+Terra Sancta+. Announcement/first preview
Terra Sancta (from Latin, in English "Holy Land"), is an attempt to make a mod set on the crusade era, but not strictly focused on it, but also on neighbour regions.
The map, start date, factions and unit rosters are not completely defined, but my idea was to create a mod that cover almost the same area of the crusades campaign, start date around 1170/1187, with an expansion to the north and to the west, in order to include factions like Georgians, Cumans and maybe Bulgars. I don't want to include at first all 3 crusade state of the period to simplify the things, but only the Kingdom of Jerusalem and Principality of Antioch.
My idea is not to create a mod based on a defined plot where there is no alternative to the conflict between Christians and Muslims, but to create also the possibility of alternatives of a situation of harmony between them, maybe through the partial alliance between a crusade state and a Muslim one, in order to bring peace in the "Terra Sancta", a situation that other Christians/Muslims could hate, and can bring war between people with same religion. I wish to create the possibility of alternatives for the players, also ones that can not be totally historical accurate, but, in my opinion, can improve the gameplay.
I don't want to create a mod that "follow history" (but with the initial conditions and other elements like units as historically accurate as possible) , and i don't want to use invasive scripted historical event like in the crusade campaign that do not leave any choice to the player and decrease the replaybility of the campaign, about the Mongol invasion... I'd like to create a system of probability that make that sometimes it can happen, sometime not, and when it happens it can happen in different place or dates, in order that the human player, not knowing with certainty what will happen, will not prepare itself before the invasion like it happens in vanilla and many mods. About the language of the mod, i would like to create it in english and in italian.
I started working on the mod on the last months of 2009, then I left because I was busy on other modding activities and for other problems. Now i have decided to resume the working on it, unfortunately i have discovered that i completely lost a month of work (mostly work on Byzantine units, coding and 2d art) during the reformatting of my pc that was not previously backup, and this hurt me a lot.
I think i have good skills and i have experience in many camps of modding, but i'm currently alone and i'm really, really aware of the difficulty of crerating a mod (i have been the principal creator of the italian mod "Bellum Crucis" thin vs 5).
I'm aware that i can't do much alone, but i don't want to open officially recruitments for now, since i don't have much time to manage this (i think also i'll not do much of work during this summer). Maybe we can talk about this in the upcoming autumn/winter, if big problems will not occour and if i'll find people that can be trusted, with skill and time (really hard thing!) maybe i will continue on working on it. I have decided to do this preview in order to let people know of its existence and to let them to post suggestions and information that can be useful.
I have a lot of work of my creation that can be reused in this project (2d gfx, skins,models, campaign map/landscape textures etc) but need to be improved.
I want to give a big thank to FedeIta (some elements showed, like laces on shield, shading on barded horse, are his creations), RobertBruce (for some tips he gave me about order units),Renjard and to Mtwitalia community.
Here are some screens.
Some templars (mounted, dismounted early and late templars, templar sergeants)
Antioch Knights
Georgia Monapsa Knights and Georgian Levies
Mamluk askaris (not mounted)
Hospitaller Knights
Here are some banner, from 1 to 11.
If someone want to use it, place this code in your sig: change the X of bannerTSX with the number of the banner you want
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PS: sorry for my english, it's not my first language, not even the second!
Ciao!
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Great job man!
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Originally Posted by Giorgios
