Bronze Age Empires mod for Medieval II: Total War: Kingdoms

Bronze Age Empires is at its core a conversion of Bronze Age TW mod campaign for Rome TW, takes advantage of the better Medieval II TW engine for more advanced gameplay mechanics and scripts and adds a lot of new content. As of now THERE ARE NO REAL TIME BATTLES, on encounter battles are auto-resolved automatically by script.

Features:

- Campaign set at 1290 BC
- Improved AI
- Scripts for immersion and to help AI in finances and military
- Immersive events and traits
- New ancillaries to give the flavor of the era
- Complex recruitment with a government system
- Immersive strat models of the era
- Complete overhaul to all interface stuff and audio for an immersive gameplay
- 4 Turns per Year
- Overhaul to almost everything
- Functional Hot-Seat campaign

FACTIONS (playable):

(Mesopotamian Culture/Religion)

- Babylonia
- Assyria

(Egyptian Culture/Religion)

- Egypt
- Libyans

(Aegean Culture/Religion)

- Mycenae
- Thebes
- Troy

(Anatolian Culture/Religion)

- Hittites
- Arzawa
- Kaskians

(Hurrian Culture/Religion)

- Mitanni
- Nairi

(Zagro-Elamitic Culture/Religion)

- Elam
- Gutians

(West Semitic Culture/Religion)

- Phoenicia
- Amurru
- Arameans (horde invasion)

(non playable horde invasions by script during campaign):

(Aegean Culture/Religion)

- Dorians
- Mysians
- Sea Peoples

Credits:

- Bronze Age Total War for Rome TW (base mod, general and captain strat models are battle models from the mod)
- Quintillius Interface Submod for Roma Surrectum II (used as the base for the interface in this mod)
- Europa Barbarorum II (wagon and trade ship strat models, mouse cursor, scripts)
- De Bello Mundi (campaign map terrain textures, settlements, ships and diplomat strat models)
- PiterAI (AI)
- z3n (Pathfinding)
- Brandon & Derek Fiechter (Music)

INSTALLATION:

1- Extract to your Medieval II Total War\mods.
2- Go to the new folder BAE_v10 in your Medieval II Total War\mods.
3- Use the "Executable" batch file to launch the mod.
4- Play and have fun.

If the game is opened in a small window do this:

Open Configuration.cfg with a text editor (preferably Notepad++) and you see this part:

[video]
movies = 0
windowed = 1 ## Windowed mode (windowed = 1) is usually more stable
borderless_window = 1
no_background_fmv = 1
show_banners = true
# widescreen = 1
# unit_detail = high
# grass_distance = 9000

Change windowed = 1 to windowed = 0

Then in game options chose the native resolution of your monitor, after that you can change to windowed = 1 again and you'll still have full screen.

How to create a shortcut to launch the mod from your desktop:

- Go to BAE_v10 folder, right click on the Executable file and chose "Create shortcut" and move the shortcut to the desktop.
- Copy/paste the icon that is also in BAE_v10 folder to the desktop.
- Right click on the shortcut you created, chose properties and "Change icon...", then chose "Browse..." and then chose Desktop, you should have the icon there, just chose the icon.
- Rename your shortcut to whatever you want, for example: Bronze Age Empires
- You can now lauch the mod always from your desktop.