ZX Mod Beta 2 Released

[BAD]

Yeah I was able to build all the guys in Sweden as normal, Landsmen, Thralls, Woodsmen, Huscarles. After doing the appropriate tech's of course. But I thought that was the point, that you had to go far-a-field to fill the gaps in your army. Also I was seeing a fair few number of peasants dotted around the place, not from Rebellion's/Crusades/Jihads. Though I just checked the Unit_prod file and everything seems like it should be how you explained it. . . Will keep you informed.

[edyzmedieval]

Zarax,

Your enthusiasm is a joy to see. I'm currently downloading the mod. Looks promising. I promise I will submit some feedback when I install the mod and play it.

Cheers!

[Zarax]

Zarax,

Your enthusiasm is a joy to see. I'm currently downloading the mod. Looks promising. I promise I will submit some feedback when I install the mod and play it.

Cheers!

Wow, this must be a lucky day!

Please let me know if you need any assistance

[BAD]

It's the correct one with the Pope having Knights Hospitaler as his Royal Unit.

[Zarax]

Err... I'm just as confused as you...
Try downloading it again from my sig...
If that does not fix it please send me your units prod file... And if all else fails i'll make a manual install archive that should be able to replace everything.

[edyzmedieval]

Zarax, here's some early feedback.

The mod is really at it's name(mini). Although it's a small one, I kinda like it. You changed much. The Pope is now a Hospitaller, which quite reflects the reality. You gave for example, to the Swiss, Tyrolia, which again is historic.
Until now, it's good. For the future, maybe you'll develop it to become a Large Mod like XL and SuperMod(BKB).

Cheers!

[Zarax]

Zarax, here's some early feedback.

The mod is really at it's name(mini). Although it's a small one, I kinda like it. You changed much. The Pope is now a Hospitaller, which quite reflects the reality. You gave for example, to the Swiss, Tyrolia, which again is historic.
Until now, it's good. For the future, maybe you'll develop it to become a Large Mod like XL and SuperMod(BKB).

Cheers!

Glad you're liking it

The scope of my small MOD was to provide a more interesting experience (with a number of compromises between gameplay and realism) by having the player use slightly more specialized factions so that you cannot build a nearly perfect army with ease but rather adapt against your enemies a bit like in Age of Empires 2 (cheers to all AOE players ) without having to rebuild the whole game like the big mods out there.

This also leads to other advantages, because the AI likes simpler rosters and so it can develop easier (seeing gothic units on easy was the biggest reward), offering a better challenge after some further tweaking (like placing ports at the right place) which gave underdogs like the Danes (don't let them bite you now) a chance to grow up...

About making larger mods i don't think i'm going to do it at least for now (see: university killing my free time), but i'll surely refine and expand this one until it will offer a fully balanced experience for those who wants a quick refreshing experience with MTW.

[BAD]

Err... I'm just as confused as you...
Try downloading it again from my sig...
If that does not fix it please send me your units prod file... And if all else fails i'll make a manual install archive that should be able to replace everything.

I redownloaded and installed it. Runs fine now. Playing as the Almohads on Hard. Spanish overstretched themselves and went into civil war when I killed their king, they never recovered. The Aragonese then overstretched and I beat them back to Navarre and Aragon. The Eggies are my close allies who seem to be knacking the pope atm (never seen that before) after them annihilating the Turks and Byzantines. But everyone else seems to be hunkydory. Even the HRE are hacking it, for once! All in all god job, though I have yet to hit high. . .

Just one thing:-



Dunno how that Uber unit of Swabians appeared, but I'm glad I haven't had to fight it. . . yet. Oh and actually, is it correct that I can have 6 heirs at a time? I thought it was limited to only 5? But I have consistantly been having 6 sons from the Caliph.

PS - Got my housemate to download it too. After playing XL mod its a nice more familiar retreat.

[Zarax]

Oh, that unit of swabians is a small gift i gave to HRE so that they won't be swamped out that easily in the game openings... It's an unique unit so as HRE i would hoard it unless you really need the extra punch...

About the heirs i'm sure i didn't touch it but it is by design as i remember it plenty of times with catholics too (check the Italians).

BTW, did the french kill the english yet? It should be a lot more balanced on that front but those pesky blues have a quite plentiful money supply and go big.

PS: The Eggys going at the pope? That's something new for me too... Though they won't like the resurgences in high (swiss halbs will hurt them bad if hospitallers didn't yet)...

Happy playing!

[Zarax]

EDIT: that was meant to be a reply to BAD



Hmm, you shouldn't be able to recruit viking units as the Italians, that's quite weird...
Peasants are also out, there might be some around left as starting units even though i was quite sure to have cleaned there too... I just hope they don't appear as much as in vanilla.

The infantry i meant to be available for everyone are the usual swiss guys, the swabian swordsmen and the almughavars... They are quite enough to fill most gaps but the viking line is absolutely reserved to Danes and Novgorod.

I don't really know what happended, if you got winrar you can try unpacking the exe and manually replace the prod files (they go to c:\total war\medieval total war\) in case they shouldn't be at the right place.

The easiest way to check if the prod file is the right one is to check the pope, he should be accompanied by Hospitaller knights.