Medieval 2 Addon

[Lusted]

It's been reported over at TWc since its been previewed in a German magazine.
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=89663

Here is what we know so far:

The Addon will contain 4 Campaigns, with new faction(bolded):

• Britain: With England, Wales, Scotland, Norway, Ireland.
• Crusade: Two Alliances vs. Each other: Jerusalem + Antiochia vs Egypt, Byzantines, Turks and all together vs. Mongols
• New World: Azteks, Maya, Apache,Tarasken, Chichimeken, Tlaxkalteken and Spanish Settlers under Cortez
• East Europe: With German Knights, Poland, Lithuania, Denmark, Novgorod

- Moats added around castles
- They also added "Special abilities" for the historical persons in the 4 campaigns: Richard I. can collect fleeing troups, Emperor Manuel of Byzanz can "confuse" enemy units, that they hit themself.
- The campaings have different targets and a different way of playing it. In the Eastern, the religion plays a big role (because of unrest and unit development -> u can only build teutonic knights in a catholic area) in the New world if you play the spanish have only few Units and you have to look for alliances and trading routes.
- More units on a battlefield.
- You can build Forts with water around it.... keep their position and which you also can conquer and use for urself.
- More + Different Mission Targets: A noble man apears and asks for your help in a combat. If you are successfull, your reward will depend to how you won (how many you killed).
- In the Britain Scenario you can make as enemy of England an alliance with renegate(?) english aristocrats. They ask for your help, to conquer a town. If you give them the town after the victory, they will found a new anti-english fraction "Allianz der Barone"!

Now i think that's going to be a pretty good expansion.

[Quickening]

Wow! That sounds like one hell of an impressive expansion!

[sapi]

Sounds good

[FactionHeir]

Interesting. So CA now makes actual campaigns. I hope those are better than Alexander though which was kind of dull. Needs more storytelling and add some immersion to the whole concept - even alternate endings.

I wonder whether they will also have, in the faith of RTW, a completely new campaign map with all new factions and units too.

[Bijo]

Looks good, but let's wait until the thing's actually there. I'm not elevating my hopes with the chance of being too disappointed eventually.

[Rhyfelwyr]

That sounds like a hell of an expansion pack. Not that long till it comes either according to that article.

[seneschal.the]

Sounds nice, but by the gods take your time. Lots of it. And fix the original game first.

[Monarch]

Troll time.

How do I play mp with 5 factions per era?

VI2 would have been better tbh.

[Lorenzo_H]

Cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool!!!!

[The Spartan (Returns)]

so is this an official expansion or mod?

[IrishArmenian]

Lovely! I hope they utuilise all faction slots!

[Lusted]

so is this an official expansion or mod?

Official expansion, though the only new so far has been in German gaming mag Gamestar.

[TevashSzat]

The moats sounds really promising since castles will become near impregnable due to lack of breach points

[Lusted]

First post updated with more info posted by those who have the mag.

Personally i think this could be the best TW expansion ever. We get 4 new campaigns, each focused on a different time period and area and probably all with different gameplay. We get new factions, and a generally improved game.

[pevergreen]

What will this one be called?

Medieval 2: Multiple Invasions
Medieval 2: Culture Invasions

Are my choices

[Agent Smith]

What will this one be called?

Medieval 2: Multiple Invasions
Medieval 2: Culture Invasions

Are my choices

The title has already been released. It's "Fast as a Shark 2: Yeah Baby!"

[TevashSzat]

IMHO, this expansion seems to be the best one yet in terms of new campaigns and game mechanics

[Agent Smith]

First post updated with more info posted by those who have the mag.

Personally i think this could be the best TW expansion ever. We get 4 new campaigns, each focused on a different time period and area and probably all with different gameplay. We get new factions, and a generally improved game.

- You can build Forts with water around it.... keep their position and which you also can conquer and use for urself.

That's awesome. Now you can make a permanant fort at river crossings and the like. That's going to make things hella fun.

[SaFe]

Does anybody know more about the Britain campaign?
From the faction list i think Denmark is missing as a faction, i really hoped for something like Viking Invasion.
Hopefully it will start at least 850 AD and not 1080 AD again.

[CountMRVHS]

From the faction list it sounds like a later medieval campaign. If it was supposed to be a Viking invasion, it would be a big mistake to keep "England" as the only English faction. Maybe something from the period of Edward I, Hammer of the Scots?

[SaFe]

Sadly i think you're right - it should not be England but factions like Wessex, Anglia or some other ones. A little dissapointing, as CA should know that vikings sell:-)
So we have just a typical medieval campaign on the british isles:-(

[pike master]

could fast as a shark mean the speed at which they have put this together.

680 megs? patch 1.2 ?

i would think this would be unwise and more would have preferred more emphasis on expanding the world map and bringing in earlier and later time periods.with all newer factions and units being placed together with the main game.

grand campaigns in different time eras would have been my choice as well.

[Furious Mental]

Sounds like a good add-on, lots of interesting content, four rather different mini-campaigns. However, I am curious as to why
- The British campaign has Norway but not France
- The Byzantines are allied with the Muslims in the Crusader states campaign?

[Dutch_guy]

This sounds great

Hope they release some more information soon, as Lusted did well into getting my attention.

[Joker II]

- They also added "Special abilities" for the historical persons in the 4 campaigns: ..., Emperor Manuel of Byzanz can "confuse" enemy units, that they hit themself.

Don't really like the sound of this, much to arcady like, not really what I would call "realism"

The rest sounds to be good, hope to read the full story on it asap

[Zatoichi]

What will this one be called?

Medieval 2: Multiple Invasions
Medieval 2: Culture Invasions

Are my choices

The cover of the Gamestar magazine calls it Medieval 2: Kingdoms.

Shurely shome mishtake! There's no hint of the word 'invasion' in there at all! It must be a typo! My money is on 'Medieval 2: Kingdoms - Invaders Invading In Invasions' as the full title (or M:II-KIIII, if you like acronyms).

As for the contents of the expansion, without further details on the mechanics, it looks like mostly good stuff, with a couple of odd bits and bobs which I need to see more details on before I jump any further towards unfounded opinions!

Looks like an impressive addition to the game so far though.

[sapi]

For the title, my money's on Medieval 2: Kingdoms - Invaders Invading Lethally or M2: KILL

[Lusted]

mad cat mech i shouldn't really have called it an addon, it's going to be the expansion.

Im trying to get more info out of Palamedes, but he isn't confirming or denying anything until news is posted on the offical site.

[econ21]

I'll be most interested in what the expansion adds to the existing main campaign - if we see more units or factions like we did with VI. The four campaigns sound ok, but I like the big sandbox of the main TW games best. That's the reason I liked BI best of all the expansions - it gave you a campaign commensurate with a full TW game.

[Basileus]

Sounds good and all but ive had this feeling with all TW games and expansions and ive been dissapointe a few times, i´ll keep my hope down a bit this time :D