What exactly is Tsardoms Total War:
Tsardoms: Total War is a total modification for M2TW Kingdoms set in late middle ages, featuring a campaign centered on Italy, Balkans and Asia Minor. The reason we decided to make a mod like this is, firstly because we are familiar with the history of the region, and secondly (and most importantly) because this part of the world has pretty much been ignored by TW games and mods and we thought it would be fun to play and learn from it.
Timeframe:
The modification will begin in the 4th semester (in September) of the year 1345AD and it will conclude in the year 1530. The reason we decided on this timeframe is because we wanted to make a mod about the fall of the Roman Empire and the subsequent struggle of the neigbouring factions for her legacy, so this timeframe fits perfectly.
The game will begin with the Roman Empire devided into two rival factions - the "House of Kantakouzenoi" and the "Imperial Regency of the Roman Empire" - which will struggle for the guardianship of the heir to the throne - John V Palaiologos. At the same time, the Regency is allied with the Bulgarian Empire and the Kingdom of Serbia, whοse King (and wannabe Emperor) - Stefan Uros IV Dusan - is besieging the city of Serrhai which, by capturing it, will allow him to be crowned "Tsar of Serbians and Greeks". On the opposing side, the Turkish beyliks of Asia Minor, namely the Ottomans and the Emir of Aydin, have taken the side of John Kantakouzenos and have already joined the fight for their own interests, harassing the eastern parts of the Empire.
In the North, the principallities of Wallachia and Moldova are trying to defend themselves against Hungary and Bulgaria and they are also looking to expand their teritorries after the withdrawal of the Tatars.
In the Meditteranean and the Aegean Sea the two maritime Republics - Genoa and Venice - are competing and attacking each other for the control of the profitable trade routes from the Middle East and the Black Sea.
In southern Italy, the Kingdoms of Sicily and Trinacria, after the incident of the "Sicilian Vespers", are attemting to enforce their authority on each other's lands. In Northern Italy, the Italian city-states are vying for power, the Swiss Confederacy, in the Alps, is fighting for Independence against Milan and the Habsburgs, who have the vision of a grand Empire...
This is certainly the time for Total War!!
Number of turns per year:
We adopted two turns per year system
Factions:
Catholic factions:
01. Duchy of Austria (the House of Hapsburgs)
02. Kingdom of Hungary
03. Republic of Ragusa
04. Republic of Venice
05. Republic of Florence
06. Republic of Genoa
07. Kingdom of Sicily (Naples)
08. Kingdom of Trinacria (Sicily)
09. Old Swiss Confederacy
10. Duchy of Athens and Neopatria
11. Knights of Rhodes (Knights of St.John)
Orthodox factions:
12. Tsardom of Bulgaria
13. Tsardom of Serbia
14. Roman Empire - House of Kantakouzenoi
15. Roman Empire - Imperial Regency of the Roman Empire
16. Principality of Wallachia
17. Principality of Moldova
Kristjani factions:
18. Banate of Bosnia
Muslim factions:
19. Ottoman Beylik (later Empire)
20. Karaman Beylik
22. Aydin Beylik
Emergent factions:
23. Papacy
24. Timurids
25. Crown of Aragon
26. Kingdom of France
Is the faction list final?
Faction list is not set in stone, but we are very disinclined to change anything for now.
Are all factions getting equal attention?
Yes, of course. We are very proud of the fact that we are including some factions that have never been in a TW mod. We really want to give the community an opportunity to try them out.
Cultures:
The main cultures of the mod's factions will be:
1. Greek (for the Roman Factions)
2. Slavic (for Serbia, Bulgaria and Bosnia)
3. Eastern European (Moldova, Wallachia)
4. Turkish (for Otttomans, Karamanids, Aydinids & Timurids)
5. Mediteranean (for Aragon, Sicily, Trinacria, Duchy of Athens, Knights of St. John)
6. Nothern Italian (for Florence, Genoa, Venice, Papal States & Ragusa)
7. Central European (for Switzerland, France, Hungary, Austria & Germany regions)
Map:
The map of the mod will include the western part of Asia Minor, the Balkans, Italy, HRE up to Strassbourg, Bavaria and Vienna, Central Europe and Eastern europe up to Kiev:
you can see also a preview of how the map will look like here.
Previews:
All the older previews (from 2008) have been deleted, since they no longer represent correctly the general picture of the evolved game. Currently all the official previews are situated in the "Previews & Promotion" sector of our forum. Ckeck them out, if you want; they are very interesting. They are of several kinds:
Faction Previews:
Gameplay Previews:
Teasers:
Other Features:
Strategic Map Features:
Scripting Features:
Other Features:
Release Status:
Mod is released
Tsardoms Total War presents new wall and settlement textures for several factions and cultures including Islamic factions, Italian factions, Central European factions.
Credits to Curt and his 1191 mod for allowing us to use his textures in Tsardoms
Anatolian Islamic textures which use the more accurate Roman style walls
Germanic factions
Poland
Italian factions
Hungary - reskinned version of the Germanic factions with more accurate red roof tiles and whiter walls
Other European
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I know it's incredibly unlikely, but are there any plans to add Trebizond as a faction?
no, not at the moment since they are outside of the map.
Really in love with this mod, so hats off! That said I noticed one (or a few depending how you look at it) bugs with Firearms units.
1) Audio bug: whenever a gun unit fires (excluding cannons) - you can hear arrow noises if you zoom in on the unit.
2) Audio bug: No impact sounds from bullets. Even when shooting heavily armoured targets there is no impact sound for units under fire getting hit/dying.
3) Visual bug(?): Only early handcannons from the 1345 portion of the mod have visible projectiles. I understand this may be a design choice for realism, but I thought I'd mention it in case it's not intended. If it is intended, I'd advocate for visible bullets on the basis that it looks cool :)
Thanks again for making one of the best, if not the best vanilla conversion mod for Medieval 2, and that is not a low bar by any means!
P.S. If you have any advice on how I could fix the above issues myself I'd be eternally grateful.
P.P.S. I'll probably post this on TWC bug report thread, but this page seems to be more active. All the best!
Sadly we don't really have skills to fix audio bugs. As for the handcannons, that is not intended. It's a bug.
Thanks for the report! We monitor TWC more then Moddb actually. Also the discord server is very popular
Thanks for the response Wallachian!
Is your discord public? I can't find a link online. I'd be happy to take a look at the audio code myself if you could give me some basic pointers.
yes it is. It's Discord.gg
It's on TWC forum "can give some live signals?" Thread
This and EBII are the best mods ever. But I have a big problem with the 1448 version, my game keeps crashing when playing. I was able to play until 2 turns and the crash happend with the following msg ''Uh, oh. This isn't good. no idea why, but exiting now. sorry pal''. I tried finding any info online and there is no solution. Please, if any of you can help a fellow player, I would be very happy. Cheers!!
Did you apply the 4gb patch/large address aware? It's in the Tsardoms folder and you need to apply it against the exe
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