It's year 1200 AD, war and peace are at stake in Spain. Both Muslims and Christians coexist, often fighting, always distrsuting each other. The Almohad Caliphate controls the Southern half of the Peninsula and has recently defeated king Alfonso of Castille in the Battle of Alarcos. On the other hand, Hispanic kingdoms are splitted up and torn by continuous struggles. War is inminent...
Okay, after playing for a couple of hours, I must say, I am impressed. Really impressed. The long version:
This is one of the best "1st version" mods I have ever seen. I haven't explored the troop trees in huge detail, but from what I've seen they seem to be in balance. Great costumes, great graphics, an absolutely FANTASTIC User interface, clean and crisp. The dialogues are very well done, they add a lot of flavour and the new NPCs I have run into, seem very interesting and fitting to the setting. The loading time is very good and there seems to be little to no lag, even in a medium PC rig I have tried it. In a good rig, with full graphics, it's just awesome. The factions are well thought and the map is gorgeous, many settlements and as far as I can see in the correct locations. I especially like the "Europa" and "Africa" labels in the map, in those two respective areas. That's great and when zooming out, it seems like a real map, very nice idea putting those in there.
My only small gripe is the lack of weapons. It's a minor thing, really, since the existing once are very good as medieval weapons of the time, but I would really like some historical weapons, from the great deal of OSPs that exist. But that's a rather personal preference, so no really a 'fault' of the mod.
tl;dr: The mod is excellent and I imagine that it will be close to perfection in next versions. Please, do yourselves a favor and play it.