Downloads: King's Banner 3

add lot of new units, banners, shields, ancillaries, regions, weapons and a new map managment.



Thread link:
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=117759

King's Banner 3.0 Version: 0.2


- Special Units;


Knights of
Bremer, Leibwalcks (hre)
du Bar, Guesclin (france)
Gongora, Mora (spain, portugal)
Norfolk, Cornwall (england)
Fogliano (milan, venice, sicily)
Przemysl (poland)
Jerusalem (all crusader states)

Other units:
Byzantine Palace Guard (byzantium)
Teutonic soldiers (hre) (Crossbowmen, Helbardier, Swordmen)

This special units are recruitable in special cities/castles and are rare.


- Order Knights;

Complete with own uniforms, banners and shields.

Poland, Hungary: Knights of Miechowici
France: Knights Templar, Veteran Knights Templar
Venice, Milan: Knights of Malta
England, Scotland, Denmark, Sicily: Knights Hospitaller, Veteran Knights Hospitaller
HRE: Knights of Komtur Grudenc, Braunsberg, Marienburg (with 2 new teutonic helmets)



- New units;

-Light Swordmen: recuitable in the early period in castles (hre, france, england, scotland, denmark, poland, hungary, sicily, venice, milan, spain, portugal)
-Swordmen: recuitable in the middle period in cities (hre, france, england, milan, venice, sicily. get a special one: poland, hungary)
-Heavy Mailed Knight: recuitable in the early period in castles (hre, england, france, denmark, milan, venice, sicily, portugal, spain, scotland)
-Mazowiak (poland)
-Pronoia Infantry, Light Infantrymen, Byzantine Spearmen (byzantine)


-Generals, Heirs & Kings;

I add for some factions new models for this units, which pass on if this character die.

Generals: spain, hre, england, venice, france, byzantine
Heirs: spain, hre, england, france, venice
Kings: spain, hre, england, france, byzantine, venice


-Shields, Banners, Textures;

Some of the units have special banners, which are only for them. Examples: Templar, Teutonic order (3 different), special units

- over 500 shield textures (min 200 made by Salty for our mod Art of War).
The heraldic symbols are from historical sources.
- over 140 banners. Some of them are retextured with a material texture
The heraldic symbols are from historical sources.
- the units get the burreks textures and some are my design.

-Weapons,

Weapons add to units in follow categories

- Axe, Warhammer, Sword, Mace
- Twohander-Axe, Bill, Poleaxe, Berdiche
- Hellebard, Voulge, Swordstaff


-Ancillaries (retinue);

-adds over 140 new pics for the retinue
-no doubble pics for the ancs and the arabic got their own pics
-every faction got their own crown (the arabic get a special symbol)
-every faction got their own king's banner


-on the Map/Battle Map

-add new Provinces (St Austell, Norwich, Burgos, Koeln, Radom, Gniezno, Orleans, Ripen, Allborg, Lund, Bryno, Marienburg, Lagos, Oporto)
-more Rebels inside the Rebel settlements
-change the settlement managment. the cities don't grow so fast
-the buildings are more expensive and have longer building time
-the agents (spy and assassin) are limited
-to recruit mounted-, foot-troops you need to build stables or barracks
-ai get money to be stronger
-new ressources: salt, tar, honey, hemp, dogs
-some new unit cards (archer, crossbowmen...)
-new city look for england, south europe and teutonic regions
-new recruiment system: change the numer of recuitable units
-the upgrades for the units are more expencive
-archers and crossbowmen get stronger missile (+1)
-add new models and textures for upgraded venetian archers
-add typical english spearmen as upgraded levy spearmen
-add new mercs (european muslims) for islamic factions
-add mini siege mod for better strat siege optic
-new AI unit recruitment priority for more mixed armies

many more little things...

WITH VERY SIMPLE INSTALLATION FOR BEGINNER

YOU NEED THE RETROFIT MOD AS BASIC

Install description: Unpack the files in your SEGA folder.

Use the retrofit.exe to start King's banner 3

Thanks to:
Unspoken Knight for his Retrofit mod
Salty for the Denmark color changes and Italien shields (Frankfurt rules)
Burrek's Mod for his textures
riczu74 for his siege and trading minimod

People who i forgot and inspired me

Some pics of the special units:


The new Swordmen and they upgrades and the diffrent weapons: