[Release]KCC (Kostic Chronology Costumes) - included in the SSHIP 098

[kostic]

For now, only the emirs or the caliph look different from other Muslim generals. Maybe I will go further but it is not my priority and my problem converting .ms3d to .cas greatly limits me.


- I removed all the princesses with Henins (15th century headdresses) or with a little historical aspect to replace them with the type of model published above by changing the colors according to the factions.


- I also deleted the models of Italian merchants for the same reason as for the princesses (late 15th century models). They are replaced by models of the same type as those of the Byzantines and Georgians.


- For diplomats, I keep an old model for the papal states only.

[M.A.E]

thanks for the minimod, +rep
can u give the eastern factions as Turks, egypt some love ? like the late janissary infantry in eras total war mod ?

[kostic]

I think I do something with the eastern factions, it's in my schedule, but I'm less comfortable with them than with the western factions.

[kostic]

Playing and advancing in the mod takes time !
So I only completed the first 3 steps on my to-do list, but while playing a campaign with the Papal's States, I took the opportunity to create a special general each time the player brings their Pope to the battlefield.




I also noticed that the mercenary_spearmen looked too much like heavy sergeants, or armored_sergeant. So I did them again.

[M.A.E]

mosty the rum seljuks (turks in anatolia) need better late texture like janissary swordsmen as in eras total war and new texture to the janissary heavy infantry to be more (ottomanic)

[kostic]

My priority is to work on the first periods (12th-13th century) and there is so much to do already...
If I can achieve all that I want, I hope one day to be able to deal with these Janissaries and other late units.

[kostic]

Here is an overview of the new Muslim flag bearers. One more step in my list of corrections to make ...


islamic_early_ captain_flag for Abbasid and Seldjuk


Here a flag carrier in the middle of the terrible battle which saw my army of crusaders defeat that of the Armenian rebels of Sis, with my Pope in general in chief !

[kostic]

For the installation of KCC 0.9.5 after patch F, I added some possible elements in the overview page.

[Kilgore Trout]

Link to unit cards by Nemesis says, "File not found."

[Nemesis2345]

Link to unit cards by Nemesis says, "File not found."

I am reworking them from scratch , and sadly due to HDD crashing i lost all the previous work so thats a bummer sadly

[Kilgore Trout]

Oh no, that is too bad. I did see how wonderful they were and look forward to you hopefully completing a new set in the near future.

[kostic]

@Nemesis : Yes, it's a shame ! I hope you will have the courage to go back to it one day when our next version is released.


I am currently reworking the Muslim units. Here is the Saracen militia or "Ahdath militia" and its improvement:

[j.a.luna]

Yeah look great! In what images or resources have you guided yourself to make them?
Do you plan to make them different according to the faction?( Different shields, uniforms, armours...) for example to make "new skins" for the Andalusian Saracen or Moorish militias different from the Abbasis or Seljuks.
Would you like to create new units or are you going to "remodel" the current Muslim units for now?

[kostic]

I don't plan to create new units at this time. I am trying to improve the ones already in place so that they correspond better to the 12th-13th century.


The unit in question Ahdath militia is used by all Muslim factions (except the Seljuk who only use Shurtah milia)
I don't have a specific model for the evaluation of these militiamen. I rely on the information provided in the game, such as their skill and protection statistics for example in order to keep consistency with other similar units (for example, Shurtah militia is a less empowered and less protected militia unit)


If you have images for me to suggest, I intend to redo:
- Fari archers
- the Ghulams
- Improved first level Arab infantry

To differentiate units between factions, I just think I resorted to color. Changing the textures is possible but more tedious.
If you have any details to give on the units of the Moors that interests me, of course !

[j.a.luna]

I don't plan to create new units at this time. I am trying to improve the ones already in place so that they correspond better to the 12th-13th century.


The unit in question Ahdath militia is used by all Muslim factions (except the Seljuk who only use Shurtah milia)
I don't have a specific model for the evaluation of these militiamen. I rely on the information provided in the game, such as their skill and protection statistics for example in order to keep consistency with other similar units (for example, Shurtah militia is a less empowered and less protected militia unit)


If you have images for me to suggest, I intend to redo:
- Fari archers
- the Ghulams
- Improved first level Arab infantry

To differentiate units between factions, I just think I resorted to color. Changing the textures is possible but more tedious.
If you have any details to give on the units of the Moors that interests me, of course !

ok friend i suggest you various images for your unit work, if you need something more tell me it.


FARIS (MUSLIM NOBLES/KNIGHTS)

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GHULAMS

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ARAB INFANTRY

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AND HERE SOME ANDALUSIAN TROOPS FOR IMPROVE THE "ALMORAVID/ALMOHAD/MOORS UNIT ROSTER", FOR EXAMPLE NEW MODELS FOR ANDALUSIAN SPEARMEN AND ARCHERS AND MAYBE MAKE NEW UNITS AS MY PROPOSAL FOR ANDALUSIAN TROOPS, HERE THE LINK.
https://www.twcenter.net/forums/show...N-amp-CASTILLE

https://arrecaballo.es/edad-media/la...os-musulmanes/

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[kostic]

Thank you for your documentation ! I just finished the first level of Faris archers on foot and on horseback. I'll post later because now I'm going to bed.

[Macaras]

Hi Kostic, I am playing the Serbian campaign (KCC 0.95 SSHIP 0.97 patch G) and encountered an CTD while starting the battle - after a while I found out what is the problem. Whenever I have spear militia upgraded to level 2 the game crashes. So I found the entry in the export_desc_units.txt:

type Spear Militia
dictionary Spear_Militia ; Spear Militia : urban militia
category infantry
class spearmen
voice_type Light
banner faction main_spear
banner holy crusade
soldier Spear_Militia, 60, 0, 0.95, 0.30
officer northern_captain
mount_effect horse +2, camel +2
attributes sea_faring, hide_forest, can_withdraw, free_upkeep_unit
move_speed_mod 0.96
formation 1.2, 1.2, 2.4, 2.4, 5, square
stat_health 1, 0
stat_pri 1, 2, no, 0, 0, melee, melee_blade, piercing, spear, 90, 1
stat_pri_attr light_spear
stat_sec 0, 0, no, 0, 0, no, melee_simple, blunt, none, 0, 1
stat_sec_attr no
stat_pri_armour 1, 1, 4, flesh
stat_sec_armour 0, 0, flesh
stat_heat 2
stat_ground 1, -1, 3, 0
stat_mental 3, low, untrained
stat_charge_dist 6
stat_fire_delay 0
stat_food 60, 300
stat_cost 1, 334, 334, 75, 334, 334, 4, 100
armour_ug_levels 0, 1, 6, 10
armour_ug_models Spear_Militia, Spear_Militia_ug1, Spear_Militia_ug2, Spear_Militia_ug3
ownership england, norway, scotland, france, hre, denmark, spain, aragon, portugal, serbia, jerusalem, slave
era 0 england, norway, scotland, france, hre, denmark, spain, aragon, portugal, serbia, jerusalem
recruit_priority_offset 0
;133

After changin the line from:

armour_ug_models Spear_Militia, Spear_Militia_ug1, Spear_Militia_ug2, Spear_Militia_ug3

To

armour_ug_models Spear_Militia, Spear_Militia_ug1, Spear_Militia_ug1, Spear_Militia_ug3

No more crashes. Its just a hint, maybe you want to check what exactly is going on.. Many faction use this model so probably many players may be potentially afected.

[kostic]

I found the error. Spear_militia_ug2 and spear_militia_ug3 did not have texture only for serbia !!! Sorry for this thoughtlessness ...


You can return the 4 levels of upgrades to the battle_model.modeldb file once you have added this textures gs_kmail_kmail_serbia.rar in:
data / unit_models / sandy_units / en_lmail_hmail / textures

If you don't, you won't get the ug3 buff either.

[kostic]

So I modified my ahdath militia a little and took into account the proposals of l.a.juna to carry out these units.
You will see the ahdath militia and their upgrade, the faris archers on foot and on horseback ... that's all for now.
The colors are those for the Moors faction. I haven't changed the colors for each faction yet.

AHDATH MILITIA


ADATH MILITIA UG1


FARIS FOOT ARCHERS


FARIS ARCHERS




SOME BATTLE SCREENSHOOTS

[Nemesis2345]

They look great honestly !