Knights of St. John mod - Finally released!

[Graf zu Adler]

Graf, I was just giving another example of the Knights' inferior naval power....they can't get any of the naval technologies until they get a school...and the closest place to get a school would be Tunis, which is owned by the Barbary States. I managed to conquer it with a meager force, and it took me 20 turns to pacify it, fighting rebels and another 40 turns to wait for a town to grow so I can actually build a school.

Isn't there a town you can demolish, though? But I have to agree, the Knights are just a tad too difficult to play. Especially due to the fact that they have to demolish their original port in order to get any trade income at all.

Anyway, your post seemed to be sarcastic, so I decided to clarify what I meant

[IGdood]

Isn't there a town you can demolish, though? But I have to agree, the Knights are just a tad too difficult to play. Especially due to the fact that they have to demolish their original port in order to get any trade income at all.

Anyway, your post seemed to be sarcastic, so I decided to clarify what I meant

Oh, I didn't intend for my post to be sarcastic...gah.

I don't think Tunis starts out with a town that I can demolish. It's the only place I can invade without angering other nations....heheh.

I sort of regret starting off the Knights in a hard campaign....but I guess being successful is quite an achievement. Long live the knights!

[Graf zu Adler]

Oh, I didn't intend for my post to be sarcastic...gah.

I don't think Tunis starts out with a town that I can demolish. It's the only place I can invade without angering other nations....heheh.

I sort of regret starting off the Knights in a hard campaign....but I guess being successful is quite an achievement. Long live the knights!

Yeah, I will play a campaign with the knights when I'm done with my current Savoyard one.

Also, the units from this mod make the knights quite tough as enemies, too. I took Malta easily with a 15-unit army, but it rebelled and the rebels, with a handful of order militias, actually defeated me (I admit, I auto-resolve often, as I did here, but still). Now I'll need to send a huge army their way....ah well, for the moment I have peace everywhere else, so I can afford it.

[Eärnur]

Yeah, I will play a campaign with the knights when I'm done with my current Savoyard one.

Also, the units from this mod make the knights quite tough as enemies, too. I took Malta easily with a 15-unit army, but it rebelled and the rebels, with a handful of order militias, actually defeated me (I admit, I auto-resolve often, as I did here, but still). Now I'll need to send a huge army their way....ah well, for the moment I have peace everywhere else, so I can afford it.

Hope our Militia will give you another hard time!

[Graf zu Adler]

Hope our Militia will give you another hard time!

Gladly, they didn't. But I came across another problem here: the Grand Master's palace only allows recruitment of Line Infantry and Horse Artillery for factions that conquer the place. Maybe change it to the standard Royal Palace recruitment roster, or perhaps even with a few nice fancy additions, so that it even is a benefit to conquerors?

[IGdood]

Planning to use it as a naval staging ground of sorts?

[Graf zu Adler]

Nah, their fleets were getting annoying, and they kept blockading one of my trade partners, so I decided to get rid of them. Anyway, I accidentally overwrote the auto-save when trying out a flag mod (revolutionary flags for minors), so I'll be off to start my campaign with the knights now. I already have an idea what to do and where to go, too. The Indian crusade

EDIT: Oh, I noticed another thing. Above Fourth-Rates, the Knights can only recruit Admiral's flagships (3rd and 1st rate). Do you intend to fix this?

[IGdood]

I spam privateers (using Swiss Halberdier's AUM) and capture the superior ships of other nations. Recently acquired a few Steamships and a Heavy First Rate this way.

In my hard campaign I own a few provinces and I'm at war with the Ottomans and the Polish, both of whom have huge navies. I'm taking provinces I can protect one at a time, and I make my living by taking rebel provinces in the Americas for trade and raiding enemy trade routes.....pirate Knights indeed.

[SonOfOdin]

What I meant is make it possible to build earlier, or possibly even have it be there on the start of the game. You have to take a major faction's capital, or demolish the military port in Malta, before you can trade with anyone, which makes it near impossible to maintain a decently-sized military.

Valletta(unfortunately) cannot be made a major city. Someone in the mod's progress thread had said it causes a CTD as a major city does not fit on the island. The map isn't moddable either, so I'll snoop around the mod workshop to see how I can make the Grand Harbour present from the start.

[IGdood]

Oh yeah, was it intended for Order Militia Cavalry to be unable to fire their pistols on the move? They can only fire while standing still.

[Jingo Eugene]

This may be the first mod I download. I approve of it and the Knights of St. John.

[E.K]

This is awesome!
The textures are beautifal

[SonOfOdin]

Oh yeah, was it intended for Order Militia Cavalry to be unable to fire their pistols on the move? They can only fire while standing still.

I think that's a problem with all ETW mounted ranged units, is it not?

[IGdood]

Light Dragoons and Horse Archers and Mounted Cacciatori can fire while moving.

[SonOfOdin]

Light Dragoons and Horse Archers and Mounted Cacciatori can fire while moving.

Wait, then which unit are you reporting not firing whilst moving? If I remember correctly, the Order cav were melee cav, not ranged cav.

[IGdood]

Wait, then which unit are you reporting not firing whilst moving? If I remember correctly, the Order cav were melee cav, not ranged cav.

The Order Militia Cavalry and their pistols.

[SonOfOdin]

The Order Militia Cavalry and their pistols.

You mean the mounted guys here, right?


I uninstalled ETW a couple of months ago, so I can't really check it out.
If anything it's better this way though. I doubt that most Maltese people knew how to ride+shoot simultaneously at the time

[IGdood]

Yeah those guys. XD I see I see!

[Jackcat626]

Hello Odin,
I have grandparents who are maltese and I am deperate to play on your (...and the others who contributed...) mod, but for reasons unbeknown to husserlTW(creator of Empire total factions) and myself, ETF doesn't work for me.

Do you know of any other mods that would allow me to play as any faction and still be able to play the knights of saint john mod?

Thanks in advanced,

Jackcat626

[GasCanGerry]

I have ETW factions installed and it works perfectly, i added the mod packs to the user script and it still won't work! Id really like to try out this mod, but this problem really is bugging me...