Campaign Faction Selection, WIP image - Medieval Kingdoms Total War (Attila Version) mod for Total War: Attila
Medieval Kingdoms: Total War is a total conversion of Total War: Attila with brings the game to the high middle ages, set in the starting year of 1212 AD going until 1453 AD. This mod will completely revamp the game with new factions, units and much much more! (Yes this is the same mod team as for the Rome 2 version.)
Campaign Faction Selection, WIP
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By Zsimmortal
Just a small comment: the contemporary name was Crown of Aragon (composed by the Kingdom of Aragon, County of Barcelona, Kingdom of Valencia and Kingdom of Mayorca). Important as Catalonia and the counts of Barcelona were for the crown, the name Catalano-Aragonese Crown is a term coined in tye 19th century by Catalan nationalists, that doesn't correspond with any documents from the era. Kind regards, from an amateur historian and half-catalan citizen.
This is of course regarding the whole "Dominio et Corona Aragonum et Catalonie" part.
I think that is just the faction trait, not the actual faction name. The faction name is Crown of Aragon. I assume Catalonia is mentioned by name in the faction trait to express the strong Catalan influence on the Crown of Aragon.
Yeah, I see that, bt given that the Faction trait is pretty much a direct tranlation to latin of the aofrementioned name (Dominion and Crown of Aragon and Catalonia) it seems very odd. As in "nobody ever wrote that name in latin before the 19th century" odd. And really there's no need to do that to express the strong catalan influence, given that it's present in the flag itself (the gold and red bars were the personal colors of the Counts of Barcelona while the aragonese flag was the cross of Arista (white cross on the top left corner of a blue shield). My point is, it's at the very least an odd thing to write in latin and even to put it there as a faction trait, and weirder still to mention together Aragon and Catalonia but not Valencia or Mayorca.
I love history and that so many people are so interested in the details of it, but some of these people get way too worked up about things like this. It's a mod for a game after all, not an official report on Iberian history. Great work here guys, regardless of the complaints of the picky wikipedia historians
Never di I ever say that this is not great work. If anything, almost every single one of my comments here has been praising the amazing work these people are doing, for free, and not just the sheer scale of it but the fact that they are very historically accurate (or at least as much as the modding tools let them) and more so than many total war releases.
I don't get "worked up" about this stuff. In the ned it's just a game, and I'll play it and ejoy it anyways despite minor innacuracies or quirks that couldn't possibly overshadow the good quality of the stuff done here. I simply talk a lot. Or in this case write. If anything, I would simply like to help where I can in keeping the historical accuracy of the mod, as many others have done in the past, and even though it's not supposed to be an fficial report on Iberian history, every little detail adds up to a more immersive experience.