Are TWC & ORG Projects related

[Taneda Santôka]

Is there any link between the two projects, CrusaderTW and TheCrusadesTW (of course, beside the subject :rolleye00 ) I hope thre isn't any kind of competition :illgetyou and that my question is not undiplomatic...
They both look great! Keep it up!

[mitrandil20]

well, The Crusades is made by caius britannicus(you can find his topic on minimods section)
this, crusader tw is originally made by dragases and nikephoros

[dragases1453]

There isn't any link between these mods except for the timeframe...we have different objective about gameplay and historical accuracy

[Taneda Santôka]

Can you explain the differences? I don't know much about the other mod, only one crusader faction no? and a more limited campaign map?
What do you strive for? How do you set the gap?

[dragases1453]

For the Crusades try Pm Caius Britannicus, anyway from what i know in his mod there will be:
-only 2 factions: saracens and Crusaders
-the map is focusing on the Holy land,Egypt and Cilician Armenia
-the gameplay is aiming for a lot of battles with big armies, so there won't be financial problems



Crusader TW:

- 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)

- 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.


We aim for a good mix of realism and gameplay and for quite a big variety of units for the factions, so you'll not be tired after have played 1-2 campaigns

Hope i explained well

[Nikephoros]

and we will deploy a special crusade script :happy0144

[The Black Reaper]

any special scripts except for the crusades script that are going to be implemeneted in the game?

[Nikephoros]

we will try to implement a "raiding" script: for any unit in the enemy territory, you will gain some gold.