Peoples of God - total war

[Orb]

A mod focussing around the eastern world at the time of the crusades. I'm still debating the start time with myself (looks like a 1098/1099 start at the moment - to let people start out as a crusading horde-style army).

Dev Forum Being set up as we speak.

Factions:

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Playable:

Catholic Christian:
The Kingdom of Jerusalem and County of Edessa (Catholic Christian)
The Principality of Antioch

Shi'a Islamic:
The Fatimid Caliphate
The Emirate of Tripoli
The Banu (Bedouin and Berbers)

Orthodox Christian:
The Byzantine Empire
The Kingdoms of Armenia
Makuria
Bulgaria

Sunni Islamic:
Great Seljuq
Iranian Emirate
Emirate of Aleppo
The Danishmends
The Burid Dynasty
The Atabeys of Mosul

Nizari:
The Hashishin

Non-Playable - The Timurids, The Ottomans (both emergent and Sunni)

Team Members:

Orb: coordinator, researcher, text editor, official mufti
Alias: 2d Artist
Leet Eriksson: Historian/researcher
Harmless: researcher/odd jobs

We need: anyone we can get our hands on

Previews so far:

Hashishin faction preview 1
Makuria and Nobatia faction preview 1
Principality of Antioch preview 1

[AliAS]

HI ! If you want i like help you with your mod .
i like do on loading screens, faction icon. And other 2D
I cant skinning. :-(

here i "update" your hashashin icon.

[Orb]

That'd be great

Welcome to the team!

Makuria next, I'm deciding on a rough premise for the faction symbol...

[AliAS]

GREAT THX
So do you want i do Makuria Faction icon ?

[Orb]

Well, yes please!

Presently my thoughts are some form of pottery/urn on a background.

We need to decide

1) Which colour for Makuria (this will determine the background)
2) Which symbol in the foreground (I think a decorated urn or vase of some kind - Makuria was considered the pinnacle of African pottery)

[AliAS]

What about Black urn on yellow background ?

[Orb]

Yellow background sounds good as any.

The urn should probably be something similar/related to:

[AliAS]

OK I work on it.
Finished work i send you PM

[Orb]

Cheers!

[Orb]

OK, Makuria's up. There was quite a delay because of the difficulty researching it. Hopefully Antioch will prove less troublesome.

[Harmless]

Hi there. I would be happy to help out however I can, mostly with research and texting but also 2D and basic modeling. From what I understand there is some questions about how mod-able MTW2 is going to be though. Anyways, I can maybe start by doing a preview like those you have done. Cheers.

[Orb]

Well, the next one I'm doing is the Principality of Antioch - so you can either help on that or have a go at some Turkish faction. Damascus or Chalep (Aleppo) is my next target.

Oh - and, general announcement:

The map will be going from the middle of Libya/edge of Greece to the eastern edge of Iran. I'm not sure whether to take it further south and include Alodia and Ethiopia yet. It looks like Bulgaria will be in, primarily to pressure the Byzantines.

Edit - Dev Forum set up, see top of first post. It ain't much at the moment, but one day...

[Epistolary Richard]

Don't forget to add the mod to the M2TW Mods in Development database.

[Leet Eriksson]

give me a few days to organise my stuff.

On another note, could you perhaps extend it to the african horn (with the entire arabian peninsula included, i can handle these aswell).

[Orb]

Extending it to the African horn seems a little unhelpful. I think going down to a unique rebel, rather than factional, southern Sudan is the best option, any further seems uneccessary and not very useful to the game as a whole. I think we'll end up with a one-province Bulgaria, which will be useful in curbing and varying a recurring Byzantine superpower.

The Makurians are definitely a flavour factor, and between them and the Berbers, that should make Egypt at least watch its back, preventing an Egyptian superpower becoming too common.

What we need to ask about each faction is:

What will it add to the map as a whole? I think all of the ones listed will add something. The berbers will be represented as the Banu Kanz, I think.

Will it have an interesting and unique campaign premise? I think all those listed will be quite unique in terms of the actual premise and result. Chalep and Damascus might be fairly similar, but we'll work on differentiating them.

Will it improve the campaign experience for other factions? I think that each of the listed ones will improve the campaign for at least one other faction. Overall, they should provide a number of different and entertaining campaigns.

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As for the mod deposit, I want to basically confirm the confines of the mod first and then post there

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Edit - L33t and Harmonious, could you register on the dev forum? (there is a link in post one)

[Leet Eriksson]

Ok registered, i'll be on the other forums.

[Orb]

OK, you've been added to the team member category, meaning you should be able to see a few extra subfora.

I'll be filling it up when I have the motivation and time.

[Orb]

Apologies, my home internet isn't working, so I'll be a bit inactive for a few days.

[AliAS]

lol and apologize me. My internet wasnt warking too.

[Orb]

Oh, I added leet and harmless to the member list, and edited a couple of factions.

[IrishArmenian]

Do you need an Armenian Researcher?

[Orb]

Yep

[UltraWar]

I would like to help out anyway I can

[Orb]

We need everyone we can get.

Should I sign you up for 'odd jobs'?

Before the release of M2TW, everything will be either research or 2D art, basically, although I might do some traiting preparation.

[IrishArmenian]

Count me in then!
If this will be Cilician Armenia, I have the perfect Facshun flag/symbol.

[IrishArmenian]

By the way, do you have your own forum? I also have a friend who believes he will get addicted to forums, so he will not become a member, but he is eeger to join. I will post his work.

[AliAS]

See first post in this topic. There is link on dev forum

[Orb]

My internet was down for a couple of days.
Also, I really need to organise the forums...

[Sun of Chersonesos]

GUYS GUYS!

are you going to make the faction selection shields circle 2d or those shields faction selection in MTW2?

[Orb]

Definitely circles if it's possible

Those M2 shield symbols (the layout, not the symbols on them) really look utterly crap to me...

Also, they're way too Euro-centric for this mod, I'm fairly confident we can use these, but if someone could tell me the dimensions of one of those shields, I'd appreciate it.