The Sicilian Vespers 2.0 for 1.02 Patch is Out!

[SicilianVespers]

"The Sicilian Vespers 2.0"

Late & Early Era Campaigns for Medieval II Total War




**Requires: Medieval II Total War + 1.02 Patch


LIST OF FEATURES

- SicilianVespers Launcher menu, for era configuration.

- Late Era (Grand) Campaign start date of 1311

- Playable Factions:
Kingdom of Sicily
Kingdom of Aragon
Kingdom of Naples
Republic of Genoa
Republic of Venice
The Papal States
Byzantine Empire
Kingdom of Castilla y Leon
Kingdom of Portugal
Holy Roman Empire
Kingdom of France
Kingdom of Denmark
Kingdom of Scotland
Kingdom of England
Kingdom of Poland
Kingdom of Hungary
Grand Principality of Vladimir
Golden Horde
Ilkhanate of Persia
Mameluk Sultanate
Ottoman Sultanate
Merinid Sultanate
Kingdom of Armenia
Tsardom of Bulgaria
Tsardom of Serbia

- Early Era (Custom) Campaign start date of 1080

- Playable Factions:
Kingdom of Sicily
Crown of Aragon
County of Anjou
Republic of Genoa
Republic of Venice
The Papal States
Byzantine Empire
Kingdom of Castilla y Leon
Kingdom of Portugal
Holy Roman Empire
Kingdom of France
Kingdom of Denmark
Kingdom of Scotland
Kingdom of England
Kingdom of Poland
Kingdom of Hungary
Principality of Novgorod
Fatimid Khalifate
Seljuk Sultanate
Murabit Emirate
Kingdom of Armenia
Zupanate of Serbia
Tsardom of Bulgaria

- Non-Playable Factions:
Mongols
Timurids

- Regions & Provinces map v2.1 Custom

- Six new provinces:
Malta
Majorca
Corfu
Negroponte
Morea
Chios

- 5 new factions:

The Catalans
The Angevins
The Armenians
The Bulgarians
The Serbians

- Ultimate AI 1.5

- Blood, Broads, & Bastards v1.9

- DB Heraldry for Regions & Provinces
Includes:
Heraldry for all regions
New ancillary images
Royal titles for faction, King of ... (non-transferable)
Other transferable royal titles, for example:
- King of Bohemia
- Duke of Burgundy
- King of Jerusalem
- and more...
Caliph titles:
- Caliph of Cairo
- Caliph of Bagdad
- Caliph of Cordoba

- Byzantium Armor Progression V 0.7

- Burrek's Knights & Knaves 0.9 5 - Eternal Turk Reskin 1.1


INSTALLATION

- Install MTW II
- Install Patch 1.02
· IMPORTANT: Make sure there is no old SicilianVespers folder in your Medieval II Total War folder before attempting to install (Uninstall or Delete them)
· Not save compatible with SV 1.2 or earlier versions
· Your original M2TW files will not be changed, SV 2.0 creates a seperate installation path which includes nearly all changed files: except a necessary new small folder SicilianVespers in the standard data path, and the vanilla .SD files in data\ui.
· Execute file SicilianVespers_2.0_Install.exe and enter the correct path for the installation
Example: C:\Program Files\SEGA\Medieval II Total War
· The automatic setup creates a desktop icon, a program icon and an uninstall option
· To start the game doubleclick
on the The Sicilian Vespers 2.0 desktop icon
or the program icon
or the Launch_SicilianVespers.bat in the path C:\Program Files\SEGA\Medieval II Total War (default path...you may have changed this to your custom path during installation)


CREDITS

Sincerest thanks to all the folks who have contributed to "The Sicilian Vespers":

- m.minkov: Bulgaria: Total War for the Bugarian names
- Sb2ean: Regions & Provinces mod 2.1
- Ramtha: Renaissance Total War
- Zephrelial: For his excellent mods
- Dearmad & Pnutmaster: Blood, Broads, & Bastards v1.9
- WhiteWolf: Byzantium Armor Progression V 0.7
- Burrek: Knights and Knaves v0.95
- Himmelsfeuer: Retextured French Shields
- Zhukov: France Coat of Arms and banner Fix (modified)
- Boicote: Portvcale v0.2
- Salty: Italian Shields Mod
- Ziher: Spain shields retexture
- Eternal Cocoon: Eternal Turk Reskin 1.1
- alpaca: .sd converter, provincial campaign pack
- Repman: For his help with 1.02
- Baldfridu: K.K's Battle Banners for M2TW
- Billydilly: DB Heraldry for Regions & Provinces
- ARMENIOS: Armenian Advisor
- Drtad: Armenian Advisor
- Ermeni: Armenian Advisor
- GrandViZ: Ultimate AI 1.5
- phoenix[illusion]: Serbian Names


FOR COMMENTS AND FEEDBACK PLEASE VISIT:

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=354

PERMISSION

- Private Use is free. If you want to include parts of "The Sicilian Vespers" in a public mod, please ask myself, or the original submod creators for permission as a sign of respect. Credits should be given.

[Aeneas Veneratio]

Cheers! Just in time (getting the game back from my brother today ).
Very well done! +rep! Oh right, I believe I already did sometime ago.

[IrAr]

Downloading now. Thanks, SV!

[Drtad]

Great work SV! I just downloaded and started a short campaign as Armenia, Late Era, and I have to say that it is magnificent. I just wish my computer was better. A few things I took note of:

1. Sis appeared to be very underdeveloped. I know it had just recovered from a brief Islamic Mongol occupation, but Sis should at least get a port to represent the major port of Ayas (Lajazzo).

2. Armenia should start out with trade agreements with Genoa, Venice, and France and should also be allied with Genoa.

3. Cilicia should be mostly Orthodox and not Muslim right? I am sure that it was just an oversight.

4. Is it possible to change title of religious characters? Currently Armenia starts out with the Bishop Davit. However, it may confuse people into thinking he is a Catholic bishop. The Armenia word for this title would be Yebisgobos.

5. Armenia needs at least an Orthodox chapel to start out with, I mean, in every Armenian city you would find cathedrals, churches, monasteries, etc.
to have them not start out with a religious building is a bit silly.

Other than that, the game played out great until my computer which is suffering from overcrowding of the harddrive had a serious error which dumped me out of the game. I fought one battle with Anatolian Turkish rebels which I lost,, due to the fact that the horse archers of the Turks could outmaneuver anything I threw at them that wasn't a purely Armenian unit (stupid Western influence). I was about to take Kayseri when I got the CTD, so I'll try to play the Early Era later tommorow and see how that is doing.

[calamiga]

Great!
The Sicilian Vespers 1.2 was already an very good Mod, but this seems to be even more fantastic!


The only problem I have with this mod, is - seriously - the name.
I was searchin' MONTHS for a mod which start's at the begining of the ottoman Empire.
I also tried out every single great mod you can find on the web - exept the Sicilian Vesper. Because when I heared the name I thought "Naa, don't wanna play a mod only about italy".
And so I missed to play this awesome mod for such a long time

Haha, no, lets be serious.
Your mod is sure one of the best out here.
My favorite mod, together with Rise of Kings and DLV.


EDIT:
Only Problem:
In late Era, all islamic Factions becamed their Old Names again
Mameluk is fatimid again
Ottoman ist Seljuk again
IlKhanat is Timurid again
etc... etc...

[Sil3nce]

yeah i get alot of CTDs.... and i mean alot... just by clicking the custom battle... i reninstalled and cleaned my whole MTW2 folder too....

[calamiga]

Hmm.

I've clicked a bit around and tested...
No CTDs, like Silence said.

But the Late/Early-Campaign system seems not to work.
Whatever I choose, Late or Early =>
The Game has Names of the Eary Campaign and Start-date of Late-Campaign.

Also, when I look at the Sicilian Vespers Windows after choosing the type of campaign, it reads:
expended_late.txt not found.
0 datas loaded.
expended_late.txt.strings.bin not found.
0 datas loaded.

[SicilianVespers]

Hmm.

I've clicked a bit around and tested...
No CTDs, like Silence said.

But the Late/Early-Campaign system seems not to work.
Whatever I choose, Late or Early =>
The Game has Names of the Eary Campaign and Start-date of Late-Campaign.

Also, when I look at the Sicilian Vespers Windows after choosing the type of campaign, it reads:
expended_late.txt not found.
0 datas loaded.
expended_late.txt.strings.bin not found.
0 datas loaded.

Did you install into program files\SEGA\Medieval Total War II\SicilianVespers ? I bet not since you are in Germany?

Give me your path and I will make a German version of the launcher.

@Drtad

I knew I was forgetting something. I was sidetracked a few times, and forgot about Sis.

[Ermeni]

at last!!!

tx SV .. you are the greatest....

[SicilianVespers]

yeah i get alot of CTDs.... and i mean alot... just by clicking the custom battle... i reninstalled and cleaned my whole MTW2 folder too....

Did you install the M2TW 1.02 patch ?

[calamiga]

Did you install into program files\SEGA\Medieval Total War II\SicilianVespers ? I bet not since you are in Germany?

Ah! Okay, that was the problem.
Thanks!
Changed the launcher my self.
For german versions it should be "Programme" instead of "program files"

[SicilianVespers]

Ah! Okay, that was the problem.
Thanks!
Changed the launcher my self.
For german versions it should be "Programme" instead of "program files"

So you changed it to this:

SET M2TW= "\Programme\SEGA\Medieval II Total War\SicilianVespers\data\text" ?

[calamiga]

So you changed it to this:

SET M2TW= "\Programme\SEGA\Medieval II Total War\SicilianVespers\data\text" ?

nope, because I install my games to a completly other folder, but the generell setting of a german user would be what you posted, yes.

[ARMENIOS]

I fought one battle with Anatolian Turkish rebels which I lost,, due to the fact that the horse archers of the Turks could outmaneuver anything I threw at them that wasn't a purely Armenian unit (stupid Western influence). I was about to take Kayseri when I got the CTD, so I'll try to play the Early Era later tommorow and see how that is doing.

this one killed me ("stupid westen infuence")

BTW we'll see one of your AAR's (Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia) of this Mod soon???

[Drtad]

Umm.... First I think SV should patch up 2.0 first since some people are reporting a lot of problems, and second I have to finish my Rise of Tigranes AAR for the 77BC: Twilight of the Republic mod. You could read that as you anticipate my AAR for SV. The only thing I am worried about is that even on the lowest graphics settings, my comp lags a bit and it is hard for me to take screenshots, let alone actually fight a battle. But I shall overcome.

[SicilianVespers]

Umm.... First I think SV should patch up 2.0 first since some people are reporting a lot of problems, and second I have to finish my Rise of Tigranes AAR for the 77BC: Twilight of the Republic mod. You could read that as you anticipate my AAR for SV. The only thing I am worried about is that even on the lowest graphics settings, my comp lags a bit and it is hard for me to take screenshots, let alone actually fight a battle. But I shall overcome.

Have you set your shader to 1? That should help a great deal.

[JuliusCaesar83]

i also got a ctd at the custom battles, had a clean installation of MTW 1.2, and i chose the install-path myself because i`m german

[jay27]

Hmm.

I've clicked a bit around and tested...
No CTDs, like Silence said.

But the Late/Early-Campaign system seems not to work.
Whatever I choose, Late or Early =>
The Game has Names of the Eary Campaign and Start-date of Late-Campaign.

Also, when I look at the Sicilian Vespers Windows after choosing the type of campaign, it reads:
expended_late.txt not found.
0 datas loaded.
expended_late.txt.strings.bin not found.
0 datas loaded.

Hi,

I have the same problem, my installation is on a second harddrive not C:, I installed to H:/program files/Sega/medieval II.
Any ideas?

Thanks

[SicilianVespers]

Hi,

I have the same problem, my installation is on a second harddrive not C:, I installed to H:/program files/Sega/medieval II.
Any ideas?

Thanks

The drive shouldn't matter, but you must install it into SicilianVespers folder. There are hardcoded paths in some of the files (texture, banners, symbols, etc.)

If the install path to SicilianVespers is different than:

\Program Files\SEGA\Medieval II Total War

You will need to be changed this line in the Launch_SicilianVespers.bat:

SET M2TW= "\Program Files\SEGA\Medieval II Total War\SicilianVespers\data\text"

What factions were you trying in custom battles?

[Drtad]

Have you set your shader to 1? That should help a great deal.

Thanks for the suggestion! It's working a lot better now. Just played a bit more of a Late Era campaign, and it is pretty good. I was able to defeat the rebels this time since there was no lag to bother me.