Crux et Aquila - minipreview of the new map, check last page!

**druzhina345** · November 04, 2012, 10:11 PM

Here is a longer list of illustrations from Las Cantigas de Santa Maria on all subjects (not just military):

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Illustrations of Soldiers

**Zames** · November 05, 2012, 11:14 AM

Originally Posted by Mausolos of Caria

Now a few questions on the mod

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1. Shouldn't Genoa be named Republic instead of Commune? Or was there a major change in the constitution of the state so it was only named Republic later on?

2. How is the historical allegiance of factions to the both sides (Holy Roman Emperor and Pope) presented in the game? Do you use something like the cultures in the Britannia campaig or the religions in the Crusader campaign?
And will there be predefined diplomatic stances? Like ''at war'' or ''allied''- some modders said it's not possible but the vanilla game had it

1) No, 'cause it officially became Republic only in 1528 under Andrea D'Oria
2) Well, if I understood your question, the major division will be religious AND political, in the sense that we'll have a guelf catholicism (vanilla catholicism) and a ghibellin one. I'll also add other religions (Islam, Ebraism etc.), but in Italy in that period were a minority.
I don't know yet, if it couldn't be possible to have predefined diplomatic stances I'll maybe add bad or good relations between certain States (Sicily and the Pope will be in very bad relations in this case).

@druzhina345: thanks for the stuff

Sorry for the luck of update, but as always study is burying me...but after 13th of november I should have more free time

**VINC.XXIII** · November 05, 2012, 03:21 PM

"Or was there a major change in the constitution of the state"
he's right, one of the first new laws was the creation of the "Ordo Unicus Nobilitatis", while the month of october 1528.

"ghibellin catholicism"
praise the Kaiser...

**Rampante-Cid** · November 17, 2012, 06:19 PM

Hi! I love your project, it´s a very interesting time of the history of Italy.There some pictures

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**Zames** · November 17, 2012, 06:37 PM

Thank you Cid, these are great pictures! +rep I've noticed that names below images are italians, are you from Italy?

**Rampante-Cid** · November 17, 2012, 06:40 PM

Originally Posted by Zames

Thank you Cid, these are great pictures! +rep I've noticed that names below images are italians, are you from Italy?

No I´m from Spain but I know how to search good pictures in various languages

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And I put soon the text of the images and more pictures.
Edit: I put the texts.

**druzhina345** · November 17, 2012, 10:15 PM

Originally Posted by Rampante-Cid

Hi! I love your project, it´s a very interesting time of the history of Italy.There some pictures

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This is based on the Cantigas de Santa Maria of c.1284.
The banner is from Cantiga 181 - The Banner of the Virgin Defeats the Moors at Marrakesh
The zig-zag livery is from Cantiga 63 - The Knight who Missed the Battle

Military Illustrations from the Cantigas de Santa Maria, 1284

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**Bernardius** · December 11, 2012, 09:47 AM

Great news, gonna dev play this!

**Zames** · February 06, 2013, 04:09 PM

Still alive, but with very little time to work on.
A pair of news (sorry if I have always "news" and not stuff):
-Holy Roman Empire faction will be deleted. From 1250 to 1270ca there is a great period called "Interregnum", during wich there wasn't a real imperial authority; "Holy Roman Emperor" will be a trait or an ancillary available for Austria or Counts of Gorizia at certain conditions (I have to decide). For now, I won't use the free slot to create a new faction, it could be useful for something else. Conradin (which never was really a Emperor!) will be a spawnable general for Kingdom of Sicily.
-due to the lack of "real" settlements, and due to the focus I want to do on Italy, part of Balkans and Hungary will be covered and not reachable. Consider it a sort of act of respect, in some way, 'cause I don't want to penalize too much a region by a lack of settlements; that's obvious I've nothing against Hungary

and that the Hungarian faction will be in (it had some troubles with Venice in that times).
-river Po is now navigable

**AnthoniusII** · February 06, 2013, 04:47 PM

CHECK MY PROFILE'S image collections.

**Zames** · February 07, 2013, 02:43 AM

Thanks Anthonius!
Some of those heraldic symbols aren't totally new for me, expecially the ones from Sicily (I made the research on heraldry for Mr. Crow's CSUR).

Also, I forgot to write before: the communal units I already showed will be redone, 'cause I want to make them of better quality.

**Zames** · February 07, 2013, 08:25 AM

Navigable Po pics!

**NekoGenijalan** · February 07, 2013, 11:42 AM

I like textures

**Zames** · February 07, 2013, 12:03 PM

Originally Posted by NekoGenijalan

I like textures

They are Charge's ones, lightly modified by me

**Mausolos of Caria** · February 08, 2013, 08:08 AM

I like the idea of the Po, so we can have sea battles in the middle of the peninsula

And of course it's good to hear you are still alive, keep it on!

I think most users understand that a mod needs a lot of time .

**Zames** · February 22, 2013, 05:55 PM

New weapons I'm modelling, hope you like them

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**knightofhonnor** · May 28, 2013, 03:21 PM

I hope this mod is still alive, I would definitely download it!

**MathiasOfAthens** · May 28, 2013, 03:46 PM

Looks like it is. But shame the Roman Empire isnt in the game. Would be a nice to fight an uphill battle to reconquer Italia from a single city (village).

**demagogos nicator** · June 23, 2013, 04:07 PM

This seems promising. I like the mods that concentrate on smaller geographical scale and shorter timeframe as it allows them to have more details and the player have a realist feeling of possibel historical war for local hegemony onstead of ahistorical world domination. Good luck, hope you will manage to get this mod finished

**Zames** · June 23, 2013, 04:59 PM

@knightofhonnor
Quoting myself:
"Still alive, but with very little time to work on."

@MathiasOfAthens
Well, Roman Empire (I mean also Byzantine Empire) had not more possessions in Italy, in that period, it had too much troubles. If you mean the "old" Roman Empire...well, it wouldn't be too much historical, I fear

@demagogos nicator
Thanks for your kind words

I have (as always

) news without stuff. I've decided to make a new map in which I rotate Italy, this is the new area of the campaign map (northern edge is lower and western edge is rightmost):

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I already have the working map of this, with all heights, ground types etc. finished, I miss only regions and new textures (I want to make them myself). Also, it is bigger than the old one, so maybe I can add more detail to the map. With this new map, I'll cut out from the mod Hungarian and Hafsid factions (which had not so much to do with Italian political situation of the period), so that I can use two free slots for two other italian factions, such as Bologna, or for some unique features, I'll decide.

Also: forget units preview you've seen until now, I'll make totally new units, more historically accurate.

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