Lands to Conquer

Overview

Lands to Conquer, a mod made by Lusted, is a mod for Medieval 2: Total War that has had over 50,000 downloads for all versions so far, and was recently voted Best M2TW Mod at TWC.

It is a mod aimed at improving the gameplay and balance of Medieval II Total War. It does this through extensively rebalanced unit stats; changed unit costs; longer, slower paced campaign; more difficult to maintain larger empires; improved campaign ai thanks to the Ultimate AI mod; and various other things. It also features an easy to use installer that does everything for you.

Features List

2.1 Battlemap

• Shield bug workaround courtesy of the_foz_4.
• Improved balance of units.
• Latest version of Darths formations mod and config_ai_battle.xml, battle_config.xml and descr_pathfinding.txt included.
• Fixed bug with Gallogiach and custom battles.
• Reduced wall and gate strengths from 2.0 as they were far too high.

Campaign map

• Reduced money boost given by money script
• Reduced distance to capital and religious unrest effects.
• Ultimate AI mod v1.1 included.

2.0 Battlemap

• General all round better balance of units.
• 13 new custom battle maps. http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=76887
• Longer lasting, slower battles.
• Spearmen rebalanced so they are now more effective against cavalry
• Cavalry charge is less devestating than in normal M2TW, but has more impact and heavy cavalry can still wipe out sword infantry pretty easily.
• Longbowmen given longer range, slightly better attack and faster rate of fire
• 2 handed axe unit bug workaround. They now use a different animation and rebalanced attack stats as a result.
• HorseArchers charge fix. Now all units will charge properly, and light cav is the best against routers. Also all round better charging as a result.
• Slowed movement speed on the battlemap
• Incorporated Darths Formations v1.0 for M2TW
• Musketeer/Hand Gunner units attack reduced
• Byzantine Infantry, Varangian Guard and Kataphraktoi made more powerful
• Range of low level artiller increased
• More variation in stats between units that previously had the same stats(Order Knights, Dismounted Druzhina and Dismounted Boyars Sons)
• Venetian Heavy Infantry and Archer armour upgrade bug fixed.
• More difference between arrow and crossbow projectiles.

Campaign map

• 1 Year per turn, and dates shown on campaign map again
• Building construction times and cost increased so as to fit in best with 1 year per turn campaign.
• Ultimate AI Mod 0.9 by GrandViz incorporated, makes camapign ai better, diplomacy is more logical and alliances are much better. But still a nice element of backstabbing in the game.
• Traits and Ancilliaries mod v1.1a by Orientis which fixes all the bugs related to traits.
• Unit recruitment changed. Units now replenish slower and elite units have smaller recruitment pools. *Also units no longer recruited from walls or from castle upgrade buildings.

English Armoured Sergeants, Dismounted Broken Lances, Dismounted Gothic Knights and Dismounted Mongol cavalry units added into the campaign

• Ai recruits better armies. They are more balanced and have more higher tier units in them.
• Recruitable Generals.
• More variance in the date at which the Mongols and Timurids appear
• Merchants make more money.
• Inquisitors made less powerful.
• Unit costs tweaked so ai builds more balanced armies.
• Money script for ai factions so it gets a cash boost when it gets low on cash so the campaign is tougher.
• Increased movement distance for armies and agents.
• More recruitment slots in castles.
• More free upkeep slots in cities.
• Assassins made more powerful.
• Pirate and Rebel spawn rates reduced.
• New population levels required for each level of settlement, but lowered slightly from 1.21.
• Distance to captial penalty increased, but not as severe as in 1.21.
• Religious Unrest increased.
• Corruption increased.
• Income from trade increased, and population growth from trade decreased.
• Population growth from farms increased.
• Cannon/Ballista tower bug fix included.
• Assassin and spy movies back in the game, thanks to a .bat file i've made that copies them over during the install.

Graphical

• New loading screens and splash screens.

Future of Mod

Lusted is working on v3.0 of the mod that will include more factions, a changed map and new units and some new textures, though he has been vague on exact details so far.

External Links

Lands to Conquer v2.1 [hhttp://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=302 Lands to Conquer Forum]