MEDIEVAL II TOTAL WAR:
UPDATE: KINGDOMS EDITION RELEASED!
DOWNLOAD:
DOWNLOAD FROM FILEFRONT HERE
DOWNLOAD FROM MEGAUPLOAD HERE
OVERVIEW: PRO DEO ET REGE is aimed at improved historical accuracy and realism. At two turns per year, this mod hopes to provide for a slower and more challenging campaign. Forging and maintaining an empire will not be an easy task as the player will face many obstacles in his quest for medieval dominance.
KINGDOMS EDITION: PRO DEO ET REGE: Kingdoms Edition inludes the following features:
- Hotseat Campaigns.
- Control AI Reinforcements.
- Boiling Oil.
- AI Unit Recruitment tweaks.
- Campaign AI Tweaks.
- Novgorod as a playable faction in the Grand Campaign
- 20 Kingdoms units have been added to the PDER Area of Recruitment recruitment pool.
WARNING!
THIS MOD WILL NOT RUN UNLESS YOU HAVE THE NECESSARY KINGDOMS CAMPAIGN UNPACKED! THIS IS NECESSARY BECAUSE NONE OF THE FILES NECESSARY TO PLAY NOVGOROD OR THE KINGDOMS UNITS IN THE GRAND CAMPAIGN ARE INCLUDED IN THIS DOWNLOAD!
RATHER, THESE FILES ARE COPIED OVER FROM YOUR HARD-DRIVE TO THE PRO DEO ET REGE MOD FOLDER USING AN INCLUDED BATCH FILE! THIS IS DONE FOR LEGAL REASONS!
INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:
1] To install this mod, simply follow the steps outlined in the Installer Program, which by default installs Pro Deo et Rege to the following folder:
C:\Program Files\SEGA\Medieval II Total War\mods
2] You must have unpacked versions of each of the following Medieval II Total War:Kingdoms campaigns in order to play this mod:
- Britannia
- Crusades
- Teutonic
In order to unpack these campaigns, you must run each of the following batch files found in your SEGA\Medieval II Total War\tools\unpacker folder:
- unpack_britannia.bat
- unpack_crusades.bat
- unpack_teutonic.bat
IMPORTANT!: AFTER UNPACKING ANY OF THESE OR THE MAIN M2TW, YOU NEED TO DELETE THESE TWO FILES:
-descr_geography_new.txt
-descr_geography_new.db
FAILURE TO DO SO, WILL LEAD TO A CTD UPON ENTERING ANY BATTLE
3] After you have unpacked all of these campaigns, simply run the PDER_Kingdoms_Copy_Files.bat file found in your main Medievall II Tota War folder.
This batch file will copy over the necessary unpacked Kingdoms files needed to play PRO DEO ET REGE: Kingdoms Edition.
4] Once installed you should use use the PDER_Kingdoms_v0.1a.bat file found in your Medieval II Total War\mods\PDER_Kingdoms_v0.1a folder to run the game.
NOTE: Should you not wish to use the unpacked Kingdoms Campaigns file apart from this mod and wish to free up hard-drive space, simply delete all but the following folders after unpacking:
-animations
-fmv
-sounds
-world
CHANGELOG:
NEW FOR PDER: Kingdoms Edition:
*Horsearcher's Dust and Effects Mod!
*Burrek's Knights and Sergeants Textures!
*Additional Banners from Joedreck!
CREDITS:
*LUSTED AND PALAMEDES- unit balancing and battle mechanics
*TORNNIGHT - events and era-system
*DEARMAD AND PNUTMASTER - Bloods, Broads and Bastards
*DISGRUNTLED GOAT - Byzantine textures
*WHITEWOLF - Byzantine textures
*BURREK - textures
*JOEDRECK - Kings Banners
*SALTY - Italian shields and Danish textures
*THE MAGYAR MOD TEAM - Hungarian textures
*SICILIANVESPERS - Genoese banners
*DEROUGEMONT AND FINNEYS13 - Character Names Project
*RALENDIL - Orders Mod
*ZHUMIN1978 - Dismounted Orders Mod
*SELENIUS4TSD - Highways Mod
*ZAPPPA - work on character aging
*HORSEARCHER - Dust and Effects Mod
*TANMOS - PDER Logo
*POPE_FRED_I - revised Royal Titles
*GIGANTUS for his tremendous assistance in keeping PDER updated!
* VIRUSITA for taking the time to port PDER over to BigMap!
*EVERYONE AT TWC WHO HAS TAKEN THE TIME TO HELP ME OUT
*EVERYONE IN THIS FORUM WHO HAS GIVEN FEEDBACK/SUGGESTIONS
PRO DEO ET REGE: Kingdoms Edition
