RUS: TOTAL WAR

[Korvin Flame]

Happy New Year!
From Russia with love!

RUS: TOTAL WAR
вest mod for BI about Russian medieval history

The period of feudal war of Ancient Russia, taken by developers as a basis of this Mod are bloody wars, both with external enemies, and with greedy neighbours. And still - campaigns to Byzantium, Tsargrad (that name in Russia named Constantinople). Game means will be dynamical, rigid and to miss will not give.
Hardly having declared itself, the project, has riveted attention. There were many questions. Developers have responded to them during a meeting which has passed at our forum. We also bring the most interesting endurances from it to your attention.
For the first time its interview has been published on Russian site about strategy games and mods
http://www.internetwars.ru

Authors represented the leader of creative command - VIR

- To whom has the idea of the project come to mind, and what time frameworks covers Mod?
- The idea has come to VIR. He is the project head that as a result has appeared international. We were helped by the big international command: except from the former USSR were guys from Germany, Poland, Hungary and Bulgaria .
Time frameworks: from 1015, from death of prince Vladimir, till 1204. Mongol invasion will not take place.

- Can result the full list of fractions?
- Here they: 1) Kipchaks (polovci) 2) Volzhskaya Bulgariya 3) Hazarian Kahanat 4) Pechenigs 5) Seldzhuki 6) the Muromo-Ryazan princedom 7) Novgorod 8) Smolensk 9) Rostov (Vladimiro-Suzdal) 10) Polotsk 11) Chernigov 12) Tmutarakansky 13) Kiev 14) Galitsko-Volynsk 15) Bulgaria 16) Poland 17) Swedes 18) Hungary 19) Byzantium
20) the Byzantian insurgents 21) Rebels.
You can not play Smolensk, Turks-seldzhuki and, certainly, the Byzantian insurgents with rebels.

- In classical RTW, and in many mods, always there are countries - leaders and countries - outsiders. Leaders - it for whom it is recommended to play and to conduct "imperial" campaigns. About outsiders - it is clear. What arrangement by fraction on force?
- Well, by itself, the leader is Byzantium. Very good starting conditions at Volzhskaya Bulgariya. Poland and Novgorod are strong. Kipchaks has very powerful horde on start - until they will not settle them it is practically impossible to stop!
It would be possible to carry to leaders also Kiev, but at them it is a lot of neighbours who aim a slice of land, and Kipchaks are goes directly to Kiev!
Polotsk, Ryazan, Hazarian Kahanat and Smolensk are weak!
Hazarian Kahanat, for example, have the weakest cities, it is not enough population and money, on the first course leave in a minus. It is fraction for fans of a hard! But if this fraction to shake, already nobody will stop it. At them practically the strongest infantryman in game of 5th level and a strong cavalry!

- What will tell about units?
- All units are absolutely new, from the original we took nothing. Armies are completely processed! The basic structure of armies at Russian fractions similar - identical model, but different skins. Russian fractions can be divided on steppe and wood.
At first armies more horses, at the second - infantry, plus everyone has a number of unique units!
The longest ruler of armies, perhaps, at Kiev. The strongest infantry, in my opinion, is Swedish and Byzantian!

- What religions are presented?
- 1) Christianity 2) Paganism 3) Islam 4) the Judaism.
Pagans - Pechenigs and Kipchaks! A mix of pagans and Christians are Rostov, Ryazan and Swedes! Islam - Volzhskaya Bulgariya and Seldzhuki! A Judaism - Hazars (with a considerable share of Islam and partially Pagan)!
All other fractions - Christians or with prevalence of Christianity!
Churches will be at all. At Christians - temples, at Jews - synagogues.

- What can tell about a gameplay, about campaigns?
- In the game beginning almost all Russian princedoms in the union. Byzantium is at war at once with Bulgarians. There will be three hordes. "Senate" tasks, certainly, will not be.

- How many provinces on a map?
- Only 130. The western edge of a map goes from Dubrovnik to Gdansk, through Baltic, separates a part of Sweden. On the north the map border passes through southern Finland, halves Ladoga and further to UralsMountains. The Eastern frontier goes across UralsMountains, through Caspian sea near to Derbent to Tabriz - this city the most extreme, it to be in a map corner. The southern border goes through Asia Minor, to the south of Tsargrad and Ohrida, crosses the Balkans and incorporates to the western edge in Aegean sea!

- How with historical realism is? For example, Novgorod was a rich trading city. In game it too is rich?
- Have given to it of any resources more that traded! And we to Novgorod have made access to the sea, of Ilmen through Volkhov, then Ladoga and Neva to Baltic!
As a whole we aspired to the maximum realism. But game and history are not always compatible. Somewhere something should be missed, and something to draw for ears, sometimes to invent. We were helped strongly by professional historians, but nevertheless game is game.

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Downloads

Link 1 – RusTW 1.2 – 251 MB
http://internetwar.505.com1.ru:8062/WWW/MODS/rus-tw.exe

Link 2 – Patch 1.3 – 22 MB
http://internetwar.505.com1.ru:8062/...rus-tw-path.7z

Link 3 - Patch 1.4 – 1.5 MB
http://internetwar.505.com1.ru:8062/...w-path-1.04.7z

Link 4 – Latest fix – 3 KB
http://internetwar.505.com1.ru:8062/...UTW/Rusfix.rar

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To play RUS TW install RusTW 1.2 to RTW-BI folder.
After Patch 1.3 and Patch 1.4. And finally – Fix.

Attention!
The version is required – is BI 1.4.

To make BI 1.4 from BI 1.6 download from this link archive
http://internetwar.505.com1.ru:8062/...W/rld-rtwb.rar
And unpack its to RTW-BI 1.6 folder

Translation from Russian to English is here:
http://internetwar.505.com1.ru:8062/.../RusTW_eng.rar

Unfortunately, the file export_buildings is not translated

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Screenhots

[Ataegina]

nice work
+rep

[Uranos]

Great work guys

Some advices:
To make it very successful you need to finish the translations, make it for BI 1.6 and make it working within its own folder - not that much more work but the number of downloads will be much much higher.
Not sure if it's included but in nowadays mods new skies, battle lightning and vegetation are a must - if you guys don't have it, search through TWC - there are some stand alone addons

and Happy New Year!

[Korvin Flame]

I did not work over mod and its translation into English.
Here I only as the translator of article about this mod.

But I will necessarily pass all questions and offers to developers of this mod.

[monkeyman]

i second what uranos said but i'm still downloading for now.

+ rep

[f117u]

nice work
+rep
I agree with 3th floor,hopefully the file export_buildings is to be translated,or the mod will be incomplete ,and thank you for your great work

[f117u]

I'm afraid the file of expanded_bi in the translation has something wrong with it,
when i paste to bi\data\text,it has CTD,can you check it.

[Korvin Flame]

We will look.
As impressions from mod?

[Lord Of The Knights]

great work,why you dont have a forum in Hosted Mods?

[Mars Magnus]

I stop reading for this mod!!!
GREAT!!!!
+REP!!!

[VIR]

I am VIR the author of it mod. I do not know English language. I learned German language.
(Ich will nur mitteilen, dass wir heute die Fortsetzung dieses Mod auf die Grundlage M2TW machen.)

[max_minimod]

(Ich will nur mitteilen, dass wir heute die Fortsetzung dieses Mod auf die Grundlage M2TW machen.)

Ich übersetzte mal: (I translate)

VIR want to inform us, that there will be a next version of RUS: TOTAL WAR on the MTW2 engine, comming soon.

[VIR]

Rus II: Total War - http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=115051

[Mars Magnus]

Each time I am starting a campaign it crashes after the first 5th of the loding screen!
Costum battles works most,
I tried a battle as kiew against hazars ...Worked fine!

But there are these CTDs at beginning a campaign.
I have "patched" my BI 1.6 to 1.4 with the correct files,
(are they a crack? I can start RTW-BI without CD)

[Korvin Flame]

(are they a crack? I can start RTW-BI without CD)

May be...
But the official Russian version of game on which it is made mod, starts without a CD disk
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What is CTD?

[Korvin Flame]

Each time I am starting a campaign it crshes after the first 5th of the loding screen!
Costum battles works most,
I tried a battle as kiew against hazars ...Worked fine!

But there are these CTDs at beginning a campaign.
I have "patched" my BI 1.6 to 1.4 with the correct files,
(are they a crack? I can start RTW-BI without CD)

Very strange. Mod is more than year and I do not remember such problems.
Try to start without an English translation.

[Mars Magnus]

A CTD is a Crash To Desktop.

I´ve add the end: -show_mod err

But there is no Error message, but a Message of microsoft or Windows XP.

[Turtules]

Very nice good work.
plus rep.

[Mars Magnus]

Ok,I tring to unstall it again and test both.

I have installed it over RTW 1.5/BI 1.6 and it worked!
But I have only installed the 1.2 version-installer.
I will patch it,
and I must use the CD ...
So to EVERYONE:you can install it not only over Bi 1.4 but over BI 1.6,as well!!!!!

I have patched it on 1.4 now,there are no problems except Russian language ...^^

[Korvin Flame]

RUS TW installed on BI 1.6 will work. BUT WITH PROBLEMS

It is necessary BI 1.4 for Rus TW