SP Medieval In the name of Jerusalem V1.4995 (Update 2020/2/21)

Sorry for I forget to update this mod on forum for toooooooo long. We will introduce complete version which is 1.5 few weeks after. And whole describesion will be overhaul later. Please check the latest version in moddb.

Preface:

Greetings warriors of Calradia!

This mod was originally started in 2011 inspired by the classic film Kingdom of Heaven. But it never release until 2019, this mod has relaunched and remastered. Well, I can assume that this mod is much older than Mount&Blade 2: Bannerlord. Fortunately, it will be releasing much earlier than Bannerlord though

Note: This mod does not have any relation with other mod that have similar title of it, all the resources and code implemented in this mod are clearly stated in Credit below.





Mod background:

In 1187 A.D, two major religion has clashed in the Holy Land once again. Baldwin V of Jerusalem was pass in young age, and Guy de Lusignan become a new king of Jerusalem. While Saladin, founder of the Ayyubid dynasty, start to launch his Jihad, aims to reconquer the Holy Land and push the crusade out once for all. Will you fight for salvation as Crusader or become the sword of Allah? Or, would you like to end the misery of the Holy Land by your own way?





Factions:

Kingdom of Jerusalem (The County of Tripoli is included)

Ayubbid Sultanate

Principality of Antioch

Principality of Armenia

Sultanate of Rum

Cyprus (Greek faction, WIP)





Features (What has been done so far)

Realistic siege system:

Siege weapon remaster: there are multiple ladders during siege instead of one, so you can flood enemy’s castle with your superior number. But be careful, the castle wall are no longer the single wall that made in Native, but it is based in historical figure that are deployed in scientific and efficient way, you will be attacked from multiple direction once you entered the castle. So, just like the real warfare, it is not an easy job to siege a well defended castle. There are number of weapons you can use in this mod.

Battering ram: Just like Bannerlord, you can break the gate with battering ram, and your man can rush into the castle directly.

Siege tower: A remastered siege tower that bigger than Native, it is taller, stronger, and you can even put your rangers on the top and shoot the enemy.

Siege from the ocean: There are some towns and castle use sea as their natural defense. But don’t worry, you can attack them from the sea! Unlike Viking conquest DLC, there is a massive siege tower on the ship.

Ballista: You can destroy enemy’s siege weapon or give mass damage by this deadly weapon.

More siege weapon WIP, such as trebuchet.



Realistic fight

Realistic fight and logistics: Lance will be break from great shock damage, and cavalry will get injured from falling on the horse. Except food, water and oat are also essential supplies for your troops. If you don’t have enough water, your troop will get tried; if you don’t have oat, your horses will starve.

Rebalanced arms and armor: All weapon are adjusted closer toward reality, you need to choose your weapon according your need. While heavy armor is not the best option, as it may limit your physical ability during the battle.

Loot system.: After a great battle, you can clean the battlefield and collect your loot, the looting time is depending on your skills and number of loots. While in freelancer mod, you can loot anything from battlefield, including the horse you get from the enemy!

Troop exhaustion: Your troop can not stand from long time march. You need to rest or set up camp when your people get tried. Otherwise, your troop will suffer and there might be a chance of rebellion!

Caravan raid: You can assault caravan in ambush, it would be the best if you can raid the rich merchant. If you killed innocent poor people, you won’t get any coin from them, and you will have some more troubles.

Sandstorm: In the desert of holy land, you may have chance to experience sandstorm, this will harm your moral and reduce moving speed.

Hunting system: The holy land has plenty of opportunity and danger. Poor peasant from Egypt may ask you to kill their local wolf and crocodile. You can also shoot down the eagle on the sky.

Massive and realistic battlefield: The battlefield is not random generated; they are all made by hand just like Bannerlord. It looks massive and immersive.

Outpost: Village is no longer defenseless; you can build an outpost to stop the raiding from you enemy. Well, if you have enough troop there

Cavalry charge: cavalry will form their formation in the beginning of battle, the elite troop will charge forward. You can experience the historical cavalry battle in the game. While the horse archer is smarter as well, they know how to utilize their ability to engage and disengage the enemy.

Sea battle: Raise the sail, boarding enemy’s ship!



Immersive system:

Historical religion background system: You can start as a lord, have their own fief and relationship network. Your family and religion background really decide what is your path. A Christian may find hard to live in Islamic society, while Muslim may not be trusted by Christian as well. This is the general social norm in 12th century in the Middle East.

Caravan system: You can start your business in the holy land. Find the guild master and organizing a caravan, you can get loads of profit from trade. But don’t forget that business always involve risks!

Levy system: Like in 1257 AD Mod, the only way to recruit regular army is from your fief. As a lord, you can organize for feudal army from your population, or you can gathering the nobility within your land. So you won’t have a situation where you can train a peasant to a knight in one night. But you can still look for mercenaries from towns and castles, or, you can searching for warrior who are wondering around in the Holy Land.

Freelancer: You can become a soldier under a lord, gain experience and prestige from battles. You can also get equipment from troop or loot. [Note: The Tripoli region is the best place for warmonger]

Historical scene: There are many scenes that are based on historical figures. And every NPC is working on their own business which give you an immersive experience in the Holy Land. It is still work in progress, but we will definently bring some more content in future.

Diplomacy: A enhanced feature based on Diplomacy mod.

Knight Order and Ghulam system: You can join the knight of Order, but you need to prove your ability toward order master, and swear your loyalty toward the God and never engage with any female. Then you can become a priest, take your gear and protect Jerusalem. If you are an Emir in Muslim faction, you can hire a slave commander, training loyalty and fearsome Ghulam slave warrior who can fight for you in Jihad.

Assistant NPC system: Once you have your own fief, you can hire locals to become your personal assistant.



And there are many more feature are waiting for you to explore!!! (as we simply forgot any other features we have add in this game )

Alright, I'm waiting. Good luck.

I saw your work on the Chinese forum and I have to say, I admire your dedication all these years. Best of luck!

Surely sounds good! Best of luck!

Awesome can't wait to try that ! I apreciate the many new scenes and the sieges improvements looks great and could give Warband a new breath ! Is that a chinese team who did this ?

Ettenrocal said:

Awesome can wait to try that ! I apreciate the many new scenes and the sieges improvements looks great and could give Warband a new breath ! Is that a chinese team who did this ?

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Yes we are, and some of us are the same people who made 16th Century mod. But this mod is more focus on hardcore realism

HoloNesan said:

Ettenrocal said:

Awesome can wait to try that ! I apreciate the many new scenes and the sieges improvements looks great and could give Warband a new breath ! Is that a chinese team who did this ?

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Yes we are, and some of us are the same people who made 16th Century mod. But this mod is more focus on hardcore realism

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Damn that's great. I enjoyed pretty much every mod made by Chinese community.
Looking forward to it even more after hearing it's made by the same people that worked on 16th Century mod!

Yeah Chinese mods are pretty cool and technically very good, this one looks like CWE came back to life !

HoloNesan said:

Ettenrocal said:

Awesome can wait to try that ! I apreciate the many new scenes and the sieges improvements looks great and could give Warband a new breath ! Is that a chinese team who did this ?

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Yes we are, and some of us are the same people who made 16th Century mod. But this mod is more focus on hardcore realism

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Woah, I loved that mod! You people made some awesome features and have many quality of life improvements on that one.

If the stuff from the trailer is real (how could it not be real :p) than this is very impressive! Looking forward to it!

This trailer was made in april. Some stuff is improve now.

This mod has been released, please enjoy yourself

My first impressions:

Good points: The scenes (probably some of the best scenes you'll see for a crusade mod). The sieges look pretty epic but i crashed another time with a battle size of 200 ! The worldmap is well done. The troops trees and balance looks pretty ok for the little i saw.

Bad Points: I had quite many crash during this 3 hours (i have a 3,7 Ghz processor). In 3 hours of playing i didn't encountered any companion. There is problem with carpets too much saturated and contrasted and lighting of some interior scenes (very dark). And the horn sound is very too loud !!! Wow

Suggestions: - Maybe you could have done different factions for Templars, Hospitaliers and County of Tripoly and lock them allied to Jerusalem.
                      - Make Ibelin a castle, the house of Balian deserve his castle ^^ and it was a castle.
                      - I think the face mesh and textures could be better (there is many osp). For now they are kind of worse than native.
                     
Questions: I don't undertsand exactly the difference between towns and castles, there is taverns and some shops in castles ? Town have the same with merchant for goods also ? I've also seen some little castles in some villages (like Ibelin) ?

Ettenrocal said:

My first impressions:

Good points: The scenes (probably some of the best scenes you'll see for a crusade mod). The sieges look pretty epic but i crashed another time with a battle size of 200 ! The worldmap is well done. The troops trees and balance looks pretty ok for the little i saw.

Bad Points: I had quite many crash during this 3 hours (i have a 3,7 Ghz processor). In 3 hours of playing i didn't encountered any companion. There is problem with carpets too much saturated and contrasted and lighting of some interior scenes (very dark). And the horn sound is very too loud !!! Wow

Suggestions: - Maybe you could have done different factions for Templars, Hospitaliers, Teutoniques and County of Tripoly and lock them allied to Jerusalem.
                      - Make Ibelin a castle, the house of Balian deserve his castle ^^ and it was a castle.
                      - I think the face mesh and textures could be better (there is many osp). For now they are kind of worse than native.
                     
Questions: I don't undertsand exactly the difference between towns and castles, there is taverns and some shops in castles ? Town have the same with merchant for goods also ? I've also seen some little castles in some villages (like Ibelin) ?

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For bad points:
This mod contain some high resolution texture and models. Try to reduce the size of battle a bit further, and we are trying our best to optimize in later game.
You can have your companion when you own a village and hire assistant NPC. We will add more NPC in later release.
For the enb, we are having debate within our team to fix that, and I do know your ears are explosed, either do I We will fix that.

For Suggestion:
We make very big Kingdom of Jerusalem is aiming to counter the powerful Ayubbid Sultanate. But we do recognize the problem of it and we will try to fix that.
And for scene, yes, we made some scene, and we do know that not enough. We will try to make more in later release.
For face? Well, I don't know, make i will talk to my team

For your question:
Castle does not have goods merchant, but many of them have pretty similar function as town does because we think castle is also a living place for lord and soilders. However, we will make some more features on managerial and trade content, so you will see that in future. Well, Ibelin is kind of Eastern egg in this mod. But there is a feature that you can build a outpost to defend your village from raid.

Thanks for your suggestion, if you have any suggestion or problem, we are always welcome to hear it.

Thanks a lot for your answers ! This mod is an awesome work for sure. I have myself imagined that castle could get "merchants" (at least horses and a blackmsith and a little tavern) so it doesn't shock me at all, i was just surprised. Count on me to report some boring feedback 

Edit: I have made some little ressearch and in fact its maybe a good idea to put County of Tripoli in Jerusalem faction cause Raymond III of Tripoli as lands too in the Kingdom and he is an important lord of it.

Others suggestions: You could add mini faction "Assassins" historically accurate and awesomely fun ! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashid_ad-Din_Sinan

You could make a troop tree like this one:


Alos a fun thing could be to put in the mod the Lazarus order knights (lepers), like kind of special troop you can recruit in few special places ? I have recently watch the show "Knightfall" and i was liking much these Lazarus knights coming to save their Templar brothers ! They don't fear death !


*** little bug: i have noticed that battle size is set to 1000 each time you restart the game, i'm playing with 1.01. Just downloaded the 1.02 patch and it seems ok now.

Hi, great mod.

So far I have encountered no problems, aside the high cpu/ram consumption it requires, and its consequences (drop in fps, music stops from time to time), but great nonetheless.

One issue, I'm currently in the second half of the hospitaller quest (2 hospitaller brothers agree with me), in Acre there's only the templar hq, in the town there is a hospitaller hq, but when I speak with the monk there are no other option but goodbye. Can you help me?

I think i know what could cause a massive performance demand, i've watched fast into brfs and it seems some items in this mod use only LOD2 and this LOD2 model is very much near base model (your LOD 2 looks like a LOD 1 to me). You could rework your lods redoing LOD2 (making a LOD2 less detailed) and a LOD4.

Edit: I have checked others brfs and some have 4 LODS like usual, it depends the brfs. If you check your items brf then you'll probably can improve some. Many mods are using only LOD2 and LOD4.

Just made another game session of this great mod, started a new game and finally come to a first siege were battle size was changed to 1000 again so there definetely a problem with this. With 100 battle size my fps was at 4

On an historical side just read on wikipedia that Count of Tripoli was vassal of King of Jerusalem so you did good to put County of Tripoli into Kingdom of Jerusalem faction. Only Pincipality of Antioch was an "independant" (vassal of Byzantium) crusader state in 1187.

Ettenrocal said:

Thanks a lot for your answers ! This mod is an awesome work for sure. I have myself imagined that castle could get "merchants" (at least horses and a blackmsith and a little tavern) so it doesn't shock me at all, i was just surprised. Count on me to report some boring feedback 

Edit: I have made some little ressearch and in fact its maybe a good idea to put County of Tripoli in Jerusalem faction cause Raymond III of Tripoli as lands too in the Kingdom and he is an important lord of it.

Others suggestions: You could add mini faction "Assassins" historically accurate and awesomely fun ! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashid_ad-Din_Sinan

You could make a troop tree like this one:

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Alos a fun thing could be to put in the mod the Lazarus order knights (lepers), like kind of special troop you can recruit in few special places ? I have recently watch the show "Knightfall" and i was liking much these Lazarus knights coming to save their Templar brothers ! They don't fear death !

Spoiler

*** little bug: i have noticed that battle size is set to 1000 each time you restart the game, i'm playing with 1.01. Just downloaded the 1.02 patch and it seems ok now.

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Thank you for your suggestion! We already made Saint Lazarus order in custom battles as a troop or commander of knight hospitaller.You could have a try.