the story of the historical mod dates from 1135,when the Asian-Europe continent was at war The 12th century, one subtle turning point. The continent was in an extraordinary turmoil that no one had ever seen, in which all forces were to experience changes, no matter gains or losses.
I played the English version, and I have to say the map is huge although a little empty in some places. I started in Byzantine region and gathered some of the companions. The rest are in the far east and I think I need to gain more levels before attempting to make the voyage.
Keep an eye on the daily tips that appear on the left, they have very nice info about the features of the mod (I won't give spoilers) and the Guild Masters are not standing, they are walking around the city accompanied by some townfolk.
nice mod
It's definitely a wonderful mod
although it needs a lot of fixes in the middle east.
Version 1.0 patched.
Ive been playing this mod for about a week non-stop now, which is usually what happens when i find something i adore - I binge it. I would honestly rank this mod as the best mod that focuses on the east.
The armor system is very interesting, and much more advanced than the one in warband. In warband i hated archers, now i laugh at them as i ride around in full lamellar and reserve my caution for crossbows.
I feel like the mod name and the description doesnt do well to get the attention and love the mod deserves. I had skipped over this mod at least a hundred times until i saw a youtube lets play on it, precisely because i had NO IDEA what this mod had in it and didnt bother to check closer. Now its one of my all-time favorites.
The health regen can get really powerful if you have good armor and 10 ironflesh, making you a lot harder to kill. I greatly enjoy that, but some might find it game breaking. Additionally, the ammo refill makes horse archery the golden tactic when fighting 300 strong peasant rebel armies.
I have barely even begun exploring all the features in this mod, and travelling(from china) through the Tibetan mountains westward felt to me like a surreal experience after spending at least 120 days in china. I went on a shopping binge for items of the other cultures, however it confuses me why the Song have some of the best armor i have seen, but to get anything better than hardened leather gloves, you need to go west.
Im rank 5, and have two legendary items already(easy to get when you win fights where you are outnumbered 3 to 1 or more). However, it really pains me every time i get a rank up and they dont give me a lamellar horse. Those things are so hard to get in china for some reason. The only three i have are from battle loot fighting the Jin and Xia(companions have lamellar horses that i bought from arabia, of all places), and two of those are swaybacked(and they dont heal).
Some might find the text and dialogue in the game a major drawback. Sometimes the legendary items have so much text it covers the entire inventory screen and some of it disappears over the edge, otherwise generally the text is not very coherent. However, im sure that will be fixed in the updates.
Awesome mod!
Amazed by this mod.
uniques features who work very well, i am really impressed by this. It is a kind of 1257 AD in the est part of the world but better polish. The map is beautiful and very cleverly done. Items, combats everythings is perfect.
Good mod
Sprinting on horseback, on foot.
Border between faction - there wont be some random enemy lord getting into middle of your ally faction easily just to raid your village.
Legendary weapons drop after some epic battles.
Profitable fur silk velvet trading.
Body sliding. etc
Review of version 1.0.
Too begin with I like to say that anyone interested in the 12th century you should definitely try this mod.
However for the once unsure if this mod is currently worth a try i would say "maybe" as there are a few pros and cons.
Lets start with bad,
-The map size is very big which will produce lag while speeding up time.
-Europe and the middle east is desolate compared to Asia.
-current version is unstable in some aspects of the game, meaning saving doesn't always work which results in your save being deleted, freeze-lag in battles and font-size not working as intended.
Also a quite annoying thing is to differentiate towns from castles as they have the same texture and with the font-size begin a bit messy you will surely visit a lot more castles than you intended to.
But too a more positive note, we have the good parts of this mod.
-Because the developers have opted for a more realistic setting role playing is definitely king as the detail put in too it is top notch.
-Factions are responding too attacks in a proper way meaning they move in to defend their fiefs.
-Lords aren't constantly harassing you as they no longer can be in a war zone for indefinitely.
-You can control your other fighters when you die meaning you don't have to watch a 1000 vs 1000 battle from the air.
-The ease of recruiting troops however this is a bit of a double-edge sword because you are able to get high tier troops for dirty cheap at every town which in turns makes it so troop management is never a struggle as you always have a full army with good troops.
All in all the mod has a lot of potential but because of some game breaking bugs it is kinda hard to give it 100%. However, are you willing to try it out you will surely have a great time. Just keep in mind that your save could be deleted.
gg wp
NICE MOD
Very good!