I'm proud to announce you Reconquista TW. Old users can probably remember Hereje and I started a project about Spanish Reconquista 5 or 6 years ago, and even had an own sub-forum in this site. Anywar, due to several problems, we had to leave the project. Fortunately, some days ago I took again this project (now with the help of Miguel80tp and some other users from the Spanish Community Total War Spain).
This is a mod for Medieval 2 TW Kingdoms that focuses on the Spanish Reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula, but also provides some extra scenarios, like the French crusade against the cathar county of Toulouse or the 100 years war in southern France. The mod starts the year 1065 in the age of Taifa kingdoms and goes until the year 1492 (end of Spanish Reconquista). I'm going to sum up the most significative data:
Map
Factions
Muslim Factions - Taifas of Zaragoza, Toledo, Badajoz, Sevilla, Granada, Córdoba, Almería and Dénia
Christian Kingdoms - Kingdom of Castilla, León, Galicia, Condado Portucalense, Pamplona, Aragón, County of Barcelona and County of Urgell
Gaullic factions - County of Toulouse
Non playable- Duchy of Aquitaine, Papal States
Emerging factions - Almoravid Empire, Almohad Empire, Kingdom of Portugal, Kingdom of Castilla y León, Kingdom of Navarra, Crown of Aragón, Kingdom of France, Kingdom of England
The mod also features five religions: catholicism, catharism, orthodoxy, islam and judaism
Campaign Script
Reconquista uses a very interesting campaign script that will make the game more fun and exciting to play (notice that not all the scripts have been finished yet). A few details about it are:
In Reconquista: Total War, we have added 9 available languages. Every strat city & castle will have the name in his local language in that moment. Every enclave changes between 2 and 5-6 possibilities of renaming.
El Cid will appear on the campaign as general of the Kingdom of Castile. This character will have two paths to follow. The first one: an event will appear in which you'll be able to choose (being the human player) if El Cid continues as general or exile him pleading that he keeps the parias (tribute) in name of Castile. If he stays with Castile he will follow your orders until he rebels and appears as independent in Valencia, creating his own kingdom. But if you send him into exile, El Cid will go to the Taifa of Zaragoza with his men. In this case, if you were commanding this faction you would be able to accept his services, or say no, which will lead the character to the conquest of Valencia and the creation of a new state. If he is accepted in Zaragoza he will rebel as well, and disappear after some turns.
- Religious & military orders (Not finished yet)
The Templars will appear as an option for all the Christian faction on the map. Accept their arrival to your kingdom is your choice. If you accept you'll be able to buil their headquarters. Only then you'll be able to recruit Templar units for quite a high price. After that you'll always have the option of sending them into exile by destroying their headquarters. The same will happen with the Knights Hospitaller. But with the Knights of Santiago it is different, only the faction owning Santiago will be able to recruit units from them. Each order will be available the historical day of its foundation.
After the Treaty of Zamora, the Condado Portucalense (Portuguese County), becomes the Kingdom of Portugal in the year 1143.
It can only be formed by the factions of Leon and Castile. Therefore both Castile and Leon must finish with Galicia and conquer certain regions of its opponent (Castile against Leon, Leon against Castile) in order to claim the throne from the other.
It can only be formed by the factions of Barcelona or Urgel with the Kingdom of Aragon. First, one of the two counties will have to face the one another to gain control over all Catalunya. The stronger of both will have to conquer several territories and finally propose Aragon the dynastic union. In order to make this union the Catalan county and Aragon will have to be allies.
- Crown of Aragón & Sicilia
After unifying Aragon with no. of the Catalan counties and event will appear offering the player the possibility to conquer or not Sicily. Depending on the election the faction will get new units coming from Italia, or not. The recruitment cost and the money we have at our disposal will be the factors making use decide. If the player accepts the Sicilian heraldry will also appear on the faction's shield and flags.
- Catarism and the French crusade
Being Toulouse a cathar faction it will get the opportunity of accepting the Pope's petition, of converting to Catholicism or not. If this is not accepted Toulouse will stay cathar for ever but will suffer from the an invasion of French crusaders, ready to eradicate the heresy. In the other side, being cathar will have its advantages, also quite interesting. If it accept being catholic it will be able to recruit priests, and France will appear later on coming from the North.
- Almoravid & Almohade Invasion
The Almoravid invasion will happen on its historical year. To begin with, it will start conquering the Northeast of Africa and get to Gibraltar. When it gets there it will start conquering Taifa by Taifa, just like they did. In other words, if they conquered Sevilla on the year 1091, all the Taifa will stay under Almoravid control. If the human player controls one of the taifas, all will fall but his. Afterwards Almohads will do the same as the Almoravids, but in this case all the Almoravid domains will become part of the Almohad realm.
Aquitaine is an independent duchy, but will have the option of becoming vassal and become part of the English domains. If it accepts, its heraldry and units will change. Afterwards, with France's arrival, the 1000 Years War will be declared and you'll enter the conflict against France. Aquitaine will receive new units from England to combat the French armies, and France will get troops from the North. If Aquitaine decides to continue independent, when the 100 Years Wars comes, a new event will appear asking you what side you'd like to aid. Whatever becomes your ally England will get territory on the Southwest of France.
With the Almohads on the Peninsula, a great battle will be fought on the South. Every Christian kingdom will have the option of joining the event. If you decide to aid the Christians, you'll possibly get money, allies and experience. And if not (joining will take a lot of money) the campaign will continue as normal. If the player decides to go, an army will instantly appear near Navas de Tolosa. Just in front the almohad armies, which will be waiting. The end of the battle will make the Kingdom of Pamplona change or not its heraldy and name (for Kingdom of Navarre).
In a certain year the western schism will appear, with which every faction will be able to choose between the Pope of Rome or the Pope of Avignon (emergent faction on campaign).
- Orthodox Conversion of Crown of Aragón (Not done yet)
The Crown of Aragon got to Neopatria, in Greece, and therefore will have the possibility to bring special greek units to the Peninsula. But due to this the Orthodox cult will increase. If it reaches important the faction will be able of converting to the Orthodox Church. This is a good way of stopping revolts and making people happier if the level of Orthodox Christianity is very high.
- The Nazarí Kingdom of Granada (Not done yet)
If Granada is under Almohad control, in a certain turn, nazari troops will appear on the campaign, rebelling against the great empire and establishing the Nazari Kingdom of Granada. If the player is in command of the Taifa of Granada and doesn't hold Granada in that moment, the Nazari Kingdom appears, bit if the player does own that region, the kingdom won't appear.
Every Christian and Muslim faction will have the option (only at cities) of building Jewish buildings. These increase the income of the location, lets you recruit merchants and give happiness. But the Judaism cult increases as well Pero, and therefore if you use a lot these series of buildings, the Christian population's happiness can decrease, revolt and even rebel. You must choose really good when you build a Jewish building and choose a good governor who knows how to manage the place and its Jew population. If you want to avoid rebellions there are two options. The first one, expel the Jews (via script), which will cause some happiness decrease during some turns. Or second, converting to Judaism, without depending on your faction. But you'll have to be careful, as that could make relations with other factions worse and make you the objective of a papal crusade of Avignon, along with other Christian factions.
The mod also feactures some historical battles, like battle of Zalaca and brings more new features, like the existance of muslim princesses, and more historical characters, like the king James I of Aragon (original work of CeltiberoRamiroI:
BETA VERSION
The beta version (for the moment only in Spanish) is already available in Total War Spain forums.
You can also check the mod's article in TWC Wiki.
MODDERS RECRUITMENT
If you like this project and are interested in helping us, we would be really grateful. Right now, we need:
-2D artists and texturers
-3D modellers (if possible also with knowledge of animations)
-Historians interested in making historic events
-Anyone interested in translating the mod from Spanish to English
Thank you for your help
Reconquista Total War (Spanish Project)
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