The Swiss Confederacy

[The King Of Peasants]

I was wondering if you guys could possibly add the Swiss to the mod they wouldn't really need any totally new units at least at first you could use Swiss pikemen and Swiss guard halberds plus the papal states skin of pike and halberd militia then arquebusiers from poland which are red and white pavise crossbows and maybe some light cav, zwei handers and forlorn hope and you'd have a decent roster. Then just have them only in late and renneisance and you wouldn't have to make them emerging. Just a brain storm...

[SicilianVespers]

This is a very real possibility for the Renaissance campaign. but this would be something something for the future, since the Renaissance has a low priority right now.

[The King Of Peasants]

Great!! I usually do renneisance era games as you get the later units which I like using more.

[Zephrelial]

The Swiss faction could prove to be an interesting one.And it hasn't been featured in any mod before.

[The King Of Peasants]

I am planning on trying to add Switzerland myself as I am getting into modding and want to try and create a faction. So wish me luck.

[The King Of Peasants]

Ive created the faction along with 13 units 5 of which I created using textures already ingame. I haven't got the campaign done but should by sometime tommorow unless I missed something and it ctds.

[SicilianVespers]

Very good are you working on the Late or Renaissance campaign?


They can probably be added to both campaigns.

[DaVinci]

They became quite independent at 1389 AD.
I suggest to have them, if overall, for the Renaissance campaign.
SV, what shall be the victory conditions in our historical-realism mod for a people that always fought for independence?

[SicilianVespers]

They became quite independent at 1389 AD.
I suggest to have them, if overall, for the Renaissance campaign.
SV, what shall be the victory conditions in our historical-realism mod for a people that always fought for independence?

Off the top of my head I would say the Torino, Milano, Verona, Schwaben, and Bayern. We could also throw in Burgundy.

Looking at the provinces I just named, I forgot Bern/Switzerland has become the Marca di Torino in the next release.

Will have to see if I can scrounge up another province, or rename Torino for the Renaissance.

@TKOP

I would try to use as many existing units in the EDU as possible, as we already hit the 500 unit limit for the kingdoms version. Will make it easier to integrate it

[The King Of Peasants]

I was going to do late and renaissance as I think they started fighting in the early 1300s so high and renaissance then I can have halberds and pikes later. The units I have added are swiss men at arms for the generals bodyguard. Swiss levy pikemen, swiss armored pikemen, swiss levy halberds and swiss armored halberds. Other then that they have zwei handers, reiters, mounted crossbows, peasant crossbowmen, pavise crossbow millitia, arquebusiers, and hangunners. For textures I am using a variety from portugal poland the papal states and genoa.

[TWoxy]

I was going to do late and renaissance as I think they started fighting in the early 1300s so high and renaissance then I can have halberds and pikes later. The units I have added are swiss men at arms for the generals bodyguard. Swiss levy pikemen, swiss armored pikemen, swiss levy halberds and swiss armored halberds. Other then that they have zwei handers, reiters, mounted crossbows, peasant crossbowmen, pavise crossbow millitia, arquebusiers, and hangunners. For textures I am using a variety from portugal poland the papal states and genoa.

I have a a few textures already done for the Swiss; are you interested? PM me if so.

[GreyWindSage]

sounds great

[The King Of Peasants]

Ok I tried just copying and pasting which dosn't seem to be working I will restart as it isn't that hard. I'll just be more careful getting the unit textures isn't hard at all a lot of factions textures work. So I'll base the roster around pike block warfare with my infantry being:
Swiss Pikemen, pike millitia, swiss guard, halberd millitia hand gunners, arquebusiers, pavise crossbowmen, and zweihanders with possibly sword and buckler men as they would use them in the block to break up the opposition. Though not much cav with maybe mounted crossbowmen reiters and someother type of light horse maybe a different texture of border horse.

[The King Of Peasants]

I keep getting ctds on entering the game I am definitely learning though which was the point of this. As well as having the Swiss in game in what I consider the best mod.

[SicilianVespers]

Make sure you update the expanded_xxxxx.txt file for each era.

It sounds like you may be ctd'ing due to missing entries in the expanded.txt

Alternately, you can test it by:

- Making sure all your Swiss entries are in expanded.txt
- Delete expanded.txt bin file

Start the mod using the K option, so the expanded.txt isn't replaced by one of the era specific version. This will also generate a new bin.

[The King Of Peasants]

thanks!! I'll try it all out and get back to you.

[The King Of Peasants]

I did as you suggested and it worked sv. So all I have is a place holder I'll be gone over the weekend so I should have it ready by next week if all goes as planned. What I need is maybe some info as I don't know who to put as faction leader ect... I am naming the faction The Swiss Confederacy.

[SicilianVespers]

Great job

I'll see what I can do about the faction info.

[DaVinci]

Let's add this faction for Late and Ren campaigns
But i think for the Late era starting at 1311 AD, they should start very small with one region only, and poor ... it will be a high challenge for the player to survive.
In Ren era, we could give them a bit more starting power already.

[The King Of Peasants]

Yeah for late era only halberds as they didn't really start using pikes till later. We could also give them less money as they weren't really an empire I'll try and make them like Armenia. I'm getting more knowlege of modding out of this and the swiss are a great faction. So what regions can they have in renaissance other then Bern?