Medieval 2: Kingdoms - Expansion Discussion
(Moderators: I made a new thread as this is definite info from CA with pics and trailer, so everyone will read it instead of it being page 3 on the old thead. Ive included all the info we know from the old thread as well.)
Info from the Total War newsletter.
Screenshots:We are pleased to announce, after much speculation and guess work on the part of the community, the arrival of the new expansion pack for Medieval II: Total War. Kingdoms will feature four new campaigns of the epic proportions fans have come to expect in Total War games. Britannia, The Crusades, The Teutonic Wars and The Americas finish off a thrilling line up of scenarios for even the most discerning of Total War players.
A host of new features accompanies the expansion. Some 23 playable factions join the melee, including Native American and European factions. In total more than 150 new units grace the battlefield, including the deadly Greek Flamethrower.
Kingdoms also features the ability to control multiple armies, including reinforcement armies, while new historical characters and events appear, such as the rise of titanic figures like William Wallace. With many new mission types, six new multiplayer scenarios and 20 new custom battle maps, Kingdoms is a fantastic addition to Med II that will satisfy any fan of the game.
Trailer:
http://downloads.sega-europe.com/dow...railer_Low.wmv
Info obtained from Gamestar magazine:
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"!
Info from Wikiman:
My own personal thoughts:This is a great post but a couple of things. The modders can make a killer game, there is no doubt about that but we can add and change features which will then provide an even more expansive platform for the modders to build on. We want the modders to have new toys despite our own fears that they become competition for us. We provided the depacker, we exposed variables to config files, we helped the modders to understand the mesh file format and we even paid for one of the mod forum moderators to fly out to Australia to see how stuff works up close at the end of Med 2.
We think of it like we are providing a sandbox with a huge bunch of cool toys inside. We set up some cool scenarios in the sandbox but ultimately we know they will be pulled apart and configured a 1000 different ways into different mods. Lets put it this way, the number of new subtle features that have been added to the campaign will keep the modders busy for a long time and I am sure they are going to stretch the game way beyond where we will end with Kingdoms.
OK Heroic abilities are only available in one campaign and only 5 (pretty sure it is 5) characters will ever have a heroic ability. If you think of how many generals there are on any one campaign then this puts it in perspective.
As someone earlier said generals all didn't have equal abilities. Some were masters of the battlefield and both sides standing there facing each other knew it. We have just gone someway to represent this. This is one feature out of about 100 added to Kingdoms, I am looking forward to you guys feedback on them once the information starts to flow.
Rock on,
-wikiman
It sounds very interesting. I like the idea of the different campaigns, and all the new factions we will get. Plus it looks like they are putting more work into the interfaces, and i can't wait to see the greek flamethrowers in action.
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Originally Posted by Slug For A Butt
Not necessary. The AI won't use it properly and it's just another tool to beat 
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