Caius Britannicus Presents: "THE CRUSADES"

**General Sun** · November 08, 2006, 09:43 PM

The First Release of the Crusades Mod Is Upon Us!

The Crusades:

Can't wait for Medieval Total War 2? Just don't have a machine that will be able to play Medieval Total War 2? Do you want EPIC battles fought across sweeping campaigns in the holy land? Then The Crusades is for YOU!

The Crusades is a total conversion mod that brings the player back to the time of Salah al-Din, Richard the Lionheart, the Kingdom of Jersualem and the Third Crusade. It offers the player a chance to relive two famous campaigns of the period, the campaigns of the third crusade and the conquests of Salah al-Din. At the players disposal in both campaigns are over 100 unique units (roughly 50 for each faction), a host of historical characters (Salah al-Din, Fredrick Barbarossa, Richard the Lionheart and many more), as wells a several unqiue buildings and settlements.

Outside of the campaign the player will be treated to 12 brand new custom battle locations to do battle against the crusaders or saracens. All the units for each faction as well as rebel units are available for custom battles, including byantine, cilician armenian, and county units. So you may not get to play as the byzantines in the campaign, but that doesn't stop you from forming a byzantine army in a custom or online battle.

Available Download Locations:

Feature List:

Two seperate campaigns.
52 turns per year script brings campaign to life.
Over 150 Unique units and officers.
Brand new music.
New mounts, including covered horses for c=Crusaders and mailed horses for Saracanes.
New battle and campaign user interface for each faction.
New event pictures.
New loading screens.
...and much more!

More information here: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=67723

**Ahiga** · November 08, 2006, 10:01 PM

Just in time for the 4 day weekend. Fantastic. utterly Fantastic.

Sublime!

Grand!

Magnificent!

Rockin!

Supreme!

Excellente!

Divine!

It's Caius Presents: The Crusades!

**Sétanta** · November 08, 2006, 10:02 PM

I almost died when I saw that it was released. It is that good people.

**Angmar_nite** · November 08, 2006, 10:07 PM

Even with the lack of scripting it is a truly extraordinary mod. Nothing less from a former dev of RTR and one of the communities best skinners!

**~~Miraj~~** · November 08, 2006, 10:14 PM

Yes!

**Sardonicus** · November 09, 2006, 10:09 AM

I havn't been here in ages but I felt totally compelled to post on this thread after installing this mod and say WOW!

You guys are BRILLIANT! Best mod I've ever played for RTW by far regardless of the two faction limit!
The skins alone are superior to any other, and the amount of unit types is FANTASTIC!
The whole package is brilliant, music, interface EVERYTHING, I LOVE THIS MOD!
Congrats on a superior mod!

**Shaun** · November 09, 2006, 11:59 AM

Well its a shame that this was released so close to the European release of MTW2 (tomorrow) . . .

**Sardonicus** · November 09, 2006, 01:19 PM

Originally Posted by Shaun

Well its a shame that this was released so close to the European release of MTW2 (tomorrow) . . .

Not for me.
For me it's a blessing cuz I can't run MTW2 on my computer anyway.
This I can run with everything maxed out and 7000 man armies!

**Black Francis** · November 09, 2006, 02:32 PM

All hail Caius!
Deus Vult!

At long last. Thank you Caius.

**Barbarossa II** · November 10, 2006, 02:38 AM

One word: brilliant!

It´s not just the beautiful skins or the campaign map. It´s a mod-extravaganza! Everything is just how it´s supposed to be but no one ever thought about before (I mean 52 turns per year...now how cool is that?!).

Thank´s to the whole team. I´ve been waiting for this mod since I fist read about it on the RTR forums.

I don´t think it´s released too close to the MTW2 release. We all have enough time now for waiting on patch 1.x when CA have removed all bugs and the game will work properly...

**Sardonicus** · November 10, 2006, 09:46 AM

I had a CTD around the 5th game turn playing as the Crusaders.
Phillip had just taken Beirut and as soon as he moved into the city...CTD.

mod uninstalled.

**happyho** · November 11, 2006, 08:00 AM

Wow this looks like a beautiful mod, great job guys. Even if my comp could handle M2TW I would still try this one first just to whet my apetite. Soon as I'm done my present campaign I'll try this one.

**Fingy** · November 14, 2006, 12:52 PM

wow!! This is an amazingly good mod! But 1 problem. It CTD after about 5 turns and I can't figure out why. Anyone know what's going on? At the begining of each game I click the question mark and hit "show me how" button but it still crashes! Help please!!

**martinkun167** · November 23, 2006, 06:08 PM

Amazing mod; visually stunning, i really like the units and campaign map, as well as the perfect selection of music. The only con for me i guess is the lack of factions.

IMO, it would really make the mod even better if you were to add the Byzantines, Cilicians, and Turks instead of having them as rebel factions.

**Black Francis** · February 21, 2007, 06:54 PM

I just wanted to give this mod a bump.

Unfortunately this mod came out only a day or so before M2TW and so was missed by many people.

I can honestly say that I believe it to be the most beautifully crafted mod I have ever played.

**FXR** · February 21, 2007, 09:57 PM

Agreed, I love the sweep and diplomatic stuff in M2tw, but the music, the trigger events, the towns, the cities, the balance of forces, the historical replication, including Richard and Frederich and the demands of Sicily as well as the Holy Lands. Oh yeah, its a freakin keeper man. I just want to port the whole thing over to M2TW. I mean it is a work ... of ... art. And right now ... we have the war in Iraq, and it is the time of Lent, just got ashes. It puts one in a very respectful admiring mood for the arabs, while at the same time, puts just a little more understanding ( a little more towards the Christian soldiers as well) Heck, it makes me want to do one with the Apostles in it, after seeing this. It is ... The Holy Land!! Also In my games I attempted extra generosity towards each city, each enemy general, to see if charity and civility would aid the cause. Nahhh! Ended up having to annihalate each city and start over from the ground up. Nothing but insurrections!! Thanks for your work Caius