Cross and Crescent: Total War - The Modpack Compilation *NOW RECRUITING*

[Mythic_Commodore]

Cross and Crescent: Total War

Over the past year and a half I have been compiling many of the best mods that the M2TW modding community has produced into one, major mod for my personal enjoyment. I have toyed with the idea of releasing this work, but the task of sifting through the files and attributing this code to that modder, and so on, has proved to be so daunting that I decided that I would keep it as a personal mod. Meanwhile, the mod grew, incorporating more and more content. Then I realized that the community as a whole deserved more credit that I did for the making of this work - it was mainly their work. That's when I decided that it was my responsibility to release this mod, for the good of the community. This mod contains content from many of the best mods on this site. I can't provide many screens yet, as I have not yet received replies back from many modders, and at this point it will be difficult to show much off without using work from some of those who have not replied. The good news is that I may be able to get a custom-battle-only, very stable open beta out in the next month or two, depending on how many persmissions I get. Anyway, without further ado, here is a breakdown of the mod compilation.


Faction List

1. Kingdom of England (England)
2. Tywysogaeth Cymru (Wales)
3. Rìoghachd na h-Alba (Scotland)
4. Ríocht na héireann (Ireland)
5. Royaume de la France (France)
6. Das Heilige Römische Reich (HRE)
7. Reino de Leon-Castille (Spain)
8. Monarquia de Portugal (Portugal)
9. Il ducato di Milano (Milan)
10. Serenìsima Repùblica Vèneta (Venice)
11. Stati della Chiesa (Papal States)
12. Regno di Sicilia (Sicily)
13. Magyar Királyság (Hungary)
14. Królestwo Polskie (Poland)
15. Lietuvos Didžioji Kunigaikštyste (Lithuania)
16. Ordensstaat (Teutonic Order)
17. Kongeriget Danmark (Denmark)
18. Kongeriket Norge (Norway)
19. Novgorodskaja Respublika (Russia)
20. Basileía Rhomaíon (Byzantium)
21. Alduh al-Fatmit (Egypt)
22. Al-Murabitun (Moors)
23. Büyük Selçuklu Devleti (Turks)
24. Mongolyn Ezent Guren (Mongols)
25. Gurkani (Timurids)
26. Principauté d'Antioch (Antioch)
27. Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem (Jerusalem)
28. Khwārezmšhāḥīān (Kwarezm)
29. Mexica Triple Alliance (Aztecs)
30. Independent States (Rebels)
31. Unknown (suggestions welcome!)
32. Albania
33. Apachean Tribes
34. Aragon
35. Armenia
36. Bulgaria
37. Cumans
38. Edessa
39. Flanders
40. Franks
41. Hospitaller Order
42. Janissaries
43. Kiev
44. Knights Templar
45. Lebanon
46. Mali
47. Mayans
48. Knights of Santiago
49. Scots – Irish
50. Serbia
51. Sherwood Foresters
52. Slavs
53. Swiss
54. Tarascans
55. Tlaxcalans
56. Tripoli

Redmeans full-fleshed, playable factions.
Green represents minor factions. They have their own heraldry and unique troops, but no government beyond possibly a rebel faction. To see their unique troops, recruit them using the AOR system.


List of Religions:

1. 
   
   1. 
      
      1. Catholicism
      2. Protestantism
      3. Orthodox Christianity
      4. Sunni Islam
      5. Shia Islam
      6. Lithuanian Paganism
      7. Sun God
      8. Tengri'ism
      9. Judaism
      10. Heresy
      
      
   
   

Many, if not all factions, will be able to convert at least once.


Many thanks must go to all those modders who have, so far, agreed to contribute work to this mod:


irishron – The Regions and Provinces map.
sb2ean – Mali banners
billydilly – Heraldy for the R+P map
Unspoken Knight – Retrofit mod, mtw2.lnt file.
Candelarius – For the Grand Unit Addon Mod and the Stone Fort addon to that mod
Dimitri_Harkov – Some campaign scripts
joedreck and Salty – Skins and banners
Lord Condormanius – Irish reskin, new captains, Mailed Knights, Dismounted Mailed Knights
gogo t – Bulgarian banners, Bulgarian and Serbian officer skins
AnthoniusII and the CBUR team – Byzantine units and officers
Csatadi – Hungarian skins
Agart – City and strat map models
NIKO_TWOW.RU – Officers and flags
Pawel the Crusader – Dismounted crusading units
Barser – Faction leader and agent models
MusculusMaximus – Faction symbols
Boicote – Rebel factions
zxiang1983 – Ghost helmets fix
Beiss - Xenophonia
finneys13 - Character Names
Rheumafuzzy and the Schwert und Speer team - Jerusalem and Antioch plate mail skins
Ataegina - FA unit packs
King Kong and the SS team - Skins, Kwarezm faction base, units, banners, symbols
Tyre - Welsh shields
Magus - Crimson Tide
Sb2ean - Mali banners
Harry Lime - Mali textures
davide.cool - Grass
HorseArcher - Particle and Skymod
DisgruntledGoat and Caesar Clivus - Russian skins
burrek - Skins
danova - Skins
Kalos - Skins
juggernawt - Skins
isilendil - Strat map models/textures
rawghi - Heraldry
Sambo - Skins
Megalos - Skins



Team Members:

Mythic_Commodore - Team leader, "compiler".

PubliusKhannus - Researcher

HELP NEEDED! If you are an experienced modeller/skinner, then please contact me. Thanks!

[Nakharar]

wow great idea the main problem is alot of the best mods dont let out the units and stuf.f..

[Pickle_mole]

Awesome! Are you going to upload it?

[The Guy With No Imagination]

ask the team to see if you can release it and to give credit just go

EXAMPLE
Credits

DLV
BC
etc...

Oh PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE MAKE THAT UNKOWN FACTION ARAGON LASTED TO THE 1700's PLEASE THEY HAD

[Mythic_Commodore]

Thanks for your posts and suggestions, everyone.

Nakharar - You're right about the mod teams - many of the very big ones haven't replied to any PMs. I think I'll find a way around that. joedreck's skins combined with Candelarius' GUAM will make a great base to work off of, and, as for the rest, we'll see how it goes.

Pickle_mole - The mod has been in some form of development for a year and half now. Battles are almost completely stable. If I had gotten permissions from everyone, the mod could be uploaded this weekend. But some people aren't replying/have left TWC, which makes it a little more difficult, as I'm going to have to sort through every individual file and skin to ensure that they're all credited, and have all had permission granted by the author, no small task. Then I'll need to fill in some of the gaps, but hopefully, a release will come soon.

The Guy With No Imagination - Aragon lasted until the 1700s? Wow. I'm seriously considering it as a choice now. Only problem is that I'll need a stable mod willing to share files for Aragon. Thanks!

Just to let everyone know, the factions currently being considered for the unknown slot are:
Aragon
Kiev
Khara-Khitai
Seljuks
Abbasids
Makuria

[Giorgios]

Can you add Sultanate of Rum for the unknown faction? They were distinct from the Great Seljuks of the period I think...

[Nakharar]

and Armenia how can there be no Armenian faction

[TheFirstONeill]

Wonderful concept Mythic, will make an epic mod +rep

[Mythic_Commodore]

Giorgios - The Turkish faction is the Sultanate of Rum - I'll rename them.
Nakharar - Sorry, Armenia won't be in as a major faction. But there will be Armenian Nakharars and Armenians of Cilicia as mercenary units.
TheFirstONeill - Thanks a bunch.

Here is a preview of the campaign map. It is the Regions and Provinces map. The faction symbols are the work of the wonderfully talented MusculusMaximus. As you can see, the map is historically inaccurate - this is 1080. Although I will not be aiming for total historical accuracy, I plan to include a historical campaign and will provide help and support to historical accuracy submods.

[PubliusKhannus]

amazing,,,unfortunately its kingdoms,,,m2tw version as well?

[Baron Vlad Felix]

Wallachia?

[trance]

Why do I see lots of strange small factions here but no Sweden/House of Bjelbo?

[firekiller]

I would say remove ireland, timurids, aztecs and wales and make 1 crusader faction so you have 5 slots left. + the 1 who is left makes 6 slots.

- Zirids (faction in tunis) (prevent cristians storming North Africa and moors to be a push over would make Normans nice faction to play whit) (not many mods have it)
- Aragorn (Balance france in the south, ilands, and Spain)
- Serbia (makes sure byz,venice, hungarn cant take the balkons easy also represent orthodox power in the balkan)
- Principility of galicia ( right of hungarn and poland would be a nice faction to present a orthodox faction in russia) (Not many mods have it)
- Flanders or Friesland (Balance france, england, denmark and HRE)
- Georgia, Caffa ?, ect Georgia to be the obstical in the caucasus caffa dont kow if it was independent then but reasons are clear

Think whit those factions map would be best at this space.

(whit aragorn in spain portugal can be removed for a faction like armania or bohemia)

[The Guy With No Imagination]

NNOOO, can you make to campaigns, one with historical accuracy and one with the way yu planned it, that way yu cannad aragon, or maybe make it similar to ChivII sicilian vespers, that it has different ERAS so you can add different factions , and maybe SS will be willing to share their work for aragon,















I AM CORONAE DI' ARAGON FANATIC

<CROWN OF ARAGON>

[Mythic_Commodore]

PubliusKhanus - Since this mod will contain so much Kingdoms content, it will not be possible to release it for vanilla due to copyright issues.
Vlad IV Felix - Wallachia is a possibility, yes.
trance - Sweden's a possibility.
firekiller - The point of this mod is to include all (non-Americas) Kingdoms content. So the only faction that may be removed at this point is Kwarezm. That being said, I like your idea of Flanders.
The Guy With No Imagination - Aragon is still a top contender for the remaining faction slot (along with the Abbasids). The only problem is getting art for Aragon - King Kong (the maker of SS) is apparently reading my PMs, but is not replying. Same story with most of the really huge mods out there, actually... As for the historical campaign, I'll need some help with research (especially family trees), but it'll get in there eventually.

[The Guy With No Imagination]

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The Guy With No Imagination - Aragon is still a top contender for the remaining faction slot (along with the Abbasids). The only problem is getting art for Aragon - King Kong (the maker of SS) is apparently reading my PMs, but is not replying. Same story with most of the really huge mods out there, actually... As for the historical campaign, I'll need some help with research (especially family trees), but it'll get in there eventually.

dont worry, the reason is that King Kong is working on a mod for lotr
lord of the rings, dont remember the name, but just wait

[Agis Tournas]

...is apparently reading my PMs, but is not replying. Same story with most of the really huge mods out there, actually...

It is a pitty that people who have already released mods for the public are not replying to your PMs - this mod will be something for the public, too.
What are they trying to prove? That they are the BEST?
In my humble opinion you are considered the BEST when you create something and then let EVERYONE use it.
I can't understand their way of thinking and such a behaviour will ruin their "reputation" after all.

Just my thoughts
Agis

EDIT: I am not pointing to anyone in particular
[I say that in order to avoid any misunderstanding]

[PubliusKhannus]

o aight then, well time to nip off to buy Kingdoms for the express reason of the mods TATW, SS, Cross and Crescent and many more.

[Mythic_Commodore]

Here are a few screenshots to whet your appetite. No Orthodox factions (besides Byzantium) or Muslims (that includes Mongols) for now, as permissions are still being worked out on those, but I'm taking requests for screenshots now.

[helmersen]

Wow Great idea!! I would have loved it if you changed the faction symbol of the Eastern Roman Empire though