Aragon Faction Swap 1.51 (Aug 29)

**TaronQuinn** · June 07, 2010, 11:10 PM

Hail fellow DLVers!

This minimod changes the Aztec faction into the Aragon faction in northern Iberia. New units, new symbols, and new ancillaries make it a complete addition to the existing DLV faction list.

Name:Aztec-Aragon Faction Swap 1.51

For: DLV 6.2, with BB 2.7 update 43 [Found HERE]

*Main (Imperial) Campaign only

________Download:____ (August 29)___
Megaupload File
Rapidshare ...............(Thanks to LaMuerte for posting)

______________Installation__________________________

1. Make sure you have a clean install of DLV 6.2
2. Then install BB 2.7, and update 43
-[Play a couple turns to make sure this is working first]
3. Unzip the enclosed data file, copy over the existing data file, and yes to overwrite.
4.Finally, delete map.rwn in your world/maps/base folder AND all the string.bin files in your text folder.
5.Start a new campaign.

**Always back up your files before changing anything**

***Take note of any errors I might have left inadvertently; let me know if anything doesn't work.

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Overview:
-2 provinces moved from America to Europe (Oklahoma -> Barcelona, Tlaxcala -> Clermont)
-New roster for Aragon.
-New faction symbols, banners, menu buttons.
-Proper victory conditions, selection screen, and family tree, ca. 1180.
-To balance the removal of Aztecs from the New World, rebel stacks have been strengthened and multiplied. (These stacks and the towns are all Mongol rebels with Aztec units).
-Fixed Atil out near the Caspian, as it lacked a wall or garrison.
-Made Constantinople a city and Nicaea a castle.
-Changed strat map colors of Hungary, Lithuania and Hedjaz
-Fixed most of the Aragonese unit voices to Mediterranean accent; Strat map agents still talk funny or not at all.
-Added Knights of Montesa and Dismounted K. of Montesa
-Added Hueste, a halberd-armed heavy infantry for the late period.

___Roster____
Infantry
Peasants
Town Militia
Spear Militia
Swordsmen Militia
Sergeant Spearmen
Pike Militia
Tercio Pikemen
Sword and Buckler Men
Dism. Mailed Knights
Dism. Feudal Knights
Dism. Chivalric Knights
Dism. Templar Knights
Templar Sergeants
*Dismounted Knights of Montesa
*Navarre Infantry

Missile
Javelinmen
Almughavars
Peasant Archers
Crossbow Militia
Peasant Crossbowmen
Basque Archers [Yeoman Archers]
Pavise Crossbowmen
Handgunners
Arquebusiers
Musketeers
Mounted Crossbowmen

Cavalry
Jinetes
Mounted Sergeants
Merchant Cavalry Militia
Mailed Knights
Feudal Knights
Chivalric Knights
Templar Knights
Gendarmes
Bodyguard
Late Bodyguard
*Knights of Montesa

Artillery
Ballista
Catapault
Trebuchet
Mangonel
Bombard
Cannon
Culverin
Basilisk

Ships
Galley
War Galley
Lanternas
Galleases

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I would like to thank Tokus Maximus for help with faction symbols (not these, but I will be using them soon), Taiji for the BB series, Agis Tournas for the unit cards project, and Damocles for advice and information. And of course, repman and all who have worked on DLV, the finest modification of MII:TW anywhere.

If you wish to use this project as a whole in another work, you have my permission, so long as you give credit to myself and all who I have listed above. If you wish to use a part of it (symbols, cities, maps,) PM me to find out who made it. If I did it, I'll gladly share it.

Enjoy!

TQ

**Overlord.ru** · June 08, 2010, 03:37 AM

Nice idea, but as I see the American continent won't be removed?
Some unique faction's units would be cool, if you could work them out or lend from other mod.
Still a good job! Looking forward...

**Tokus*Maximus** · June 08, 2010, 05:30 AM

Hey TQ, good going with the sub-mod. Here's my wee contribution - an Aragon symbol set in the current DLV style. Let me know if you need any other stuff.
When the time is right and the new Shadrach*Tokus DLV symbol set is out (and working with your mod) - I'll sort you an aragon symbol in the new style.

Shield and banner

Shield

Aux' banner

**Kyren** · June 08, 2010, 09:38 AM

Hey there!

I can't offer real serious help, but maybe I can drop some ideas for the historical part - And also do some research, if needed.

If i remember right, DLV uses faction names in the general language spoken in the faction.

The Crown of Aragón, would be in Spanish La Corona de Aragón, and in Catalan La Corona d'Aragó. I'd suggest that you use Catalan names for it, but Aragonese wouldn't be bad either. (Maybe simply text-file mini-mod - submods could fullfill that too. [Unfortunately I haven't got any idea how the Crown of Aragón is named in Aragonése.. I think I could find it out, though.)

Zaragoza is the Spanish name for that city - In Catalan it would be Saragossa, i'd love to see that too

I don't speak Català nor Aragonés, i'm just learning Castellano - So i'm neither from Spain, Aragón or Catalunya - But if i can help somehow with that part, i'll try

Kyren

**Imladrik** · June 09, 2010, 12:52 PM

I do think that in Aragonés it's also called 'la Corona d'Aragó', as I found this site: http://www.uiquipedia.org/Corona_d%27Arag%C3%B3 Now it seems to me that this is an Aragonese version of wikipedia. While I don't know Aragonese, I do speak catalan, and this is pretty different.. My point being that the name is the same in both languages.

I must say I'm thrilled to see someone still putting work in this, thanks!

**Kyren** · June 18, 2010, 01:57 PM

About Aragóns faction roster:

It seems like the Crown of Aragón was heavily involved with the Knights Templar and other orders, but the main information i found is about the templars. They accompanied the Crown of Aragón in several conquests..(for example Valencia and Mallorca), they also got a mass of lands and rights. After they dissolved their order, wikipedia says, that the order of Montesa took their part.

My sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...nights_Templar (Not that much about Aragón, though..)

http://www.templerlexikon.uni-hambur...meset_A_dt.htm
German, but offers a whole lot of information about the templars in Aragón

If someone is really interested, I can translate it.

And here, the Order of Montesa:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Montesa

For the Almughavars: As far as i found out, they were armed with a shield and a short sword, and 2 javelins and mostly recruited from the Pyrenees.

So, I'd suggest to make a light armored Almughavar unit, with shield and short sword and one or two javelins for throwing. And templars and the order of montesa must/should be represented somehow. Maybe they could be easier to get, than for other factions?

**PedroL** · June 18, 2010, 04:57 PM

Originally Posted by TaronQuinn

Hail fellow DLVers!
This topic has been around for some months, and I'm finally working out all the kinks. It is fairly basic, but the implementation has been rough.

This will serve as the preview of the faction and features, as well as a workspace for me to list ideas, contents, and graphics; feedback is more than welcome. Nothing fancy, just a straightforward swap that changes the Aztecs into Aragon. Nothing from any other mods, but I will be using material from other DLV minimods.

Name: Aragon Faction Swap
For: Deus Lo Vult 6.2, BB 2.7 update 18.
Download: (not quite there yet)

Overview:
2 provinces moved from America to Old World (Oklahoma -> Barcelona, Tlaxcala -> Clermont)
New roster for Aragon, using existing unit cards and skins.
New faction symbols, banners, menu buttons.
Proper victory conditions, selection screen, and family tree, ca. 1180.

To balance the removal of Aztecs from the New World, rebel stacks there will be strengthened and multiplied.

Screenshot: overview1

I still have to switch the models around, which have been giving me trouble. But the settlements, resources, forts and units are there. This will be Aragon's starting position.

Roster
Row 1: Peasants, Town Militia, Spear Militia Swordsmen Militia, Sergeant Spearmen, Javelinmen, Almughavars, Peasant Archers, Crossbow Militia, Basque Archers (Yeoman Archers), Pavise Crossbowmen, Ballista, Catapult, Trebuchet, Mangonel.

Row 2: Pike Militia, Pikemen, Sword and Buckler Men, Peasant Crossbowmen Hand Gunners, Arquebusiers, Dism. Mailed Knights, Dism. Feudal Knights, Dism. Chivalric Knights, Bombard, Grand Bombard, Culverin, Serpentine, Basilisk

Row 3: Jinetes, Mounted Sergeants, Merchant Cavalry Militia, Mailed Knights, Feudal Knights, Chivalric Knights, Mounted Crossbowmen, Bodyguard, Late Bodyguard, Cog, Galley, War Galley, Gallease, Dism. Knights of Santiago, Knights of Santiago.

Please let me know your thoughts.

Also, before this even comes out, I should thank Tokus Maximus for help with faction symbols (not these, but I will be using them soon), Taiji for the BB series, Agis Tournas for the unit cards project, and Damocles for advice and information. And of course, repman and all who have worked on DLV, the finest modification of MII:TW anywhere.

i dont agree with the aragon roster.
First the Military Orders are Wrong.

They should have Templars Knight and after 1314 - supression of the Knights Templar they were replaced with the Montesa Knights

My Aragon roster (something like this):

Infantry
Urban Spear Militia (Villages/city)
-Spear Militia (Fort/Castles)
-Sergeant Spearmen
-Pike Militia
-Halberd Militia
-Armoured Halberd
-Navarre Infantry
-Swordsmen Militia
-Sword and Buckler Man
-Dismounted Feudal Knights
-Dismounted Armats
Dismounted Templar Knights (1301-1314)
(Replaced by the Dismounted Montesa Knights after the supression of the Templars in 1314)
-Dismounted Montesa Knights
-Man at Arms

Ranged
-Almughavars (Elite)
-Urbant Archer
-Militia Archers
-Basque Archers (elite)
-Italian Crossbowmen (mercenaries)
-UrbanCrossbowmen
-Militia Crossbowman
-Pavise Crossbowmen
-French Archers – Elite- (Mercenaries hire only to the Spanish Royal House) Need Guild of Diplomacy in France
-Handgunners

Cavalry
-Alforrats: Light cavalry armed with Spear, Sword and shield.
-Feudal Knights
-Merchant Knights (Merchats Body Guards) - Guilt of Merchant
-Armats (Heavy Cavalry)
- Templar Knights (1301-1314)
(Replaced by the Dismounted Montesa Knights after the supression of the Templars in 1314)
- Montesa Knights
- Chivalric Knights
-French Gendarmes (Mercenaries hire only to the Aragon Royal House) Need Guild of Diplomacy in France)
-Mounted Crossbowmen
-Man at Arms

Aragon Military Units

Skirmish cavalry --> Alforrat
Heavy cavalry ----> Armat
Noble knight ------> Cavaller, or Armat, if they are the same actual type of troop.
Javelinman --------> This is not a real "troop type". "Javeliner" could be the word, but I should make some research.
Man-at-arms-------> Home d'armes

Spearman: Lancer, mostly from feudal raisings and men-at-arms on foot.
Pikeman: Piquer, mostly from the Urban Hosts, armed with a long spear and a sword. Shield at the back.
Swordsmen: Espaser
Archers: Arquers(not used, Catalans did not like archery)
Crossbowmen: Ballesters
Noble retinue: Mainada, usually 20 knights (Mainada means literally retinue, although today this word means children, deformed its original meaning of "brothers" or "sons")
Esquire: Escuder

**TaronQuinn** · June 18, 2010, 08:33 PM

Wow excellent feedback from both Kyren and PedroL!! Thank you, gents!

I will replace Santiago knights with Templar guild. That'll probably be the only military order they can recruit, just to keep it simple.

As for Pedrol"s roster suggestions, I'll try and adapt that to current units, as I only intend to create one or two new units (replacing Aztec specific units, such as the Arrow Thrower and Cuahchiqueh. I think everything except the Armat, Armored Halberds, and Navarre Infantry are already represented by various other units (i.e., Basque Archers as Yeoman Archers, Alforrats as Mounted Sergeants, etc.) So I'll go through and make sure the EDB, EDU, and battle_model_db properly reflect these suggestions, and post the revised roster later this weekend.

Also, PedroL, could you provide me with sources on some of these units, especially Navarre Infantry and Armats, so I know how to describe them, as wel as choosing models and skins for them.

**PedroL** · June 19, 2010, 05:09 AM

Originally Posted by TaronQuinn

Wow excellent feedback from both Kyren and PedroL!! Thank you, gents!

I will replace Santiago knights with Templar guild. That'll probably be the only military order they can recruit, just to keep it simple.

As for Pedrol"s roster suggestions, I'll try and adapt that to current units, as I only intend to create one or two new units (replacing Aztec specific units, such as the Arrow Thrower and Cuahchiqueh. I think everything except the Armat, Armored Halberds, and Navarre Infantry are already represented by various other units (i.e., Basque Archers as Yeoman Archers, Alforrats as Mounted Sergeants, etc.) So I'll go through and make sure the EDB, EDU, and battle_model_db properly reflect these suggestions, and post the revised roster later this weekend.

Also, PedroL, could you provide me with sources on some of these units, especially Navarre Infantry and Armats, so I know how to describe them, as wel as choosing models and skins for them.

I Can provide you with some pictures of that units! I made several rosters for some mods, and the Iberia regions is one of my strongest knowledge.

If you want i can give to you the roster of Portugal too

**PedroL** · June 19, 2010, 05:36 AM

Originally Posted by TaronQuinn

Also, PedroL, could you provide me with sources on some of these units, especially Navarre Infantry and Armats, so I know how to describe them, as wel as choosing models and skins for them.

Navarre Infantry