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[Puzz3D]

Hi Tony,

The Gold Edition should be ok for this mod, but since you already went with MTW + VI + v2.01 patch that's fine. The extra maps that Tosa made are only for multiplayer. We no longer use the STW mod beta8 in multiplayer because it's not stable, but it is stable for single player. The beta8 includes and uses all the original STW maps for the campaign, so it's more like playing battles in original STW. There are other improvements to the campaign as well.

The castles that come with the beta8 don't work well. The extra castle download is a work in progress but worth getting. It's only one castle that gets larger as it's upgraded, and it's used for all of the castle battles. This castle works much better, but I'm still trying to improve its playbalance. After that I'll make other castle maps for beta8. We also have a bug in that some battles which should have a castle in the battle get played on a generic map instead. I'm still trying to identify the cause and fix the problem.

One other thing that's important to get are the new starting incomes for the provinces in barocca's post here. Using Notepad you can replace the income section in the \campmap\startpos\smap_8.txt. This definitely makes the campaign better. Instructions are in the beta8 thread in my post here. Also, the kensai really needs the stat adjustment mentioned in that post so that it's not quite so strong.

You can import the sounds and music from your STW. There is a thread in this forum on how to do that. It's a bit tricky to get right, but it does work.