Rus 2 Total War 2.01 - Unofficial english translation released

[vsivak]

Dear lovers of history and Medieval total war,

I present to you my basic english translation of this fantastic mod. I have been waiting for several years for english translation of this mod but years were passing and nobody had translated it or released the translation. So I decided that it is my turn. My understanding of Russian language is very basic but with the help of google translate I translated all the core text files and now the mod is fully playable for english speakers. I am sorry for the mistakes but I don't have enough time and knowledge to make perfect translation. I translated the text files for patch 2.01 because this is the last version of the mod that uses the original map made for this mod. The map used in newer versions (latest is 2.1) is historically and geographically not so accurate and is much more bigger and I don't like it that much. I also ported some changes from version 2.1 to this version 2.01 and made some changes to AI (inspired by AI sets used in SS mod), tweaked buildings and fixed some bugs (freeupkeep for units now works flawlessly). Enjoy the game.

Mirrors for mod

Rus 2 Total war 2.0 in 1 part
https://yadi.sk/d/r3C9bp5m3GLvN2

or

Rus 2 Total war 2.0 in 5 parts
https://yadi.sk/d/U9XxDBGjSWnLi
https://yadi.sk/d/HNFbWGuZSWmcf
https://yadi.sk/d/ZlSc4PyiSWn6p
https://yadi.sk/d/u9n0p8hFSWjgZ
https://yadi.sk/d/hi4z3Du-SWnL6

Rus 2 Total war, patch 2.01
https://yadi.sk/d/pGJ9-xPqSWmeM

Installation:
1. Install Rus 2 total war 2.0
2. Install patch 2.01
3. Install my patch (Overwrite files in directory mods/Russ2 with data provided).

[Frunk]

Nice work vsviak! +rep

Can you tell me what Rus 2 Total War is about? I had a look at the original thread, but it was a bit hard to follow, to be honest.

[vsivak]

Dear Frunk,

Time period: 1015-1215
Map: East Europe, Sweden, Balkan, Anatolia, part of Central Asia and Middle East
Factions: Sweden, Novgorod, Rostov, Murom-Ryazan, Polock, Kiev, Chernigov, Galich-Volin, Tmutarakan, Smolensk, Prussia, Volga Bulgary, Poland, Hungary, Pechenegs, Cumans, Khazars, Bulgary, Byzantium, Seljuks, Georgia, Armenia, Alania, Buyids, Hamdanids, Khwarezm.
Brand new units, new map, some scripts

[Frunk]

Cheers vsivak!

[dijenek999]

Thanks for translation and links. All works great.

[preussen6]

Hi, great mod, are russians improving it or it's stopped project ?

[vsivak]

The team who was developing the mod until this version (2.01) is not working on the mod anymore. The new team who made newer versions (latest 2.1 from 2013) seems to at least discontinued the development. I you want to know more about the mod you can visit this Russian forum and with google translate you can understand a bit.

http://imtw.ru/topic/25339-%D1%80%D1...al-war-21-rus/

[BagaturSasha]

Finally! this mod is one of favourites! Won many campaigns there!

[The Despondent Mind]

Can we get some screenshots, I(everybody) would like to see the basic look of the mod.

[vsivak]

And link to the page with some pictures http://www.internetwars.ru/Medieval-II/Rus2/Rus2.html

[The Despondent Mind]

Very nice, thank you very much !

[achwell]

Hi,
After downloading and unzipping i have two files one Data file and the mod file with game, do this mod overwrite all my other mods? becose of the data file the mod folder i know this is modfolderd but the data file i am not shure?

thanks

[vsivak]

Hi achwell,

You have to copy the data folder to the root MTW2 directory and mod folder to mods. I have installed over 20 different mods to my mod directory which I can run without any problems and I never had any problem with this data folder in the root MTW2 directory. But if you are not sure backup your MTW2 installation. Hope this helps.

Best regards

[achwell]

Hi vsivak
Thank you, ill gonna istall this, it looks like a verry good mod

[winko2006]

hi

[winko2006]

Hi people there is a Polish translation for the game or mod ..? If yes where can i find them ..thank ....

[vsivak]

This mod is available only in Russian and English.

[Marc Byzantinum]

thank you for your effort ..

will try that mod now..

[demagogos nicator]

Thank you very much vsivak for making translation of this mod and this bringning it to my attention. I found it by accident when I wanted to download Imperium Romanum mod by KEA and bit hesitated whether the mod will be worth downloading or not. It appeared that it was really a good choice to try it.

I though I know about all good historicy based M2TW mod but I barely know about this one and I definatelly did not expected it to be so detialed and good. I really like the mod. 11th century is one of my favourite times in history, the new very eye pleasing and period appropriatelly looking units for everyfactions are big plus of this mod (although I am bit disappoisnted with few Hungarian units which appears to be to late for the mod timeframe but most of the rosters looks convincing).

I also like the setting with lot of faction in relativellly small geographic areas which provides for various conflicts and unpredicatable gameply. I even managed to loose the campaign as Murom-Ryazan Principality, which is something I have not experienced for years (last time in Arthurian Total war playing as Elmet). I am also very pleased with your translation which is offcourse not perfect but in my oppinion generally much better than most of the fan made translation of non-English mod I have seen

[vsivak]

Hi demagogos nicator,

Thank you for the positive feedback. Glad to hear that AI works and is able to defeat the player. I was following the development of this mod since 2007 and I consider it a "hidden gem" among the MTW2 mods with few flaws I tried to fix. If I manage to have some free time I plan to add some scripts and improve the mod a bit more. If you have any ideas or more feedback feel free to post it.

Best regards