Alliance - BTW with AOVAF:TW

[edyzmedieval]

Indeed, as Legio said, we have reached an agreement.

Long last both mods, Byzantium Total War and Age of Vikings and Fanatics: Total War!!!

As for the exchange, we are open for discussions.
When will the Magyar and Khazar models and skins be finished?!

Thanks!
Edyzmedieval
Byzantium TW Mod Leader

[Rodion Romanovich]

Hm, the exact dates aren't known at the moment. In fact we haven't even started with those yet. skeletor and ScionTheWorm wanted to skin Khazars and Magyars, respectively. If they don't do it soon, our third skinner, QuickDagger, might want to do it. In any case, if you have an official release date for B:TW, then I'll try to make the team let go of what they do atm to do magyars and khazars instead, so that the cooperation doesn't result in any problems for either of the parts, i.e., so that your release date will have to be pushed forward because we didn't do our part. How is the progress of B:TW at the moment?

[edyzmedieval]

Oh, ok. No problem.

The progress
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Historical research: about 35%
Camapign map: 10%(I'm just testing a pre-map for RTW)
Units: about 5%
New factions: 0%
Scripting: 0%
Testing: 0%
Multiplayer: 0%

Important note: When you finish the mod, do a special thanks and write blindfaithnogod and edyzmedieval. Especially blindfaith.

[Rodion Romanovich]

Important note: When you finish the mod, do a special thanks and write blindfaithnogod and edyzmedieval. Especially blindfaith.

Sure, and you should of course write a special thanks to AOVAF and the skinners on the AOVAF team that made the magyar and khazar skins. Who those skinners are isn't decided yet.

[edyzmedieval]

No problem.

[Rodion Romanovich]

Here are the units I think we can use from B:TW in AOVAF:
- Akolouthoi 1 ------------ Varangian Guards Infantry (Axe)
- Tagmatic Klibanophoroi ------- Heavy Guards Cavalry (Lance / Mace)
- Thematic Kataphraktoi 1------ Heavy Provincial Cavalry (Lance / Sword)
- Skoutatoi ------------ Heavy Provincial Infantry (Pike / Sword)
- Psiloi Toxotai ------------ Unarmored Archers (Bow / Hand Axe)
- Trapezitae ------------ Light Provincial Cavalry (Javelin / Sword)
- Hippeis Toxotai 1 ------------- Native Horse Archer Cavalry (Bow / Sword)

(AOVAF have named some of them slightly differently, so whoever looks at the AOVAF tech tree for byzantines might not know exactly which units I'm referring to.)

Edyz could you make a similar list from our tech trees to see which of our magyar and khazar units you'll be able to use? I'll make a list of bulgar units we can use once you've made your list of bulgar units and we've also made our Bulgar tech tree (for us it's also still under construction).