Eras Total Conquest 2.0 version released

[uanime5]

After a lot of work and beta testing I've finally finished the 2.0 version of Eras Total Conquest (I felt the changes were too great to call it the 1.7 version). The mod and installation instructions are available here:
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=278124

Below is a list of the changes I have made:

General Improvements

1) Light units are recruitable from the castle walls with heavier units being available at the barracks' first level so that you no longer need a fortress to be able to recruit mailed knights.

2) European Knights have been divided into mailed, brigandine, and plated types. Their availability depends on the era.

3) Hand gunners have been remade to use brigandine armour, rather than plate.

4) The Balkans have been remade to more accurately reflect the various groups living in these areas. They now have their own unique recruitment trees and some Tzardom units.

5) The European steppe units use the Kypchak units from Broken Crescent, rather than Mongolian units.

6) New interfaces, background maps, and splash screens thanks to cedric37.

7) New banners and symbols for several factions thanks to Ferrum Aeternum.

7) I found a way to prevent the Faction selection screen from crashing if you click on multiple factions.

8) Trade is now much less profitable so that controlling a large number of regions is no longer as profitable.

9) Hotseat mod has been enabled and contains all the factions.

10) The menu no longer crashes on the faction selection screen. However it will still crash if you select grand campaign, then go back to the previous menu and try to play a custom battle.

Campaign specific changes

970 + 1080: Croatia is now more powerful to accurate reflect how it was during these eras.



1230: this campaign now starts in 1220 to make the Khwarezm-Shah dynasty playable.



1346: this campaign now starts in 1331 to make the Il Khanate playable.



1400: Bosnia has been added to this campaign.



1547: unique Siberian and Tibetan units added and the Balkans also have several new units.





1547: the Cherokee and Incas have been replaced with the Suri Dynasty and the Kingdom of Tangoo.




Faction specific changes

The Ming Dynasty now has halberd wielding soldiers, grenadiers, the swordsmen and the elite wear shan wen kai (mountain pattern armour), and the bodyguard has armoured cavalry.









The Samurai Archers have been remade to more accurately resemble samurai archers.


Tibet now has it's own unique roster, rather than using the Mongol one.




Serbia is now yellow, rather than dark blue.

Bosnia is now blue, rather than orange.

The Ayutthaya Kingdom is now red, rather than light blue.


Bug fixes

1) Fixed the problem with the eastern merchants and Croatia having the wrong agents.

[uanime5]

Now that the 2.0 version of this mod has been released other than bug fixes I probably won't release any more campaigns without help. Below is a list of campaigns I could make and the help I'd need. I you have any other ideas feel free to post them.

Imjin war

The Imjin war was a series of attempts by Japan to invade Korea at the end of the 16th century. Korea was able to remain independent because their navy was able to defeat the Japanese navy and prevent them resupplying their armies. China also sent some help to Korea.

Factions: Japan verses Korea and China
Help: mapper. I already have units and banners so I just need a mapper to make a map.

Shogun 2 Total War

Set during the sengoku period when various Japanese Clans fought each other to try and control all of Japan.

Factions: various Japanese clans (depends when the mod starts)
Help: mapper, skinner, and 2d artist. I need a new map, a skinner to make new skins for each faction (so every faction doesn't have identical units), and a 2d artist to make new banners and faction symbols.

1620

This mod will be similar to the 1547 campaign but with units from the 17th century.

Factions: depend when the mod starts
Help: modeller + skinner, 2d artist. I'll need a modeller and skinner to make new units (unless I can use the 'For King and Country' units, then I'll just need to reskin them). I'll also need to make some new banners if I add new factions.

4 Khanates

This campaign will be set in 1331 and will cover all of Eurasia and Africa (the map will be like the 1547 campaign but without the Americas). I chose this time because I have a campaign that starts at this time so I won't need to do as much research and the 4 Mongol Khanates (Il Khanate, Golden Horde, Chagatai Khanate, and Yuan Dynasty) still exist so it will reduce the number of factions I'll need.

Factions: similar to the 1331 campaign.

Help: modeller + skinner, 2d artist. I'll need a modeller and skinner to make new units (I'll need some Yuan / Song units for China because I can't use the Ming units). I'll also need to make some new banners. Making this campaign would be easier if I could use the units from 'All Under the Heaven' but I doubt they'll let me use them before their mod is released.

[Hrobatos]

I'm honored to be first to post here
as soon as I get home from school, i'll download it

I'v been waiting for this...and finaly released!!!

great work men!!
+rep for you

[Glowbal]

After a lot of work and beta testing I've finally finished the 2.0 version of Eras Total Conquest (I felt the changes were too great to call it the 1.7 version). The mod and installation instructions are available here:
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=348445

I got no premission to see that page, so I can't download it either.

[Hrobatos]

yeah, me neither...go here
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=278124

[uanime5]

I've updated the first post with the correct link. I'm not sure where the previous link was for.

[The Holy Pilgrim]

hehe, you accidently lead them to our beta-testing area

I'm glad to see this mod getting more attention for itself. It really deserves it.

+rep, especially now that I can give it to you

@ Everybody else, you should defenitely check this mod out. It is basically a supermod that has been in the making for several years now and it has all been done by uanime5. Be sure to give him rep for this as this was all done by him. It was only recently (last month) that he actually started to recieve help.

[stevietheconquer]

great mod plus rep , already play the version of this mod before this one

[stevietheconquer]

thanks for this amazing mod!

[ComnenusTheOne]

Uanime i just popped a blood vessel waiting for 10 hours only to tell me that the original source is lost and it cant save the file.... from 1.3 gb i got like 2.2 kb file..... any chance for a torrent or a different link?

[uanime5]

I'm not able to seed it but is there somewhere else I can upload it? I plan to make 1 large file that contains the whole mod and 3 smaller files that contain part of the mod.

[Hrobatos]

I think you should broke the mod in parts, so somebody can download the campains he wants to play...
its just too big, too slow download

I mean, i need to download 1,6 again, and 60kb/s is just to slow

get us bigger download speed

[footie55]

Yes it's too big probably you should move it somewhere else I tried twice and I failed twice to downloading it stops after 600 - 700 mb... maybe it's their problem try moving everything to Megaupload ...depositfiles maybe it's the real problem!

[Hrobatos]

HUUUUUUUUUUUUHAAAAAAAA I downloaded the whole thing again.... has to work now....
I mean I'm downloading conquest 2.0 part 2.exe, and have downloaded rest two

[Vaz]

Just found this now - this looks fantastic - particularly the Far Eastern Units. I've yet to see a mod released which included that far as well as the South America's. Downloading it as I type.

Quick Question - who's AI is it?