Crusader TW: What's this?

**dragases1453** · January 19, 2006, 09:42 AM

Crusader TW is a mod based on the period between the death of the Byzantine Emperor Alexius I Komnenus(1118), who kept a new Gold Age for the Byzantine Empire, and the fall of Acre in 1291, the last christian city in the Holy Land.
The map will focus on the East Mediterranean area, it will be from Italy to iraq, and from the Azov sea to Egypt.

if you have any question or suggestion post here.

**Nikephoros** · April 15, 2006, 08:11 AM

well,here's something more about our mod

CRUSADER TOTAL WAR

Crusader: Total War (CrTW) is a Total Conversion for Rome: Total War Barbarian Invasion, trying to recreate the epic athmosphere of the crusader warfare.

THIS MOD FEATURES:

- a Campaign map going from the Persian plains to the Alps, dating from 1118 (year of the Agger sanguinis, and year of the coronation of Iannes Komnenos) to 1291 (the Fall of Acre)

- crusades and other historical events (eg. the great pecenegh invasion)

- 20 Factions with specifical units:

THE LATIN KINGDOMS

- The Kingdom of Jerusalem: The main Crusader power, controlling the holy city and the nearby cities with a strong mixture of western knights and eastern light armed troops

- The County of Tripoli: a little piece of land stretched between the powerful Kingdom of Jerusalem, the Infidel emirates and the sea.

- The Principality of Antioch: one of the most powerful Crusader States,threatened by the turks, the byzantines and the rising armenian nation.

- The County of Edessa: Sorrounded by hostile nations, such as the turkish atabegs and the ikonium sultanate, the County of Edessa was the first Latin State to perish. It's up to the player to assure its survival against all odds.

THE MILITANT ORDERS

- The Templar Order: the most famous, for a lot of reasons, of the three monastic orders. Founded in Jerusalem by Huges of Payne, it became one of the leading power in the holy land, holding hundreds of keeps inside and outside the middle east.

- The Hospitaller Order of St. John: the first one of the three orders, born from an italian hospital in jerusalem. The black-robed knight quickly became a power not to be messed with, often following policies opposite to those the templars had.

- The Order of St. Mary of the Teutons: only german brethren were welcome in this order,whose fortresses in the middle-east were some kind of a secondary front,compared to its main effort in northern europe.

THE ITALIAN FACTIONS

- The Republic of Venice: "La Serenissima",one of the 4 sea republic, and one of the most powerful, in eternal struggle with Genua, sometimes fighting the byzantine empire and always aiming for more gaining and more gates to the rich eastern emporiums.

- The Republic of Genua: Eternal rival of Venice, this Ligurian city-state will compete with the Serenissima for everything. Historically, the conflict between the two republics brought to the war of St. Saba, in St. John of Acre.

- The Papacy: All the power of the Christianity in the hands of a single man, the pope. 'nuff said.

- The Kingdom of Norman Sicily: heir of many traditions, this norman-ruled kingdom is one of the worst enemy of the byzantine empire, one of the best allies of the pope and its kings always wanted to seat on the throne of Jerusalem.

THE OTHER CHRISTIAN FACTIONS

- The Byzantine Empire: after the crushing defeat at Manzikert, the byzantine power drastically reduced to the coastal regions of Anatolia and to the greek mainland.After the first crusade, the Comnenean dinasty is trying to regain control over the old "roman" regions.

- The Cilician Armenia: a newborn indipendent state controlling the mountains of cilicia. Its ruling dinasty, the Rubenids, has to diplomatically compete against Antioch, and fight against the turkish power of Ikonium, or the old byzantine empire.

- The Hungarian Kingdom: the descendants of the hungar raiders of the X century put together a multiethnic kingdom, often struggling to conquer the western regions of the byzantine empire, or trying to take control of the adriatic coast, held by Venice.

THE MUSLIM FACTIONS

- The Fatimid Egypt: Main power of the Scii islam, even if slowly falling in to the hands of the mamluk slave soldiers. The first enemy the kingdom of jerusalem will face, and a fearsome one.

- The Seljuq Turks: the seljuq sultanate built itself over the ruins of the byzantine rule in Anatolia, and it's still the worst enemy of the ancient Eastern Roman Empire, and a considerable threat for the crusader states of northern Palestine.

- The Atabeg of Aleppo & Mosul: the turkish rulers of this syrian kingdom have always been threating the latin kingdoms, since they weren't able to stop the siege of Antioch. Their armies fight with a mixture of saracen infantry and turkish cavalry.

- The Damascene Emirate: Damascus is an Ancient and powerful city, neutral during the first crusader conflicts, and always fighting against the other muslim powers, sometimes allied with the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

- The Ziride Emirate: A feared enemy for all the italian coastal towns, the raids of the berber pirates and the massive attacks of their fleet have always been a terrible threat. Particularly powerful was, in central northern africa, the Ziride emirate, born from a rib of the Abbasid Caliphate.

**mac89** · April 15, 2006, 08:51 AM

Should I put that piece in the website, drageses?

**dragases1453** · April 15, 2006, 09:38 AM

yes

**Nikephoros** · April 15, 2006, 11:33 AM

actually, i made up all that stuff for the website

**mac89** · April 15, 2006, 01:11 PM

What i need is one good picture of units of every faction in action.

**Nikephoros** · May 01, 2006, 01:38 PM

we are adding A LOT of new loading screens too, made by the usual drawer.
Here are two examples:

and

**Tzif** · November 20, 2006, 07:53 PM

Oh, those are nice, did you draw them?

Tzif

**druzhina345** · May 10, 2013, 11:44 PM

Fatimid Illustrations

Fatimid Soldiers and Hunters
Fatimid Musicians, Dancers & Revelers

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Fatimid Soldiers and Hunters

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Illustrations of Soldiers

**druzhina345** · May 11, 2013, 08:16 PM

Liber ad honorem Augusti, by Pietro da Eboli, Sicily, c.1197
The Liber ad honorem Augusti sive de rebus Siculis tells the story of Tancred of Lecce's attempt to take control of Sicily, an attempt thwarted by the successful military campaign of Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor.

Thumbnails for Liber ad honorem Augusti, by Pietro da Eboli
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