Fall of the Cross & Rise of the Crescent (FCRC) - General Discussion (until release FCRC 1.0)
A ChivTW submod campaign project, taken over by Bull3pr00f.
Find out more current things from on ca. post # 64, page 4.
Edit:
This here is the public development/discussion thread.
In the meantime it got its hidden dev forum.
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Initial Former Summary (some things have changed in the meantime)
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
Pre-story (the origin announcement)
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:... a possible additional campaign.
Long version: "The Fall of the Cross, the Rise of the Crescent"
- or short: ChivTW - FCRC
would be the timeframe from Anno Domini 1187 - 1310 (122 years).
The main title event is of course the undergoing Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1187. Salah Ad Din (Saladin), after uniting the Muslims, takes Jerusalem. The victorious army puts down the cross and rises the crescent. Never again Jerusalem became a christian city (after holding the Kingdom of Jerusalem for 90 years).
The other main event is naturally the 3rd crusade, where 3 princes of the mightiest european realms go eastwards to free the holy land:
* Friedrich I. 'Barbarossa', Emperor of the HRE, and King of the Germans/East-Franks
* Philipp II. August, King of the Franks (France)
* Richard I. Plantagenet, King of Norman-England and the Angevine Empire on the continent
It is a very interesting timeframe for the whole map, just with significant changes on the strategy map. Of course the most settlements would be much more developed, as the main powers at this time were in a quite good shape. It is the time of the height of the High Middleage, as the economy was really prosporous, not at least due to the former 1st crusade, and its new commercial relations between the east and west.
Big changes on the map: For example Norman-Sicily was a very rich and modern state and fought on with the Romans: Roger II. King of Apulia, Calabria and Sicily, expanded to the borders of the Papal States, and even dreamed to take the Roman Empire under his realms. Henry II. of Anjou-Plantagenet, the Norman-English King held the Angevine Empire and conquered Ireland. The Reconquista expanded its realms, lot's of trouble in and around the HRE and Italy. Nur Ad Din has driven out the Fatmids from Egypt, preparing the unification of the Muslims in the relevant East, what leads to the fall of the crusader states by Saladin. ... far later, the Mongols arrived at the european borders at AD 1223.
Now, you ask, what shall all this here? Yes, this is a reasonable question. A few days ago i told Athenogoras from this campaign idea, and he said this would be awesome. But the point is:
Well, i personally have no time to provide this campaign.
And, i just wanted to make a suggestion for a quasi independent submod campaign.
My role would be just the initiator and a consultant to keep the historical-realism design, because this would be the sole requirement that i hand over this mod idea to somebody who is willing and capable to mod this campaign design. This concerns in principle only the campaign folder files, and a few text folder files for some re-naming/descriptive actions (ie. some faction name changes and faction descriptions plus new file regions_and_settlements) - as add-on mod for the main ChivTW installation. Even if this modding concerns not that much files, it makes a lot work (researchment and creating the codes for descr_strat and probably a bit in descr_regions, descr_merc, hist_events ... perhaps also a few more ancs and traits to reflect some faction leaders with correct titles).
Some might say, hey there is the mod calling 'The Crusades' done by Caius. I'm very much aware of this, unfortunately this excellent masterpiece doesn't have a stable campaign mode, and is anyway something completely different as a ChivTW - FCRC would be.
... i'm tensed to see your results, uploaded there to get a view. But no need to rush Bull, however, if this will be a fitting content for Chiv's intro, then of course that will find its way into the patch 1.1 
:....i WILL find my mistake, and the best way to learn is to do everything by yourself, not just look for tutorials (and no, i was not asking for a tutorial....i did everything right, but i'm going to look up the regions.tga, if i remember correctly there may be a watchtower in that place (it's always there at the start of the camp)
Originally Posted by USC_Trojans
