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Character Names Project

2009-07-21T00:51:45Z

Scorch:

{{mod4|mod=Character Names Project|image=[[Image:No image.png]]|platform=[[Medieval II: Total War]]|era=Medieval|leader=[[finneys13]]|release=[http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=102267 V3.00]}}

== Overview ==
The Character Names Project's goal is to overhaul all of [[M2TW]]'s character names so that they are as historically accurate as possible. Furthermore, the mod aims to increase the number of names in each list in order to create a more diverse character (specifically family) tree in M2TW.

== Features ==
* Authentic period names (with proper spellings and accents, etc.)
* More diversity amongst names (the modified lists are larger than the vanilla lists)
* All families will start the game with surnames/bynames
* Popes will have proper regnal names
* 18 factions with entirely new character names lists
* Factions titles, ie. King and Prince, in native languages and grammar
* Common regal names will appear more often for their factions

== Factions Covered ==

New factions added with CNP 3.0:

*'''[[Byzantium]]''' ~500 names. Author: ''[[Giorgos]]''
*'''[[Egypt]]''' ~450 names. Author: ''[[Osiris1975]]''
*'''[[Milan]]''' 237 names. Author: ''[[Odovacar]]''
*'''[[Moors]]''' ~460 names. Authors: ''[[Osiris1975]], [[Averroës]], [[Captain Blackadder]] & [[Serious samurai]]''
*'''[[Poland]]''' 264 names. Authors: ''[[John217]], [[Polak966]] & [[otark]]''
*'''[[Russia]]''' ~300 names. Authors: ''[[ivan_the_terrible]] & [[otark]]''

From previous versions:

*'''[[Denmark]]''' ~480 names. Authors: ''[[Atterdag]] & [[Vindahl]]''
*'''[[England]]''' ~490 names. Authors: ''[[Kingmaker]] & [[deRougemont]]''
*'''[[France]]''' ~400 names. Authors: ''[[Kingmaker]] & [[Johan217]]''
*'''[[Holy Roman Empire]]''' ~480 names. Authors: ''[[deRougemont]]''
*'''[[Hungary]]''' ~230 names. Authors: ''[[Odovacar]]''
*'''[[Papal States]]''' [Only modified regnal names for Popes; ~60 names. Authors: ''[[deRougemont]]''
*'''[[Portugal]]''' ~250 names. Authors: ''[[Manji]]''
*'''[[Scotland]]''' ~180 names. Authors: ''[[finneys13]]''
*'''[[Sicily]]''' ~370 names. Authors: ''[[SicilianVespers]] & [[Black Francis]]''
*'''[[Spain]]''' ~350 names. Authors: ''[[Pelusa]]''
*'''[[Turks]]''' ~430 names. Authors: ''[[chgo]]''
*'''[[Venice]]''' ~320 names. Authors: ''[[deRougemont]], [[Manji]], & [[Re Berengario I]]''

==Team==

*[[finneys13]] - Mod leader

==Releases==
*[http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=102267 CNP v3.00]

== External Links ==
*Character Names Project [http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=327 forum] at TWC.

[[Category:Medieval 2: Total War Modifications (Released)]]

Bulgaria: Total War

2009-07-21T00:50:15Z

Scorch: removed the link to the mod form and category tag of 'Hosted Modification'

{{mod4|mod=Bulgaria: Total War|image=[[Image:BulgariaTW.jpg]]|platform=[[Medieval 2: Total War]]|era=Medieval|leader=[[gogo t]]|release=[http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=179746 Version 2.0]}}

==Overview==
Bulgaria: Total War adds a new Bulgarian faction to the game, extends the campaign map, provides many new skins and includes various other minor modifications by other authors.

==Features==
===New Faction===
Tsardom of Bulgaria
* Brand new historical Bulgarian faction
* Many new Bulgarian unique units
* Skins for all Bulgarian units

===Campaign Map===
* 30 New Provinces
* 2 new ages – Early and High, whereas in each of them the factions start with different territories and leaders. The levels of developments of the towns and castles is also different in the different ages
* Milan is removed from both ages and in the High one it's replaced with the Latin Empire (LE)

===Other===
* Added is a mod for the AI – Ultimate AI of the opponents – both on the battlefield and on the strategic map
* New menus and loading screens
* The Xenophonia mod is also included, adding several new languages to the game - Russian, French, Italian, Spanish and German
* Added is the Real Combat mod for longer and more realistic battles
* Added is a mod for the change of appearance of the Western factions
See all changes [http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=179746 here]

== Team and Credits==
*'''Gogo_t''' - Team Leader, 3D models, Textures, 2D Art, Web Design
*'''M.Minkov''' - Text Editing and Scripting, Textures, Research
*'''Alient''' - Textures, 3D Models
*'''Burdokva''' - Textures, Research
*'''LordBG''' - Textures, 3D Models
*'''Krum''' - Multimedia
*'''NikeBG''' - Research, Web Design
*'''Groznii''' - Web Design

=== History ===
Bulgaris: Total War has seen the full releases of Version 1.0 and 2.0, and the team is currently hard at work on the much anticipated Bulgaria:TW 3.0.

==Releases==
*Version 3.0 has a projected release of unknown
*[http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=179746 Version 2.0] was released on July 22nd, 2008
*Version 1.1 was released in Q1 2008
*Version 1.0 was released in Q1 2008

==External Links==
[http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=769 Bulgaria: Total War at TWC]

[[Category:Medieval 2: Total War Modifications (Released)]]

Blood Broads & Bastards

2009-07-20T12:48:43Z

Scorch:

Blood Broads & Bastards

2009-07-20T12:43:19Z

Scorch: Finished.

Content Staff

2009-07-20T12:20:34Z

Scorch:

The Total War Center's Content Staff is responsible for writing articles and producing valuable content for the site in general. It is divided into several branches, each of which is presided by a Content Editor.

== General Information ==

*The [[administrator]] [[jimkatalanos]] is the current Content Manager. The Content Manager oversees the Content Editors who in turn organize their respective branches of Content. In order to join Content Staff, a member should send a personal message to either the Head of Content or to one of the respective Content Editors.

*Although different branches of Content Staff have different badges, all of them can be recognized by their blue names and same badge font color.

*Service in Content Staff is rewarded with Scribe's Quills awards. After three to six months of service, a Content Staff Officer will gain a bronze Scribe's Quill. After seven to twelve months, a silver quill is awarded. Once a Content Staff Officer's time of service exceeds a year, a gold quill will be given to him.

[[Image:Quillbigbronze.png‎]][[Image:Quillbigsilver.png‎]][[Image:Quillbiggold.png‎]]

''The three different Scribe's Quills.''

== Content Editor ==

The bosses of the Content Staff's respective branches. They supervise the Content Writers, Librarians and Content Artists. A list of all Content Editors can be found here[http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showgroups.php#News_Editors].

[[Image:Content_editor_radadir.png‎ ]]

== Content Writers ==

Content Writers are members who write and submit articles for the [[Helios]] or [[Eagle Standard]]. Alternatively, they can also be guide writers for the Creative Assembly's games. On the 24th of May 2009, the Critic's Quill, a group of members devoted to reviewing AAR's merged with the Eagle Standard. All members joined the Content Writers.

[[Image:Content_writer_radadir.png‎ ]]

== Librarians ==

Librarians are responsible for running the [[Scriptorium]] on TWC. They search the forums for appropriate articles and store them in the Scriptorium. Furthermore, they continually update the Scriptorium, making sure new articles are added and that old ones are still accessible and readable.

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== Content Art Staff ==

The Art Staff organizes the site's Graphics Workshop including graphical competitions. On top of that, the Art Staff Officers are also responsible for creating official medals, logos, badges and symbols for [[TWC]].

[[Image:Artist_radadir.png‎]]

[[Category:Total War Center Information]]
[[Category:TWC Staff]]

Blood Broads & Bastards

2009-07-20T11:37:52Z

Scorch: template/image/etc - used mod4 template without campaign map image

{{mod4|mod=Blood Broads & Bastards|image=[[Image:BBB_sig.jpg|300px]]|platform=[[Medieval II: Total War]]|era=Medieval|leader=[[Dearmad]] & [[Pnutmaster]]|release=[http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=1737485 V3.0]}}

===Blood Broads & Bastards===

Bloods Broads and Bastards (BBB), previously the titles, privy council, princesses simulated rebellion mod by [[Dearmad]] and [[Pnutmaster]] for [[Medieval 2: Total War]], currently at version 3.0

===Mod Growth===
[[Image:Coat_of_arms_BBB.jpg|right| Coats of Arms]]

Dearmad was disappointed that in vanilla M2TW there where no Lordships or Dukedoms to be contested and that the traits package was severely limited and contained many errors. So he set about correcting these faults in what would become the most popular mini-mod for M2TW to date. In the first version of the as yet untitled mod contained fixed vanilla traits, a few new ones of [[Dearmad]]'s devising and titles for all the vanilla map provinces, however these titles were only Duke of etc, there where no Muslim titles to be seen

The mod grew in popularity and the 1.1 build contained the long sought after Islamic titles (eg Emir of Aleppo rather than Duke of Aleppo) and again some new traits for us all to enjoy. All this brought it to the attention of [[Pnutmaster]] who, with some clever 'vnvs' coding gave the community its first glimpse at his bloodline traits, which only travelled through the male line and had the rather plain name of "Of Royal Blood" However the community ate it up and where in raptures when 1.2 and quickly 1.3 where released with interesting and varied Princesses, no more 1 charm wonders floating about, now there where hot 9 charm babes on the European scene and the new traits continued to be added much to the delight of everyone involved.

BBB became the first choice base traits package for major mods such as [[Deus lo Vult]] and [[The Long Road]]

Finally the mod, previously under a heavily long name basically listing the major changes a new and exciting name was coined, Blood Broads And Bastards, Blood for the royal blood traits, Broads for the exciting princesses, and Bastards for the new infidelity traits (if your generals dad plays the field, expect a few to crop up. Some now feel that the mod has grown outside of its new name, adding simulated rebellions and disease traits to the game, along with, for version 2.0, vanquisher traits for destroying enemy factions.

===Mod Features===
[[Image:BBB screenshot.jpg|thumb|Screen-shot, click to expand]]

This mod:
Is aimed at people who want more of an RPG experience in the game without it affecting the strategic/tactical gameplay in too overhanded a manner.

*titles for every province along with graphics. Most titles grant a little tax boost, some grant other negative effects... like the will to go it solo (lower loyalty), a few have other traits.

*major system of tracking royal blood and lineages. This series of traits by Pnutmaster will astound you and warm your RPGamer heart.

*a disease system that affects gameplay without becoming tedious and depressing.

*Privy Council Offices like King's Treasurer, the Privy Seal, Chancellor, Marshall, Master of the Horse, etc... for both player AND AI.

*Grandmasters for every Knightly Order- one international grandmaster per order, elected by his peers (sorta).

*Rebellions, where your unruly nobles can turn on you, refuse to move if they get too disloyal, and lock themselves up in a city and cause it to rebel completely unless you send a loyal noble to counteract him. The rebellion is aimed at your King, so if he "abdicates" or... whatever... things should calm down- but you can always fight for the crown!

*Archbishops for each Kingdom and the Orthodox Patriarch! Yay!

*Activated all Ancillaries found in game: Black Stallion, Body Guard, Ornate Armor, Custom Armor.

*Added new Ancillaries: Black Stallion for Princesses, a White Stallion.

*Princesses get a MAJOR OVERHAUL. They are interesting dynamic characters now. Hussies, prudes,lesbians, *****es, fertile, infertile, beautiful, ugly, affected by the genes of their mothers as well as their fathers, you name it. And a lot LESS "secret lovers."

*A NEW educational system for young princes. They can receive educations in the capital (Royal Court), in Religious Institutions, and in Castles (Martial education). They get four turns of education. However, some princes, the worst students, fail to learn anything... sorry.

*Game NOTICES when a princess comes of age ANYWHERE in the world

*when a Monarch dies a message is sent to you o if you have an intense rivalry with another king and he kicks the bucket you know it

*Fixes EVERY SINGLE VANILLA BUG in the ancillaries and traits files...
and more... believe it or not.

==External Links==

[http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=173748 Blood, Broads, & Bastards! v3.0 Discussion Thread]

[http://www.twcenter.net/forums/downloads.php?do=file&id=955 Blood, Broads, & Bastards! v3.0 Download]

[[Category:Medieval 2: Total War Modifications (Released)]]

Lands to Conquer

2009-07-14T13:44:03Z

Scorch: campaigns section of 'features' cleaned up significantly

{{EIP}}

{{mod3|mod=Lands to Conquer|image=[[Image:Map_FE.jpg]]|platform=[[Medieval II: Total War]]|era=Medieval|leader=[[Lusted]]'''|mod-folder=In mod-folder|release=[http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=137614 Lands to Conquer Gold]}}

==Overview==
Lands to Conquer is a modification for [[Medieval II: Total War]] that focuses mainly on improving and balancing gameplay.

The modification utilises features from [[Kingdoms]]: boiling oil, controllable reinforcements and unit balances are all included in Lands to Conquer. The modification also takes advantage of several new possibilities that are able to be modified in the expansion. It also features improved campaign and battle AI.

Lands to Conquer replaces the tutorial and Grand Campaign and instead provides the player with a choice of six campaigns. There are the Early, High and Late Era campaigns that are based on the Grand Campaign map from the Medieval II: Total War and start in 1080, 1210 and 1320 respectively. There are also three regional campaigns based on the Hundred Years War, Italian City States and Reconquista, each with their own unique maps focusing on different parts of Europe.

While it uses the [[Kingdoms]] .exe, it does not modify the Kingdoms campaign.

==Features==
===The Campaigns===
* The modification features an Early, Late and High Era campaign, each based on the original Grand Campaign map. They each have separate starting dates, starting in 1080, 1210 and 1321 respectively. The factions in each campaign have different starting territories, alliances and military entanglements. Settlement names also vary from Era to Era.
* The modification also features three regional campaigns:
** Hundred Years War (1337 - 1450) campaign which focuses on England, France and Scotland. The player must, in order to win, hold 20 provinces and is allowed 75 turns to do so. This campaign is designed to be fast-paced and challenging.

* Reconquista (1146 - 1280) campaign focusing on Spain and the warfare involved between Europeans and the Moors. This campaign is designed with a greater emphasis on religion and longer time-frame in mind. It features the factions of Spain, Portugal and the Moors.

* Italian City States (1280 - 1450) campaign focuses on Italy featuring the factions of Venice, Milane, the Holy Roman Empire, Sicily, Hungary and the Papal States. It is designed to be the longest campaign, with the Holy Roman Empire being the clear superpower at the beginning of the campaign.

===Battle Map===
* Improved ai coupled with a completely redone unit balance results in more challenging battles, and battles that feel more like the ones in the original Medieval: Total War.
* Terrain and weather also play more importance in battles.
* Boiling oil.

===Campaign AI===
* Stronger alliances, and allies which help each other more. This results in alliance blocs forming which also change over the course of the game.
* More logical changes to faction standings. So you and the AI will no longer always end up terrible and untrustworthy.
* More logical diplomacy, so it is now a more useful tool in the campaign.
* Rarer Catholic - Islamic alliances.
* Better AI sense of survivability. AI factions are more likely to want peace/vassal if being beaten/beaten badly.
* Better AI garrisoning settlements, and use of forces to guard it's borders.
* More aggressive AI v Independent Factions(eg the rebels from vanilla), so the AI expands much better early on and so the AI can create powerful nations.
* Better AI invasions. It will now build up more before attacking, and attack with more stacks, and stacks which have more units in them.
* Catholic factions less likely to attack each other, but still plenty of wars going on to give that Total War and Medieval experience.

=== Campaign Map ===
* Campaign is 1.5 years per turn and so is longer than normal M2TW, and population growth, income and building times/costs have been changed in line with this.
* Increased effect of religious unrest, corruption and other factors mean that religion is more important and taking care of your characters.
* The difference between cities and castles has been more emphasised by increasing the number of recruitment slots in castles and free upkeep slots in cities, making cities make more money but buildings in cities more expensive, and troop producing buildings in castles are cheaper.
* Guilds have been chaged so there is more variety in the Guilds you get offered, and the bonuses they give.
* Fight more diversly named independent factions who replace the rebels.[http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=113894 link]
* More historical province names to add more depth to the map.
* Teutonic order family system implemented for Holy Roman Empire and Venice.
* Forts which can have 2 units free of upkeep and cost more but are not permanent.
* New event messages when a faction gets a new leader.

===Graphics===
* 37 new loading screens, a new splash screen and menu background.
* New faction selection maps and radar maps all campaigns.
* Castle models from Britannia campaign added for Catholic and Orthodox factions.
* Interface from Crusades campaign given to Muslim factions.
* Menu text brightened a bit to make it stand out more on the new background.
* Several new grass textures from Kingdoms added to mod.
* Flags no longer bounce when unit selected.

== Credits==
Taken from mod installer.

A big thanks to the following modders who helped with the mod:

* Wilddog - for making all the maps for me, a truly amazing mapper.
* Jason Turnbull aka Palamedes - for his great help with unit rebalancing.
* Unspoken Crusader - for use of parts of his Custom Campaigns and Retrofit mods.
* Garnier - with his help providing info from Medieval Total War.
* CavalryCmdr - from Total War Heaven for his excellent campaign AI info thread.
* alpaca - for his help with my scripting questions.
* joerd9 - for help with some historical info.
* lawngnome - for helping with the edits to unit recruitment and settlement mechanics.

A big thanks to DrJambo, Klink, Quark, delra and others who helped me to improve the mod with their suggestions and discussions.

Another big thanks to the fans of the mod who through their feedback helped me to constantly refine the mod to make it the best it can be.

Thanks to Wikipedia for some of the historical info.

And of course huge credit to The Creative Assembly for making the Total War series.

==External Links==

[http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=302 Lands to Conquer at TWC]

[[Category:TWC_Hosted_Modifications]]
[[Category:Medieval 2: Total War Modifications (Released)]]

Lands to Conquer

2009-07-14T13:31:17Z

Scorch: adding the editing in progress tag like a good boy.

{{EIP}}

{{mod3|mod=Lands to Conquer|image=[[Image:Map_FE.jpg]]|platform=[[Medieval II: Total War]]|era=Medieval|leader=[[Lusted]]'''|mod-folder=In mod-folder|release=[http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=137614 Lands to Conquer Gold]}}

==Overview==
Lands to Conquer is a modification for [[Medieval II: Total War]] that focuses mainly on improving and balancing gameplay.

The modification utilises features from [[Kingdoms]]: boiling oil, controllable reinforcements and unit balances are all included in Lands to Conquer. The modification also takes advantage of several new possibilities that are able to be modified in the expansion. It also features improved campaign and battle AI.

While it uses the [[Kingdoms]] .exe, it does not modify the Kingdoms campaign.

==Features==
The big feature in Lands to Conquer is of course it's campaigns. It gets rid of the tutorial and Grand Campaigns from Medieval II: Total War, and instead replaces them with 6 others.

The Early, High and Late Era campaigns based on the Grand Campaign map from Medieval II: Total War are copied from the system in the original Medieval Total War. These provide campaigns starting in 1080, 1210 and 1320 respectively.

There are also The Hundred Years War, Italian City States and Reconquista campaigns featuring blown up parts of the Grand Campaign map. These regional campaigns feature more focused and diverse gameplay, and each one plays out differently and so compliment the campaigns based on the Grand Campaign map.

===The Campaigns===
* Early, Late and High Era campaigns set on the Grand Campaign map. All start at different dates: Early 1080, High 1210, Late 1321. The factions in each campaign have different territories, different alliances and wars at the start. Settlement names also vary from Era to Era.
* Hundred Years War (1337 - 1450) : map featuring England, France and Scotland on an enlarged map focusing on that area. In this campaign it's all about war, and the gameplay of the campaign will be quite fast paced and a challenge to complete on Very Hard. There is little use for diplomacy in this campaign as all the factions hate each other. Finances are also quite tight. So you should have only a few stacks going around fighting battles and assaulting castles because of your low finances, and they will be assaulting probably because you'll be a bit pushed to meet the victory conditions near the end. The campaign is just 75 turns long to take 20 provinces. But it works well, and you can as always play beyond the end date. This campaign will be especially tough as the English, and easiest as the French.
* Reconquista (1146 - 1280) : Has Spain, Moors and Portugal on a blown up map of Spain. This campaign will last longer than the HYW campaign, and you'll have to take fewer provinces so will be slower paced. But there will be more emphasis on religion. With the increased effect of religious unrest in LTC, and this campaign focusing on the wars between the Christians and Moors in Iberia, use of priests/imans to convert the populations in provinces could be key to victory, otherwise the religious unrest could seriously hamper you. The 3 factions in it also have very similar fighting styles with good skirmishing light infantry and cavalry and a core of heavy cavalry and infantry. Once again with the factions not getting on very well with one another diplomacy will not be much use.
* Italian City States (1280 - 1450) : Venice, Milan, HRE, Sicily, Hungary and Papal States(unplayable) fight it out on an enlarged Italy map. The campaign with the most factions and least provinces, it is also the longest. There will be a clear cut superpower at the start, the HRE, but they will be disliked by the Pope so won't have things all their way. The smaller nations(Venice, Milan, Hungary) will be too weak at first to take on the HRE so getting in the Popes good books and using diplomacy well will help them towards victory. In the south Sicily will be large but weak, and will have to pass through Papal lands if it marches up mainland Italy. There will be more emphasis on city troops as those are the Italian factions specialities, and on diplomacy at first and conquest later.

===Battle Map===
* Improved ai coupled with a completely redone unit balance results in more challenging battles, and battles that feel more like the ones in the original Medieval: Total War.
* Terrain and weather also play more importance in battles.
* Boiling oil.

===Campaign AI===
* Stronger alliances, and allies which help each other more. This results in alliance blocs forming which also change over the course of the game.
* More logical changes to faction standings. So you and the AI will no longer always end up terrible and untrustworthy.
* More logical diplomacy, so it is now a more useful tool in the campaign.
* Rarer Catholic - Islamic alliances.
* Better AI sense of survivability. AI factions are more likely to want peace/vassal if being beaten/beaten badly.
* Better AI garrisoning settlements, and use of forces to guard it's borders.
* More aggressive AI v Independent Factions(eg the rebels from vanilla), so the AI expands much better early on and so the AI can create powerful nations.
* Better AI invasions. It will now build up more before attacking, and attack with more stacks, and stacks which have more units in them.
* Catholic factions less likely to attack each other, but still plenty of wars going on to give that Total War and Medieval experience.

=== Campaign Map ===
* Campaign is 1.5 years per turn and so is longer than normal M2TW, and population growth, income and building times/costs have been changed in line with this.
* Increased effect of religious unrest, corruption and other factors mean that religion is more important and taking care of your characters.
* The difference between cities and castles has been more emphasised by increasing the number of recruitment slots in castles and free upkeep slots in cities, making cities make more money but buildings in cities more expensive, and troop producing buildings in castles are cheaper.
* Guilds have been chaged so there is more variety in the Guilds you get offered, and the bonuses they give.
* Fight more diversly named independent factions who replace the rebels.[http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=113894 link]
* More historical province names to add more depth to the map.
* Teutonic order family system implemented for Holy Roman Empire and Venice.
* Forts which can have 2 units free of upkeep and cost more but are not permanent.
* New event messages when a faction gets a new leader.

===Graphics===
* 37 new loading screens, a new splash screen and menu background.
* New faction selection maps and radar maps all campaigns.
* Castle models from Britannia campaign added for Catholic and Orthodox factions.
* Interface from Crusades campaign given to Muslim factions.
* Menu text brightened a bit to make it stand out more on the new background.
* Several new grass textures from Kingdoms added to mod.
* Flags no longer bounce when unit selected.

== Credits==
Taken from mod installer.

A big thanks to the following modders who helped with the mod:

* Wilddog - for making all the maps for me, a truly amazing mapper.
* Jason Turnbull aka Palamedes - for his great help with unit rebalancing.
* Unspoken Crusader - for use of parts of his Custom Campaigns and Retrofit mods.
* Garnier - with his help providing info from Medieval Total War.
* CavalryCmdr - from Total War Heaven for his excellent campaign AI info thread.
* alpaca - for his help with my scripting questions.
* joerd9 - for help with some historical info.
* lawngnome - for helping with the edits to unit recruitment and settlement mechanics.

A big thanks to DrJambo, Klink, Quark, delra and others who helped me to improve the mod with their suggestions and discussions.

Another big thanks to the fans of the mod who through their feedback helped me to constantly refine the mod to make it the best it can be.

Thanks to Wikipedia for some of the historical info.

And of course huge credit to The Creative Assembly for making the Total War series.

==External Links==

[http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=302 Lands to Conquer at TWC]

[[Category:TWC_Hosted_Modifications]]
[[Category:Medieval 2: Total War Modifications (Released)]]

Grand Campaign (ETW)

2009-07-14T13:29:19Z

Scorch:

The campaign in Empire: Total War has received a massive upgrade in size and scope with the biggest Total War campaign map yet, and a whole host of brand new features in government, alliances and revolutions. In addition to the main campaign, E:TW also features a secondary, introductory single player campaign called ''Road to Independence'', which allows the player to play through the United States' War of Independence.

==Overview==

Empire: Total War covers an era of tumultuous social change and upheaval, and therefore major changes have been made in public works, trade, diplomacy, missions and espionage to reflect the time period accurately. Included in these changes is the heavily-anticipated revolution feature, leading to the separation of countries and the forming of new distinct ones. Akin to princesses, queens are represented (given that there's Queen Anne and Catherine the Great and Empress Marie-Therese, wouldn't it be remiss to not include queens?) as well as other new agents and characters. Empire: Total War also includes an all-new fully animated campaign map. In this campaign map, the player can liberate the United States from the clutches of the dastardly British, battle for world supremacy in classical Europe, trade and barter for exotic spices and herbs in India and the Dutch East Indies or scramble for every isolated oasis in the Middle East and North Africa. To reflect this wondrous era even further, E:TW lets the player decide on their form of government between these three ideologies: absolute monarchy, constitutional monarchy, and republic. Every form of government influences your relations with other countries, how the players deals with revolts and how speedy the player will be able to develop new groundbreaking technologies in a variety of ways. Slavery, which unfortunately plagued this era in history, does get representation in E:TW, however there are limits to the amount of involvement the player can commit towards it. Religion and the Pope maintain a presence, but a degraded one. With all these features, the player will be set to become a crafty statesman forever known as a founding father of their respective nation or a mighty and powerful general who lead their country to glory and ''true'' worldwide conquest.

==Features==

===The Campaign Map===

The Empire: Total War campaign map covers Europe, the Middle East, India, North America, and the Caribbean. There are also sea-only trade regions off the coasts of Brazil, Africa, and the East Indies (the Dutch Spice Islands). Since the campaign map is stretched across the globe, the different locations are divided into theatres. In order to transverse from one theatre to another by naval means, Empire: Total War introduces 'transition zones'. The player must sail their ships or transports into one of these transition zones and sometime later the player's ship will arrive in the next theatre. Thamis, CA developer, stated "to sail from Europe to India, for example, you would sail to the Canary Islands, transition of the Ivory Coast, transition of the Straits of Madagascar, and then transition to India." In addition, the player may select another theatre as a destination point and their ship will happily oblige, but may get intercepted by pirates or other disruptions along the way.

===Taxes===

Rather than managing each region individually and specifically, like in Medieval 2: Total War and Rome: Total War, Empire: Total War introduces "governorships", which, according to Thamis, "are treated as one tax region". This governorship can consist of many regions and is managed by one governor alone. The player can let the government auto-manage taxes, or the player can take the economic role into their own hands and control the set tax amounts for the nobles, burghers and lower class, which is a new feature to the Total War series. In addition, when the populace is feeling rebellious, the player may cut taxes out completely for a given time to ease the tensions and increase happiness.

===Army Movement===

In Rome: Total War and Medieval 2: Total War, the campaign map was divided into army-sized tiles, meaning each tile could hold exactly one army. However, in Empire: Total War there will be absolutely no tile-system. The whole campaign will be freeform, the player can transverse anywhere on the map (to a certain extent) without being held up and without having your enemy enclose you next to lofty mountains and marshy rivers. "It's like taking the squares off the chessboard."

===Technology Tree===

In a new addition to the Total War series, Empire: Total War introduces a technology system that enables the player to research new innovative technologies while constructing and upgrading new buildings and advancements. The campaign will provide a host of technologies that the player can pursue and focus on, and each technology is equipped with beneficial and disadvantageous traits. For example, one technology may give your units a wider selection of special abilities on the battlefield; another technology might improve the type of ordnance your artillery carries; a third technology can enable new building infrastructure to facilitate the flow of your economy, and so on.

[[category:ETW Information]]

User talk:Pontifex Maximus

2009-07-14T12:55:49Z

Scorch:

What's up. Just so you know, this is your talk page; you can use it for heaps of shit, but if you wanna talk wiki stuff you can always do it here/on my talk page.

[[User:Scorch|Scorch]] 12:55, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

2009-07-12T13:44:26Z

Scorch: Lite mod moved to Lite Mod: CAPITAL M!

[[Category:Medieval 2: Total War Modifications (Released)]]
{{mod3|mod=Lite Mod|platform=[[Medieval II: Total War]]|era=Middle Ages|leader='''Candelarius'''|release=[http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=72874]}}
==Overview==
The Lite Mod for Medieval II: Total War removes some minor and major bugs that were not addressed in the official. Versions of the Lite Mod exist for both the 1.1 and the 1.2 patches.

The mod will work specifically on Medieval II patched to Version 1.2; Version 1.3 and Kingdoms are not compatible. It is recommended that one be aware of the requirements and conditions prior to downloading.

See [http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=72874 this thread] for downloads and discussion.
==Features==
*The modification balances the stats of several units, such as Pikemen, Halberd Militia and Janissary Heavy Infantry.
*All factions are unlocked.
*Additional mercenary units are made available for selection in custom battles.
*Several missing units are included.
*Various ancillaries and traits are corrected.
*zxiang1983's ballista and cannon tower fix is included

==Team==
*[http://www.twcenter.net/forums/member.php?u=1531 Candelarius] - Team Leader
*[[Lusted]] - Contributor
*[[Spurius]] - Contributor

==Releases==
[http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=72874 Link to release on TWC]

2009-07-07T13:24:11Z

Scorch:

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2009-07-07T13:20:32Z

Scorch:

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Additions to CAE

2009-07-07T13:17:55Z

Scorch: Removed category "M2TW Mods"; Quick-adding category "Medieval 2: Total War Modifications (Released)" (using HotCat)

{{mod|mod=Additions to CAE|modscreenshot=No image.png|platform=[[Medieval II: Total War]]|era=Medieval|leader=[[Ieuano]]}}

This mod adds various new traits to [[Clouds Across Europe]] by [[Zephrelial]] and brand new AI for CAE's '''six''' new factions.

Also included are bloodline traits for the new factions, which are Wallachia, Caliphate of the Abbasids, The Crusaders, Kwarezmshah, The Teutonic Order and Lithuania

[[Blood Broads & Bastards | BBB]] 2.1 is fully intergrated

[[Fareinheit]]'s Mentor Mod

[[Hephaistos]]'s Interesting Admirals

[[Byg]]'s Grim Reality 2 traits (modified)

And more goodies to please the [[Clouds Across Europe | CAE]] player

==External Links==
*[http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=109606 Mod Thread and Download Link]

[[Category:Medieval 2: Total War Modifications (Released)]]

Renaissance Total War

2009-07-07T13:17:42Z

Scorch: Removed category "M2TW Mods"; Quick-adding category "Medieval 2: Total War Modifications (Released)" (using HotCat)

{{mod|mod=Renaissance Total War|modscreenshot=Renaissance_total_war.jpg|platform=[[:Category:Medieval_2:_Total_War| Medieval II - Total War]]|era=Renaissance - start date 1493|leader=[[Ramtha]] (not a TWC member anymore), [[justme]], [[DrIstvaan]] }}
==Releases==
Version 2.75 released in [http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=81467 this thread] in January 2007.

==Features==
===Release 2.75===
*60+ new regions
*New Faction: Teutonic Order
*Darth Formations
*Darth Campaign AI
*The mod starts at 1493
*Remade factions starting positions to be accurate for the time period
*Timurids and Mongols fully playable without their invasion event.
*Late era units( halberdiers, arquebusiers) available straight from the start
*Disabled militia and outdated units
*Renamed some units to match with the time period
*Renamed the following factions:
:Mongols: The Golden Horde
:Timurids: The Timurid Empire
:Egypt: The Mameluke Sultanate
:Turks: The Ottoman Empire
:Spain: The Kingdom Of Castille/Aragon
:Russia: The Principality Of Muscovy
*Dismounted Gothic Knights recruitable in the campaign.
*Disabled rebelling characters.
*Increased happiness in cities.
*Settlements are well-developed.
*Increased population levels.

===Release 3.0===
A more extensive modification for release 3.0 is currently being worked on.

==Team==
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*[[Ramtha]] - Creator
*[[DrIstvaan]] - Settlement, economics, building, and recruitment editor, technical assistance
*[[Justme]] - Campaign editor, Team Historian
*[[Serious samurai]]- Splash screener, Beta Tester, Battle Mechanics Editor
*[[Arfrisco]]- Team Historian
*[[sabre657]]- Ottoman and English Historian and model.db coder
*[[toopers-]] Swiss Historian
*[[Hamish of Clan Dickson]]- Scottish Historian
*[[Zkickin]]- skinner
*[[Lonely Guardian]] - skinner, coder
*[[Cadmium77]] - Art Expert
*[[Condottiere SOG]] - Italian and Warfare Researcher
*[[Yggdrasill]] - Unit contributor, Historian
*[[Dimitri_Harkov]] - Germany Area Specific Researcher

==See Also==
[[Renaissance Total War (form)|Renaissance Total War - Mod Registration Form]]

==External Links==
Renaissance Total War [http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=316 hosted forums] at TWC.

[[Category:TWC_Hosted_Modifications]]
[[Category:Medieval 2: Total War Modifications (Released)]]

Regions & Provinces Mod

2009-07-07T13:17:33Z

Scorch: Removed category "M2TW Mods"; Quick-adding category "Medieval 2: Total War Modifications (Released)" (using HotCat)

Regions & Provinces Mod Adds 69 Regions, Faction Name Changes, Historical name changes, garrison changes , more variety of units, New victory conditions.

[http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=356 TWC Hosted Forum]

[[Category:TWC_Hosted_Modifications]]
[[Category:Medieval 2: Total War Modifications (Released)]]

Lite Mod

2009-07-07T13:17:11Z

Scorch: Removed category "M2TW Mods"; Quick-adding category "Medieval 2: Total War Modifications (Released)" (using HotCat)

The Lite Mod for Medieval II: Total War removes some minor and major bugs not addressed in the patches. Versions of the Lite Mod exist for both the 1.1 and the (as yet unofficial) 1.2 patches.

See [http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=72874 here] for downloads and discussion.

[[Category:Medieval 2: Total War Modifications (Released)]]