Grand Unit Addon Mod (for Retrofit 1.0) Version 6.0

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Posts: 4423 12/10/07 07:57:50 Commodore	Tags : None Grand Unit Addon Mod for Retrofit Mod 1.0 by Candelarius aka Yakaspat Version 6.0 This mod adds many of the new units from the Medieval II Total War - Kingdoms expansion pack to the Retrofit Mod 1.0 for Medieval II Total War, enabling you to recruit the new Kingdoms units in the Medieval 2 Grand Campaign. In addition, the Grand Unit Addon Mod includes many Kingdoms features, several minor bug fixes, and makes available many other unit additions from the original game that were previously not enabled. :::: Download Links :::: ============================ VERSION 6.0 FULL INSTALLER - DOWNLOAD LINK OPTIONAL STONE FORTS ADDON - DOWNLOAD LINK :::: Installation Steps :::: ============================ 1. Install Medieval II and Kingdoms. Requires Kingdoms 1.5 patch. 2. Install Retrofit Mod 1.0. 3. Double-click the self-extracting Grand_Unit_Addon_Mod.exe file after downloading it, and install into your base M2TW folder (the same folder as medieval2.exe, usually C:\Program Files\SEGA\Medieval II Total War\). Allow Windows to overwrite existing files. This will over-write your existing RetroMod folder. Optional: Install the buildable stone forts addon. 4. Start the Retrofit Mod. (note that the game will load slowly the first time you start the mod, but only the first time) :::: New Units :::: =================== Over 100 units are added, including: Byzantium: - Pronoia Infantry - Byzantine Gunners [requires gunpowder discovery] - Archontopoulai - Alamanoi - Greek Firethrower - Mangonels Egypt: - Al-'Ashair Infantry - Khasseki Infantry - Al-Haqa Infantry - Abid al-Shira - Mamluk Handgunners [requires gunpowder discovery] - Sibyan al-Khass - Dismounted Ghulams - Ghulams - Khassaki - Mangonels Turks: - Ahdath - Turkish Crossbowmen - Dismounted Hasham - Hasham - Kurdish Auxiliaries - Iqta'dar - Mangonels Moors: - Andalusian Cavalry [renamed Late General Bodyguard, same stats as Turkish Quapukulu unit] - Andalusian Infantry [renamed Egyptian Khasseki Infantry unit, has the same stats] - Moorish Swordsmen [renamed Egyptian Al-Haqa Infantry unit, has the same stats] - Dismounted Tuareg [for recruitment in campaign, previously only in custom battles] - Mutatawwi'a [recruited at Masjid and above] - Mangonels Denmark: - Sami Axemen - Gotland Footmen - Svenner - Sergeant Swordsmen - Late Armored Knights [renamed Late General Bodyguard, same stats, available in late era] - Dismounted Late Armored Knights [renamed Late General Bodyguard, same stats, available in late era] - Dismounted Chivalric Knights [for recruitment in campaign, previously only in custom battles] - Mangonels Spain: - Dragoons [requires gunpowder discovery] - Late Crossbowmen (Crossbowmen from Americas campaign, renamed to avoid confusion with regular crossbowmen) - Sergeant Swordsmen - Santiago Order Sergeants [recruited at Knights of Santiago Minor Chapterhouse] - Marshall of St. James [recruited at Knights of Santiago Headquarters, unique unit] - Trecenezago [retextured and renamed Dismounted Halbbruder, recruited at Knights of Santiago Major Chapterhouse] - Knights of Calatrava [retextured and renamed Marshall of the Templars unit, stats similar to Chivalric Knights] - Mangonels Portugal: - Dragoons [requires gunpowder discovery] - Late Crossbowmen (Crossbowmen from Americas campaign, renamed to avoid confusion with regular crossbowmen) - Sergeant Swordsmen - Santiago Order Sergeants [recruited at Knights of Santiago Minor Chapterhouse] - Marshall of St. James [recruited at Knights of Santiago Headquarters, unique unit] - Trecenezago [retextured and renamed Dismounted Halbbruder, recruited at Knights of Santiago Major Chapterhouse] - Mangonels England: - Pikemen - Musketeers [requires gunpowder discovery] - Late Crossbowmen (Crossbowmen from Americas campaign, renamed to avoid confusion with regular crossbowmen) - New World Cuirassers [requires America] - Mounted Cuirassers [requires America] - Armoured Sergeants [for recruitment in campaign, previously only in custom battles] - Sergeant Swordsmen - Late Armored Knights [renamed Late General Bodyguard, same stats, available in late era] - Dismounted Late Armored Knights [renamed Late General Bodyguard, same stats, available in late era] - Mounted Longbowmen - Mangonels France: - Musketeers [requires gunpowder discovery] - Late Crossbowmen (Crossbowmen from Americas campaign, renamed to avoid confusion with regular crossbowmen) - New World Cuirassers [requires America] - Mounted Cuirassers [requires America] - Sergeant Swordsmen - Late Armored Knights [renamed Late General Bodyguard, same stats, available in late era] - Dismounted Late Armored Knights [renamed Late General Bodyguard, same stats, available in late era] - Dismounted Chivalric Knights [for recruitment in campaign, previously only in custom battles] - Dismounted French Archers [for recruitment in campaign, previously only in custom battles] - Mangonels Holy Roman Empire: - Dismounted Halbbruder [recruited at Teutonic Knights' Minor Chapterhouse] - Halbbruder [recruited at Teutonic Knights' Minor Chapterhouse] - Dismounted Ritterbruder [recruited at Teutonic Knights' Headquarters] - Ritterbruder [recruited at Teutonic Knights' Headquarters] - Dismounted Gothic Knights [for recruitment in campaign, previously only in custom battles] - Sergeant Swordsmen - Knechten - Mangonels Scotland: - Calivermen [requires gunpowder discovery] - Mounted Calivermen [requires gunpowder discovery] - Sergeant Swordsmen - Late Armored Knights [renamed Late General Bodyguard, same stats, available in late era] - Dismounted Late Armored Knights [renamed Late General Bodyguard, same stats, available in late era] - Mangonels Venice: - Dismounted Broken Lances [for recruitment in campaign, previously only in custom battles] - Sergeant Swordsmen - Sailors of the Italian States [renamed Pisan and Genoese Sailors unit from Crusader Campaign] - Late Crossbowmen (Crossbowmen from Americas campaign, renamed to avoid confusion with regular crossbowmen) - Mangonels Russia: - Russian Heavy Infantry [renamed Lithuanian Giltines Chosen unit from Teutonic Campaign] - Sergeant Swordsmen - Tartar Lancers - Dismounted Tartar Lancers - Mangonels Milan: - Sailors of the Italian States [renamed Pisan and Genoese Sailors unit from Crusader Campaign] - Sergeant Swordsmen - Halberd Militia - Late Crossbowmen (Crossbowmen from Americas campaign, renamed to avoid confusion with regular crossbowmen) - Mangonels Sicily: - Sailors of the Italian States [renamed Pisan and Genoese Sailors unit from Crusader Campaign] - Sergeant Swordsmen - Dismounted Italian Men at Arms - Italian Men at Arms - Mangonels Papal States: - Sailors of the Italian States [renamed Pisan and Genoese Sailors unit from Crusader Campaign] - Sergeant Swordsmen - Mangonels Poland: - Sergeant Swordsmen - Polish Foot Knights - Late Armored Knights [renamed Late General Bodyguard, same stats, available in late era] - Dismounted Late Armored Knights [renamed Late General Bodyguard, same stats, available in late era] - Mangonels Hungary: - Sergeant Swordsmen - Hungarian Foot Knights - Late Armored Knights [renamed Late General Bodyguard, same stats, available in late era] - Dismounted Late Armored Knights [renamed Late General Bodyguard, same stats, available in late era] - Mangonels Mongols: - Dismounted Light Lancers [for recruitment in campaign, previously only in custom battles] - Dismounted Heavy Lancers [for recruitment in campaign, previously only in custom battles] England, Scotland, France, Denmark, Milan, Venice, Papal States, Sicily, Poland, Hungary: - Templar Confrere Knights [recruited at Templars' Minor Chapterhouse] - Templar Sergeants [recruited at Templars' Minor Chapterhouse] - Templar Crossbowmen [recruited at Templars' Major Chapterhouse] - Templar Gunners [recruited at Templars' Major Chapterhouse; requires gunpowder discovery] - Marshall of the Templars [recruited at Templars' Headquarters, unique unit] - Hospitaller Sergeants [recruited at St Johns' Minor Chapterhouse] - Hospitaller Crossbowmen [recruited at St Johns' Major Chapterhouse] - Hospitaller Gunners [recruited at St Johns' Major Chapterhouse; requires gunpowder discovery] - Marshall of the Hospitallers [recruited at St Johns' Headquarters, unique unit] England, Scotland, France, Denmark, Milan, Venice, Papal States, Sicily, Poland, Hungary, Portugal, HRE, Spain: - Knights of Jerusalem [recruitable only in Jerusalem] - Dismounted Knights of Jerusalem [recruitable only in Jerusalem] - Canons of the Holy Sepulchre [recruitable only in Jerusalem, unique unit] - Knights of Antioch [recruitable only in Antioch] - Dismounted Knights of Antioch [recruitable only in Antioch] - Antioch Militia [recruitable only in Antioch] - Knights of Tripoli [recruitable only in Acre] - Squires of Tripoli [recruitable only in Acre] - Pisan and Genoese Sailors [recruitable only in Acre and Jerusalem, except by Italian factions] - Knights of Edessa [recruitable only in Edessa] - Edessan Guards [recruitable only in Edessa] - Edessan Squires [recruitable only in Edessa] - Templar Knights [recruitable only in Outremer] - Hospitaller Knights [recruitable only in Outremer] - Templar Sergeants [recruitable only in Outremer] - Hospitaller Sergeants [recruitable only in Outremer] - Templar Crossbowmen [recruitable only in Outremer] - Hospitaller Crossbowmen [recruitable only in Outremer] - Templar Gunners [recruitable only in Outremer; requires gunpowder discovery] - Hospitaller Gunners [recruitable only in Outremer; requires gunpowder discovery] - Sword Brethren [recruitable only in Riga, Stettin, and Thorn] - Livonian Auxiliaries [recruitable only in Riga, Stettin, and Thorn] - Christ Knights [recruitable only in Riga, Stettin, and Thorn] Mercenary Units: - Armenians of Cilicia [for hire around Outremer and Cilicia, Catholic and Orthodox factions only] - Frankish Axemen [for hire around Outremer, Germany, and France] - Frankish Swordsmen [for hire around Outremer, Germany, and France] - Burgher Pikemen [for hire in northern Europe] - Prussian Archers [for hire around Prussia] - Samogitian Axemen [for hire around Lithuania] - Sudovian Tribesmen [for hire around Lithuania] - Calivermen [requires gunpowder discovery, for hire in Scotland and Ireland] - Mounted Calivermen [requires gunpowder discovery, for hire in Scotland and Ireland] - Alamanoi Mercenaries [for hire in Greece and Anatolia] - Greek Firethrowers Mercenaries [for hire in Greece and Anatolia] - Dismounted Ghulam Mercenaries [for hire in Outremer, Egypt, and Arabia] - Ghulam Mercenaries [for hire in Outremer, Egypt, and Arabia] - Norse Axemen Mercenaries [for hire in Britain and Scandanavia] - Viking Mercenaries [for hire in Britain and Scandanavia] - Sherwood Archer Mercenaries [for hire in England and to a lesser extent in Scotland] - Gwent Raiders [for hire in England and Wales] - Irish Squires [for hire in Scotland and Ireland] - Pisan and Genoese Sailors [for hire in Outremer] - Apachean Braves [for hire in North America only, once you discover the New World] - Apachean Onde's Men [for hire in North America only, once you discover the New World] - Apachean Koitsenko [for hire in North America only, once you discover the New World] - Apachean Scouts [for hire in North America only, once you discover the New World] - English Huscarls [for hire in England] - Dismounted Frankish Knights [for hire in Europe and Outremer during the early and high eras] - Dismounted Mercenary Knights [for hire in Europe in the late era] - Dismounted Mercenary German Knights [for hire in Germany and Northern Europe in the late era] - Mongol Mercenary Archer [for hire in the Middle East, Russia, and Anatolia, Islamic factions only] Other Features: - All cannons can now fire grape shot [except Serpentines] - Some updated skins, including the mount skins for Templar and Hospitaller Knights. - Several spelling/grammar corrections for the unit descriptions. - Unlocked all playable factions. - Minor changes to mercenary pools. - Included Venetian Archers and Retinue Longbowmen armor upgrade fixes. - Included pikemen formation fix. - Minors changes to recruit priority offset. - Updated Swordsmith and Alchemist Guild triggers for new units. - Added four new custom battle maps: Village Vilinus, Broken Teeth Sands, Highland Loch, and Lake Choctaw. - Added new Middle Eastern culture interface from Crusades Campaign. - Added the campaign map castle models from the Brittania Campaign. - Included Kingdoms faction leader strat map models for all factions (except Timurids). - Replaced North American Aztec rebels with North American Apachean units from the Americas Campaign. - Added the following event movies from Crusades campaign: Greak Mosque, Capture Jerusalem, and Declare Jihad movies. - Added new Kingdoms' battlemap models for Faction Leaders for all playable factions. - Incorporated various adjustments from the Kingdoms 1.5 patch, namely: Included new Kingdoms unit shield value balance adjustments. Updated unit banner corrections. Included unit cost and attack/defense value adjustments (except those that were intended for their respective campaigns only). Updated several unit recruit priority values. Note that I did not include the "arrow type" changes as I prefer those in the Retrofit Mod over Kingdoms. - Buildable stone forts are a seperate optional addon. :::: Credits :::: ======================== * Thanks to Unspoken Knight of the Grand Campaign Retrofit Mod (RetroMod). * Thanks to Valiant Champion for his pike fix. * Thanks to SSJPabs for the Marshall of St. James and Trecenezago units. * Additional thanks to SSJPabs for his Portugal unit textures and various bug fixes. * Special thanks to isilendil for his king strat map model textures. * Thanks to unDa for his Knights of Calatrava texture. * Thanks to JonatanR for helping me with adding in the new unit sounds and for the Crusades event movies plugin. * Thanks to Bossdave for helping me get buildable stone forts to work (available in optional addon). :::: Gameplay Notes :::: ======================== * Templar/Hospitaller/St.James Marshalls and the Canons of the Holy Sepulcher have the "unique unit" attribute, which means you cannot recruit more than one and they cannot be awarded as Mission Reward gifts. * Occasionally a unit's description does not appear on it's in-game unit ID card when you right click on the unit while in battle-map mode. This happens only occasionally, and randomly, however. The cause of this is unknown and it may be a "vanilla" bug that we cannot fix with modding. :::: Legal Disclaimer :::: ======================== The Grand Unit Addon Mod is only for Medieval II Total War: Kingdoms. This mod is not for commercial use. This is an unofficial Mod for Medieval II Total War: Kingdoms. SEGA and the Creative Assembly do not endorse or support this Mod. All right, title, interest and ownership rights in this Mod (excluding the original Creative Assembly software) belong to the author (as far as is legally possible). The Author (and for the avoidance of doubt SEGA and The Creative Assembly) will not be held responsible for the risks connected with any loss (financial or otherwise), damage to property, lost data, console, computer or handheld device failure, errors and lost business or other information as a result of possession, use or malfunction of this Mod. This mod was developed by Candelarius, aka Yakaspat. Last Edited By: yakaspat 07/04/09 11:24:34. Edited 89 times.
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Posts: 4423 12/10/07 07:58:10 Commodore	FAQ Q. What other cool things can we expect from this mod in the future or when will your next update be? A. No new changes or updates are planned. I know this is a hard concept for the modding community, but, for me, a good mod is a mod that actually gets finished. This mod is now considered finalized. Q. Does this mod require Medieval II Kingdoms? A. Yes, you must have Medieval II Kingdoms installed for this mod to work. This is a modification of the Retrofit Mod by Unspoken Knight, which also requires Kingdoms. Q. May I use your mod, or a component of your mod, in my own modding project? Or could I mod your mod? Do I need your permission to make changes or copy your files? etc. A. I am no longer supporting this mod as it is now complete. I also do not have the time or interest in helping others through their modding projects. With that said, anyone may use my mod in their mod, or modify my mod, or borrow pieces from my mod for their own modding projects. I have no problem with that, as long as you credit my work someplace in your readme/website. However, please understand that my mod is 100% stable in it's current form, and I will not be providing any technical support should your modding endeavors cause my mod to stop functioning. Good luck! Q. Can I have both the Retrofit Mod and this mod installed at the same time? A. Yes, but only by manually making a copy of your existing RetroMod folder, renaming said folder, installing my mod onto your original RetroMod installation, and then manually creating a new desktop icon for your newly renamed RetroMod folder. I am not supporting this operation directly, as I am only supporting this mod itself, which is a mod of the Retrofit Mod. Make sense? Good. Q. Will you be making a version of this mod for vanilla (non-Kingdoms) M2TW, or for X or Y Mod? A. I have no plans at present to make additional versions of this mod. It is considered "complete" and only offered in it's current format. Q. I've downloaded and installed mod X onto your mod, or I've downloaded and installed your mod onto mod Y, and now I'm getting a crash or other weird results, what should I do? A. I do not have the time, energy, or patience to download every single mod and manually verify what files are included, and then to manually advise how said files or changes could best be intregrated with my own file sets. A mod is composed, typically, of several to hundreds of text files, and when you over-write one text file with another text file, you've just destroyed whatever data my mod depended on that was contained in the over-written file. It is the user's responsibility to research, integrate, and quality test any integration of my mod into another, or any other mod into my mod. I'll be glad to answer simple modding questions, but, aside from that, please don't copy another mod on top of mine and then ask me why the mod is no longer working. My mod is only supported in the state in which I created it. Q. Does this mod work with the 1.5 Kingdoms patch? A. Yes, this mod requires the 1.5 Kingdoms patch. Certain features such as buildable stone forts and other enhancements of the 1.5 patch will work with previous versions of Kingdoms but this is not recommended or supported. Q. What are the Sergeant Swordsmen, Santiago Order Sergeants, Trecenezagos, Polish/Hungarian Foot Knights, and Andalusian Cavalry, etc units mentioned in your readme? I've never heard of these units before. A. The Grand Unit Addon Mod adds mostly new units from Kingdoms and enables some units that were in the Grand Campaign files but not "activated". However, the original Grand Campaign files contain a number of usused unit models that were simply never assigned a texture, name, or recruitment slot. I assigned several units the necessary files to make them work and filled in "holes" in certain faction's unit rosters to balance out the additional units I added from Kingdoms. I also "created" a few units by retexturing and/or renaming existing units, such as the Moorish Swordsmen and Late Armored Cavalry units. This was done so that all factions have their fair share of additional units, since not all factions received very many Kingdoms units. In all cases, I have maintained the same texture theme that CA intended, and in nearly every case I actually used existing CA textures rather than actually "painting" my own. I have posted some screenshots below of those new "activated" units that I've included either by assigning textures to unused models, retexturing existing units to fill in "gaps" in faction rosters, or assigning recruitment names to unused units, and also some screenshots highlighting some the mods key features: Sergeant Swordsmen (all Catholic factions plus Russia - reskinned the Squires of Tripoli unit from Kingdoms) < Order Sergeants of Santiago (Portugal and Spain - Templar Model with Santiago texture) Andalusian Cavalry (Moors - Unused Late General's Cav Unit Model and Texture) Polish Foot Knights (Poland - Unused baltest model for base unit and reskinned Edessan Guard unit for the upgrade model) Hungarian Foot Knights (Hungary - Unused baltest model for the base unit and reskinned Dismounted Imperial Knights unit for the armor upgrades) This unit was created by SSJ by reskinning the Dismounted Halbbruder unit from the Teutonic Campaign, called the Trecenezago, and is available as an Order Santiago unit available to Portugal and Spain: Marshall of St. James (Portugal and Spain - Another SSJ unit, reskins the Kingdoms' marshall unit to make a marshall unit for the Order of Santiago) Knights of Calatrava (Spain - retexture of the Templar Marshall unit by unDa) Late Armored Knights (England, France, Denmark, Hungary, and Poland - renamed unused Late General model) Dismouted Armored Knights (England, France, Denmark, Hungary, and Poland - renamed unused Late General model) Sample images of new Kingdoms battlemap models for factions leaders: Sample images of new Kingdoms strategy map models for faction leaders: Livonian Brothers of the Sword, recruitable in Riga, Thorn, and Stetten: New Mercenaries, some examples: English Mounted Longbowmen (unused vanilla unit, wasn't available in custom battles or campaign, I simply unlocked it for both...great unit): Russian Heavy Infantry (renamed the Lithuanian Giltines Chosen unit from the Teutonic Campaign, makes a great addition for the Russians): Optional Buildable Stone Forts (requires Kingdoms 1.5 patch): Q. How exactly does the recruitment system work for the Outremer (Holy Land, or Levant) units? A. I wanted to include as many units as possible from the Kingdoms Crusade Campaign, yet include them in a way that doesn't allow the human player, or the AI player, a guaranteed path to world domination by taking the Holy Land early in the game. Taking and holding the Holy Land, or Outremer (or the Levant), as it was then known, should be a very difficult, timely, and expensive project for any player. Therefore, I developed a system, using hidden resources, or "areas of recruitability", that dictates when, and where, certain Outremer units are available. Unit availability will start very limited, and gradually increase as you progress through the tech tree. Outremer units are somewhat more expensive than your typical faction units. I ended up including nearly all of the new Crusades Campaign units, by dividing them up into two major categories: Holy Land Units, recruitable anywhere in Outremer, and Crusader States Units, recruitable in certain regions only. Here is a breakdown of how it works: Holy Land Units Available in Jerusalem, Antioch, Acre, Gaza, Aleppo, Damascus, and Edessa. City/Castle Wall Upgrade Units: Templar and Hospitaller Knights, Sergeants, and Gunners. Crusader States Units Kingdom of Jerusalem (Jerusalem) City Barracks [Limited Recruitment]: Pisan and Genoese Sailors (Light Infantry), Dismounted Knights of Jerusalem (Heavy Infantry), Knights of Jerusalem (Knight) Archery Range: Templar and Hospitaller Crossbowmen Castle Barracks [Experience Bonus]: Pisan and Genoese Sailors (Light Infantry), Dismounted Knights of Jerusalem (Heavy Infantry) Castle Stables [Experience Bonus]: Knights of Jerusalem Principality of Antioch (Antioch) City Barracks [Limited Recruitment]: Antioch Militia (Light Infantry), Dismounted Knights of Antioch (Heavy Infantry), Knights of Antioch (Knight) Archery Range: Templar and Hospitaller Crossbowmen Castle Barracks [Experience Bonus]: Antioch Militia (Light Infantry), Dismounted Knights of Antioch (Heavy Infantry) Castle Stables [Experience Bonus]: Knights of Antioch County of Edessa (Edessa) City Barracks [Limited Recruitment]: Edessan Squires (Light Infantry), Edessan Guard (Heavy Infantry), Knights of Edessa (Knight) Archery Range: Templar and Hospitaller Crossbowmen Castle Barracks [Experience Bonus]: Edessan Squires (Light Infantry), Edessan Guard (Heavy Infantry) Castle Stables [Experience Bonus]: Knights of Edessa (Knight) County of Tripoli (Acre) City Barracks [Limited Recruitment]: Pisan and Genoese Sailors (Light Infantry), Squires of Tripoli (Heavy Infantry), Knights of Tripoli (Knight) Archery Range: Templar and Hospitaller Crossbowmen Castle Barracks [Experience Bonus]: Pisan and Genoese Sailors (Light Infantry), Squires of Tripoli (Heavy Infantry) Castle Stables [Experience Bonus]: Knights of Tripoli (Knight) Notes: - Not all units gain an experience bonus at all levels, generally the higher the tech, the more the bonus, but castles always get more of a bonus. - Unit availability is very limited at the start, but increases as you tech-up. - Cities do not have stables, so they can build knights at their barracks, but with a unit availability penalty. Castles can recruit more knights and with higher experience levels. - Please be aware that the Outremer recruitment system does not effect the standard Order Chapterhouse recruitment system at all. - There are also many new mercs available in the region, but, they cost a bundle, and, be warned, the Muslim factions have some seriously nasty units, too! Q. I see that Sword Brethren, Livonian Auxiliaries, and Christ Knights are only available from certain cities, why is that? A. These units represent the Livonian Brothers of the Sword, also known as Livonian Order or Brothers of the Sword. They were based in and around the regions represented in the game of Riga, Stettin, and Thorn. After a major defeat, they were later absorbed into the Teutonic Order, but, throughout their existence they always maintained their own headquarters and Grand Master. Rather than have them recruitable from the Teutonic Order buildings, I decided to make them available to all Catholic factions from the cities/castles mentioned above. Any faction can "claim their allegiance" by capturing those cities/castles. The units are available from the city/castle walls, therefore you do not need to worry about making all of those cities into castles just to get these special units. Q: Could you please host this mod on another site, I cannot download from Filefront, or, I cannot download from Filefront because my country has limited servers. A: I'm sorry that your country has limited servers or that you are having problems downloading from Filefront. Please contact Filefront for assistance or try downloading during off-peak hours. People living in countries with limited servers are able to use Filefront, you may have to wait till a server becomes available. If you are having technical problems downloading my mod, try disabling any download accelerators and try downloading with Internet Explorer. It is not my policy to host my mods or files on multiple hosting spaces. This creates problems when I attempt to troubleshoot people's issues, as they sometimes have outdated versions of the mod they found on old hosting servers. I also do not have the time or patience to be uploading my mod to multiple servers for people, as no matter which host space I pick, somebody will complain they cannot download from it. Please DO NOT host my file on a host space without my persmission. Link to this mods TWCENTER discussion thread. Last Edited By: yakaspat 09/15/08 08:23:25. Edited 45 times.
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Posts: 558 12/10/07 09:22:17	Yeah Yakaspat!!!¨You did it again!!!! You 're the god of all moders (or nearly ;)) Be sure I'll get when it's available!! (will maybe wait for the upcoming patch to install as I don't want to de-re install everything from scratch) Thanks again and congratulations for your great work!!
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Posts: 166 12/10/07 10:33:45	I know it's soon to ask questions... but I guess it's not compatible with my saves for the retrofit isn't it?. I mean I will have to start a campaing again right?... Also is there a way for me to add the sound files?. I know this would eat up a lot of space and it's not easy. But I would like to find out how. Any tips or tricks to do that?. Thanks in advance for the answer... And many thanks to you all: Yakaspat, Modrano, Unspoken Knight, Valiant Champion and SSJPabs for your hardwork. Last Edited By: Lord Sephiroth 12/10/07 10:36:09. Edited 1 time.
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Posts: 1637 12/10/07 10:55:27 Post Captain	Throwin' down again I see. Awesome that you included some of my units! Looking forward to doing some experimenting with your mod. I am going to go add calivar men to Scotland now myself... Suggestion: Greek Firethrower armor upgrade fix to go along with the V. Archers. If you look, their armor looks like a downgrade, so I personally switched them in my mod so they upgrade too the full body mail of the Latinkon. Perhaps you should do the same. But here's a few questoins. 1) How did you enable Byzantine Gunners? Did you just adjust the buildings the Byzzies can build? 2) Enabling Mangonels, was it as simple as adding the entries in EDU and EDB as well as the UI cards? 3) Any balance changes from base Retrofit? And of course, the question I've been trying to answer and no one so far has been able to do so: Do production of D. Hashams and Al-Haqa give you points to swordsmith guilds? I do not think they do in the Retrofit. I would like to point out that while Mods DO violate IP laws, CA has the right to allow exceptions and determine usage rules and if they say it's okay under conditions X,Y,Z then it is and their IP will not dilute. Last Edited By: SSJPabs 12/10/07 10:59:07. Edited 1 time.
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Posts: 202 12/10/07 11:34:52	Pretty nice Yakaspat, I hope that DL links are coming soon ;) Looking good indeed. ThumbUp edit: I liked your previous addon. Last Edited By: Paganist 12/10/07 11:40:15. Edited 1 time.
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Posts: 4423 12/10/07 11:40:38 Commodore	Yeah Yakaspat!!!¨You did it again!!!! You 're the god of all moders (or nearly ;)) Be sure I'll get when it's available!! (will maybe wait for the upcoming patch to install as I don't want to de-re install everything from scratch) Thanks again and congratulations for your great work!! Col Poutting: You need not wait for the next patch, Unspoken Knight has said that it will likely not effect Retro-based mods (like mine). My mod already uses the Kingdoms' exe, so, whatever fixes are in the .exe in the patch my mod will automatically pickup (you will not require a reinstall). If the patch forces me to make any updates, I'll release a new version, but, since none of my files are likely dependent on a patch (since the patch is specifically for the Kingdoms' campaigns), that is probably unlikely. In any case, having to do a reinstall would be very unlikely anyway. Thanks though, I appreciate the compliment. . I know it's soon to ask questions... but I guess it's not compatible with my saves for the retrofit isn't it?. I mean I will have to start a campaing again right?... Also is there a way for me to add the sound files?. I know this would eat up a lot of space and it's not easy. But I would like to find out how. Any tips or tricks to do that?. Thanks in advance for the answer... And many thanks to you all: Yakaspat, Modrano, Unspoken Knight, Valiant Champion and SSJPabs for your hardwork. Lord Sephiroth: My mod is going to directly install into your Retrofit Mod folder. It will not over-write or destroy your saved games. So, in theory, your saved games should work fine. The only thing that will not change is my modified mercenary pool, so the new mercs will not be available until you start a new campaign. I considered adding in the sound files, but, it requires a lot of modding work and time, something I didn't want to do (I don't notice the lack of sound anyway, units just don't say their name when you click on them, all other sounds work fine). There is a text file that needs to be updated, but, be warned, it is a huge file, all 100 units need to be added, and they need to be added in four different places....we are talking hundreds of lines of code. Plus, you will need to move the actual sound files over, and, I'm not even sure how to do that. I stopped working on this when I got about 1/10 of the way through the text file (I forget the file name) and didn't even start on the sound files themselves. If you really want to do this, I would suggest starting a new thread, maybe somebody else can help you better. Throwin' down again I see. Awesome that you included some of my units! Looking forward to doing some experimenting with your mod. I am going to go add calivar men to Scotland now myself... Suggestion: Greek Firethrower armor upgrade fix to go along with the V. Archers. If you look, their armor looks like a downgrade, so I personally switched them in my mod so they upgrade too the full body mail of the Latinkon. Perhaps you should do the same. But here's a few questoins. 1) How did you enable Byzantine Gunners? Did you just adjust the buildings the Byzzies can build? 2) Enabling Mangonels, was it as simple as adding the entries in EDU and EDB as well as the UI cards? 3) Any balance changes from base Retrofit? And of course, the question I've been trying to answer and no one so far has been able to do so: Do production of D. Hashams and Al-Haqa give you points to swordsmith guilds? I do not think they do in the Retrofit. I would like to point out that while Mods DO violate IP laws, CA has the right to allow exceptions and determine usage rules and if they say it's okay under conditions X,Y,Z then it is and their IP will not dilute. SSJ: Yeah, I couldn't help myself, I've spend hundreds of hours of my precious sleep-time working on this mod and I thought dammit the community would really appreciate this, so, I may as well stick it in an installer and let'er go. The mods been done for two weeks now and I've been working on it for two months, so, it's pretty much done as-is. All I need to do tonight is create an installer, which I'll do and post tonight (unless my wife has other plans!). Here are your answers to your questions as best I can answer them now (I'm at work): 1) How did you enable Byzantine Gunners? Did you just adjust the buildings the Byzzies can build? I'm not sure, I just pulled over whatever changes Madrono did in his mod (I adapted my mod from his work). I'll have to look in EDB to see what was done. 2) Enabling Mangonels, was it as simple as adding the entries in EDU and EDB as well as the UI cards? Correct, Madrono already included all the necessary files, you just need to add the unit to EDU and EDB. The UI cards are also already in Mardono's base mod, too, I just copied the cards to all factions. 3) Any balance changes from base Retrofit? A few: - Bombards can now fire grape shot. - Some updated skins, including the mount skins for Templar and Hospitaller Knights. - Several spelling/grammar corrections for the unit descriptions. - Unlocked all playable factions. - Early Generals mod included. - Minor changes to mercenary pools. - Included Venetian Archers armor upgrade fix. - Included pikemen formation fix. - Changed light missile cav formation to 'horde'. - Added four new custom battle maps: Village Vilinus, Broken Teeth Sands, Highland Loch, and Lake Choctaw. - Added new Middle Eastern culture interface from Crusades Campaign. - Added the campaign map castle models from the Brittania Campaign. - New Teutonic (republican) style family tree system from the Teutonic Campaign for the HRE and Venice. That's all. The rest of the changes are just unit additions. 4) And of course, the question I've been trying to answer and no one so far has been able to do so: Do production of D. Hashams and Al-Haqa give you points to swordsmith guilds? I have no idea. Thanks for your comments, and, yes, of course I included your new units, they rock! I hope that was okay. Pretty nice Yakaspat, I hope that DL links are coming soon ;) Looking good indeed. ThumbUp edit: I liked your previous addon. Paganist: Thanks. I just need to make an installer, I plan on doing so tonight and posting the link this evening. Maybe by 11pm ET (east coast USA time). Thanks, I'm glad you liked the Lite Mod, it was a very popular mod although it didn't do much. This is my most ambitious mod (although I shamelessly copied a lot of the work from Madrono's mod) since my Extended Realism Mod for RTR. Last Edited By: yakaspat 12/10/07 11:50:53. Edited 2 times.
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FR05TB1T3		#7	[url]	[-]
Posts: 33 12/10/07 14:21:29	Hope the DL links will be up soon. Looks great can't wait to try out your new units. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this mod your work is much appreciated. Thanks especially to yakaspat for your help earlier!! FR05TB1T3
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prawit jatwatthanakul		#8	[url]	[-]
Posts: 209 12/10/07 15:33:58	Sweet!!I can't wait to try it.I think when install this mod theunit from this mod will pop up when load save,isn't it? What about constable of jerusalem?And canon of the holy sepulchre should recuitable in antioch because they are antioch unique units.But if you have your reason so noproblem. Last Edited By: prawit jatwatthanakul 12/10/07 15:48:26. Edited 1 time.
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yakaspat		#9	[url]	[-]
Posts: 4423 12/10/07 16:50:29 Commodore	prawit jatwatthanakul wrote: Sweet!!I can't wait to try it.I think when install this mod theunit from this mod will pop up when load save,isn't it? What about constable of jerusalem?And canon of the holy sepulchre should recuitable in antioch because they are antioch unique units.But if you have your reason so noproblem. Yes, the new units will be available when you install the mod. That's the point. The mod is save-game compatible, but, the new mercs will only appear if you start a new campaign. The Canons of the Holy Sepulchre are recruitable in Jerusalem because the Holy Sepulchre is in Jerusalem.
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Posts: 1637 12/10/07 17:32:41 Post Captain	Right now I'm in the midst of testing out something I've always wanted: trying to recruit Conquistadores/Cuirassiers in Europe because they're useless because of the length of time it takes to ship them back to America so I added them to Leon, Paris, Lisbon and London, adding the America resource to them and tying it to the "world is round" event. I might tie it to do the 'new world inhabited' event (when you encounter the Aztecs) but i Haven't found what that event is called yet. Last Edited By: SSJPabs 12/10/07 17:39:50. Edited 1 time.
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valiant champion		#11	[url]	[-]
Posts: 4584 12/10/07 17:34:03 Sergeant	wow! im impressed yakaspat and im honored that you used some of my ideas on pikemen and hordes. will i be able to keep the addon i have modded as it is and have yours as well on two different executable / shortcuts or will the new mod overwrite the one im playing around with? im not too familiar with how this type of mod will work as far as downloading and what will be overwritten is what im trying to say. i would like to keep both mod games if possible.
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Posts: 1637 12/10/07 17:40:45 Post Captain	As far as I understand the update should not affect it. VC, can you link me to your horde post, I can't find it and I'd like to try it out with my own HAs...
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yakaspat		#13	[url]	[-]
Posts: 4423 12/10/07 21:01:13 Commodore	The Mod has been released! Check out the first post in the thread for the download link. @VC: This mod will install into your RetroMod folder. This is a mod for the RetroMod, not a seperate mod. It uses the existing RetroMod folder and shortcut. If you want to keep your existing structure, do this: 1) Copy your existing RetroMod folder and paste the copy, renaming it something else, 2) install my mod over your original RetroMod installation 3) make a new desktop shortcut for either my mod or your existing renamed mod folder. Good luck. Last Edited By: yakaspat 12/10/07 22:11:23. Edited 2 times.
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Posts: 4584 12/10/07 23:05:59 Sergeant	i dont know where i mentioned the horde mod. but it is very simple. in the edu find every missile cav . on the formation line backspace out square and type in horde. i did it for horsearchers, crossbows, and javelin but i didnt do it for gunpowder units as i figured on reality being that you cant very well shoot through your buddies. many of my unit tweaks are simple modifications that i thought up. basically deciding what i want which is the easy part and then trying to find a way to exploit the tools at hand to get the effect. the thing about the horde was that i remembered how cool the horde horse archers in barbarian invasion worked so well. i didnt like it for anything else that used horde in bi ,but for horse archers it just seemed to be perfect.
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prawit jatwatthanakul		#15	[url]	[-]
Posts: 209 12/10/07 23:06:03	Emm,my game crashes when I load save.I'm going to go through my game one more time.
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yakaspat		#16	[url]	[-]
Posts: 4423 12/11/07 03:51:55 Commodore	Hmmm. Shouldn't crash when you load a save, but, thanks for the info (my saves worked).
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Paganist		#17	[url]	[-]
Posts: 202 12/11/07 05:52:24	I'm downloading it right now, 7% ready allready and 40 minutes to go <3 (I hate my slow connection speed.......) But anyway, I'm quite sure that this is worth of this ;)
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Posts: 209 12/11/07 08:36:51	yakaspat wrote: Hmmm. Shouldn't crash when you load a save, but, thanks for the info (my saves worked). I think because I've installed retrofit add on before I install your mod.Well,my game no longer crash when I restart the campaing.But the knight hospitallers's houses are invisible.I played the costom battle and knight hospitallers ride the air.It looks like the unit's card isn't the same skin form kingdoms.
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Posts: 1637 12/11/07 09:02:13 Post Captain	I think the best part about the mod is that I now know enough to tweak things. For instance I think the Moors already have enough sword units, so I have them an AP unit--Khasseki--instead. Anyhow still just starting to fire up. EDIT: It's your thread, save my stuff for the other one! Last Edited By: SSJPabs 12/11/07 10:22:34. Edited 2 times.
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Posts: 4423 12/11/07 10:11:46 Commodore	prawit jatwatthanakul wrote: yakaspat wrote: Hmmm. Shouldn't crash when you load a save, but, thanks for the info (my saves worked). I think because I've installed retrofit add on before I install your mod.Well,my game no longer crash when I restart the campaing.But the knight hospitallers's houses are invisible.I played the costom battle and knight hospitallers ride the air.It looks like the unit's card isn't the same skin form kingdoms. Um, you must install the Retrofit Mod FIRST....see the install instructions. EDIT: Since this was my first bug report, I panicked and uninstalled the Retromod, reinstalled it, and reinstalled my mod....I think you must have installed incorrectly dude. It's working fine, below is a screenie of my knights hospitallers, and they have horses. The UI cards are the vanilla hospitaller cards, I just didn't change them. Make sure you have M2TW, plus Kingdoms, plus the RetroMod, and then my mod installed, in that order. Let me know if that helps. I think the best part about the mod is that I now know enough to tweak things. For instance I think the Moors already have enough sword units, so I have them an AP unit--Khasseki--instead. Anyhow still just starting to fire up. EDIT: It's your thread, save my stuff for the other one! Excellent, I'm glad you're enjoying it! I'll be happy if my mod is a base for others to build on. And feel free to post "your stuff" in my thread SSJ, I use your stuff for ideas! Last Edited By: yakaspat 12/11/07 10:28:56. Edited 2 times.
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