Once More with Feeling - The Road to 3.0

[4zumi]

@cokjan
I will look into the jihad thing and consider changes. Could very well be that I overshot with the mercs availability.

I looked at the syrian auxiliaries and raised the upkeep from 100 to 130. (They were a bit cheap for the log range)
But I dont think they are that good.

long range missiles
6 ranged damage (no AP)
3 melee
4 defence (2 armor, 2 defence)
3 moral, (normal, trained)

So they are except for the long range missiles, a tiny bit better than peasant archers. And I do not want to take the "long range" from them.

[Hellvard]

Just send me your latest export_descr_unit and battle_models files If you want sword militia, maybe just dismount merchants militia or Polish Retainers?

[4zumi]

Sure, thanks. Here you go.

EDU and models.db
https://we.tl/X09arOmDAR

I made a sword militia, deleted therefore the missionaries in the americas, and replaced them with franciscans. Seemed fitting.
I used the tripolitan squires model for the militia, as they seemed the most fitting. I lowered their stats to make them more militia like. And they work fine. Available in large cities now.

[4zumi]

And a new short impression on the History 101

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I sprinkled some new historic event here and there and replaced all of the graphics with matching ones. Previously it was just the monk with the book.

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On another note:

I'm right now testing the integration of the "High Quality Sky Textures Project 1.0" by Hereje (thanks for the work)
I will see if it fits and if i keep it in TVB.

A few impressions with reshade enabled (which I am testing out also at the moment)

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And the new Sword Militia for Poland

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[wolf-yop]

you could get more unit slots if you fuse archer militia and peasant archers, I think they are the same only changes the name for castle/city. Just fuse and rename into something that works for both.

[4zumi]

Yeah, that would give me 3-4 new slots. Good idea. I will look into it, if I need the space Thanks.

[4zumi]

The Historical Battles as back in town...
(with some minor adjustments to make them work again)

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[Hellvard]

Hello zumi, I finished Dismounted Polish Nobles with javelins, hope that all will work fine Make backup of your edu and battle_models files just in case and just unpack my files to the main folder of your mod and overwrite everything. Let me know if everything's good
Here's the link

[4zumi]

Thanks a lot Hellvard,

they work really well.

I tweaked the stats a bit, lowered melee attack, defence, and morale, as they were a bit to powerful for my taste.
They fill now an on foot skrimisher role.
So Poland gets to keep the dismounted mailed knights, until they are replaced by dismounted polish knights.
And gets in addition from the tier 4 barracks the dismounted polish nobles.

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[Hellvard]

Well, it seems a little weird to me that mounted Nobles will be avalibale almost at the beggining of campaign and dismounted ones just after some time

[4zumi]

Good point,
They are now available at tier 3.

[Hellvard]

Can you tell us what are you working on now?

[4zumi]

Right now I will be gone until the end of the next week, because I have to travel work related. Not that I want to, but somehow I have to pay the bills

V2.8

But after that, i think I will start with the traits and ancillaries related to the unique buildings and maybe some more.
I think this will be tedious work and I have to be really careful to implement them to avoid CTDs.
After that, or maybe before that I will evaluate if i would like to see islamic princesses in the game or not.
To finalize this iteration, the Mongols will get their own conversion video.
During that, there will be some minor tweaks and changes along the way.

I think this will conclude in a 2.8 version.


This will be 2.9

After that I will have to see how it progresses. Everything I write here is highly speculative.
I will think about the AI suggestes by atthias.
Maybe some battlemap graphic tweaks...
Maybe some tweaks on the campaign map...
Maybe some other things, but I do not know what.


2.9 - 3.0 (or 2.99)
will be very much only polishing.
Looking a every faction again, looking at every roster,...
every starting position, every whatsoever...
You get the idea.
What will definitively happen in this update span is, the final iteration of the intro movies, the main menu movie and the custom movies...
every settlement

After that, the work is planned to be done... maybe

[4zumi]

Hey Hellvard,

just a short update. I found this in the log

20:45:31.839 [script.err] [error] Script Error in mods/totalvanillab/data/export_descr_unit.txt, at line 7618, column 1
Missing skeleton for secondary weapon in model type 'Dismounted_Polish_Nobles', used by unit 'Dismounted Polish Nobles'.

I am not sure if I can ignore this (everything seems to work fine so far).

Maybe you know the answer. Thanks

[Cokjan]

Traits and Ancillaries? I am sold!
Just to name a few for ideas

Sharif of Mecca (+2 piety, +5 morale.)
Toledo Blacksmith (+2 melee attack, +2 melee defence)
Templar Retinue (-5% chance of assassination)
The Butcher (-5 morale for enemy, gained by massacring 5 towns *if possible anyway*)

The system in stainless steel worked well, although it would be time consuming to create 'titles' for each regions...

[Hellvard]

It's very weird, because I don't have anything like this in my log I tried to set it on both *trace and *error mode, I see some errors, but nothing about this unit.

[4zumi]

@cokjan
Thanks, I will keep those in mind.
And I will see how far I will go with the traits and ancillaries.

@hellvard
Mhhh, maybe I made a mistake. Yes I made one. I transfered your modeldb entries by hand and forgot the last part were the weapons are defined.
That should solve the mystery

[paleologos]

Good job so far people and good luck with the 3.0!

[4zumi]

Thanks paleologos

[4zumi]

So, after a draining out of town work experience and now beaten down with the flu, I present you a first peak on the traits and ancillaries that I am working on.
This will take some time, as I have to make sure to not make any mistakes.

Possible Ancillary gained from the Saint Patricks Cathedral in Dublin (by every character)

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Possible Trait gained from the Saint Patricks Cathedral (Priests)


Possible Trait gained from Notre Dame (Priests)


Possible Ancillary gained from Nottingham (Generals) with Chivalry


Possible Ancillary gained from Nottingham (Generals) with Dread


Title given to General in Settlement (Generals can only gain one title and none if they have already one. Nonetheless more titles can be moved manually on one character.)