CBUR's "Basileia ton Romaion"submod for SS 6.1 released.

[AnthoniusII]

Στρατιγικον Μεγα Δομεστικου των Σχολων πιστου τω Θεω υπηρετη Αντωνιου.



Looking around all over mods of M2TW and their medieval Roman (byzantine) unit rosters,an idea came to mind!
To create a complete unit roster covering two(2)maijor eras but having all byzantine army's reforms...

The 1st project will cover a time frame from 1025 to 1460 with the army's reforms of 1205 and after...
This project will have the priority becouse most mods that are in development have the year 1080 as starting date...

The 2nd project will cover the time frame 650 to 1025 with the army's reform of 800 and Nikephrus Phokas reform at 950ad...

There will be a number of units that will coexist in the two projects the same way the real units existed many centuries as troops[Ex:Acritae].

The result of this project when and if acomblished will be free for any one who would desire to add a complete and historical accurate byzantine units roster...

The only obligation for a moder or moding team will be the anoucment of accepting this project in order of agknowlegment of the members work!!!

I would like at first to know the public's oppinion about this project's existance...

Then i will need all those that would be able to share their skills and knowlege for a such a project...

AnthoniusII (researcher)
Tangro (skinner)
The_Bulgar_Slayer (researcher)
Vahe (researcher)
Pompeius Magnus (researcher)
Ificratis(moder)
Caesar Clivus(moder)
Stefaneke(modeler)
Neoptolemos(public realations)

Basic features that required for all the "units"that will be in the list...

1st:Accurate names...
This is the most comlicated issue...Through the centuries same units often changed their names according to the public languege spoken that time...
A minor examble:You must already have seen even in historical books the names[accontistai],[peltastoi] or [psiloi]...This kind of warriors never stop to exist in the roman armies and despite the diferend name they were the SAME unit...

2nd:Accurate armors...
Next to the name issue was the armor issue...This is going to be the most difficult issue of all...Lets suppose that a unit exists in more than on era,in more than one reform...Armors and weapons changed often according to the era of weapons/armors improuvments or according the opponets the troops had to fight!

3rd:Weapons..
I do not mean the kind of weapons a unit will use but the double weaponed feature...
The 3rd era in moding has already started by a bunch of wonderfull mods and many more are to come...
No more units with only one weapon...
Examble:Millitia(thematic)regional infantry...They may not have armor at their 1st level but they must be equipted with both spear and sword or axe!
Some moders/modelers already opened the way...I hope they would like to help here also!!!




presents...


Basileia ton Romaion submod for Stainless Steel 6.1






The aim of this submod is to provide the players of Stainless Steel 6.1 with a historically accurate medieval Roman (i.e. Byzantine) unit roster. Almost all of the vanilla units for the Byzantines were either inaccurately implemented or just plain inaccurate. This submod redresses this...and more!



Download: (Megaupload)Basileia ton Romaion v1.0 for SS6.1

Alternate download (Filefront)


Installation Instructions

1. Download the above file

2. Run the installer and point it to your Medieval II Total War directory (not the SS directory)

3. Delete the map.rwm files from the Stainless_Steel_6\data\world\maps\base and Stainless_Steel_6\data\world\maps\campaign\custom\Late_Era_Campaign folders. The campaign will take a minute or two to start the first time after you do this. Don't worry it's normal (the game is rebuilding the map).

4. Delete the events.dat and events.idx files from the Stainless_Steel_6\data\sounds folder.

Features:

A completely overhauled unit roster. Almost all units are completely new and historically accurate.
A combination of skins from several modders as well as many original creations.
New weapon models and textures (thanks to Lord_Calidor)
Realistic battle banners.
Starting conditions for both Early and Late Era campaigns are much more accurate. Help the Komneneans restore the Empire to its former glory in the Early campaign. Or fight to regain Constantinople from the crusaders in the Late Era campaign.
New battle and strat map models for all army leaders.
Career system for Byzantine generals.
New roleplaying features. Recover Byzantine relics. Gain titles for your generals
Byzantine quotes for loading screens
Proper terrain around Constantinople. No more tropical jungle.

Please post any feedback/bugs in this thread: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=182151