Clouds Across Europe

Overview

The Clouds Across Europe mod aims to enhance Medieval 2: Total War by making it more historically accurate and fun to play. Just like the original game, CAE is centered on Europe and takes place on a modified vanilla map. It covers the period from 1080 to 1530 AD. The mod features new factions, units, missions and much more.

Mod Features

• Optional to play Mongols, who are now fully Pagan!
• Optional to remove the Teutons family tree and make them more like the militaristic order they were
• Adds six new factions:The Shahdom of Khwarezm, Wallachia, Lithuania, The Kingdom of Jerusalem, The Caliphate of the Abbasids and the Teutonic Order.
• Take command of the powerful military order of the Teutonics, and wage war against your rivals both in Europe and holy lands.
• Lead the Pagan Lithuanians against the constant raiding of the Teutons and see your true faith prevail
• Spice up the balkans with Wallachia, who will emerge triumphant, you or Hungary?
• Become the mighty fortress of God in the middle east,with the Kingdom of Jerusalem. Build a Kingdom that will last for ages.
• Amass a formidable army consists of veteran Knights,originated from Hospitaller,Teutonic and Templar orders.Instil fear in the hearts of your enemies.
• Experience the richness of the strong Shahdom of Khwarezm. Consolidate your position against the Mongol Horde.
• Take command of the armies of Khwarezm that consists of Turkomans, Kypchaks,Iranians and Arabs.Make good use of the War Elephants to dominate the battlefield.
• New Islamic Princesses for the factions The Turks,Moors and Egypt.
• Use your Islamic princesses to lure enemy family members to your side,and arrange marriages to cement strong alliances.
• Build the secret guild of the Order of the Dragon.And experience the bloody work of the Europe's magnificent Kings who wields the best armour,and received the utmost training..
• Now,the Orthodox factions have their Patriarch.The Patriarch is available from the Huge Orthodox Cathedral for Byzantine players
• The Russian faction Bishops have the chance to become Patriarch based on their piety..
• Eras system that enables units according to Early,High and Late periods of the medieval age.
• Recruitable generals available from citadels.
• Historical and famous faction leaders for the new factions.
• Patriarch for the Orthodox factions,Russian bishops have the chance to be Patriarch provided they have the piety level of 7 at least.
• Its traits an ancillaries are based on a modified Blood Broads & Bastards (the modders standard) 2.0 expect plenty of cool and interesting traits!

Team

• Leader: Zephrelial
• Helpers: Gazi Husrev Beg (suggestions), SirPaladin (Wallachia suggestions and info; faction symbols), Hans Kloss (new textures and mesh for Teutonic Knights, help with sound problems), EzE (Fixed the aphna channel problem of the dragon knights unitcard), Tadrzeuli (Georgian faction info), Ieuano (Teutonic Rank system) SpaceUnion and Raven Darkwing for skinning, modelling and meshing help

See Also

• Interview with Zephrelial, team leader of Clouds Across Europe, in Eagle Standard Volume V - Issue I
• Clouds Across Europe - Mod Registration Form
• The first version of Clouds Across Europe is available for download here. Mod Leader Zephrelial is on a break at the moment
• Clouds Across Europe forum at TWC.
• Additions to CAE.