[font=comic sans ms] Become a King, Deal with Unexpected, Build an Army, Spread true Faith, Repel Invasion, Restore Your Motherland
DOWNLOAD V3 FINAL RELEASE 12 MB OR TRY NEW V4 ALPHA RELEASE 80 MB WITH V4 BETA PATCH 1MB
In Beta Cheats are Enabled to make testing easier. Talk to marshal to get any item or recruit any soldier. Extract patch to your Sword of Damocles folder. Some people raported problems with .rar so patch is packed in .zip format (though i don't understand how this could be a problem...)
There once was a king whose name was Dionysius. He was so unjust and cruel that he won himself the name of tyrant. He knew that almost everybody hated him, and so he was always in dread lest some one should take his life.
____But he was very rich, and he lived in a fine palace where there were many beautiful and costly things, and he was waited upon by a host of servants who were always ready to do his bidding. One day a friend of his, whose name was Damocles, said to him -
____"How happy you must be! You have here everything that any man could wish."
____"Perhaps you would like to trade places with me," said the tyrant.
____"No, not that, O king!" said Damocles; "but I think that, if I could only have your riches and your pleasures for one day, I should not want any greater happiness."
____"Very well," said the tyrant. "You shall have them."
____And so, the next day, Damocles was led into the palace, and all the servants were bidden to treat him as their master. He sat down at a table in the banquet hall, and rich foods were placed before him. Nothing was wanting that could give him pleasure. There were costly wines, and beautiful flowers, and rare perfumes, and delightful music. He rested among soft cushions, and felt that he was the happiest man in all the world.
____Then he chanced to raise his eyes toward the ceiling. What was it that was dnagling above him, with it's point almost touching his head? It was a sharp sword, and it was hung by only a single horsehair. What if the hair should break? There was danger every moment that it would do so.
____The smile faded from the lips of Damocles. His face became very pale. His hands trembled. He wanted no more food; he could drink no more wine; he took no more delight in the music. He longed to be out of the palace, and away, he cared not where.
____"What is the matter?" said the tyrant.
____"That sword! That sword!" cried Damocles. He was so badly frightened that he dared not move.
____"Yes," said Dionysius, "I know there is a sword above your head, and that it may fall at any moment. But why should that trouble you? I have a sword over my head all the time. I am every moment in dread lest something may cause me to lose my life."
____"Let me go," said Damocles. "I now see that I was mistaken, and that the rich and powerful are not so happy as they seem. Let me go back to my old home in the poor little cottage amon the mountains."
____And so long as he lived, he never again wanted to be rich, or to change places with the king.
as retold by James Baldwin
As in this story... You can become a King. But you can see a sword hung by only a single horsehair above your head. You can see invasion coming... SWORD OF DAMOCLES
INVASION
V4
[font=comic sans ms][Become a King]
:!: If you capture a a town or acastle without a claimant or an oath you can create a new kingdom. [from AoM by Highlander]
:!: You can recruit maximum of 20 new lords. You can't have more lords than you have centers. [from AoM by Highlander]
:!: You can assign fiefs to your lords. Order your lords to stay in their castle to garrison it. [from AoM by Highlander]
:!: Rule Your kingdom through court. Issue orders to Chancellor, Treasurer and Marshal.
:!: Chancellor - Declare War to other Kings.
:!: Chancellor - Recruit Lords and Manage Fiefs.
:!: Chancellor - Change Your kingdom Color.
:!: The more fiefs Your Lords have the larger army they can have.
:!: Treasurer - Change Taxes.
:!: Treasurer - Engage in trade enterprises. Not directly but through Merchant's Guild representatives.
:!: Taxes - you can change tax levels of your fiefs. High taxes increase your income but decrease your popularity and prosperity.
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
There are 7 tax levels. The lowest, Voluntary, reduce taxes by 80% and give you 3 popularity and 3 prosperity bonus in every town and village each weak. Next step is 30% and 2 popularity and prosperity then 15% and 1 popularity and prosperity. High taxes act opposite.
:!: [font=comic sans ms]Merchant's Guild - Build Merchant's Guild Halls in towns to increase their prosperity and to increase chance of succes and income of your trade enterprises.
[Deal with Unexpected] not included in alpha will be in beta
:!: You will have now to deal with dozens of problems in Your life as a King.
:!: Random events will make You feel like You realy are rulling a kingdom.
:!: They will come from different fields. Your choices will have siginificant impact on a Game.
[Build an Army]
:!: More detail on Army Management with new troop trees in Troop thread.
:!: When You arrived to Caladria from Your motherland devastated by Imperial Legions under the lead of Legate Gaius Marius only what was left from Your former glory was your armor, weapon and a horse. You must now prepare.
:!: At arrival You can only recruit and train mercenaries. If you give an oath to one of Caladrian Kings You can recruit and train Caladrian troops.
:!: But Why should You serve under alien kings blind for incoming danger?
:!: When You create own Kindom you can train peasants recruited from villages in Your towns and Castles.
:!: Barracks will help You train Your Infantry.
:!: Practice Range will help You train Your Ranged Soldiers.
:!: Stables will allow You to train Cavalry.
:!: Knight Chapters will attract Noble refuges from Your Motherland to join Your cause.
:!: Marshal - when told to will upgrade Your soldiers if You have proper facilities.
:!: Marshal - can also be ordered to fill up garrisons of your new Empire with troops.
:!: Marshal - can also summon Your Lords for a campaign (not yet available in alpha).
:!: You may also tell any soldier from your army to form Regiment. The soldier will create new party. You may give troops and issue orders to this party. Upkeep for troops in Regiment is 50% higher.[from NNY by Geoffrey Ashe]
:!: You can also bribe bandits to join your party. You must have enough capacity to take them.[from NNY by Geoffrey Ashe]
:!: You may hire refugees, manhunters and townsmans in taverns. [from NNY by Geoffrey Ashe]
:!: You can buy ale in taverns to increase Your army morale. [from NNY by Geoffrey Ashe]
:!: After a battle Your faithfull companions will equip loot. [by fisheye]
[Spread true Faith]
:!: You are no longer man from nowhere. Thus Your faith (lack of it) is known.
:!: Choose From 4 Fiaths to belive in or renounce faith.
:!: Spread Your faith across lands.
:!: Build religius or secular structures. Temples, Chapels, Shrines, Monasteries, Libraries, Schools.
:!: When Your Faith is strong enough it may be that some of Your best knights will follow path of Faith and become Holy Warriors.
[Repel an Invasion]
:!: One Legion, containing hardened veterans will invade Caladria.As it invaded Your land. You have one year to prepare your kingdom for war.
:!: Imperial Expeditionary Forces are led by powerfull Legate Gaius Marius and his 80 centurions.
It consists of (from weakest to strongest):
:!: Infantry: Velites->Hestati->Principes->Triarii
:!: Cavalry: Lancearii->Contarii->Cathaparcii
:!: Mounted Archers: Sagittarii
[Restore Your Motherland]
:!: You came as You have choosen, from: Empire of Antares, Republic of Marina, Kingdom of Aden, Duchy of VIllian, or Zerrikanian Sulatanate.
:!: Military doctrine learned in Your motherland let's You to train 12 different troop types for each country.
:!: And In the feature, who knows, maybe V5 will have new land to conquer after You repel Invaders...
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
[Additional features only few of them will describe more later on]
# Computer battles are much faster, so if you see a battle and want to join don't wait or it may be too late
# More aggressive map AI
# It's easier to capture lords
# Lords kept in castles are now less likely to escape (prisoner tower is still good idea).
# You collect taxes from all fiefs by visiting just one.
# Engineering has bigger impact on improvements. Having low engineering makes them slightly more expensive and time consuming while high engineering reduces cost and time greatly (GREATLY, really)
# Mill gives 5% bonus every 2 weeks and school gives 1 point bonus every week
# You can talk to Village Elder/Guild Master from village/town menu
# Bandits group against you
# And possibly something i forgot of...
CREDITS will be more elaborated after final release.
My special thanks go to Geoffrey Ashe and Highlander.
- fisheye
- luigi
- Spanky
- Talak
- Sinderlin
- maw
- Raz
- RookieR
- Dain Ironfoot
- OSP Project
and NICK.ALTMAN for collecting all this new items.
Customization for V3
1) To change a day in which invasion occurs change 365 marked red to anything you want in simple_triggers.txt
It should be at the end of the file unless you added anything yourself (and if you did you probably don't need tutorial )
2) To change speed of AI vs AI battles (by modifying damage each side takes each "round") change bolded numbers in scripts.txt.
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
First 1 500 10 relates to defender, second 1 500 10 relates to attacker. Default settings are 20 50 1. First number divides party strength, second is minimal strength used to calculate damage after division and third value is added to strength (thinking of it now i don't know why i set third value so low). I'm not sure if my description of this numbers is 100% correct but all in all it does what it should.
Before you change that i will quote myself:
"This feature is one of my favourite though. It adds more dynamism to play in my opinion. Makes computer vs computer battles a lot more like player vs computer battles. It just makes computer AI better, cause he wastes less time on that battles. No longer you will see AI assaulting castle walls for one week (assaulting not besieging). Or imagine situation where powerfull lord attacks weak caravan. And then fights for three days... One of the greatest medieval battles, battle of Grunwald (Tannenberg) where almost 70 000 people fought took less than one day... AI vs AI battle time in native is just hilarious in my opinion. One day max for a battle is just enough i think... I saw 9000 people attacking a castle with 200 men in it. Assault still took almost whole day, and that was with my changes on! Human can take 3 castles in one day. So although i will add option to change it back i strongly discourage to do that."
3) If you want your kingdom to have caravans open triggers.txt and change this line (there are only 2 lines in whole file beginning with 1.000000 this is the first one):
Changes from 3st to 4nd version
# Would be easier to write what was left... Changes from 1st to 2nd version
# Save games are not compatible!! That's because i changed the way Invasion is fired. It was done by script before. Now it's done through trigger (thanks to Tul from The Forge subforum, who told me how to do that).
# Added banners to The Legion, looking good IMO. Now they only need new faces and will be just as they should be (but fear not even if i release new version it will be now save game compatible)
# Adjusted map AI making it more aggressive (at least i think that's what i did)
# War/Peace at the beginning of the game is no longer random. Factions are at the beginning only at war with some of their neighbours (i suppose i just brought back old settings because i just removed comments from the source)
# By visiting one fief you collect all taxes.
# Mill now gives 5% bonus every 2 weeks
# Centurions have slightly different items (but same for all of them)
# Invasion now comes from random direction. Changes from 2nd to 3rd versionNot save game compatibile!
# Taxes - you can change tax levels of your fiefs. High taxes increase your income but decrease your popularity and prosperity.
# Your lords carry your banner (it should remove banner error).
# Legate Gaius Marius and his Centurions no longer look like nords.
I quoted the original first post from the Taleworlds thread. The mod has it's own subforum overthere. I figured there'd be some people over here interested in this
He added faction specific troops for the faction you choose to be dependng on wich herritage you choose in the beginning
Adenian Medium Cavalry Antarian Veteran Infantry Antarian Regular Infantry
Antarian Elite Infantry
Some Antarian Regular Infantry Marinian Army
Below is a quoted description
Antarian Empire
Heavy armored infantry, but not as skilled and with worse weaponry than Marinians. Weak cavalry.
Best Noble units. Noble cavalry slightly worse than Adenian Noble cavalry. Noble foot unmached.
Best Foot soldiers. Not as heavy armored as Antarians but armed with pikes, halberds etc. Ranged units good armored but worse than Villanian Longbowmen. Cavalry almost not existing. Nobles somewhat poor, but Condotieri should be better than Elite Infantry.
------ Marinian Scout CL
------ Mar Conscript Infantry FL
------ Mar. Regular Infantry FM ------ Mar. Veteran Infantry FM ------ Mar. Elite Infantry FH
Peasant FL
------ Mar. Crossbowman RM ------- Mar. Trained Crossbowman RM ------- Mar. Elite Cross. RM ------ Mar. Sharpshooter RM
Not exactly Nobles, Marinian Bourgeoisie just hires them to fight for them.
Best ranged units. Good and very skilled infantry, but light armored. Cavalry almost not exising. Good noble units. Not as armored as Antarians but as much skilled.
Zerrikanian Timariot CM ------ Zerrikanian Sipahi CM ------- Zerrikanian Immortal CM ------- Faith Cavalry
Faith Soldiers
The One
Paladin of The One CH
Guardian of The One FH
The Old Gods
Champion of Ancestors CM
Chosen One FM
The Void
Dark Knight CH
Devourer FH
Self Realisation
Boundless Knight CM
Boundless One FL (extreemly skilled)
Faithless
I wanted to add Engineers but i don't really have Idea what could they do... Machiery from AoM is not yet finished, and while I love idea of siege engines i don't like idea of this engines being used in battles.
Well I seem to be enjoying this mod so far. Havent quite gotten to capturing anything yet, so I can't comment on the lordship aspect, but so far I am liking the diversity of helmets and weapons/horses. Could probably use more in the way of armor though.
sword of Damocles v4 Beta is released!
Originally Posted by vonmistont
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