Caius Britannicus Presents: "THE CRUSADES"

[Caius Britannicus]

Download Links:

• The Crusades v1.0

• Alternate Link 1
• Alternate Link 2

"Can a man love a mod ? Probably not. But we, at The Crusades, believe in unnatural love stories!"

- Herodotus.. err.. Don_Achilles!

Well, I spent so many months making skins for RTR that I decided to branch off and do my own mini mod. Really it all started when I saw Kingdom of Heaven for the first time. The battles looked so amazing I just had to recreate them in RTW. I know Chivalry and Byzantium are covering that period, but I am going to be offering something different. The map will focus in on the holy land only. There will only be two factions, the Crusaders and the Saracens, and both will be playable. Since I'm on my own for this one it will take some time.

Below are all the updates to date with the most recent listed at the bottom as well as the Crusader Faction unit list with christian rebel unit list and regional troops. A saracen unit lists will be published in the near future.

The projected completion date for the project is the end of march. However unforeseen circumstances can always change that. Cheers and enjoy the previews! Also remember to look thru the thread more information may be posted in the thread and not updated in this first post.

A Battle of Crusaders

Teutonic Knights teach some Templars a lesson

Saracen Infantry Engage the Crusaders

Teutonic Cavalry

Saracen Warriors Battle Crusaders

Battle of the Axes

Saracen Heavy Cavalry

Heavy Cavalry

Hospitaller Spears

GRANDMASTER of the Hospitaller Knights

Welsh Bowmen

Hospitaller Cavalry Knights

Teutonics and German Crusaders

Templar Spearmen

Cilician Armenians

knights and maronites

Turcopoles

Heavy Cavalry of the Kingdom

Foot Knights of the Kingdom

Royal Knights of the Kingdom

Black Guards

French Men at Arms

Norman Knights

French Knights

English Men at Arms

English Knights

German Heavy Infantry

Saxon Warriors

Genoese Sailors

Italian Militia

Knights of Italy

Teutonic Foot Knights

Mounted Templar Knights

Crossbows of the Latin Kingdom

Knights of the Order of St. Lazarus

Templar Order Crossbowmen

Hospitaller Order Crossbowmen

Teutonic Order Crossbowmen

Men at Arms from the County of Tripoli

Byzantine Rebel Cavalry

Byzantine Rebel Archers

Byzantine Rebel Infantry

Latest Updated Screen Shot:

Re-vamped Teutonic Foot Knigts

Anatolian Infantry

Naffatin Fire Throwers

Arabs Battle Crusaders

Arabian Light Infantry

Arabian Lancers

Syrian Archers

Jund Militia

Ghazi Infantry

Syrian Heavy Infantry

Nizari

Kumah Cavalry

Hashishin

Kurdish Ghulams

Sudanese Infantrymen

Sudanese Javelinmen

Ayyubid Infantry

Nubian Infantry

Jaridah Cavalry

Tawashi Cavalry

Ayyubid Ghulams

Saracen Generals model

Mamluk Junior Askars

Mamluk Abtal Askar

Saracen Royal Cavalry

Saracen Sibyan al Rikab


"THE CRUSADES" Map Preview

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WORKING UNIT LIST for the Crusaders. THIS IS OFCOURSE SUBJECT TO CHANGE.


Core Recruitable Units:

These units are the units that will be buildable in any crusader held city (once the proper barracks and other prerequisites are met)

Knights of Latium
Foot Knights of Latium
Heavy Cavalry/Sergeants
Heavy Spearmen
Men-at-Arms
Crossbowmen
Militia
Turocoples
Maronites


The Knightly Orders:

The orders will be able to recruit in there "strongholds", but also will recieve reinforcements from Europe via scripts

Templar Order

Knights of the Inner Circle (Grandmaster Bodyguard)
Mounted Templar Knights
Templar Foot Knights
Templar Sergeants
Templar Crossbowmen

Hospitaller Order

Knights of the Inner Circle (Grandmaster Bodyguard)
Mounted Hospitaller Knights
Hospitaller Foot Knights
Hospitaller Sergeants
Hospitaller Crossbowmen

Teutonic Order

Knights of the Inner Circle (Grandmaster Bodyguard)
Mounted Teutonic Knights
Teutonic Foot Knights
Teutonic Sergeants
Teutonic Crossbowmen

All three orders will also recruit a squire unit and a mounted squire unit. These two units will not be order specific but generic for all three orders.

Crusader Nations

There are four crusader nations planned for The Crusades. These are England, France, Germany, and Italy. Each nation has 3-4 unique units. These units only arrive in the holy land via scripting army arrivals from Europe. You just may see Richard the Lionheart arrive in the Holy Land at the head of an English army.

England

English Knights
English Men-at-Arms
Welsh Bowmen
Pilgrims

France

French Knights
French Men-at-Arms
Norman Knights
Pilgrims

Germany

German Knights
German Men-at-arms
Saxon Infantry
Pilgrims

Italy

Italian Knights
Italian Men-at-arms
Genoese sailors
pilgrims

There is also a possibilty of adding a crossbowmen to the armies.

Rebel, AoR and Misc Units

Armenian Men-at-Arms
Armenian Cavalry
Byzantine Infantry
Byzantine Cavalry
Byzantine Archers
2 yet to be decided units from the Principality of antioch
2 yet to be decided units from the Principality of Edessa
2 yet to be decided units from Tripoli

The antioch, edessa and tripoli units will most likely be knights and men-at-arms.



WORKING UNIT LIST for the SARACENS. THIS IS OFCOURSE SUBJECT TO CHANGE.

The Ayyubid Dynasty

Ayybubid Cavalry:
Sibyan al Rikab
Ayyubid Royal Cavalry
Mamluk Abtal Askars
Mamluk Junior Askars
Tawashi cavalry
Ghulam Cavalry
Sudanese Cavalry
Jaridah cavalry / Ayyubid light cavalry


Ayyubid Infantry:
Naffatin fire throwers
Mamluk foot Askars
Black Guard of the Fatimid Caliphate
Daylamite Infantry
Ayyubid Infantry
Thaqlah Infantry
Nubian Infantry
Sudan Tribesmen
Sudanese Javlinmen
Ayyubid Crossbowmen
Ahdath Militia
Jarwajaraya light infantry
Saqalibah (slaves)
Peasant Levies


Arabian Units:
Kinanah Noble Cavalry
Arabian Lancers
Desert Cavalry
Horse Archers
Arab Tribesmen
Bedouin Infantry
Arab Archers

Syrians:

Kurdish Ghulams
Kurdish Tribesmen
Kumah Cavalry
Nizaris
Hashishin
Syrian Heavy Infantry
Ghazi Infantry
Jund Militia
Mutatawi'ah
Syrian Archers


Turks:
Turkish Ghulams
Oghuz Horsemen
Turcoman Horse Archers
Turcoman Infantry
Anatolian Infantry
Ghuzz Tribesmen

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I created a sig pic. Anyone is free to us them to promote the mod. Cheers!

PLEASE DL THEM AND RE-UPLOAD them to your own image hosting. THanks!!

[John I Tzimisces]

O.o very nice. Two factions eliminates RTW's stupid AI...cool cool.
How will turcopoles and cilicia get represented tho?

[therussian]

Only two factions? You should at least add the Byzantines and the Cilician Armenians. Both had a HUGE impact on the crusades. Byzantium is self explanatory, but Armenia provided vast amounts of money, men, horses, food, weapons, transports and supplies to the Crusaders. Withouth the Armenians, the Crusades would have been even more disastrous than they actually were.

Anyway, good luck. I wish you the best

[Atheist Peace]

Looks great, and those Templars and Teutons look beautiful. Good luck.

[Caius Britannicus]

Well, I'm not trying to be a realism mod. I'm trying to create a game that will have epic battles (both siege and field) interesting game play and present a challenge. THe time span will of the mod is going to be the 2nd and 3rd crusades or there abouts.

[Kscott]

Wow, those units are REALLY nice. Two factions will most likely do great things for the AI!

[Atheist Peace]

I just noticed, this is in the wrong forum. It belongs in Mod and Conversion Projects.

[Trajan]

Very interesting, Ridley Scott would be proud.

[CXZAR]

I have to say that im really impressed by those screenshots, and i really wish you luck with that mod, certanly seems to be very entertaining, and those units are very high quality man!!! nice to see that...

[Richard the Lionheart]

Is this going to use RTW 1.3 or BI?

[Caius Britannicus]

I'll be using BI. Although I haven't 100% decided. Decisions like that are a ways off.

[rayzzz]

Brilliant Units!

[dragases1453]

Hi...nice units...i'm working on the italian mod Crusader:total war...Do you want to merge in a q unique mod???

[Caius Britannicus]

Thanks for the offer. But no thanks. I'm sure the two projects will be considerbly different.

[dragases1453]

Ok...if tou will want to merge write to me...

[Oddball_E8]

ummm... dont take this the wrong way, but didnt you say you were gonna resign from RTR because it was too much work?

[Obi Wan Asterix]

Perfect Caius! Good to see you back!

If you use BI then you can have the political divisions of the Crusaders present

[DEMETRIOUS II]

ummm... dont take this the wrong way, but didnt you say you were gonna resign from RTR because it was too much work?

Just in case you missed it let me just point out that this is his own personal mod and not related to RTR in any way.


Edit: Sorry I forgot to comment, looking forward to this mod CB. No one has done this with only two factions and more specific map. I think it will be a welcome change and might actually improve the campaign AI. I'll be keeping a close eye on the development.

[The-Great-Dane]

This mod is probably not going to be as much work as RTR was, after all, there is only two factions (I think, if this mod get's enough downloads, you should think about adding more factions, Caius). Also, we don't know if he just lost motivation on RTR. Maybe he just wanted to start a new project? Who know? There can be alot of reasons, but I'm sure most of them are private.

I'm downloading this for sure. Great skins, as always, Caius.

[Caius Britannicus]

This one is just me having fun. No time constraints not historians to bother me. I have free time ya know and well, my free time will be spent working on this LITTLE project.