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[AnthoniusII]

A sneakpic from th e2nd phase of internal test.
A battle against Lombards is about to begin.


Nottice that the Emperor brough his Tagmatic troops with him and merge them with regional ones (Thematic).

[sftonix]

A sneakpic from th e2nd phase of internal test.
A battle against Lombards is about to begin.


Nottice that the Emperor brough his Tagmatic troops with him and merge them with regional ones (Thematic).

First Renaissance, Musee du Louvre?

[perris0707]

I wish that there was more written about the campaigns of John Kurkuras. He really laid the foundations for the successes of Nikephoros, John I, and Basil II. An interesting leader that is little known today.

[perris0707]

What self-respecting Emperor would take the field without his tagmatic regiments? How did he recruit them in the game?

[_Tartaros_]

the can be recruited only in the capital (constantinople) with a very low rate.

[AnthoniusII]

What self-respecting Emperor would take the field without his tagmatic regiments? How did he recruit them in the game?

I have wrote it in the Recruitment preview years ago.
Each faction Roster devides in to following sections.
Regional
Capital.
Regional devided into :
Levy
Proffesional
Local nobillity
Capital of each faction has a Palace.
In that Palace Imperial units are recruited.
The number of imperial units varies from 2-6 according to each faction. Every Palace unit requires 20-25 turns to become available again. That is nessesary inorder to avoid players and AI ussing only those units ingame and ruin it authensity.
In that battle Emperor had two of each of his 5 Palace units and gave 4 battles with them. He traveled with them from Constantinople via the Via Egnatia that exists in game, crossed Adriatic sea and landed into Magna Grecia. In each battle he uses only one of each Palace unit and uses the other one as casualties replenish. When both units will be left with too few units to fight he will take them back to Constantinople and retrain them instead of creating new ones. That way the expiriene those units gained in to battlefileds wont lost.

[Antonius]

A sneakpic from th e2nd phase of internal test.
A battle against Lombards is about to begin.


Nottice that the Emperor brough his Tagmatic troops with him and merge them with regional ones (Thematic).

Sigh... looks glorious...

[perris0707]

I like that method of re-training elite units.

[AnthoniusII]

The map is old. Ignore the regions borders and their capital names.

What we like you to see is what will happen if a region under your or under AI control rebel.What kind of rebels will spawn.
See how spread the slavic tribes are in the upper side of our map. That is intentionaly inorder to explain the culture fusion that followed by many invadors like Rus, Magyars, Pechenegs etc.
Great Moravia being slavic like Serbia and Croatia will spawn rebels of their own. Why ? Because in that time the slavic nations of theirs were Christian while the rest of Slavs were pagans.
In those areas a player of AI faction will be able to hire spesific mercenaries that will flee if there will be no money to pay for their work!
East Frankia rebels present the early opposition to Otto when he transformed his state to his Ottonian Empire. You will also nottice that in many cases rebels belong to different nations than the region owners. That is because local population does not automaticalu disapear over a night but generations required inorder to enforce a new culture or a new religion.
But...why Magna Grecia has Roman/Greek rebels?
The answer is because even today there are many villages that still speak ancient (Doric) Greek dialect italian call it Greakani!
Before WW2 there were 77 villages that did not speak Italian but this dialect. Today are only 7 that speak both Greakani and Italian ofcourse!
Remember TGC mod is not simply a mod to enjoy battles and high quality graphics .Its a playable educational tool.

[Cesco]

I do not agree with your choice regarding arab rebels in west sicily: the vast majority of the island population was not arab, but italian. Italian or roman rebels would make much more sense, in my opinion.

[AnthoniusII]

I do not agree with your choice regarding arab rebels in west sicily: the vast majority of the island population was not arab, but italian. Italian or roman rebels would make much more sense, in my opinion.

We made that choice for two reasons. 1st Arabs already had established an orginised society in Sicely in 9th century and we need them inorder to allow the Kalbids Arab rebelion against Achlabids/Fatimids.
Kalbid rebelion will give access to Arab archers to Normans when they will arrive to Sicely.
After the Arab coquest of eastern Sicely the former Roman citizens either seeked refuge in west Sicely (here in Syracuse and Messina that despite that is under Arab control its rebels will be Romans) either Islamised and became part of the new society.

[kostic]

Beautiful landscape on your screenshot !
Your last video also shows fabulous work with both the units and the musical atmosphere. Bravo!

[AnthoniusII]

Beautiful landscape on your screenshot !
Your last video also shows fabulous work with both the units and the musical atmosphere. Bravo!

The landskape installed by _tartaros_ with many efforts and all credits must go to him and hollycrusader (if i am not mistaken) that helped him alot.

Music , languages and other extras will follow the release as FLCs. But the real work is on the campaign scripts both _tartaros_ and Miquel80 work on...You will see things that will remind you MTW-1 and many other goodies!

[Majkl]

Bojná, one of most important Great Moravian centers on territory of present day Slovakia. Short 3D reconstruction of hillfort. English subtitles available.

Posting link to youtube does not work for some reason. :S

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...&v=RuzF8DTGhSo

[AnthoniusII]

Thank you!
EDIT: I hope an IWTE tool expert will find it interesting and create it as basis for our Great Moravia and other Slavic origin factions!!

[Majkl]

I just thought you guys might find it interesting. There is a few more. (unfortunately without subtitles, still nice for visualisation)

Pagan sanctuary near Bratislava
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...&v=4eLfXhhNGOs

Rotunda in Byzantine style from 9th to 10th century
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j0X6f0ekS4

Church from 9th - 10th century from Devín, near Bratislava
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...&v=2k746VUhfU4

Hillfort Môťová near Zvolen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...&v=gg8E7-5ltl8

Construction of walls (bear in mind that stones were only present on large hillforts)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5muAXrw47A

Source: hradiska.sk

[Antonius]

Any updates?

[_Tartaros_]

to many to count...
currently updated all mercenaries + it´s recruitment (which is quite unique in it´s case).
also introduced and tested a new factional recruitment: allowing regional aor and factional recruitment + a slowly develope cultural assimilation recruitment of factional troops everywhere, if the cultural level is high enough. this is what i´m doing atm. when this is finished, athoniusII send me his work which is also alot new stuff (venice+papalstate factional roster, reworked islamic factions)

[Antonius]

to many to count...
currently updated all mercenaries + it´s recruitment (which is quite unique in it´s case).
also introduced and tested a new factional recruitment: allowing regional aor and factional recruitment + a slowly develope cultural assimilation recruitment of factional troops everywhere, if the cultural level is high enough. this is what i´m doing atm. when this is finished, athoniusII send me his work which is also alot new stuff (venice+papalstate factional roster, reworked islamic factions)

This sounds amazing. So Venice will be a emerging/rebel faction? Or be available from the start?

This mod will be one of the reasons I will get a new laptop

[_Tartaros_]

for now, venice will spawn via event as an realm of the eastern roman empire.
but it has it´s own culture and don´t share the same religious fate after the great schism and is going slowly it´s own ways.