Eastern Promise

one big released .
hmmmm
many hours of fun in pc are passing in front of my eyes

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BKB, what will you do about the portraits? Probably the last thing on your mind now, but the existing portraits suck for most of the factions, and will not be able to cover the wide range of ethnicities in your mod. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...icons/flat.gif

Portraits are easy to find with a quick google. Just takes a little time and effort to get them into the game but no biggie.

Some good news boys. Well some news anyway. After extensive planning and research, i have decided on all the provinces and now press ahead to finishing the map http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...icons/wave.gif

Nice m8

Dude, China really needs to be on the map. I can tell ya right now, that once they reached India, China would definately be on thier target list. All the tales about Cathay, (medieval name for China) They would have been nuts to trade there, and even more nuts to control part of there I strongly suggest you add part of China, if not the whole thing. Or at LEAST give us some Chinese units m8. Hell by the 1300's Europeans were already talking about conquering the fabled land of Kingdom of Japan for Christendom

I still love this idea and will dl the minute it's out,

Sword

The map ends on the western most part of Mongolia. I would love to have china in but the room for provinces has proved a real bugger at times.

Seljuq

Safavids

Ismailieh (Hashshashin)

Unfortunately, the Muslim kingdoms that populated Iran do not have an army article, and the Turkic rulers of the land, so important to the Muslim world (especially when the Seljuq arrived), are mentioned in three paragraphs. Sigh. I guess Persians despise the Turks. Really not needed. :\

Hope this helps http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...icons/wave.gif

Edit:: Whoops, 1099-1550... so no Samanids or Saffarids needed.



~Wiz

Ghaznavid Rulers

Ghaznavid History (Don't mind the Pakistan bit - their capital was Ghazna, believed to be somewhere in Pakistan, very near the modern Afghan border, in the eastern reaches of the Hindu Kush)

Can't find anything on their armies as of yet...



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Thanks for all that info there wizard http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...icons/wave.gif

The Islamic World to 1600

Just about says it all.

I suppose you're going to use your Osprey collection to make up for the internet's lack of military information?



~Wiz http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...s/bigthumb.gif

Man you guys are giving alot of help and info to BKB This community kicks ass Good job guys

Eastern history is by far my favorite historical subject http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...ons/cheers.gif



~Wiz

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Quote[/b] (The Blind King of Bohemia @ June 18 2004,06:37)]The map ends on the western most part of Mongolia. I would love to have China in but the room for provinces has proved a real bugger at times.

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Mongolia eh? Can I please see where your sticking Mongolia? In this new book on the Mongols, that I bought it says that Medieval Mongolia was located closer to the Moddle East, and that the area that is now known as Mongolia, was then a part of China.

EDIT: Off Topic: How do I get the thing in my sig to appear as an image instead of a link?

Here is the province list of the far east part of the map:

Eastern steppe(sahara like province, quite huge)
Otrar
Khojend
Kashgar
Khotan
Lahore
Dehli
Malwa
Deogir



I can't really split these up any more as i've reached the limit in province space. I'd love to but other areas seem to need more attention http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...icons/wave.gif

if we kill someone the mod is get out more faster ???

I doubt it mate, maybe my boss at work http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...icons/wave.gif

When you say Sahara like region, can we still control it?

of course mate. The point of having the big sparse areas at the north east of the map is to encourage expansion to the west from the mongols, timurids, etc

Lol, actually I was wrong. Medieval Mongolia was actually located on the spot where present day Manchuria is located. Manchuria is lcated right between that are where Northern China and the Korean peninsula meet. So Mongolia was actually quite far into the far east m8. Hope this info has been useful.

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At the moment I'm thinking of carry over an idea from my Super Mod - each period having its own exclusive map. Not drastic differences, just a few new provinces here and there depending on the focus for the period. For example, I wanted Albania primarily for it to house an Albanian faction in Twilight but is it really needed in the first three periods? In Early there could be more Holy Land provinces, in High more Steppe provinces, in Late more Asian provinces and Twilight more Balkan/Turkish provinces to match the theme of the period. It will be a lot of work but would definitely provide more variety. Any thoughts?

Not a bad idea, except for the fact it'll delay the release. I'd rather have this sooner with one map, then wait. Of course, you could release it in incremints like the Super Mod.

Please don't do separate maps Think about the poor people without broadband who would have to spend 6+ hours downloading it Of course, it would be worth it... http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...icons/wink.gif

umm... buddy, just do what i do, shen you go to bed, leave the internet on all night, and when you wake up, it's done. As for seperate maps, BKB, I think that is an absolutely awesome idea, and you definately have my support. So how far along are you with units and the like?

Off Topic: BKB, is your super mod a self install? I'm not very good with manually placing files everywhere...

I know I can do that SoCC, but I'd prefer to spend less time waiting for it to download and then be able to play. I am in favour of separate maps though. And the super mod isn't self install (yet).

I can help with stuff on Chinese and Mongols if you need.

I might make some chinese mercenary units but they won't be there as a faction. But that would be nice with help with the mongols and later horde's.

I'm working on converting STW mongol cavalry graphics into MTW unit graphics. There are some screens at My Pages (link in my sig). If you think like you'd want to use them BKB, I can provide them for you (when they're finished).

Regards,
EC

That would be great mate http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...ns/biggrin.gif They look class. Can they fire bows? Also, what animation do they have - hack, prod or both? Is there a lot of space in the BIF for weapons and shields? It's just that I'd like to get as much out of them as possible

How do you make totally new unit BIFs by the way? Your Polish Hussars are great too. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...s/bigthumb.gif

BKB, you should keep in some Mongol heavies, since they did have some, (according to osprey).