Stainless Steel
Contents
Overview
A modification for Medieval 2: Total War(using v4.0 or lower) or v5.1 for Kingdoms, 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
see more here
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 5.0/5.1 released in this thread in October 2007.
Version 4.0 released in this thread in July 2007.
Version 3.2 was released for the M2TW official patch 1.2 in this thread in May 2007.
Version 2.2 was released in this thread in January 2007.
See Also
Stainless Steel - Mod Registration Form
