Stainless Steel mod for Medieval II: Total War: Kingdoms

Official forum: at TWC.

French fan forum: at Mundusbellicus.

The Campaign :

• Rebalanced victory conditions.
• Rebalanced building bonuses.
• Guild's HQ's now always offer a faction wide bonus.
• Rebalanced existing missions and added more missions.
• New building, place-able in locations with long rivers.
• Removed Ireland.
• Added a new region below Kiev (Ireland is now 2 regions).
• AI factions tend to stick to their Royal Blood for many generations.
• Alberi di Famiglia Regal implemented.
• New Faction Economy scripts.
• Knight's Templar & Kingdom of Jerusalem have been combined into Crusader States (with mixed units).
• Mongols are finally pagan.
• 1TPY Early Era campaign.
• Slave faction are now a lot more active - including the ability to use merchants, spies and assassins.
• New troubadours event.

The Campaign Map :

• Completely new and huge campaign map, covering most of Europe and the beginning of Persia.
• New ground types and custom climates.
• Maximum width the engine allows of 510 movement tiles.
• Mountains, hills and map outlines are based on satellite data.
• Work of art coastlines instead of the square 'vanilla' ones.
• Maximum amount of almost 200 historically medieval settlements. (A few had to sacrifice historical accuracy for better game balance)
• Every Region has its own resources, including new valuable resources in the "outbacks" of the map
• Resources are now better balanced, a couple of new resources were also added.
• All resources were moved away from roads, to ensure merchants' peaceful life.
• AI friendly map, the AIs' armies should no longer get stuck.
• Narrow mountain passages were widened enough for agents to freely pass, while armies will still get blocked.
• Missing ports added.
• Rebels spawning on inaccessible terrain fixed and Rebel ships spawning in small lakes fixed.
• Agart's great city & castle models.

The Battle Map & Unit Balance :

• Davide.cool grass mod implemented.
• Water now looks a whole lot better!
• Smoother steppes modification by wolfslayer implemented.
• New war horn sounds by wolfslayer implemented (hand picked by me).
• Ambient sound files for Muslim temples by wolfslayer implemented.
• Magus' Crimson Tide implemented (the no-dirt version).
• Award winning BAI by Germanicu5.
• Swagger's Skymod included.
• Knights Templar units from Lord_Calidor's KT mod implemented.
• BftB units by Caesar Clivus implemented.
• For God and St. George mods by AWellesley.
• Lord Condormanius's Mailed Knights.
• Polish Units by MADTAO included.
• Rusichi mod units implemented.
• Real Recruitment's AoR (Area of Recruitment) system included.
• RR's system nearly fully integrated. (please refer to RR/RC OCT 30 post for more detailed changes)

Traits & Ancillaries :

• Rebalanced merchant traits for 1TPY.
• As merchants get older, they lose movement points.
• Generals are now a lot easier to educate in settlements with schools etc.
• Faction Leaders can now acquire a set of traits affecting all settlements and generals.

General Changes :

• Auto border-less mode - ALT+TAB in and out of the game without any loading.
• New, epic loading screens.
• New music by Kevin MacLeod, Jon Sayles & Bill Hudak, vanilla MTW2 music was also brought back. (now we have 141 music files + vanilla music, compared to 89 in 6.1 and no vanilla music, that's a hell lot!)
• New main menu background & splash screen by Y2day.
• Faction selection crash fixed.
• All factions accessible in custom battle and hotseat.
• External campaign chooser - for easy hotseat and CTD reduction.
• External launcher application - taking care of things the user would normally do.
• CBUR with most of its features implemented.
• Riczu trade carts removed.
• Parts of Awellesley's 1100AD mod integrated.
• SSTC by Chimaeira implemented.
• Real Horses by Argent Usher implemented.
• CBUR and Unit Card improvement projects by Agis Tournas implemented.
• Animations updates.
• Y2day's faction shields & banners.
• New quotes.
• Proper character aging.
• Byzantine and Kievan Rus unit cards by akvilonn.
• Tax auto-manage should now work properly.
• Added Patriarchs for Orthodox factions.
• All factions now have their one-liner pre-battle speeches activated (more speeches for existing factions, and no more mute Norway, Kwarzemian Empire, etc. generals)
• Unbelievable amount of fixes, both big and small, too many to mention them all.