Stainless Steel

Overview

A modification for Medieval II - Total War which combines bug fixes, many small mods, changes to AI and AI armies, more provinces, graphical improvements and many other campaign and battle map changes. Aimed at providing a much greater challenge!

Features

Section based on information in this thread - WIP

New Faction

Order of the Knights Templar

• 7 totally Unique Units with new descriptions
• All other units have specific Templar Knight designs
• Historical Characters and new Templar Knights events
• New Unique Titles which represent the Templar hierarchy
• Very different campaign from all others

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Campaign Map

• 30 New Provinces:

Exeter, Bari, Oporto, Arta, Barcelona, Belgrade, Balearic Isles, Bryansk, Lyon, Athens, Munster, Ancona, Isle of Lesvos, Warsaw, Diyarbakir, Salzburg, Kirov, Melilla, Salamanca, Groningen, Clermont, Thebes, Mecca, Palmyra, Astrakhan, Tortosa, El-Oued, Sinop, Norrköping, Benghazi...

• More Resources on campaign map, including new valuable resources in the "outbacks" of the map.
• Some Small Map Tweaks: trees on isles, slightly changed borders, new passage in Africa

AI Armies

• Changes aimed at improving mix of infantry, missiles, cavalry and artillery.
• Changes aimed at AI producing more Elite and Heavy units, without changing unit costs.

Mercenaries

• New mercenaries for the Early and High Medieval Period:

Macemen

English Huscarls

Light Swordsmen

Swabian Swordsmen

Andalusian Infantry

Mercenary Saracens

Axemen.

• Greater mercenary variety
• Mercenaries can have experience
• Less mercenary missile units
• Regions have more of mercenary special units

Titles/Traits/Ancillaries

• Titles for all Cities and Castles and for both Islamic and Catholic/Orthodox factions and with important bonuses in various settlements.
• Much new Traits, Transferable Titles and Ancillaries (Blood, Broads & Bastards v1.9 or 2.0)
• New Patriarchates for Orthodox Factions available
• Many broken Character Traits and Ancillaries fixed
• Knights Templar Titles

Team and Credits

• King Kong - leader / creator
• Alletun - symbols and graphics
• Student - help and research on the Knights Templar
• Burrek and Whitewolf - new unit textures
• Horsearcher, ziher, Plasticfigurine, Headlock - various graphical improvements

History

Stainless steel 2.0 has been included on the free DVD supplied with a UK gaming magazine.

Releases

Version 3.2 was released for the MTW2 official patch 1.2 in this thread in May 2007.

Version 2.2 was released in this thread in January 2007.

External Links

Stainless Steel at TWC