XVI -XVII mod

[cegorach]

New factions - Morocco and Montenegro have some interesting features in the game.

These will get some new buildings marking important events/institutions

quite enigmatic - I will not disclose to much for now.



Morocco



Montenegro








Set up for the three major campaigns after the new factions were added.

Age of Exploration

Lots of place to expand, no hiper-powers to worry about from the beginning.Italy is the worst place to start if you want to expand.



Religius Turmoil

Still some rebel provinces present. The Ottoman Empire is the main power on the map.



Sun King's Ambition

Crowded and deadly. Most of the map is a killing zone with small factions on the edge from the beginning.
The Ottomans are dangerous, but watch out for France !

[cegorach]

One of the newest ideas - you can see it as upgraded mounted infantry project

So here are ordinary Russian Streltsy

running



and fighting



and now see what happens the same animation is used with a horse

so we have Russian Draguny

standing



marching



and shooting



- all these activities dismounted, touching the ground, but if required to move faster they

mount their steeds



Now we have the real mounted infantry.

They also fight and charge on foot, steeds are used only to move quickly between various destinations.

Regards Cegorach

[The_Doctor]

Very good.

[Radier]

Yes, good work.

[SkyElf]

More Great Art Work! I hope you get your next version out soon!

[edyzmedieval]

How's the progress going Ceg?

[highlanddave]

following your work closely, and it is good. looking forward to the next installment of pike and musket

[cegorach]

I can add with high degree of certainty that the patch will be released THIS Sunday, but rather late in the evening central european time.

[Radier]

This Sunday it is.

[Ciaran]

That´s great news!

Will the patch also include building and unit descriptions, that have been missing so far? That would make the mod way easier for a non-era-expert like me.

[The_Doctor]

Great.

[Inal_the_Great]

Mounted Infantry looks great can't wait to play with them!

Good work Cegorach!

[cegorach]

First some bad news... the release will be delayed to Tuesday.

I found few errors, one so stupid and so large that it will take 5-8 hours to remove it - I made a mistake and repeated it over 100 times...


Anyway it gives me some more time to test and even add few new features.


For now some new screenshots



Ottoman Tufekci - as mounted infantry - they were professional troops in many tasks replacing the famous Yenicheri




They also fought on foot - much of the Ottoman infantry in later XVIIth century consisted of those soldiers armed with quite good matchlock muskets.






+ Montenegrin Hajduci waiting in ambush




More later.

Regards Cegorach

[Radier]

Delay is ok. Take your time with the bugs.

The screens look, as usuall, good.

[SkyElf]

Things Happen! Don't worry will more than willing to wait a little while so you can fix the so it will be a must download!! Pic's are still looking GREAT! Again I thank all the people who are contributing to the success of the MOD especially cegorach1!

[cegorach]

OK. More buggs, another, but this time THE LAST delay - FRIDAY evening is the final release day if I encounter any more non-critical buggs I will leave them as these are if it will in any way delay the release.

Still the good news is that the patch and supporting files (compressed) will be around 90-100 megabytes.



Few more screenshots I am willing to show

new Border Reivers



new Finnish Hakkapeliitta



new Goese Arquebusiers

[danfda]

Did the patch get released on Friday, ceg? I am waiting for it before I d'l your mod...sounds great though.

But take your time. I'm not in any rush and since you are the one doing all of the work, I do not want to pressure you. We are at your mercy, after all.

[cegorach]

Damn.

There is a problem which is extremely important to solve - some units 'generate' cash when chosen in custom or multiplayer battles.

The error is extremely hard to correct and it alread took me 2 days to remove 1/3 of those weird mistakes. I have a better pattern to approach it now, but it will take a while since the error stops me from changing anything else ( almost everything not connected to it directly is done).

I will try to release the patch tomorrow, but most likely it will be done without English Civil Wars campaign.

I wil re-release the patch after some time with the campaign in place and playable and the released patch will NOT affect campaigns played by you before that - ECW has nothing to do with saved 'normal' campaigns so no worries.

For now I will describe MP codes used to help in army composition in the mod - it will be done in MP thread.

Again sorry for another delay, but it is me who is really, I mean REALLY pissed of...

OK let's see 'Desperado' - some sex and violence in this Rodriguez excellent movie should calm me down a little

[YanTraken]

It happends,sad but true.I`m sure that everyone can understand that:)
Watch that Antonio Banderas and calm yourself,as You said Ceg 8)

P.S.
Here`s PPS I created.It`s abaut Husaria,10MB(rar).Hope You`ll like it.
http://rapidshare.de/files/30018196/...aken_.rar.html

[Radier]

It's fine Ceg. Take your time, grab a cold beer or something.

[YanTraken]

It's fine Ceg. Take your time, grab a cold beer or something.

Or hot girl;)

[danfda]

It's fine Ceg. Take your time, grab a cold beer or something.

Beer cures all ills.

Mmmmm, New Castle brown ale...

[Antagonist]

That's unfortunate, especially about the ECW campaign, but don't worry yourself. We can wait a bit longer.

Looking forward to the new patch,

Antagonist

[cegorach]

It is 1.30 a.m here, so I am not in my best shape, but finally I can announce the release of the PATCH




Its general purpose was to improve the gameplay and correct as many mistakes as possible without adding ( too many) mistakes none of those critical.


Overall it adds

- 11 new factions - Granada, Kazan Khanate, Hessen-Kassel, Morocco, Wallachia, Montenegro, Wurttemberg playable in campaigns + Ethiopia, Songhai Empire, Uzbek Khorde and Iroquois Confederacy for MP mode only.

- over 130 new units including so odd as Fortified Position, new dragoons and American and African native units,

- over 40 new historical heroes for several factions including Kazan, Georgia, Holland or Sweden,

- numerous new animations - including the American Natives, African cavalry and infantry,

- MP pack designed to balance the online warfare and still make it interesting,

- changes in other areas,

+ last, but not least VIDEOs as the first and possibly the last MTW mod.


I will write more later when I am more concious so here are the links

Video files - nor necessary to play the mod, but worth trying.

http://rapidshare.de/files/30571263/...ovies.exe.html

The main zipped file - the Patch itself


http://rapidshare.de/files/30818092/The_Patch.zip.html


Mistakes and errors are unlikely to avoid for this reason please report any mistakes you spot - if theirnumber or importance is larger than expected the patch will be re-released after one week with at least the serious errors finally cleansed.

Regards Cegorach

[cegorach]

Couple of screenshots with the most exotoc additions in the mod.

Ethiopian cavalry



Iroquois warriors







faction selection screen with Ethiopia



Uzbek mounted infantry on camels

[YanTraken]

This man never sleeps

Let`s PLAY THE GAME!!!

[Samurai Waki]

Ceg,
If you were a woman I'd marry you

[cegorach]

So perhaps it is good I am not

[The_Doctor]

Excellent , I am downloading it now.

[Ciaran]

Ah, great, just in time for the weekend And only 17 mb, that´s manageable. The videos are a bit too big right now, though... Next weekend, I suppose.