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yeah as he said they weren't very common in western Europe but the Eastern Roman Empire had a military reform in the period that largely added them into the formation of the Roman army the Emperor who formed them back into the army to the furthest extent was Manuel Komnenos

/r woosh

just wanted to say I have been playing total war for many years at this point and I own all the games of the series except for thrones of britannia and that this just might be my favorite mod period, to me this feels like BI's version of Roma Surrectum brilliant job done and this is roughly my favorite time period in history 5th-10th centuries.

plus I just happened to accidently stumble onto this when looking to see if Invasio Barbarorum was on this site but this is better in my opinion keep it up.

one thing though is the one legion called the "Unloclised Placement Text Claudia Pia Fidelis" is broken as hell or something just did a siege defending Constantinople in the Campaign with roughly 8 units and I defeated both fullstacks pretty much solely because of them they had over 680 kills and didn't suffer a single loss so yeah might want to look at that.

yeah I am just fixing some issues I ran into recently. (unit problems will be fixed in the near future.)

sorry about the late response yeah Hungary will be on the map, and England and France will arrive (ai-only) for a crusade.

yeah I am aware I wasn't thinking of it at the time its been changed to Konstantiniye.

it will yeah

I don't speak spanish but I used google translate to translate your comment, there will be an update in abit not yet though.

So certain cities will have name changes based on who the owners are, so if the Turks capture Constantinople it will be renamed to Istanbul & if Jerusalem is captured by Egypt it will be renamed to its Arabic name Al-Quds (it will change back if reconquered).

this will vary campaign to campaign though Constantinople in one campaign might be renamed if conquered here but in another might stay the same in the other campaign.

hi sorry about the late response the 4 factions in the middle won't be there at the start they are just placeholders though the turks will have a bit of those provinces.

get your ***** ready for the hotseat campaign!!!!

the 3rd Crusade will start with an Event chain........first we will see the 3rd Crusade Launch, then England & France Will join then Emperor Barbarossa of the HRE will also join, then he will drown and then the Crusaders will arrive in an invasion and attempt to attack Saladin in Egypt.

England & France will be allied to the Kingdom of Jerusalem upon the start of the invasion.

the invasion involving Richard (The Lionheart) & Philip II won't be playable as it is meant to mirror the 3rd Crusade where they have a chance at gaining some victories and slowing down Egypts expansion but they aren't meant to win the overall conflict in the long run and instead will just start to slow down Saladin so the other Crusaders can catch up to Egypt.

I have now fully integrated the option to convert to catholic from the Teutonic Campaign for Lithuania which they will be able to access in all of the campaigns that feature the Lithuanians.

they will still start off as Pagan so the choice is up to you.

I have now fully integrated the option to convert to catholic from the Teutonic Campaign for Lithuania which they will be able to access in all of the campaigns that feature the Lithuanians.

they will still start off as Pagan so the choice is up to you.

Deus Vult my Brothers.

Deus Vult my friend

I have now ported both the Mongolian & Timurid Invasions into the Campaign both of which will still have the opening cutscene when triggered.

I have now ported both the Mongolian & Timurid Invasions into the Campaign both of which will still have the opening cutscene when triggered.

it is still under development keep coming back for updates if you are intertested. no release date as of yet.

please be warned that the factions on the map bottom left minus the ones who belong here will be removed before release........

so the factions you will see in this Campaign will be

1. The Byzantine Empire (Playable)
2. Egypt (Playable)
3. The Turks (Playable)
4. The Kingdom of Jerusalem (Playable)
5. The Principality of Antioch (Playable)
6. Kingdom of Hungary (Will be the smallest faction on the map but Playable)
7. Venice (Unplayable/Via Invasion)
8. France (Unplayable/Via Invasion)
9. England (Unplayable/Via Invasion)
10. The Holy Roman Empire (Unplayable/Via Invasion)
11. The Mongols (Will be Playable but in a weaker state when player controlled & AI will get Invasion buffs.)
12. Timurids (Unplayable/Via Invasion)

I am also debating having Sicily and the Teutonic Order appear as Unplayable Via Invasion factions as well to represent the Fifth Crusades as it was about 20 years later (from the 4th Crusade and involved both the Kingdom and Order.

no it is the same and those cities are just placeholders in the meantime, by the first release several cities will have changed a lot.

I know how to access the texture files I also have made it so your mod doesn't overwrite vanilla for me but is its own mod on that launcher if you want to know anything hit me up.

if you look at my last few pictures yeah one of em shows Jerusalem they are just in the background

it generally is still going to be the same vanilla-like experience upon first release. minus the more devastating cavalry charges which in reality won't be a complete extreme difference from the vanilla game but will be slightly more powerful so it won't be a absolute massive difference.

out of all of the vanilla units barely any will be edited minus really broken stuff like the Elephants.

and when it comes to the Kingdoms units being added their stats will only be slightly edited due to the difference in Unit Stats between Kingdoms and Vanilla............for example French Chivalric Knights in Kingdoms are weaker then the vanilla counterpart which is armed with the same weapons and armor in the expansion and the only difference is edited stats.

and units like the Elephants and Greek Firethrower which are easily the most overpowered units the game has will be the ones with the biggest change. In the case of the firethrower its price is the only thing being changed to make it more expensive and risky to bring.

while Elephants Hitpoints are going to be reduced so they are no longer indestructible tanks on the battlefield, and will be slightly cheaper. I do plan on getting testers to try out a alpha version before full release just to find bugs etc.

and If I do get enough interest I am fine with making 2 versions just like you said but my priority for now is getting the first version into a playable state. the first version is mostly balancing here and there for units but nothing extreme. But I am also planning on adding choosable scripts to make the mod more difficult when playing the campaign for those interested in a more hardcore experience as well which will probably come in the 2nd or 3rd release. and along that I will have a optional install which will increase units sizes as well so players can have 240 man units for example.

Antioch has now been fully integrated!!!

now onto the Mayans and Apaches!!!

So just like in the Teutonic Campaign Lithuania will feature Pagan Priests but if Converted Lithuania will switch to Catholic Priests.

looks like a bunch of shredders from the old ninja turtles movies...........I like it.

both Lithuania and the Kingdom of Jerusalem are now fully integrated into the mod.

the 1015 is a placeholder the actual start date for this specific campaign will be 1308 and the factions will be as follows

1. Poland
2. The Teutonic Order
3. Lithuania
4. Hungary
5. Russia
6. The Mongols
7. The Turks
8. The Byzantine Empire
9. Venice
10. Sicily
11. Egypt (territories in Syria)
12. Norway & Denmark will be appearing via Invasion
13. Timurids will be appearing via Invasion as well.

and the reason I chose this start date is because I like the idea of having one of the campaigns consist of the mongol invasions of eastern europe.and it is set not long before the timurid invasions as well which will take place in the south east part of the map.

glad to see people are looking forward to playing it when It is finished :p

will have a alternate version of the main campaign as one of the campaigns available plus the britannia campaign. so there will at the least be 2 campaigns with them. main campaign will be left intact. but there will essentially be a copy of it with the kingdoms factions present.