Patch 2.1(adding Turnovo custom settlement) released

**alien_t** · March 26, 2012, 05:04 AM

What the 2.1 patch adds?

Brand new Turnovo custom settlement available both at High Era campaign map and custom battle.

About the city:

”...During the fortification of the Second Bulgarian Empire’s capital were skilfully used the naturally impenetrable hills of Tsarevets and Trapezitsa, which form the two redoubts of the defence. Most heavily fortified was Tsarevets. Its highest point is 234 m. Nearly vertical, inaccessible rocks, as high as 80-100 m, descend from the rock massif to the river Yantra. The Yantra River, which in those times had much higher waters than it does today, surrounds the hill from almost all sides and practically turns it into a peninsula, accessible only from a narrow rock ridge, which is cut by a deep precipice.
Tsarevets is surrounded by a massive fortress wall, following the turns of the rock ridge and forming an irregular triangle. It encompasses an area of 100 000 m2. The thickness of the wall is 2,40-3,40 m. It’s believed its height reached up to 10 m. It’s built by shattered stones united through plaster. The wall is strengthened with counterforts and towers at the corner points, from which best preserved is the so-called Baldwin’s Tower, which got its current looks after a restoration, for which the tower from the fortress of Cherven served as a model. Partially restored are also the north-western and the south-eastern fortress walls.
Three gates led into the fortress. The main one, which rose on the rocky ridge connecting Tsarevets with the surrounding terrain, was a triple one, with each gate being protected by towers. Before the first gatehouse was the so-called Sechena Skala (Cut Rock) – a crevice in the rock ridge, over which there was a drawbridge [connected to the first gatehouse]. The first and third gates are now restored.
In the north-western part of the fortress walls was located the so-called Small Gate, defended by a covered tower, now restored. A path cut into the rock massif descended from it toward the river Yantra, where a suburb of the town was located. The south-eastern gate connected Tsarevets with the quarters of the foreign merchants, which was located at one of the meanders of the Yantra River, south-east of the fortified hill.
A covered passage-staircase, around 300 m long, got down from Tsarevets to the river Yantra in the area of the Great Lavra monastery and ended with a well-tower. The thickness of the walls of the passageway reaches 1,80 m. The steps are 1,50 m wide. Inside the passageway, which was used not only to supply water, but also for secret leaving from Tsarevets, there was a side exit, for unhindered escape in case of an enemy threat, located at its lower end. A passageway, descending from the south-eastern wall of Tsarevets towards the Yantra River, secured the water-supplies of the fortress’ defenders. That one wasn’t covered.
The tsar’s palace on the hill, which covered an area of 6000 m2, represented the castle’s citadel. It was surrounded by a fortress wall, defended by rectangular towers and well fortified entrances from the north and south. The patriarchate, which was located at the highest point of Tsarevets, was also fortified.
The second hill – Trapezitsa – naturally defended from 4 sides by the meanders of the river Yantra and the steep rocks, was also surrounded by a fortress wall, which followed the turns of the rock ridge. Six gates were built in it, defended by towers. The main gate was located at the southern side of the hill. A path hewn into the rocks went towards the river Yantra and from there was connected with the Tsarevets hill through a bridge near the “Holy Forty martyrs” church.
Two fortress walls, which descended from Tsarevets and Trapezitsa to the Yantra River, defended the suburb located between the two hills. An inner fortress wall was also discovered, which rose in parallel with the bed of the river Yantra, in the direction of southeast-northwest, about 32 m from its current stream. It was built by large shattered semi-processed rocks, united with white plaster, and had a thickness of 2,70 m. The façade masonry from its two sides was carefully processed. The filling is from smaller shattered rocks. At some places the wall is preserved up to 3,20 m. At the excavated part of the wall were discovered 4 round and 3 rectangular towers. The wall was connected to the walls on the hill’s rock ridge and into the general system of Tsarevets’ fortifications.
The quarters of the foreign merchants was defended by a fortress wall in its western, most accessible side. There was a gate at this place, leading into the suburb, which was defended from its 3 others sides by the Yantra River. The fortress of Devingrad rose on the Momina Krepost (Maiden’s Fort) hill, but only probing excavations have been made there.”
From “Bulgarian military history in the Middle Ages /X-XIV c./” by D. Angelov and B. Cholpanov, which describes in details the campaigns and the various regional fortification-systems, as well as the various fortresses themselves..."

Turnovo Reconstruction Map with detailed info about the medieval town

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In-town places and info about them

Video Preview

New historical battle - The siege of Turnovo 1393 AD

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Special thanks:
wilddog and makanyane for their IWTE tool and continuous support
KK for his IWTE tutorial
Nikolay Kolev for sharing his Tsar's Palace model
NikeBG - all historical texts & translations.
2Shy & Thinkerman, beta testing

Download link:

http://www.mediafire.com/download/g5..._CORRECTED.rar

Requirements:
The patch requires BGTW 2.0 to be played

Installation:
Unzip in the main game installation folder.
Example:
....\M2TW(main game folder)\Bulgaria\data\settlements\north_european\castles\fortress\...

To play it in custom battle, load the battle with north_european citadel at some suitable terrain.

Enjoy

**2Shy** · April 09, 2012, 12:45 PM

I'm speechless! +rep

**alien_t** · April 10, 2012, 01:10 AM

Thanks mate

Edit: That's remind me to add you in "special thanks" section

**Wallachian** · April 10, 2012, 02:04 AM

Holy crap, this is stunning +rep amazing work!

**alien_t** · April 10, 2012, 02:55 AM

Thanks mate, If you or duce need help incorporating it in TTW just PM me

**Wallachian** · April 10, 2012, 04:14 AM

Thank you very much, I will let the team know for sure.

**XxXxMarioxXxX** · April 10, 2012, 04:21 AM

The textures appear in black for some unknown reason to me...
http://www.prikachi.com/images/860/4626860A.jpg
http://www.prikachi.com/images/861/4626861w.jpg
http://www.prikachi.com/images/862/4626862g.jpg

**alien_t** · April 10, 2012, 07:08 AM

Originally Posted by XxXxMarioxXxX

The textures appear in black for some unknown reason to me...
http://www.prikachi.com/images/860/4626860A.jpg
http://www.prikachi.com/images/861/4626861w.jpg
http://www.prikachi.com/images/862/4626862g.jpg

Seems like a missing textures.
They should be in the following folder, check if they're available.

...M2TW\Bulgaria\data\settlements\north_european\castles\fortress\textures\...

turnovo_Bolyar_House.texture
turnovo_Bolyar_House_normal.texture
turnovo_Church.texture
turnovo_Church_normal.texture
turnovo_House.texture
turnovo_House_normal.texture
turnovo_large_stone.texture
turnovo_large_stone_normal.texture
turnovo_Patriarchate.texture
turnovo_Patriarchate_normal.texture
water_bump.texture

If not use the attached archive

**XxXxMarioxXxX** · April 10, 2012, 10:23 AM

The files you mention were there but just to be sure i added the attached file and the textures are still black.In the texture folder there is also some texture2dds app i don't if it does something or not....

**alien_t** · April 11, 2012, 01:45 AM

texture2dds is not related to the mod itself, it's modding tool. I just forgot to delete it.

Is there anyone else with the same problem?

Btw, in the second link the reflective plane(river) and vegetation are missing too, while on the third link they're OK. How did you load this battle? Is it in campaign map, custom battle or historical?