Chivalry I TW for BI 1.6 by default

**DaVinci** · March 26, 2008, 09:50 AM

General Info:

As the title says ... the future Chivalry I TW mod will be mentioned by default as an use on the BI 1.6 exe, but playable also on RTW 1.5 in the same wise as before - just vice versa to the as yet used description.

Background

It is long clear: The BI 1.6 exe (speak: played with the BI cd, and patch 1.6) gives several advantages, as especially

- Slight more capable AI in general
- Naval invasion more often used by the AI

However, there will be no limitation to play Chiv as well with RTW 1.5 as base in future.

**beatoangelico** · March 26, 2008, 09:56 AM

nice decision

**Coni** · March 26, 2008, 11:08 AM

Indeed. It's time to use 1.6!

I also observed more advantages compared to 1.5.

Strange for me that still so much mods are based on 1.5 (some of them 1.2

)

Can't wait for the new version

**Celestial_92** · April 07, 2008, 12:59 PM

I have a question about this. Sure this is great, but if you want to take full advantage of this, you could also add more Custom Battle factions, as BI provides more faction slots. At least for Custom Battles, this would be great.

**DaVinci** · April 07, 2008, 02:35 PM

Thing is, it is playable with BI 1.6 and RTW 1.5 with one installation, the only difference is now, that we focusing on developing/testing/balancing the mod on BI 1.6 as the exe platform, so BI 1.6 will be the highly recommeded platform to play Chiv, but not the exclusive platform: all RTW 1.5 owners still can play Chiv in the same wise as before ... perhaps my first thread was misleading.

And btw., the development focuses on the campaign mode, ie. there are far more units in the mod, than the one you can play with the CB mode. In the meatime i have the maximum of hidden_resources realised (64), all for the building-/techtree to steer the construction and recruitment, and of course all the social/financial/political and religious relations and options ... plus global and local balancing. Besides this, we are making great use of historical and exciting traits and ancs and the start-situations will highly reflect the historical situations to the date with the historical characters incl. traits, titles and retinues and relatives ... all this work is done for the campaign, not for a simple battle

**Celestial_92** · April 07, 2008, 03:39 PM

Of course, the campaign goes first

. But I was just thinking about optimizing custom battle as well. It could be interesting to see the Crusader States again, and some other factions.

Do you need historical battles? I could make them. I'm a reasonable map designer, so if you need a battle, just give me a stiff historical lesson and I'm ready for it.

**DaVinci** · April 08, 2008, 05:49 PM

Do you need historical battles? I could make them. I'm a reasonable map designer, so if you need a battle, just give me a stiff historical lesson and I'm ready for it.

I've talked with PM about you offer, and i guess you'll get a message soon from him.

**Pompeius Magnus** · April 13, 2008, 06:46 AM

Dear Celestial_92,

I will write you soon a PM in the next few days.
We have a lot of internal work at the moment, also due to our new Chiv-Version. The campaign has absolutely priority!!!
New units were made the last time and several old units were overhauled.
And this is also very important for the hist. battles.
So, we want finish first the important issues.

However, when I saw your offer the first time I was very happy.
This is exactly what we need. We have one working hist.battle now. It is the battle of "Hastings".
But concerning our intenal plans we want include much more. That's for sure.
(Manzikert, and things like that.)

And your help is very welcome!
(If you have some questions, or things concerning the Chiv-membership - we will clarify that via PM)

Best regards
Pompeius

**Celestial_92** · April 13, 2008, 07:26 AM

Ok, thanks. Yeah, I tried all the historical battles, and Hastings is indeed the only one working. Others gave me a CTD. I think it's because of some things unplayable with the newer versions, like the Brabancon spearmen still there?

Anyway, I'd like to help out. I'm not a modder but I know how to use the battle editor, and I can also alter the .txt-files of the battles to enhance the AI, change some other things not seen in the actual editor, etc.