★ TLR v1.9 Beta 6 - Beta Download & Discussion ★

[tornnight]

TLR version 1.9 Beta 6 available

Updated March 26, 10:35 EST

Primary Download Here
Secondary Download Here

v1.9 Beta 5 Archive


Your splash screen should look like this.


There is no installer. Installer will be included in the final
This is just a simple zip file with the files in it.
Just unzip it to C:\Program Files\SEGA\Medieval II Total War
It won't overwrite your current game.
Execute it by running
C:\Program Files\SEGA\Medieval II Total War\The_Long_Road_Beta.bat

What's new in Beta 1
- Armor based Era System
- Era System for bigger walls
- Era System for gunpowder
- New Building Scheme for barracks (Option 3 from the poll)
- Portugal Map Fixes
- Improved Battle AI
- Fixed Cardinals
- Population growth lowered
- Biggest Castle at start is a Wooden Castle (Keep style)
- Biggest City is a regular stone wall city.

Whats new in Beta 2
- Fixed Building Tree
- All new Campaign AI and Diplomacy
- Only Militia has free upkeep
- Crossbowmen can fire better from walls
- Improved AI Siege Formations
- Fixes to Cavalry getting stuck on rocks
- Additional minor fixes.

Whats new in Beta 3
- Various new provinces and faction starting situations
- More difficult independent provinces
- Balanced Units!!!
- Tweaked Battle and Siege AI
- Blood, Broads, and Bastards v1.9
- Reduced number of Inquisitors
- Other minor fixes

Whats new in Beta 4
- Adjusted Moorish/Spanish/Egyptian faction starting situation
- Balanced 2 handed axe Units
- Balanced gunpowder Units
- Balanced Byzantium infantry units
- Tweaked/Balanced Pikemen
- Some corrections to the recruitment tree.

Whats new in Beta 5
- Improved Campaign AI. More field battles.
- Campaign AI Fixes. AI no longer attacks just because it has an alliance and slightly dislikes you.
- Global Reputation will normalize a bit quicker.
- Fixes to Map for accessing West Africa Coast with early ships
- Unit cost/upkeep increased
- Adjusted starting situations for Sicily, Byzantium, Venice, Spain
- Diplomats now always recruitable. Town Hall type buildings give diplomat experience.
- Pikemen have weaker secondary attacks
- Elephant crew attacks corrected and cost/upkeep adjusted
- 5 new provinces
-- 2 in Iberia
-- 1 in the British Isles
-- 1 in Italy
-- 1 in Eastern Africa
- Other minor fixes

Whats new in Beta 6
- Burrek's Knights & Knaves.
- Burrek's Early and Late Era Reskins
- Dismounted Order Knights.
- WhiteWolf's Byzantium Reskin
- New Extended East Map
- Leader Names and Faction Start Fixes
- Resource Adjustments
- A plethora of new events
- City Title Ancillaries for all regions
- Maximum number of regions
- Many fixes

Whats not in yet
- New Mercenary Units
- Military Rank System
- Peerage
- Leadership
- New Factions

Remember, I can't guarantee that the saves for this will be compatible with the final. Please give me plenty of feedback on playability, enjoyability.

Let me know if (Specifics please)
-the era system needs balancing
-diplomacy needs balancing
-recruitment needs balancing
-build tree is broken
-battle issues
-unit balance issues
-map issues

TLR Team

• Unit Balance, Building Balance, Economy Balance, AI Development, Map creation: tornnight
• City Title Artwork, Event Graphics: acegogo
• City Titles: Averroës & Lopus
• Resource Adjustments: Averroës
• Historical Events: Hissing Fauna
• Mercenary Upgrades : Admiral-Krause
• Realistic Family Names : Lopus
• Faction Starting Situations: Lopus

Contributors to The Long Road

• Big Map: Spurious
• Splash Screens, Blood Mod, Textures, Units: Burrek
• Battle AI Improvements: DarthVader
• Blood, Broads, & Bastards: Dearmad & Pnutmaster
• Byzantium Reskin: WhiteWolf
• City Title Graphics: Tokus*Maximus
• Everyone else in the forums who gave us feedback.

[Irishmafia2020]

Downloading now... but I'll probably finish 9.5 campaign before I wade into this... or maybe not ...
Thanks for all of your hard work, Torrnight and team!

[Oldgamer]

tornnight,

You and the team have put together a marvelous mod. You are to be commended for your hard work. This can only get better with the 1.2 Patch, although it's hard to fathom, at this point (if only CA gets rid of that damned "Cavalry Safe Escort Syndrome" ... I want to slaughter routing troops!).

I'll let you know how it goes.

[Shatstaffel]

Testing it out right now, thanks for the updates!

[Condottiere SOG]

testing now!

[TheWhaaaaat!]

Im getting a CTD as soon as I start a campaign as any faction.

[Lord_Calidor]

Is it possible to incorporate Knights Templar 2nd armor upgrade fix, into future versions? Stand alone mod can be found here: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=80328 .

In vanilla, all orders have 2 armor upgrades, except Templars. Reasoning behind that decision was, AFAIK, that order was dissolved in 1312., before they could upgrade to full plates. If the in-game event, that "unlocks" other full plated units comes before that, I think you should enable Templars also to upgrade.

More technically, this mod uses it's own modified battle_models.modeldb, so it's not compatible with other mods changing it.

[tornnight]

Im getting a CTD as soon as I start a campaign as any faction.

This latest version has many new features that may not be compatible with other mods you have installed in the base data directory. Only thing I can suggest is that maybe you need to make your data directory like vanilla or reinstall unfortunately.

Is it possible to incorporate Knights Templar 2nd armor upgrade fix, into future versions? Stand alone mod can be found here: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=80328 .

In vanilla, all orders have 2 armor upgrades, except Templars. Reasoning behind that decision was, AFAIK, that order was dissolved in 1312., before they could upgrade to full plates. If the in-game event, that "unlocks" other full plated units comes before that, I think you should enable Templars also to upgrade.

More technically, this mod uses it's own modified battle_models.modeldb, so it's not compatible with other mods changing it.

The templars get disabled after the templar disband event now so there isn't much need to give them the 2nd upgrade. I'll look into it though.

[onefistedboxer]

Ive been taking a break waiting for m2tw for a bit waiting for 1.2 i might start again just for this.

Do you think the disband templar knights event is really necessary? - wont it ruin the development of some peoples games if they rely on the Templars. I know the historical accuracy argument but whats the point of a game if not to take control of the period. You might aswell start ending the Byzantine empire automatically at a set period. I havn't played to this point so do the players get anything out of it?

Also there was talk of a possible garrison script - perhaps an easier method would be to make town militia weaker and dirt cheap but spawn on the same turn as they are bought.

Great work - good luck in the awards!

[tornnight]

Thats a good point. I think I'll have to rethink that idea.

I doubt I will do a Garrison script unless something changes. There are too many issues with the current implementations. Perhaps 1.2 will add some new script fuctionality? That would be nice.

1. Excessive Slow-downs / Instability because of a seperate script needed for EVERY individual settlement.
2. The AI doesn't know about it and won't/can't prepare for it and I don't like allowing the AI to cheat if I can help it.

[TheWhaaaaat!]

I tried with a clean install and same CTD, vanilla is working fine though and 1.9 beta 5 worked fine too aswell. I checked the system.log file it looks like an unkown error unfortunatly.

04:52:07.042 [system.io] [trace] file open,,The_Long_Road_Beta/data/world/maps/base/map.rwm,13639008
04:52:07.042 [system.io] [info] open: found The_Long_Road_Beta/data/world/maps/base/map.rwm (from: C:\Program Files (x86)\SEGA\Medieval II Total War)
04:52:07.073 [bink] [debug] [data/fmv/menu/DUMP0000.BIK]Pause on
04:52:07.457 [system.rpt] [error] Medieval 2: Total War encountered an unspecified error and will now exit.

[tornnight]

Hmm. When I get home, I'll make you a list of things to try. I'm at work right now and don't have access to my files.

[TheWhaaaaat!]

Cool, thanks man

[Goatbuster3000]

OMG a new release! Thanks tornnight for this wonderful mod!

[onefistedboxer]

I agree with your stance on the garrison script - its just not worth it right now, thats why i suggested having instant build levies.

I think some of the other projects you've got going sound more original and interesting than the garrison script anyway.

Off to custom battle it!

[k_161]

Testing now .keep up the good work

[TheWhaaaaat!]

OK Torn I got it to work, had to uninstall again and did another clean install to a completly different directory on my D: partition. It now works perfect.

[onefistedboxer]

Lookin good posted initial thoughts in edu section

Ive just seen the native troops/mercenary project beta - is it compatable with this release and is it stable/worth trying yet.

[Shatstaffel]

Nice map on the loading screens - looks familiar somehow!

[Oldgamer]

I'm playing as Byzantium (love the new colors and armor scheme). I'm up to 58000 population in Constantinople, and was wondering when I would be allowed to upgrade? Is this a bug, or is something missing from a text?

By the way, I destroyed a Sicilian army near Durazzo and killed the Sicilian king on the first turn of the campaign! 1-1 odds. I did have to hire some mercs, though. Even so, I still only had two infantry units.