RTW/M2TW Mod around 630AD

**Lansa** · February 19, 2012, 12:45 PM

I know it's kind of (well, totally) off-topic but do any of you guys know of some good mods for either RTW or M2TW that take place around 630AD, ie the fall of the Sassanids, rise of Islam etc? I've recently become interested in that time period and would like to play a mod centred around then.

**Ferdiad** · February 19, 2012, 01:19 PM

None that I know of.

**Xerrop** · February 20, 2012, 11:25 AM

Don´t know any. There are only some vague plans to deal with the Rise of the Caliphate in two mods far away from beeing released afaik.

East of Rome starts in 519 AD and will maybe have a scripted emergency of the Arabs. But this mod is only in some early state of development (for M2:TW)
And then there would be Ages of Darkness III (for Rome:TW Barbarian Invasion) starting direct in the 630's. But the team is currently working on part II of the mod dealing with the 6th century. So when part III will be finished someday (hopefully!) it might be many years into the future.

p.s. It is btw sad that there are only so few mods dealing with Late Antiquity/early Medieval. The whole period between 160 and 800 (maybe even til 1100) AD is also for me very interesting. But the majority of the mods (in practice only Invasio Barbarorum plus some offsprings) deals only with the years 355 to 500 AD.

**Ferdiad** · February 20, 2012, 03:17 PM

Nobody likes to make stuff about the Dark Ages.

**wikimancz** · February 20, 2012, 07:48 PM

Thats cause nothing major happened in the dark ages. They are called that for a reason. Millions died because of plauge and thousands died to the crusades later on. Religion took priority over science, halting human development. We could have flying cars by now.

**Bob Doad** · February 20, 2012, 08:09 PM

ummmmmmmm...your argument is invalid sir

**Entropy Judge** · February 20, 2012, 11:03 PM

Originally Posted by wikimancz

Millions died because of plauge and thousands died to the crusades later on.

Source?

We could have flying cars by now.

Prove it.

**Lansa** · February 21, 2012, 01:46 AM

Originally Posted by wikimancz

Thats cause nothing major happened in the dark ages. They are called that for a reason. Millions died because of plauge and thousands died to the crusades later on. Religion took priority over science, halting human development. We could have flying cars by now.

maybe in western europe. In the east the Islamic caliphates took over almost the entire known world and changed the geo-political world into what we know today. Eastern science put western stuff to shame for almost a millenium; indeed for most of history western europe has been less developed than the east. It's probably just a temporay blip, these few centuries of western domination.

**Sigma** · February 21, 2012, 04:25 AM

Links to the mod forum sections are provided so you can search around:

Age of Darkness II (RTW-BI) plans to cover this area eventually:
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=112
Chivalry II (M2TW) also plans to get around to this era IIRC:
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=354

**Ferdiad** · February 21, 2012, 02:52 PM

Originally Posted by Lansa

maybe in western europe. In the east the Islamic caliphates took over almost the entire known world and changed the geo-political world into what we know today. Eastern science put western stuff to shame for almost a millenium; indeed for most of history western europe has been less developed than the east. It's probably just a temporay blip, these few centuries of western domination.

Ya no, id like to tear your pathethic opinions to shreds but im too tired.

**Lansa** · February 21, 2012, 03:39 PM

Originally Posted by Ferdiad

I disagree with you for political reasons but because you don't agree with my "West is dominate" opinions and I have no decent argument to make I will instead plead lethargy.

Straight from the horse's mouth