A few questions about the campaigns

[Finzy the Barbarian]

Hiya, just registered here and I've been thinking of starting a new campaign as Byzantine Empire; initially I thought early era would be good, but now I'm not too sure...I haven't played Stainless Steel in a long while, I guess the previous version I played was 4-5.0 or something as Scotland. I've been mostly sticking with the vanilla Kingdoms campaigns lately.

So anyway...

In the early era campaign, will the Teutonic Order appear once their time comes, or will they never show up on the map? Will the Mongols appear either? (I'm guessing yes since it would be logical). Also, will the Knights Templar faction get replaced by Kingdom of Jerusalem as time goes on?

And lastly, which era would you recommend for playing the Byzantine Empire? I think I'll play it without any submods first, I didn't mind the combat that much in vanilla M2TW and SS seems to do it differently even without submods anyway. I know there's this Basileia submod, but I think I'll play the campaign without it, as it would differientate it a bit too much IMO.

Cheers.

[ElSypatiko]

Welcome to the forums
As you seem to play with Byz (as i) i would suggest that you install that unit roster in the upper mod of SS6,1, they are really awsome brandnew units (a litle rome mod for the east empire
Reading in sthe Strat file the Tuones and mongols will come in the game (have to check this in the sript file ore you can look for yourself