Caius Britannicus Presents: "THE CRUSADES"

[caius britannicus]

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Hospitaller Order Crossbowmen

[Lord Zimoa of Flanders]

Masterfull, this fine project together with Jidai no Ran will be great and finally something different than Romans. Cheers, LZoF

[caius britannicus]

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To finish off the Order Crossbowmen

Templar Crossbowmen

[Dooz]

The Crusaders would have been proud. Amazing, all the crossbowmen.

[caius britannicus]

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Knights of the Order of St. Lazarus

These men were lepers which travelled the holy land in much the same vain as the Hospitaller Order. Here I depict them wrapped in bandages so not to cause fear and panick amongst their own. They wear no armor but a surcoat for they have no fear of death. In the game although they will be rare, they will strike fear into their enemies and fight to the last man!

[Dooz]

Is that for real? Heh, amazing. Beautiful unit though... huh... ironic...

[Ilsamir Lord]

Any news on the application of the hgt converter to that awesome map?

[satanea juda]

dude thats pretty gross the shield marking is also kinda sick!!
but could make an interesting special abillity

[caius britannicus]

I have some bad news to report to all the "Crusades" fans out there. I left Tuesday night to have some fun and returned to find my computer locked up. I was forced to hard reset it and now there seems to be some issues that are causes windows to force a restart after 45 secs once windows has loaded (I beleive it has to do with my antivirus). I'm still trouble shooting the problem and I hope to have it fixed shortly. Worst case scenerio I have to format the computer this weekend. Don't worry I have back ups of all my work.

Work will continue on none-unit aspect of the mod (such as campaign map, general pictures, scripting, traiting etc.). Only unit creation will suffer. However, I had, prior this mishap projected a completion date for the project as end of March. With the latest events this may still hold true however if I am forced to format my computer it will take some time to get it all organized and all my software and files back on. If this becomes the case work would extend into april. Which for me is not very good. My final exams and conferences for school fall during this period so work on the mod would have to be stopped. Meaning there is a very good possibility the release date may slip into May. I'll update the thread once I know what my situation really is.

However, I would like to express that we at the crusades are dedicated to releasing the mod which has evolved from mini mod to full conversion over the past month and has grown from 1 man team to over 5. I thank everyone for their support for our team and our work.

[KonstantinosXI]

i'm very sick to hear this!!!

Anyway good luck with your mod!

[Monarch]

Very sad to hear that Caius. Good luck on sorting it all out.

[Gen_Lee]

I pray for the best Comp scenario and release date:)

[caius britannicus]

just an update. Got everything up and going now. Photoshop is loaded up and I can start skinning again I'll be installing 3dsmax shortly and I'll be back to normal shortly. Hopefully I can find some time to start modding again soon.

[KonstantinosXI]

Good to hear this!

[Monarch]

Do you have a possible release date yet, even if it's give or take a month, just a guesstimate would be nice.

[Clearchus]

He said March before, but probably later now.

[Favre]

This mod is incredible...I've been drooling over these renders for the past 2 hours, Awesome work Caius.

[caius britannicus]

do to recent events with my computer and other unforeseen events release may or may not still be march. Its wait and see.

Just to let everyone know work continues, we are going to start unit previews again.

Today Crossbows of the Latin Kingdom

[Favre]

Incredible as usually Caius, By the way, did you happen to recieve my PM?

[pyradyn]

Are the Pagan States of Prussia, Lithuania and the Steppe going to be included because the 6th Crusade was directed at Pagans. As a pagan i wouldnt mind fighting them off and doing a counter crusade. Take that pope! anyway alot
of Germany was still Pagan during this time at least East Germany. Until the 6th crusade after they slaughterd the pagans and forced them to convert. That area is still pretty pagan :P. That would be fun.

Although Muslims obviously suffered at the hands of "good" Christians throughout the Middle Ages, it should not be forgotten that pagans and other Christians suffered just as much. Augustine's exhortion to compel entry into the church was used with great zeal when church leaders dealt with Christians who dared to follow a different sort of religious path. Pagans in the north were targeted for forced conversion. 1208-1300

[Monarch]

Are the Pagan States of Prussia, Lithuania and the Steppe going to be included because the 6th Crusade was directed at Pagans. As a pagan i wouldnt mind fighting them off and doing a counter crusade. Take that pope! anyway alot
of Germany was still Pagan during this time at least East Germany. Until the 6th crusade after they slaughterd the pagans and forced them to convert. That area is still pretty pagan :P. That would be fun.

Although Muslims obviously suffered at the hands of "good" Christians throughout the Middle Ages, it should not be forgotten that pagans and other Christians suffered just as much. Augustine's exhortion to compel entry into the church was used with great zeal when church leaders dealt with Christians who dared to follow a different sort of religious path. Pagans in the north were targeted for forced conversion. 1208-1300

https://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a...pcrusades2.jpg

That was posted on the rometotalrealism.org forums. Looks in the bottom left corner, I believe the corner of the map that is brown will be the official campaign map. He has released on ofthose black maps that show mountains and stuff, with a superimposed map of the normal RTW map on it, the Crusades map is huge in comparison. I just cant find it :(

So Germany, or any of western/central europe will most likely not be included.

Edit: Found it. It'as at the RTR forums. See: http://forums.rometotalrealism.org/i...dpost&p=123175

[Lentonius]

have you ever thought of the crusades and crusader TW ever joining forces?

just a question as they are both very similar in terms of time period and events...

[Pompei the Great]

have you ever thought of the crusades and crusader TW ever joining forces?

just a question as they are both very similar in terms of time period and events...

This has been asked over and over. Caius is making his own mod and so are we at Crusader TW.

[caius britannicus]

An old preview I never posted but had ready for slower times....

Mounted Templar Knights

[Dooz]

Good templars.

[KonstantinosXI]

Very good, but the grandmaster wore a white tunic with the red cross, not blue.

[caius britannicus]

Very good, but the grandmaster wore a white tunic with the red cross, not blue.

Thats not the grandmaster, simply a standard bearer.

[KonstantinosXI]

Ah ok!! so a Perfectwork! really amazing!

[Monarch]

Very good, but the grandmaster wore a white tunic with the red cross, not blue.

Even if thats true, Cauis has already status this is by no means a realism mod.

[KonstantinosXI]

i only gave an advice to Caius! he is one of the best modders but he can make some mistakes anyway!