THIS PROJECT IS SUSPENDED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.
December 4th, 2021
To whom it may concern,
The project Anno Domini has been suspended until further notice, as concluded by Association Gromovnik on our latest meeting.
The reasons for suspension are a general lack of interest in the project by the researchers who used to work on the project, as well as a lack of time from my part to dedicate to it and lead it.
Will the project be continued in the future? I hope so. This enthusiasm has been keeping the project afloat in some miniscule form during the past couple of years.
Considering that I've been tinkering around with some technical aspects of the project during this year, I might continue doing that if I will have some time for it in the future.
In some distant dream of mine, we would have the finances to pay people to work on our project, because most of us aren't students anymore and we have more important things in our lives than this project was.
Some would say that we need to make our dreams come true.
In that sense, I will keep this project in mind to try and continue it one day on the team level, with hopefully more time and money.
Until then,
I wish you all a happy and blessed Christmas season.
Dominik Pešut,
President of Association "Gromovnik" & Project Leader of Anno Domini
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Greetings, traveler.
Welcome to the Anno Domini project thread on Total War Center.
This project started in early 2018 and consists of two main components:
- Anno Domini Encyclopedia, promoting the written works of students and professionals about our researched area and time period;
- Anno Domini 973, modification of the PC strategy game Medieval II Total War: Kingdoms.
Anno Domini is organized by Association “Gromovnik”, a Croatian non-profit association which specializes in research and popularization of Croatian, European and Mediterranean medieval history.
The Anno Domini project, being a completely voluntary endeavour, had some setbacks, in terms of available manpower and required skills, but, hereby I raise an effort to continue this project, and have been working on it quietly in the shadows more actively from the beginning of this year, alongside some members of our research team.
The researched period (to be presented in the Medieval II Total War: Kingdoms modification) spans from the year 973 AD: marking the establishment of Cairo in Egypt as the new capital of the Fatimid Caliphate, as well as the death of emperor Otto I, sparking a civil war in the Holy Roman Empire; to the year 1147 AD: marking the start of the Second Crusade, called due to the fall of the County of Edessa to the forces of the Turkic ruler Zengi.
The following map shows the current area covered by the project:
The states and peoples marked on the map represent starting factions in Anno Domini 973, the Medieval II Total War: Kingdoms modification, as well as states to be covered by our Anno Domini Encyclopedia. The area covered by this map is the same area covered by the future campaign map of Anno Domini 973.
The idea of historiographic essays is to provide historical basis for representation in Anno Domini 973, as well as serve a purpose of their own: to cover the history of our researched area and period in an academic manner. These essays will be featured in Anno Domini 973 as descriptions, so they will also promote historiography itself. The Anno Domini research team is rather functional, we have about 10 essays that are finished or need to be updated and a review team for future essays.
To have a better grasp of geopolitics of the area and the period around the starting date, I absolutely recommend the following YouTube video:
Here is the current list of factions to be portrayed in Anno Domini 973 (subject to minor changes):
Previously, the following area and states were to be portrayed, but some parts were cut (for now) due to Medieval II engine restrictions and the wish to portray some parts of the original area in greater detail, without diminishing the details of other parts. If Medieval II Total War gets a remaster and this project is successful, we could expand the map back to its full extent.
The future campaign map (primary extent) will be made with the possibility to fit it in the full extent map:
Anno Domini 973 goals for version 1.0 (subject to change):
- new campaign map,
- implementation of new factions with historical starting family trees and starting positions,
- overhauled unit rosters (reliant on units from other mods),
- updated UI and campaign map graphics (reliant on graphics from other mods),
- emerging and reemerging faction scripts,
- implementation of campaign and battle AI mods,
- implementation of battle animation mods,
- some other things I (or we) could add along the way.
As you can see, the updated modification goal bar is set lower than before and you may ask why... Well, right now, the modification part of the project is a one-man show. I am currently the only person working on the Anno Domini 973 (modification) aspect. The modification idea was ditched previously and I am basically trying to resurrect it.
It is my personal goal to make a working version of this modification, alone or with friends I (or we) make along the way. If you want to help me with the modification aspect of this project in any way, feel free to contact me here on TWC, my e-mail (dominik.pesut@gmail.com) or personal Facebook account (you will recognize me by Association “Gromovnik”’s cover image).
Right now I could use some help with scouting some existing faction rosters from other mods, implementing factions in the different text files and similar preparation works while I’m working on some other things for the project and on the new campaign map.
I will be updating this post in the future with all the new details. If you like this project, subscribe to the thread, and like us on Facebook (http://fb.me/AnnoDominiProject). 
For any questions or comments, please leave a post in the thread or send me a message somewhere (I've written down my contacts earlier in the thread) and I will reply as soon as possible. Posts in the thread are more than welcome, as they will perpetuate interest in the project on Total War Center.
All the best and until next time,
Dominik
THIS PROJECT IS SUSPENDED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.
The ANNO DOMINI project - a crossover of gaming and historiography (suspended)
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