Finally Got Kingdoms - what to expect? Re-play/mods

[PrestigeX]

Hey all, I'm a long time M2tw player, and TW franchise too, and I just only today bought the Kingdoms expansion -- 4.99 at a local store, a real steal.

I am going to give each of the campaigns a play, and update to 1.5 --- NOW, after this is all done... What are the best 'non-epic' mods out there?

on vanilla, I was playing Darth Mod and FKOC ... I know of Stainless Steel, Broken Crescent, and DLV - but these all seem too epic for me.

The mods page is just sooo massive and I've looked at many of them but I have no idea -- which ones are still 'current/being updated' , which are the least buggy, which are the best in your view.

S.S. please don't recommend it, it's too massive and 'epic' for me... Same with that Dominion of the sword that was on the Home Page - it'd probably make my computer explode!

[ccgr1121]

Custom Campaign / Retrofit -> one and the same. Implements kingdoms fixes to vanilla (e.g. 2 handers, boiling oil etc)

KGCM -> Bigger and better version of vanilla, but not as epic as SS

Expanded Americas -> Vanilla map, plus expanded americas.

That's all I can think of for now.

[Ishan]

Congrats Prestige on purchasing kingdoms, Time for Mangonels & Greek fire.
And after these mods try SS6.1, it's not a overhaul like 6.4 but i agree don't get into these without trying out basic mods.

You can also try Regions and Provinces mod.

[tudor93]

Congrats Prestige on purchasing kingdoms, Time for Mangonels & Greek fire.
And after these mods try SS6.1, it's not a overhaul like 6.4 but i agree don't get into these without trying out basic mods.

You can also try Regions and Provinces mod.

yo ishan
if may I ask you a question: I just reinstalled M2TW (it's gold, but I've only instaled the Crusaders campaign) and I saw your reply so I had to check out this Regions and Provinces mod (downloading now); now here's the question, I don't know how the mod looks, but lets say I want an improvement, will all those mini-mods work for it ? (http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=298611) ; because believe me, I would install all of them

[Ishan]

yo ishan
if may I ask you a question: I just reinstalled M2TW (it's gold, but I've only instaled the Crusaders campaign) and I saw your reply so I had to check out this Regions and Provinces mod (downloading now); now here's the question, I don't know how the mod looks, but lets say I want an improvement, will all those mini-mods work for it ? (http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=298611) ; because believe me, I would install all of them

If it replaces any file then don't, otherwise it should work like the grass mod etc. If you have any detailed improvements\suggestions in mind regarding this mod then please PM me.

[Gazz]

Congrats Prestige on purchasing kingdoms, Time for Mangonels & Greek fire.
And after these mods try SS6.1, it's not a overhaul like 6.4 but i agree don't get into these without trying out basic mods.

You can also try Regions and Provinces mod.

Where can you download SS6.1? On the SS forums, I only see links of 6.3 & 6.4. Would be fun to try out.

[strategist.com]

Yeah also recently got Kingdoms too! Currently I am playing the Americas and playing as the Aztecs on H/H difficulty. After the Spanish engaged me briefly and repelling their futile siege on one of my cities and without ever facing their full might in a pitched i.e. attacking me with a full stack army...... they vanished suddenly!!! :O At the next turn a message said 'New Spain destroyed'. Whatever happened to them? Must be the French. Anyways, now the 'First Meso-American Coalition' is against me including 'lead' by the Mayans and its pawns the Tarascans and the Chichimec tribe.

[ckndr]

Is there a mini version of SS? I would love extended map and settlements with some new factions. And AI improvement. But I don't really care about models and all the eye candy. I avoid going for huge 2gb mod in my dial-up connection.

[PrestigeX]

thanks for the replies guys =)

been having some fun in the Britannia campaign, but a little dissapointed -- as scotland, Wallace appeared, and first battle he goes in against Norway -- boom, hit by catapult and killed - what are the chances?!

so reload, and take their settlement away - but a turn later, he's mysteriously vanished - just b4 it, had him as the Governor in 'islay' or one of those island north of Scotland.

Edward has just arrived, he's in some stone fort in souther england. the Barons are killing the english, norway annihilated by me =).

it's fun... Is wallace more important as a character when you are England / facing scotland? Was I supposed to use him against the English straight away? (So far been allied with wales, and neutral with barons/england).
Are the characters generally to be used as a player might imagine? ie. edward hammering the welsh/scots or in Crusades using those characters against the desired factions (ie. saladin vs. crusaders, not vs other muslims,,, or richard vs. egypt rather than antioch)
I'm thinking i'll try retrofit or Kindgoms Grand Campaign.

rule brittania, also seems like a right choice for me since it's regional mod and not soo epic.