Reconquest (Reconquista): Total War

**Sadreddine** · November 20, 2007, 03:28 PM

Hi guys,

A few weeks ago I and a few other spanish people decided to develop a mod named Reconquest: Total war. As the name reads, its aim is to recreate the historical period of the spanish reconquista (about 1065-1492 a.C.), with a strong focus on historical accuracy but also considering a joyful gameplay.

We are currently in need of qualified modders (specifically scripters, text editors, graphic designers and coders) to further this great project.

Since this mod is initially to be in spanish, at least a basic knowledge of the language is also neccessary, although the current spanish members do speak english (some more than others

). After the first beta is released, a full english version (basically a translation of the beta) would be our main target, so anyone can play it.

If any modder is interested, please apply here, describing your experience and diverse modding skills.

**Ataegina** · November 20, 2007, 04:26 PM

idea seems good

but wich factions ?

castille,leon,portucale,aragon,navarre,moors ??

map ? this would need a huge map to cover a bunch of settlements, or this campaign ill over quickly

well good luck

**Lebre** · November 20, 2007, 04:32 PM

i'm not applying as modder but as this sounded interesting, can you give us a little more information (like factions and such) about the mod?

take care

**zznɟ ǝɥʇ** · November 20, 2007, 06:20 PM

Hey guys, check this out.
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=106821

**Lebre** · November 21, 2007, 08:42 AM

that sure looks nice, maybe they could merge

**Orko** · November 21, 2007, 12:22 PM

Great! a real reconquista mod!
an idea for factions:
Leon
Castille
Portugal
Barcelona
Aragon
Saragosa
cordoba caliphate
almuravids
Navarre

**sinople** · November 21, 2007, 12:55 PM

Just a little hs to say that the mod Falcom Total War will have for the 1.0 a campaign on the Reconquista

**Boosey** · November 21, 2007, 02:53 PM

Looks like a really interesting mod, was really disappointed that the reconquista was not included in the kingdoms expansion so now i'm very happy! Could I ask one or two questions?

Firstly will the complex relilgious make-up and dialogue of cultures be reflected in the mod? I hate in MTW that you can only maintain the loyalty of a city by either exterminating the local muslim/christian population or else wholesale converting them to your particular religion. I would really like to see the option to maintain muslim AND christian places of worship to try and represent a more progressive government - something that Christian rulers were forced to do as the reconquista began, although they became more repressive religiously and culturally later on. Will the sizable Jewish population (Sephardim?) of Al-Andalusia also be reflected?

Secondly, will it be possible to have an opportunist rebel army (or even faction?) siezing cities to create indepedent kingdoms as El Cid did with Valencia?

And lastly, will there be any bright yellow/orange faction schemes? Please say no!

Cheers!

**Sadreddine** · November 21, 2007, 03:44 PM

Thanks everyone for your support

It looks like the project is frozen right now due to recent internal instabilities, I'm not sure for how long. I'll leave this thread open by now though, and I will inform you once the project is reanudated.

Sorry for the inconveniences...

**Orko** · November 22, 2007, 09:43 AM

@boosy
I found your ideas very interesting and smart! good for you! I like that idea about the jews. Jews were much important at the court of Cordoba and served as diplomats, doctors and poets and very close people to the Caliph.

**Boosey** · November 24, 2007, 03:24 PM

Thanks Orko. I was doing some research into reconquista in my second year at university and the cross-cultural aspect to the conflict really stuck in my imagination, especially the Jewish population acting as cultural intermediaries, translating Islamic writings and science for the less developed Christian kingdoms, even going as far as translating the Qu'ran with Papal support. Makes you wonder what could have been!

I would really like to see a mod developed that allowed for a more balanced approach to kingdom/empire building rather than focus on conflict for the sake of it. Objectives that encourage extermination and domination are excessive and completely unrealistic. I much preferred in the original MTW the option to fulfill certain historically based objectives in order to 'win'.
No idea how that could be added to the MTW2 code but hey!