A Review of Chivalry II: The Sicilian Vespers from a long-time fan

**Drtad** · September 21, 2020, 12:24 PM

Back in the day, Chivalry 2 was one of my favorite Medieval 2 mods. It still is! I think it definitely deserves more attention than it gets.

**Jurand of Cracow** · September 22, 2020, 01:53 AM

Good review, I've added it to my list of advices which mod to play in the Med2.
thanks!
JoC

**shikaka** · September 22, 2020, 06:54 AM

It is a nice mod indeed, a pity that 4.0 was never released. I especially like that it included often neglected factions like Georgia, Armenia, Bulgaria, Latin Empire or Aragón.

I also second the comment that there are not many mods which are not heavy with scripts and graphics, which the engine/AI cannot really deal with.

My only concern is that while I really liked the difficult gameplay, smaller armies (much better than stack spams), extrastrong rebels, the AI was not really capable of dealing with them. I often felt that it is difficult to start rolling, but I you do, the AI will not be able to stop you. "one stack of professionals to rule them all".

It's a pity that there still isn't a proper follow up mod, similar to this. Especially with high/late era campaigns, with skins managable by an average computer.

**sullivanclan1** · September 22, 2020, 09:46 AM

How were you able to get the mod installed and started? I've tried to make this mod work for years and it never worked. Is there a tutorial on how to install it?

**Jurand of Cracow** · September 22, 2020, 01:32 PM

Originally Posted by sullivanclan1

How were you able to get the mod installed and started? I've tried to make this mod work for years and it never worked. Is there a tutorial on how to install it?

Install as it should be. Then untick the "read-only" attributes for all folders and files. I think it should work then.

**sullivanclan1** · September 23, 2020, 07:16 AM

all of them are read-only?

**Jurand of Cracow** · September 23, 2020, 08:12 AM

Originally Posted by sullivanclan1

all of them are read-only?

check yourself. I had to do it. I've made it for each of the main folders separately.

**shikaka** · September 24, 2020, 01:43 PM

Originally Posted by Jurand of Cracow

Install as it should be. Then untick the "read-only" attributes for all folders and files. I think it should work then.

Just tried, and it indeed works.

@sullivanclan1:
1: install into the main M2TW folder. Eg.: c:\user...\games\M2TW (not M2TW/mods, or M2TW/mods/Sicilianvespers.). Do this with all three files.
2: during install, when asked, allow to overwrite files
3: after installing all 3 parts, right click on all 5 folders in M2TW/mods/Sicilianvespers. Remove read only. If asked, allow it to apply action to all subfolders and files.
4: launch game, press the referring button for each era (1311 start is the grand campaign, the rest are among custom campaigns)

**sullivanclan1** · September 24, 2020, 03:45 PM

I think i messed something up with the main vanilla game. I am searching for some help.

**shikaka** · September 24, 2020, 11:53 PM

Originally Posted by sullivanclan1

I think i messed something up with the main vanilla game. I am searching for some help.

If you are not confident in installing mods, I think the easiest is:
1: install vanilla M2
2: make a copy of your whole M2 install, and save the original as a backup. (so you have like ...games\M2TW and ...games/M2TWmodded)
3: use the copy to install mods onto
This way you always have a fallback option to not start from scratch if something goes wrong.

**sullivanclan1** · September 27, 2020, 06:06 PM

how good are you at creating unit cards? just curious!!

**Jurand of Cracow** · March 23, 2021, 01:35 AM

Originally Posted by shikaka

It is a nice mod indeed, a pity that 4.0 was never released. I especially like that it included often neglected factions like Georgia, Armenia, Bulgaria, Latin Empire or Aragón.

I wonder if you, @Drtad, know why 4.0 failed? The mod leader lost interest? A conflict within the team (as, apprently, was the case for Bellum Crucis - with that ban from the mapmaker)