be rectified in the Late release.Quote:
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Oh and Late will end at 1492, the end of Moorish Spain and the beginning of the 'Conquest of Paradise'
Ah ok thanks again for the reply.
Yes you are right, my army heavily consisted of mercenaries (needed a quick army ;p), so maybe that was the cause...?
Come to think of it, when i reloaded and replaced a few units, it worked again... or maybe i just automatically resolved, can't remember for sure, sorry
:)
Did you have any of these units:
Voi
Norman foot knights
Catalonian guard
Danish nobles?
I believe i had Voi and Catalonian Guard, if that helps at all. :)
m8 if they were mercs the voi screw up the game with a ctd dunno why okay?Quote:
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The mod is extended to 1492? This gets better and better https://forums.totalwar.org/forum/no...evalcheers.gif .Quote:
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Howwould you extend it tho? Special program?
Its a complicated issue with those units that i won't get into, i'll just fix it https://forums.totalwar.org/forum/no...ns/biggrin.gif
Shades, its pretty easy its near the top of the late start pos
I didnt think that that worked. Oh well https://forums.totalwar.org/forum/no...s/rolleyes.gif
Sorry if I'm butting in BKB but you can set the enddate to whatever you like shades panther. I think you addQuote:
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//
SetGameEndDate: 1492
in the campmap/startpos files beneath set startdate etc,
eg..
SetStartDate:: 793
SetPeriod:: EARLY
SetEarlyPeriodStartDate:: 793
SetHighPeriodStartDate:: 1205
SetLatePeriodStartDate:: 1321
//
SetGameEndDate: 1066
Thats how its been done for the Viking invasion add on anyway.
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Right lads i'm removing the irish because of the english reverting control back over the country. Any ideas of a new faction. You know who is in late by now, so any new faction ideas would be appreciated.
Release date early next week https://forums.totalwar.org/forum/no...ns/biggrin.gif
How about Trebizond?
hmm a new faction....What about finland?
Trebizond would make it even harder for the Byzantines than it already would be. Now, about the Mongols, I know there was another group, other than the Golden horde that gave trouble to the Turks. Would this be in the map, or even timeframe? Sorry, I forget their name. https://forums.totalwar.org/forum/no...s/gc-blush.gif
You think being the Byzantines in Late is hard?
I am talking from practice not from theory. The game CTD's when you add the GA's for the new factions. Try it and you will see what I mean.Quote:
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You didn't get any of my replies? I don't really have the time right now with traveling and all.Quote:
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Sorry mate no replys came through. Damn PM's https://forums.totalwar.org/forum/no...ns/biggrin.gif
Dude,Quote:
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I assume based on your use of CAPS that you are a novice of sorts, right? MODS are designed for experienced players that are well able to navigate their computers. Other people are able to get the MOD running without problems. Perhaps the vanilla version of MTW is best for you.
BKB,
I have observed that the battle animations for many of the new units have their weapons off kilter, slightly to the left or right. Zooming in on battles, I noticed some graphic distortions (fuzzy or discolored pixels) when the new units are engaged in surrounding situations and/or forest terrain. This seemed to a strange phenomena, perhaps a combination of terrain, engaged units, whatever, however, clicking on a unit with said distortions immediately causes a CTD.
I also noticed some strange terrain distortions on map areas - mismatched terrain features on some occasions. When this occurs, the game would crash to the desk top. Again, I only noticed this when using new units.
I then removed all the new units and played with the default ones. No distortions and no CTD's.
This leads me to believe that the occasional CTD's being reported are due to the new unit animations. Hope this helps.
Where about on the camp map and what new units exactly?
well I played the mod with most of the factions on expert.Never finished with any of them but i played long enough to make an ideea.the mod rocks , is practically a new game.Here are some observations.
I the north i think there are too many unuseful troops.we have finish tribesmen , slav warriors, slav javelinman,baltic warriors and estonian warriors.I dont see the point in having so many almost naked cheap troops with almost some stats.at least the last one , estonian warriors could be a free slot for a new unit, maybe an lithuanian heavy infantry buildable only in lithuania with simple requirements and this would make this province more atractive for example for the poles .they need strong spearmen in early .I didnt heard about estonian warriors and lithuania played a major role in that region.in plus baltic will cover all those territories.
Now in the extreme south i think it is the same problem.I think that are too many african naked warriors with almost the same purpose.We have ghanians, nubians wich are great but also african warriors, african javelinmen,african pikemen ( pikes in Africa?? ) .Almos and Almoravids have the Murabitin so so i dont see why is another javelin unit needed.Instead of this african warriors wouldnt be more enjoyable to lets say : touareg tribesmen (some camel warriors with better morale and armour or bow and sword both)or some sudanese warriors for egyptians.Perhaps lowering the requirements for mameluke infantry will make the egyptians having other more historical accurate troops than loads of naked africans.please dont consider anyone of u that i am racist.Most of the islamic armies that fought against crusaders were arabic.and other thing anoying is that the seljuks have loads of africans too and i didnt hear about Seljuks having a big numer of african troops in their ranks.Anatolia was largely populated with turcomans wich were enough warlike people .Perhaps a kurdish unit would be more suitable.
Also i dont see the point in giving Muhawids to all muslin faction .They were mostly used by Almohads so i think the must stay in that part of the map ( Almoravis and Almos) and give to the seljuks and egyptian another unit with almost the same purpose.Its quite strange to see seljuks conquering Crimeea with load of Africans.Also the point of limit the factions ability to build some troops would make them to build their specialised troops resulting specialised armies.Imagine a conflict in Africa between Almos ( with AUM , Muhawids , Murabitins , Berbers , Touaregs ) against Egyptians ( with Abyssinian , Saracen , Nubian , Sudanese)?About the norman and the norman-siculo knights they are the same unit? if not it must be this way .Normans from normandy have the same roots with those from Sicily and the free unit slot can be use for some sicilian archer in arabic fashion.
Also i think that England must have the possibility to build clansmen , kerns and gallowglasses.irish and scots need them and making those troops available only for a province could help englad resisting with more succes.those nations have only an regional impact .Giving the posibility to scots or irish or welsh to build each others units could make realisable to following scenario: unite the keltic nations under a single king.Same thing can happend with bhoemians , hungarians and germans.Bhoemians always end conquered by the other two and both need some good archer unit, they have only vanilla archers.
uhhh i write a lot tonite.
well this is more a whish list and not at all critics, i must recognize that i prefer a more historical accurate game.
but all around the mod rocks and add a lot of playability and i must admit with big respect that is a huge and wonderful work.
Thanks for the feedback. Got everything down and will sort it out. All good info, some i had noticed, alot i had not. Like the kurd suggestion. I will sort the islamic factions out mate.
I was looking at osprey and the norman and sicilian norman were quite different in armour and style. Rest assured some units you suggested will make the mod. Those archers are already in the works. The sicilians will have a war ax now and will be quicker than the norman foot knights. The foot knights themselves will better armoured for the next release
The england question: those units are exclusive to those factions but i will let them train gallowglass, maybe clansmen.
woooh https://forums.totalwar.org/forum/no...icons/wave.gif i'm gald to see that u understand my post in the creative manner , i was afraid to sound too criticist.it was a great effort to write so much in english https://forums.totalwar.org/forum/no.../gc-dizzy2.gif
Yeah, it'd be great to see some new Turkish and Siclian troops. I don't really like the idea of combining some of the kingdoms since the more factions the better. I liked some of your other suggestions though.
I haven't checked if they're already there but at the late start date Serbia was an independant state. However it got swallowed by the Ottoman Empire by 1389. Wallachia and Moldavia were independant for some times in this period though they were both swallowed at times by both the Ottomans and the Crimean Khanate.
Just as long as Lithuania is in there and proud I will be happy.
Serbia and Lithuania are already in late.
Great suggestions Vlad. I sometimes wondered about the african warriors. They aren't that good and should be used as garrisons by the human but the Ai builds loads of them and lose alot of battles.
Its hard to keep a balance when playing the ai https://forums.totalwar.org/forum/no.../gc-juggle.gif
I think the wallacians are in Late as well. (I think BKB mentioned them.)
If I remember correctly The Ottomans had to battle some turks to gain control. So you couldhave another Turkish faction in a sort of a civil war. Maybe https://forums.totalwar.org/forum/no...s/gc-book2.gif
That could be hard since their territory is chopped in half by the map, but that would be kinda cool. Also, what about that Muslim Mongol group (Ikhan or something like that?)
well i dont remember Wallachia being swallowed by Ottoman Empire or Moldavia by the crimeean tatars.if in the first situation ( Wallachia ) this is questionable ,for example the brother of Vlad The Impaler , Radu the Handsome (1462 - 1475 with short intermezzo's) was an trustful ally of the turks but the ottomans didnt manage to seize control of Wallachia until Constantinopole fall ( the end of the game ) .if BKB will make a longer game u can talk about a dependance of wallachia from ottoman empire but after the cature of Vlad The Impaler by Mathias Corvinus , his cousin , the moldavian ruler Steven the Great manage to put on wallachian throne vovivodes that wanted to continue the anti-ottoman fight. he was an awful chooser , he put only weak people and finally they turned against him.he tried this method 4 times with 4 diffrent potentian voivodes until Vlad The Impaler was eliberated and he returned on the throne ( with hungarian and moldavian help) with the clear ideea of an alliance between Hungaria , Moldavia and Wallachia agaist the turks in Balkans.Quote:
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in Moldavia the tatars made only lothing rides just as they did it in Poland and Russia.they never manage to even ally with an moldavian voivode.
@Steppe Merc : that faction of mongols was in the actual days Iran-Irak area , i dont know if the rule even in Syria in the time period of Late.
@ShadesPanther :thanks. yes i remember this also.perhaps a tartar faction in north of Anatolia ? i remember that in Ankara battle some tartars switch sides , betraying Baiazet Ilderim.they were vassals of ottomans.
@BKB well i think your Osprey is a great source , i didnt study the diffrences between norman knights and siculo-norman knights .sicilian faction sounds very interesting with that archers and axemen.
About England : i see the problem in this manner because if u want to conquer anything else u must first conquer british isles and this is a situation for all the factions there .
~;)Thanx BKB,Quote:
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The mod does rock. Call me cheeky, but I've already made a few changes, including most of Vlads suggestions. I've also re-worked bits of the tech tree with a few new buildings for regional specialisation and to stop armourers being a building requirement, as I find it annoying when Templar knights et al, always have a huge armour bonus when there already tuff cookies. (I think it upsets the balance) I've also made many units region specific and gave the basic fort, a building requirement of 1 year, more historicaly correct and it helps the AI out a lot.
One thing I think would help is an extra province or two in Africa. I know its a lot of work and its to late for Superlate but its too easy to charge strait through North Africa, West to East. Also since the Muslim factions lost Antioch and...? (is it Tripoli or Palestine) the Eygptians seem a little underfunded. My suggestion for new a faction is The Hafsids as a new Muslim faction with a new province could stop the Christian steamroller a tad. Or split the Sahara into Tuat and Fezzan or something like that.
So, those are my newbie ideas. Great mod Blind King, looking forward to Superlate.
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A second Mongol faction seems to be winning the race at the moment, but I'll have to look into the issue. I've also managed to exploit wood as a resource so look for a forester and also an axemsmith to be new units in late. There will be new agents also, including a Heretic Priest. https://forums.totalwar.org/forum/no...evalcheers.gif
Oh and the mod will not be over by a long shot. Much more is being prepared for the Super Mod release in August. Reworked maps, more units and more besides.
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m8 i am total eager to play the late version and the super mod
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What's the heretic faction?Quote:
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he is reffering only to heretic priest , not faction so i think is only about agents.perhaps this priest could cause revolts in some regions ( remember bogumils in Bulgaria, albigensis and other strange cults of the period)or just pump up the heretic procent of inhabitants.Quote:
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wood and axmenshits sounds great , this will make some provinces be a little more walthier i suppose.
well i observe that i just stay and observe the creation of a whole new game.i am amazed by the huge amount of work.
I was under the impression that in order to have a heretic priest you would need a heretic faction to produce them.
at first read i was also on that impression too but i dont see what heretic faction could be created.
Hey BKB
Just posted a request for help at Why does my mod crash? also concerning Supermod on high Have a fresh download of the installer, and am able to play early, but not high https://forums.totalwar.org/forum/no...s/confused.gif ....any ideas/help you can spare?
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The axesmith thing would help the Russians alot. It was all rich trading, but thats hard since they don't simulate the rivers that connected the Black Sea to the Baltic. And perhaps Rebels could make the heretics (not sure). But what units are you planning to take out in order to make new ones? I'd suggest Peasants and Muslim Peasants, and the other weaker cannon fodder. Mabye also vanilla spearmen?
Love the mod by the way, just a couple of questions that I havnt seen reading through the thread up to this point...
Cuman faction- I cant make assasins? It will allow me to build the buildings but none of my dagger wielding friends. As a result I cant eliminate those pesky emissaries and friggin catholic bishops. Is this intentional or something that is a problem only with me? https://forums.totalwar.org/forum/no...cons/frown.gif
One other note, I love playing the crusader factions, but run into the missing face and screwed up name errors that others have reported as well, I hadnt seen the crusaders states mentioned in them but thought I would bring it up. Also is there any hope of a sword wielding light cavalry for them? With all of the desert battles this faction fights if you dont win within the first few min on the harder levels your heavily armoured troops cook and die. It may not be historically correct but sure would help to have some light cavalry, (perhaps called retainers or something) so I am not stuck trying to use regular horseman to suppliment my army. Maybe making saharan cavalry available to the desert countries instead of exclusive to the faction like what you did with the african warriors. Just a thought. https://forums.totalwar.org/forum/no.../gc-jester.gif
Welcome to the org, PD.
I thought they could train assasins, i'll look into it.
I can add a light cavalry if people want it.
The heretic priest will let factions in central and eastern europe have a chance to really undermine the other powers. These boys will seriously decrease loyalty in enemy provinces and heretic rises.
Steppe, maybe some of the african and baltic generic units i made(the bare top loonies units https://forums.totalwar.org/forum/no...ns/biggrin.gif )
I don't think we need any more light cavalry. Jinettes are good in the desert as are hobilars and mounted sergeants, turcopoles, horse archers, to name a few: I'm sure most Christians can get their hands on those or a force good for the desrt. I get sick of the Christian powers steamrollering over the Middle East, like they need any more help.Quote:
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The heretic priest sounds really good BKB. How are these fellows trained?
Perhaps I'll make a Heretic Church. You could send them into a fellow Catholics province in order to stir up trouble, but run the risk of a Heretic rising in your own province.Quote:
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You'll have to use the assassins more I guess. Which is good because I only use them to spring clean my heir list https://forums.totalwar.org/forum/no...ns/biggrin.gif https://forums.totalwar.org/forum/no...icons/cool.gif