Alternate Reality - Hastings (1054mod)

[The Vandal Returns]

Hi guys

first off: i know this is technically not a released mod, but I'm uploading the file right now so i thought id just post this now and edit the download link in later.

so, here it is:

Medieval 2: Total War
Hastings
An Alternate Reality

So, what is Hastings?

Overview:
The year is 1080, the Byzantine empire in the east is weakening, the Holy Roman empire in the West is growing, but, in Normandy, all is not well. The Duke, William, sent an army over the channel to wrestle England, a land promised to him by King Edward, out of the hands of Harold Godwinson. Unfortunately for the Normans, their army was defeated at Hastings and William was forced to retreat back to Normandy...

Installation Instructions
1) Make sure you have a clean version of M2TW 1.1 installed.
2) Download DeZzErX's Lion of Flanders faction mod (see this thread: http://twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=88837)
3) Install Lion of Flanders.
4) Download Alternate Reality Hastings from this link:
5) Unpack Alternate Reality Hastings into your M2TW folder and play using the 1054mod.bat file.

Features:
- A modified campaign where the Saxon faction owns England and the English faction (renamed to Normandy) own Caen.
- A modified building tree for castles and cities where players must build certain levels of smith to access certain levels of barracks and vice versa.
- A new 'homeland' system meaning elite factional units are only recruitable in certain 'homeland' regions.
- 2 New factions in the grand campaign: Saxons and the County of Flanders!
- An expanded family tree for france, with more factions coming soon...

Upcoming Features:
- An RPG-like trait system.
- A full building tree for Saxons.
- An era based recruitment system.
- DrJambo's basic trait mod.
- Character Names Project.

Thanks
Thanks go to:
DeZzErX - for his brilliant Lion of Flanders Mod
DrJambo - for his basic trait mod
the CNP team - for their Character Names Project
the EB team - for kindly letting me use their ideas

[Mike13531]

Can't wait for the RPG features, it would be very nice
+rep

[Icefrisco]

Sounds like a good mod!

[zxiang1983]

1) Make sure you have a clean version of M2TW 1.1 installed.

You sure? 1.2 has been out for months. Any one still uses 1.1 now?

[The Vandal Returns]

it may be compatible with 1.2, but i don't know, would appreciate if someone could test.

As for the RPG stuff all i've got at the moment are a series of crusader traits but ethnicity traits for some major factions are coming soon...

[CtrlAltDe1337]

Hastings was 1066 btw.

[gfortune]

If the mod is set in 1054, I would recommend from a historical perspective:

England:

Edward the Confessor is still King of England with Edith of Wessex, his wife (daughter of Godwin and sister to Harold). His heir would be Edward (Aetheling) the Exile (he died in 1056) and his wife Agatha. Edgar the Aetheling would be Edward the exile's son, with Margaret and Christina his daughters.

Godwine (deceased) would be the father for all of the sons and they would be just commanders and none (yet) adopted by the King as heir:
Harold Godwinson (Earl of Wessex), Tostig (with Harald Hardrada, King of Norway), Leofwine and Girth.

Other commanders include Earls Edwin of Mercia and Morcar of Northumbria.

Normandy would include:

William, (Duke of Normandy) and his wife, Matilda of Flanders.

Their children in 1054 woiuld include Robert Curthose, Richard (died prior to his father, but alive in 1054) William Rufus. Henry was not yet born.

Two commanders would include:

Odo of Bayeux, and Robert, Count of Mortain (William's two half-brother).

[Trajan]

Until you provide a download link, this thread doesn't belong here. Moved to WIP.

[oklahomasooners]

the thing i'm looking foward to is the saxon faction seeing as nobody else really put them in their mod

[The Vandal Returns]

@crucifix: version B-1.0 had the campaign starting at 1054 (the year of the Great Schism, not hastings), but version B-2.0 (the one i'm trying to release now) will start in 1080 like vanilla M2TW.

@gfortune: the mod wont start in 1054 any more (i only included that in the name because the mod used to be called the 1054 Mod but now it is Alternate Reality: Hastings), but I will still use all your suggestions in the Norman and Saxon family trees... thanks

@trajan: fair enough, can you move it back once i have a link.

@Oklahomasooners: thanks *cough* rep *cough*

@everyone else: sorry guys, but filefront keeps failing me, does anyone know any other places i can upload files on,

thanks in advance to everyone


the Vandal
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[Trajan]

fair enough, can you move it back once i have a link.

Of course, PM me once your mod is ready for download.

[Socal_infidel]

@crucifix: version B-1.0 had the campaign starting at 1054 (the year of the Great Schism, not hastings), but version B-2.0 (the one i'm trying to release now) will start in 1080 like vanilla M2TW.

@gfortune: the mod wont start in 1054 any more (i only included that in the name because the mod used to be called the 1054 Mod but now it is Alternate Reality: Hastings), but I will still use all your suggestions in the Norman and Saxon family trees... thanks

@trajan: fair enough, can you move it back once i have a link.

@Oklahomasooners: thanks *cough* rep *cough*

@everyone else: sorry guys, but filefront keeps failing me, does anyone know any other places i can upload files on,

thanks in advance to everyone


the Vandal
MtC

try megaupload

[The Vandal Returns]

thanks, but i'll just use this website's downloads section...

[Mike13531]

hey vandal, which thread are you using anyways, there is MW 1054.. anyways, i'll just quote myself from that thread
hey vandal, i'm here to make a suggestion
Don't you think the Seljuks have too much non-professional army?? There isn't very much Saracen units either, Saracens are great muslim fighters which was basically ignored by CA... So it could be a good idea to add some.

Then there is byzantium , lack variety of units, maybe create some more for them?? As they are widely-loved faction so many ppl will be happy with that , also it will balance out that faction. With many enemies on the doorstep with them, without a religious leader's support, without gunpowder. They gotta have something right? So it would be nice if you guys can add a few more units in.

[The Vandal Returns]

I'm using this thread now because the other one was started by Taylorj2 so i can't edit his first post.

I'd love to add in some more units but i cant skin to save my life, so unless you want to help or know anyone who is willing i would have to give them other factions units for now.

Also, does anyone know why i can upload any files, it just waits for about 15 mins then says: upload failed, upload error.

thanks in advance


The Vandal
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[Mike13531]

upload it somewhere else then. Such as.. um.. filefront.com?

[oklahomasooners]

is this going to be a larger map?

[Mike13531]

hopefully not, because the second i saw DLV had bigmap and lagged me like ****, i turned it down and swore never use BigMap ever again >_>..

Oh ya, vandal, what are your plans with the AOR system? If elite units can only be recruited in homeland, then there should be extra units to recruit in different areas, such as..in turkey, maybe you can recruit certain turkish units?

[oklahomasooners]

hopefully not, because the second i saw DLV had bigmap and lagged me like ****, i turned it down and swore never use BigMap ever again >_>..

Oh ya, vandal, what are your plans with the AOR system? If elite units can only be recruited in homeland, then there should be extra units to recruit in different areas, such as..in turkey, maybe you can recruit certain turkish units?

it's laggy like that cause all those scripts and crap....that's why I delete most of them. then it runs normally

[The Vandal Returns]

@Oklahomasooners: no it will use the vanilla map.

@Mike13531: file front doesn't work, i tried. I was thinking of adding extra AoR units in, but not at this stage.

does anyone know any other places i can upload files onto, cos im really stuck

thanks


The Vandal
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