Medieval 2: Community Faction Project
Is the faction that you want to play in MTW2? If not want to help out on a community project that aims to add various factions. If you want to help out on this project you can write faction descriptions, or help out in other areas such as skinning, unit cards, and sprites.
Now the main objective is to add factions that do not overshadow CA's work but is rather the same quailty, as if it came in the game. This is not ment to be a heavy mod but only to complement the game by adding factions.
Some of the Faction I would like to do are:
Aragon
Irish
Lithuania
Kiev
Bohemia
Serbia
Croatia
The first three factions I would like to do is Aragon, Lituania, and the Irish.
The Irish
Early Ireland had an unusual government. Ireland was divided into many small kingdoms called tuaths. Each tuath's king was elected by all the free men on its territory. The tuath was thus a body of persons voluntarily united and its territorial dimension was the sum total of the landed properties of its members. About 80 to 100 tuatha coexisted at any time throughout Ireland. Above the tuaithe were larger provincial kingdoms.
The Coming of the Normans 1167–1185
By the 12th century, Ireland was divided politically into a shifting hierarchy of petty kingdoms and over-kingdoms. Power was concentrated into the hands of a few regional dynasties contending against each other for control of the whole island. One of their number, the King of Leinster Diarmait Mac Murchada (anglicised as Diarmuid MacMorrough) was forcibly exiled from his kingdom by the new High King, Ruaidri mac Tairrdelbach Ua Conchobair. Fleeing to Aquitaine, Diarmait obtained permission from Henry II to use the Norman forces to regain his kingdom. The first Norman knight landed in Ireland in 1167, followed by the main forces of Normans, Welsh and Flemings in Wexford in 1169. Within a short time Leinster was regained, Waterford and Dublin were under Diarmait's control, and he had Strongbow as a son-in-law, and named him as heir to his kingdom.
- Wikipedia
Flags and banners
- The smaller flags are secondary flags and will most likly be different shapes as well
- There are two options for this one, there can be either two or three provinces on the island.
Two Provinces / Three Provinces
If I go with two provinces the cities will be Dublin and Limerick. If three it will be Dublin, Limerick, and Cork or maybe Waterford. If you have any sugestions on provinces and names of the cities plase post them and we can make the changes.
Units
-To be determined
Lithuania
Lithuania entered into the annals of European history when it was first mentioned in a medieval German manuscript, the Quedlinburg Chronicle, on February 14, 1009. The Lithuanian lands were united by Mindaugas in 1235, and neighboring countries referred to it as "the state of Lithuania". The official coronation of Mindaugas as King of Lithuania, on July 6, 1253, marked its recognition by Christendom, and the official recognition of Lithuanian statehood as the Kingdom of Lithuania [1].
During the early period of the Gediminids (1316-1430), the state occupied the territories of present-day Belarus, Ukraine, and parts of Poland and Russia [2]. By the end of the 14th century, Lithuania was the largest country in Europe [3] . The Grand Duchy of Lithuania stretched across a substantial part of Europe, from the Baltic to the Black Sea.
- Wikipedia
Flags and banners
- The smaller flags are secondary flags and will most likly be different shapes as well
If you have any sugestion or better sources for banners and Icons please post them as well.
The Province Lithuania
-To be determined
Units
-To be determined
Aragon
Aragón was a Frankish feudal county (Jaca) before becoming a self-proclaimed kingdom, which was united with the kingdom of Pamplona (later Navarre) in 836. The kingdom of Pamplona included the counties of Aragon, Sobrarbe, and Ribagorza, and the duchy of Castile. After King Sancho's death, the kingdom was divided between his sons. Ramiro I was initially named king of Aragon; later, after his brother Gonzalo's death, he was also named king of Sobrarbe and Ribagorza. The new kingdom grew quickly, and incorporated Navarra. This kingdom conquered the city of Zaragoza in 1118. Split from the kingdom of Navarre, the kingdom of Aragón was re-established in 1035 and lasted until 1479.
- Wikipedia
Flags and shields
The Province Aragon
-More coming soon
Units
-To be determined
Kiev
The History of Kiev, the largest city and the capital of Ukraine, is long and remarkable. The exact time of city foundation is hard to determine. The legend has it that the emergence of the great city on the future location of Kiev was prophesied by St. Andrew (d. AD 60/70) fascinated by the spectacular location on the hilly shores of the Dnieper river. The city is thought to have existed as early as the 5th century, initially as a growing trading post. Gradually acquiring the eminence as the center of the East Slavic civilization, Kiev reached its Golden Age as the center Kievan Rus' in the tenth–twelfth centuries. Its political, but not cultural, importance started to decline somewhat when it was completely destroyed during the Mongol invasion in 1240. In the following centuries Kiev was a provincial capital of marginal importance in the outskirts of the territories controlled by its powerful neighbors: the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Muscovite Russia, later the Russian Empire.
Flags
These items are a work in progress and are subject to change, if you have a better source for such icons or symbols please post them.
Edit: added Kiev.
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