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:

  1. Hundreds of Permament Stone Forts that will represent real fortified cities in the game map
  2. Hundreds of Villages that will represent real cities in the game map
  3. Ports which will represent acurately their real-life counterparts
  4. Roads that will follow their real-life course in the map
  5. New strat_map building and character models for all the factions


Scripting Features:

  1. A newly implemented complicated feudal system
  2. New Religion scripts that will add great depth in the game
  3. Unification of Empires
  4. Dozens of New Historical Events
  5. New eras in the game
  6. Many more scripts that will make the game more realistic

Other Features:

  1. Many new historical battles that fit our timeframe

Release Status:

Mod is released

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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

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ChuckNorries
ChuckNorries

hello!
just a short question, are there any plans to make a new version?

greeting!

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Guest
Guest

Amazing mod, some of the best times I had on medieval 2 since i downloaded stainless steel...I want to report a bug or at least I believe its a bug, I have done about 2 campaigns in tsardoms fall of Constantinople campaign, my first one as Epirus and my current campaign is as Hungary and I noticed that the ottomans are very eager to make peace even when they are winning the war. It got to the point where I could declare war on them with a few armies prepared, snatch 4 or 5 settlements in 2 turns and then peace out and this process was easily repeatable. I dont know if its a bug or not but I wanted to report it anyway.

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InfanteDHenrique
InfanteDHenrique

Greetings. I would like someone to help me with a problem I have been having with some mods for Medieval 2. It's about editing basic files like the export_descr_unit and export_descr_buildings etc. I don't know if there is something that is missing me or if my modding knowledge is not as good as I thought. With this being said, I require assistance of someone with some level of modding expertise. I could, virtually, asked this question in any other mod forum, but I decided to ask on this one since it's one of the mods that I am having problems with. And the question is this: What, in God's name, do I have to do in order to edit files without starting a new campaign? For instance: I change a tiny, basic and, apparently, simple thing, like the missile attack number of a random unit in the export_descr_unit. And for some obscure, mysterious and weird reason when I load a campaign the game crashes eveytime on the loading screen. This happens with some mods, but with others (Broken Crescent Buff and Shine for instance) I can change or edit basic things like the ones that I mentioned above and the mod loads the campaign with the changes applied. I also know that, for instance, in Rome Total War one can edit and change such files without having to start a new campaign. I am not going to lie. I am in deep despair since I, pretty much, tried everything I know. Is anyone able to, kindly, provide aid in solving this matter. I apologize for the wordiness of my question, but I wanted to be as clear and unambiguous as possible. Thank you in advance. Godspeed.

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irisplendent
irisplendent

I really love this mod, however, there seems to be a bug with milan and italian states in general. I always get ctd whenever I try to fight a battle either during deployment or the actual battle. I'm 130 turns in my bavarian campaign so far and got tired but I never experienced any ctd with it. After switching to an italian faction, it's literally unplayable because it always ctds

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Tattertottrot15
Tattertottrot15

Could the Paramonai foot guards be given an armour upgrade like the Englinovarangoi guards did at some point?

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Vl@xxie
Vl@xxie

Hi, I'm new to MTW2 and Tsardoms, every few sieges I get this strange graphical issue, is this a base game bug or a Tsardoms thing?
Really loving the mod :)

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Wallachian Creator
Wallachian

This is a bug related to some of the dead body models. We haven't figured out how to solve it sadly

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Guest
Guest

Sometimes I send a general into a settlement but don’t get the Feudal title the next turn. Why is that?
I have the feudal building (may be from the previous faction owner). The generals may be family members, adaptions or husbands of princesses, don’t know if that matters or not?

Thank you again for an incredible game.

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Wallachian Creator
Wallachian

There are many reasons why you might not be getting the titles:

- maybe you have reached the max limit of 7 per general
- maybe the settlement has a higher requirement for the title (like a higher level feudal estates)
- maybe there isn't actually a title in existence for that specific faction for that settlement
- maybe the title is only available for faction leaders or for heirs

It doesn't matter if the generals are from family or adopted or married into.

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butene
butene

Hi, why is the file removed?

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