Chivalry II: The Sicilian Vespers

Chivalry II: The Sicilian Vespers
Platform	Medieval II: Total War
Mod Type	Overhaul
Era	Medieval
Mod Leader	SicilianVespers
Release Status	Version 3.3
Forum / Thread	Here

Overview

The Chivalry II: The Sicilian Vespers modification for Medieval II: Total War features campaigns from the Late Dark Ages, Early, High and Late Middle-ages and the Early and High Renaissance. Sicilian Vespers alters and adds content for the campaign map, factions, units, combat, traits&ancillaries, characters, tech-tree, buildings, scripts, graphics. Various minimods are included in order to improve the overall quality of the mod.

Features

Through the use of many mini-mods and the creations of the team, Chivalry II: The Sicilian Vespers features a lot of unique features, units, graphics and more. Amongst them are:

• 5 new factions: The Catalans/Kingdom of Aragon, The Angevins/County of Anjou, The Armenian/Kingdom of Armenia, The Serbs/Zupanate of Serbia, The Bulgarians/Tsardom of Bulgaria.
• 6 Different Time-periods: Late Dark Age, Early Middle Ages, High Middle Ages, Late Middle Ages, Early Renaissance, High Renaissance.
• SicilianVespers Launcher menu, for era configuration.
• Six new provinces: Malta, Majorca, Corfu, Negroponte, Morea, Chios.
• DB Heraldry for Regions & Provinces, including: Heraldry for all regions, new ancillary images, royal titles for factions (non-transferable).
• Other transferable royal titles, for example: King of Bohemia, Duke of Burgundy, King of Jerusalem and many more.
• Caliph titles: Caliph of Cairo, Caliph of Bagdad, Caliph of Cordoba
• Byzantium Armor Progression
• Burrek's Knights & Knaves

Map

The SV team has chosen to use a new map, provided by the Regions & Provinces map mini-mod.

AI

The Sicilian Vespers upgrades the AI using the Improved AI by the Ultimate AI mini-mod.

Mod Team

Mod Creator, Leader and Director:

• SicilianVespers

Coding, Scripting, Mapping and Skinning

Implementing of Sub/Mini-Mods etc.

Contributors:

• DaVinci (with/since v2.1)

Ex Co Leader

Coding (Combat and Tech-Tree Balancing)

Mod Design Consulting (internal since ca. v1.2)

• Lorre - Developer

Dev version testing+consulting, unit skinning, graphics designing, focus faction consulting Genoa + Italians

Inactive since internal SV 2.6

• Extended Team, betatesting + consulting within the beta testing forum

Drtad - testing, consulting Armenia/Asia Minor/Near-East, helps moderating public forum, modding assistance planned

Drak - currently inactive, eventually modding planned

Karo - testing

Basileios - testing/consulting everything of and around Byzantium

Taneda Santoka - testing

beezneez - testing/focus Renaissance campaign

Greenstone11 - testing

Quark - testing, modding assistance planned

Sultan Saigon - testing

Duke Gibbons - testing

Atterdag - consulting Scandinavia, modding assistance planned

IkusaIX - testing

Germanicus - testing

Sosobra -testing

masterproctor77 - testing

The Fuzz - testing

palatinae - testing

Basileos (another one) - testing

ConstantineVII - testing

Trygvasson - testing

Many thanks go also, for betatesting internal SV 2.1.x versions, to: notger, butcher and Fuzz.

External Links

• Hosted Forum on TWC