Regarding the next RR / RC project, I think one based on the Kingdoms Crusades campaign would be great. Many of the units are done already in the Early and High Era campaigns for this mod; aside from RC, it would mostly just be a matter of fitting some RR stuff on to it plus graphics, sounds etc. That isn’t critical, but if no RR we would need to use the Crusades unit costs etc, and submods like BGR would be a no-go without quite a lot of work.
Hmm, maybe it would be better to try to set it up as a proper mini-campaign within this mod.
I might be able to get onto it soon because aside from the Late Era and mini-campaigns, which I am still very keen on, with the next patch this mod will be pretty much done (yes I have said that before lol), and it would make a nice change.
A more historical Crusades version would be really good though. Its such an interesting arena, and the Youtube channel Real Crusades History would be a great resource; I can always talk to the channel lead too, he is an authority on the subject.
I really want to get these mini-campaigns going because launching into a full Grand Campaign can be a bit daunting and it takes quite a major time committment, plus frankly most of us here have played the Early and High Eras to death by now - except for me that is, have been too busy modding them! They are much more focussed on a particular region and time and I can really get my teeth into depicting the historical detail, including new units, without having to generalize. Neither are the armies so large as elsewhere, especially the Outremer (crusader) factions, and we could get pretty close to a 1:1 representation of the armies involved. There are also reasonable records of each faction’s starting forces and we could set up historical leaders. At what year does Kingdoms Crusades start?
Being so geographically restricted there is the added advantage that the turn times would be quite fast, plus we are not really talking about a long time to get them done (Gigantus helped tracked down some of the bugs preventing the completion of the existing ones).
What do you think?