First Release: The Crusades V1.0

**christof139** · 08-19-2007, 02:45

Hi, This is a great mod!!! Too bad not anyone supports it anymore.

I get a CTD rarely when I have played the game for some tme, but that is my standard CTD I occasionally get with my compooter due to some unknown software and/or hardware issues and maybe conflicts.

I notice that my Assasin's portraits in the city info pic scroll usually appears as a unit icon pic, another character portrait or parts of 2 portraits, a building or part thereof, other textures and unknowns, and sometimes as its own actual portrait. Very odd.

Anyone make any tweaks to tone down the number of Rebel Pirates and the costs of buildings and units and unit upkeep?? Also some unit info pic (and possibly buildings) descriptions seem to need to be completed.

Don't know if this is necessary but with the 52-turn/year script (I think that is right, hope I read this here about this mod, but I may have it confused with another one), it may not be necessary, but I am playing without the script and it seems like 2 to 4 turns per year.

Great music, gameplay is hard, its hard to hold onto cities and make a profit from them, and the models, sprites, and Review and Info Pics are great!!!

Thanx, Chris

PS: I went back and activated the 52-turn/year script in an already started campaign and I went bak from 1200-something to 1187, no biggie. Also, using that script rather than the regular 2-turn per year vanilla game script, you are indeed able to improve your cities and armies considerably. May tweak some unit stats and cost etc. though. Plays great and the music etc. are great.

**christof139** · 08-23-2007, 09:57

Just got a few turns into 1188, and i am finally making some $$$. I destroy all the Military Academies and other buildings in a town if I do not intend to stay there so gather $$$ that way. Also, playing as the Crusaders, I destrpy the mosques and usually immediately build a Christian Shrine in the town. Then as my front is pushed forward, the captured towns in the rear areas gradually and sometimes fairly quickly convert to Christianity, although there are riots and an occasioanl rebellion, but I just repair damged Shrines and upgrade them to Chapels and Churches, until I actually have towns without garrisons and from 75% - 100% Happiness. I've also had towns with 0% Happiness have only occasional riots and rare rebellions.

The coast is controlled byt the Crusaders from St. Symeon in the north along with Antioch all the way to Arsuf and Jaffa in the south, jerusalem is also takes, as is the Hospitaler Krak des Chavaliers and the Teutonic Bueafort or Belvoir. Tarsus in the far north in Cilicia, Anatolia just rebelled with an about 80% Happiness (wierd) so I moved northwest to Koryrus (sp?) and took that but will soon evacuate my little army u their for pleasanter realms farther south, if any survive.

Have to tweak this to lessen the amount of roaming Rebel/Slave/Brigand Armies and especially Fleets, as ther were never that many Pirate Fleets of that great a strength continually popig up to harass the Crusaders. Some Moslem and even Christian Pirates were around then, but not at the strength and frequency they appea in the mod. An English Pirate, Gundemejer (sp?) with his Pirate/Corsair fleet of Britons, Danes, various French and Italians, etc. actually helped the Principality of Antioch during its initial founding, and of course this was done to make a profit, but there were some 'spititual' or other reasons, but mainly profit. So, since the Crusaders have very limited sea strength since they can't afford the upkeep with all their troops and building and rebuilding using most of the $$$, a slight lessening of the number and rate of appearance of these Rebels might make things a slight bit more historical.

I think a 30 to 50% reduction in the appearances and number of ships in a Pirate fleet and the same for Land Rebels/Brigands would be good, for me anyway.

Now, to discover how to mod the files to do this. Have to find the right thread, any help on this from anyone please!???!

Anyway, good mod as it is.

Thank you again, Chris

**Ludens** · 08-26-2007, 20:39

Originally Posted by christof139

Now, to discover how to mod the files to do this. Have to find the right thread, any help on this from anyone please!???!

I think this thread contains the answer you seek. If it doesn't work, ask you question in that forum. Don't forget to back things up though.

**christof139** · 08-27-2007, 17:00

Ludens,

Yes, and thanx for the link!!!

Unfortunately, now I also see that Brigands are not rebels so I have to determine what the DRF file is, or maybe there are entires concening brigands in the Descriprtion files mentioned in the other thread.

Also, seems that the castle of Montreal is in the wrong place, and should be east of the range of hills rather than west. Have to double check, but that is a simple matter of changing the map cooridnates, as long as one simply knows what files the map cords. are in, but that is here in some thread or other. Some troop etc. into. pic descriptions aren't finished either.

Does anyone want to finish this mod??

It's a good mod, detailed, accurate, and fun.

Chris

PS: I have Runciman's 3 Volumes on the Crusades plus a decent Atlas dealing with them, and the info. in Runciman's work is very, very detailed and superb. It uses many original primary sources, both Christian, Jewish, and Muslim, plus he draws on the works of many very good modern authors. Runciman published in the 1950's. There are scads of peoples' names in Runciman's books, including many Christian ladies' names. It is amazing at how many and how quickly the crusaders built their castles, both large and small (stone from Roman ruins were reused to a great extent). The many alliances between Moslems and Christians is also amazing and described in detail. Great books if anyone is interested and doesn't have them, and they are available used and in paperback at Amazon.com and sometimes on Ebay etc.

**Gebeleisis** · 09-13-2007, 21:55

This looks EXtraordinary

*downloads*

**Ibn-Khaldun** · 12-22-2007, 11:09

It looks like a good mod but i can't download it

Filefront and other sites do not let me download and they are sayng that the file is not available ...

EDIT: Found a filelink posted by TosaInu .. so .. i will load it