Medieval Fidelity

[Ignoramus]

Welcome to Medieval Fidelity! Medieval Fidelity is a mod intending to represent important periods and wars of Western Europe in small campaigns. Medieval Fiedlity also aims to capture some of the immersion that was so present in the original Medieval: Total War.

Medieval Fidelity intends to be as historically accurate about its campaigns as possible. Considering that the campaigns will be shorter than the Grand Campaign of Medieval 2: Total War, it should not reduce the gameplay either.

Our first Campaign is on North-Western Europe between 918 - 1066 AD. We intend to use the full 31 faction limit.

Medieval Fidelity will focus on the importance of feudalism. No longer will you be able to recruit well-armoured knights at will from your castles. Instead, you will have to grant fiefs in order to field knights. You will also be able to levy the peasantry in times of crisis, although your economy will suffer.

Armies will tend to be smaller and fewer than in MTW2. A crushing defeat may mean the loss of much territory.

The castle/city province distinction is also altered. Castles will be much rarer, and will be more difficult to storm.

Assaults will be a lot slower and far more costly to storm than in vanilla MTW2. No longer will walls collapse with 10 rocks being hurled at them - you will need many siege engines to breach them.

Years will consist of four turns: Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter.

Religion will not just be the bland Catholic and Pagan division, but will feature 7 different cultural religions.

Factions:
French:
Kingdom of France
Duchy of Normandy
County of Anjou
County of Maine
Duchy of Aquintaine
County of Vermandois
County of Toulouse
County of Flanders
County of Touraine
County of Blois
Duchy of Burgundy

German:
Roman Empire(Saxony)
Duchy of Swabia
Duchy of Lotharinga
Duchy of Bavaria
Duchy of Burgundy

Italian:
Kingdom of Italy
Republic of Venice
Papal States

Anglo-Saxon:
Kingdom of Ængland
Northumbria

Viking:
Danes
Danelaw
Norse

Gaekic:
Kingdom of Scotland
High Kingdom of Ireland

British:
Kingdom of Gwynedd
County of Brittany

Emerging Factions:
Slavs
Magyars

Current Team:
Ignoramus - Team Leader, Research, Brainstorming.

If you are interested, then please join. The rest of my team from the Guild disappeared after a couple of days.

Thanks,
Ignoramus.

[Caedmon]

wow, sounds good!

a few questions:
1: you would make four turns a year. would we see in spring for example very much flowers and in autumn brown leaves on the ground?
2:when would it release?
3: would you make new untis?

very much luck
caed

[Ignoramus]

Hello Caedmon,

1.) I don't know how difficult it is to simulate autumn on the battlefield maps, but if it doable then it would be nice I agree.

2.) It all depends on how many moddders we get. Obviously the more modders we have, the faster the progress will happen. If I get a good core of 5-6 modders, then hopefully a beta could be out by April next year.

3.) At first, no. It is fully my intention to make brand new historical units for each faction, but at first the main priority is the map, research, and scripting. Until then, I'll just use relevant units from vanilla MTW2.

Nice to see some interest in the mod.