Stainless steel?

[G^2]

Thanks for the quick reply Monk that was exactly what I was looking for. I have spent about a week trying to find some type of Guide, EB was so user friendly because any information you wanted to find was right there on the web sight. Koodos to Honga for taking the time to make the Faq.

[RollingWave]

I'm having a fun time as the Cuman, really tough. they start with piss poor land almost completely landlocked (they have one settlement that can build ports... to the Caspian... zzzz)

I made a made dash towards the baltic, but I'm still making no money now that I have 3 ports on the Baltic and 3 more on the black sea along with 2 on the Caspian.

the thing is that I need to convert a lot of those castles to towns, as the biggest advantage for the Cuman is that their bread and butter unit (Cuman Horse archer) can be build in both types of settlements anyway. but conversion is REALLY costly to say the least.

dispite having a pretty large empire and carefully worked alliances (now highest in population and about 2-3 overall) i'm still in a dangerous situation, I allied with the Kwarzinians and Turks and Lithunia so i got both my back covered and a dagger in the back of the Rus's back. but I only have basically 3.5 battlion running around despite 15+ settlements.

battalion 1: my original army. 1 general, 1 noble, all the rest are cuman HA. they made a amazing run from my capital to the shores of the Baltic. almost all of them are deep in the silver or gold level now.

battalion 2: my second army was originally a offshoot of battlion 1 but the Kiev Rus attacked me and they've been doing back and forth battles with them in the central area of Russia. this is the only army where I have any sort of decent non-merc infantry (3 Cuman Axeman)

battalion 3: after the war with the Kiev Rus started I mobilized a second army from my heartlands and they took the rout dircetly to the Black sea. having secured 3 settlements on the black sea now they've formed a double whammy with battalion 2 as they're now in close proximity to Kiev and could go fast by sea.

battalion 3.5: I was in a ton of economics trouble during most of this, I think I realize the problems now, the war with the two Rus is denying me a great deal of land trade is obvious, but my capital being way too far back (causing a lot of extra corruption in the front it seems) and too many rebel stacks running around unchecked is another. so this new army is basically the rebel cleaner. trying to reestablish my homeland and covering most of the places with watch towers. to get my economy back in good shape (and building up a new good general + army don't hurt :P)

The situation is pretty dangerous though, battalion one is in Reval (a Baltic town) and is boxed in by the Novogods (Can escape VIA sea though) but it's my only real army in the area. if something happens to them I think i'll lose 5+ settlements with little that could be done. the Novogods are on their knees (3 or 4 settlements left with Lithunia also on their back) but they keep showing up with large armies in my land, and more and more they're comming with mass catapults and trebuchets, which is scary for my HA army. I'll still win most battles, but with this sort of setup I can not afford to take too many losses. on my conqest of Novogod I had 1 battle where I lost more than 100 HA on the field .. that was it! (the sally of Novogod, got hit on 3 sides and the main army had 1000+ against my HA army of 600 +)

Battlion 2/3 are in better situations as they got the Keiv Rus locked up in a pretty bad position and they havn't been showing up with mass seige. plus they have a couple of well developed castles to supply them with infantries for a more conventional war too. where as battlion 1 has relied exclusively on mercenaries during seige so far.

Byzantium and the Turks are locked in a death match , as well as the Kwarzinians and Fatamids, so my back is pretty safe for now, both the Rus and Kiev Rus has sued for peace (Nov came to me I went to Kiev Rus) mostly because all 3 of us is screwed economically. I need some time to regroup, particularly in the Novogod region. and i need to build up, over half my towns can upgrade walls and I can't even afford to do THAT!

[St.Jimmy]

Hi all. Just downloaded 6.1 and it looks great so far. One question tho. While this is installed will i still be able to play my campaigns on retrofit? Or would i have uninstall S.S then carry on? Iv never played long enough to reach the new world lol and looking forward to it in my russian campaign.

[PBI]

Yes, Retrofit should still work, it does for me. I think SS installs in a separate mod folder so it doesn't affect your base installation of Kingdoms or any other mods you have installed.

[St.Jimmy]

Thanks for the quick reply. I also use the unit add on for retrofit if that makes any difference? I doubt it would tho. Iv glad someone else mentioned the crashs to desktop at the faction screen. I thought my comp was'ent good enough lol

[seireikhaan]

Yes, Retrofit should still work, it does for me. I think SS installs in a separate mod folder so it doesn't affect your base installation of Kingdoms or any other mods you have installed.

So does that mean that I could install SS and Broken Crescent both on my computer without having to copy files?

[Ethelred Unread]

got the following mods on my comp:

Stainless steel 6.1
broken crescent
retrofit
lands to conquer

and they don't seem to affect each other - i think because they install into seperate folders

[Ferret]

Yep so long as they are in seperate folders you can have as many as you have room for, I currently have 10 different mods installed