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This mod is not dead.  Khalid is working on new features as we speak - unless you have access to the testing forums, please don't make derogatory comments about the pace of progress on the mod.  It's not like Khalid has unlimited free time to work on the mod; it's a labor of love and every time he puts out an upgrade to the beta, it is quality work. 

The current tester's mod is only compatible with .731 - in addition to the new faces and sounds which Khalid was not partial to in .751, he mentioned several problems with interior scenes, including the city cathedral interiors.

Give the man the benefit of the doubt - take my word for it, what he's already accomplished is really astounding, and once he gets some time I'm sure he'll hammer out the kinks.

This looks absolutely amazing, I'll be watching this mod closely.

Hræfn 说:

Damien 说:

Oh, and two-hand greatswords were not used dull. Ever. Swords were not dull.

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A greatsword can sever a wooden plank with a diameter of about 7 inches with enough force when the blade is dull, I have done it myself . Now, I would expect that a dull greatsword would behead a soldier with ease, and so it stands to reason that an infantryman wielding a greatsword would hold less importance on the sharpness of his blade than say if he was wielding a broadsword. I've read a couple of accounts of troops wielding dull greatswords, so there's not only an 'it's still effective, sharp or not' argument but also a historical argument.

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What's your definition of a broadsword?

Also, a sword's cutting ability depends more upon its blade geometry and balance than sheer weight.  A greatsword could certainly be moderately effective when dull - but how much more effective would it be sharp?  My guess is that if landsknechts (presumably the soldiers you read about) were fighting with dull greatswords, it wasn't by choice.

I think the general consensus is that a main storyline spanning the years that actual events occured in would take forever (who wants to wait 734 days in game for a huge internecine civil war?), and coding them would take time away from things that ought to be given precedence, like hammering out political office interactions and civic duties.  Most of us think that the player's own story (fighting for a city, gaining office and prestige) is story enough.

However, this is still under discussion in the Lombard League forums, and might change.  I don't want to give any false impressions, so at least for now, don't look forward to a huge overarching story.

Khalid's busy with dissertations and such - when he gets some spare time, he'll port it over to .751 and let the testers check for bugs.  I can safely say that the mod is progressing quite nicely.

Pax vobiscum.

Because bastard swords, while extremely effective and deadly, weren't always what was needed.  As for changing all one handed swords into bastard swords - a bastard sword CAN be used with one hand; but not nearly as effectively as a sword designed and balanced for sole use in one hand.  Especially considering that there was a large tradition of sword-and-buckler usage among the military and even civilian fighters, it would be rather foolish to substitute a bastard sword when a single hand sword, such as the cut-and-thrust espoused by Silver and Marozzo, would be better for the purpose.

If you want an example of the one-handed sword and buckler's effectiveness in battle, try looking up the Spanish wars in Italy, particularly those involving Swiss mercenaries.

Depends on whether or not we come into contact with Greeks or Phoenicians.
  Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think that the Celtic tribes made much use of them (save the Celtiberians, and they're pretty much a tribe unto themselves).

Why don't you go compare an estoc and a yataghan and then tell me that all swords are pretty much the same?

Aqtai 说:

By the 17th century AD basket-hilted broadswords were the most common type of military sword.

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I believe that such weapons are actually referred to as "cut-and-thrust swords".  Here's a bit from a weapons term dictionary at Historical Weapons.com

Broadsword - A term popularly misapplied as a generic synonym for medieval swords. The now popular misnomer "broadsword" as a term for medieval blades actually originated with Victorian collectors in the early 19th century.

 The term " broadsword" seems to have originated in the 17th century, referring to a double-edged military sword, with a complex hilt. A medieval sword was simply called a "sword," a "short sword" (in the works of George Silver), or an "arming sword."

 Further complicating the issue is a "true broadsword," which is actually an 18th century short naval cutlass. The term did not take on the meaning of a wide-bladed medieval sword until the later 19th century. Since then, it has entered popular use by collectors, museum curators, fight directors, and authors. What should modern students call it? The word "sword," seems to work very well.

 Medieval swords appeared in a variety of forms, but generally had a long, wide, straight, double-edged blade with a simple cross-guard (or "cruciform" hilt). The typical form was a single hand weapon used for hacking, shearing cuts and also for limited thrusting which evolved from the Celtic and Germanic swords of late Antiquity. Over time, the sword became more tapered and rigid, to facilitate thrusting, and began to add a series of protective rings to the hilt, to defend the fingers and hand. This was the birth of the "cut and thrust" or "sidesword."

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Cut-and-Thrust Sword - the spada filo or spada da lato of the Italian Renaissance masters. The sword was a thinner, more tapered sword than the earlier Medieval forms, but still shorter and wider than the nearly edgless rapier. They were used for hacking, slashing, stabbing, and had compound hilts used to employ a "fingered" grip. Unlike the later rapier, which was wholly a civilian weapon, the cut & thrust sword was a military weapon that became popular for civilian use until superseded by the rapier. Various forms of later military cut & thrust swords include the: schiavona, spadroon, hanger, and Espadon. These are the swords discussed by such Masters as George Silver, Achille Marozzo, and Di Grassi.

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http://www.historicalweapons.com/swordsanddaggersterm.html

It's all about the XL mod for Medieval - I disliked Rome's AI and diplomacy.

But I love the XL mod inordinately - leading the Venetians to dominance over to oceans is a great way to win the Glorious Achievements set-up. 

I had started out in the early Medieval period, and immediately allied with the Genoese and the Holy Roman Empire.  I poured all my funds into the navy, churning out galleys as fast as I could.  By around 1100, I had swiped Sicily and Malta from her Norman rulers, and beaten the Genoese to the Eastern Mediterranean.  Waiting until repeated Turkish attacks had weakened the Byzantine hold on Asia Minor, I swiftly seized Crete, Rhodes, and Cyprus.  The Byzantines furiously sent assassins and spies to weaken my doge's hold on power, but without control of the seas there was little they could do.  Watching the Turkish build a fleet off the coast of Lesser Armenia, I decided that a landlocked Byzantium was far better than a seafaring Seljuk nation.  With this in mind, I allied with the Byzantines and sent several small armies to help weaken the Turkish armies in Antioch and Armenia.  The Byzantines pounced, and quickly recaptured all of their holdings in Asia Minor and even expanded north into Georgia.  I supported their march north by snapping up the Crimean peninsula and wearing down the Rus'ian forces to the North.  Eventually, Byzantium encircled the entire Black Sea, and my Venetians had captured the Holy Land as well as the lands already held.

And then, in 1230, a storm came from the East...  

Taka 说:

OrientalHero 说:

I guess if you are right handed on a horse and you put the lance "out of line" on the left, you will get a vector of force pushing across your body.
Maybe not too much of a component across, but we are talking pretty big forces here. I don't know if you have ever ridden a horse, but two stirrups can be quite precarious things to balance on at times!

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Accualy, early calvarymen managed to pull off riding and lance use without the use of stirrups, particularly in bronze age cultures.  I'm not a rider myself, so I may be full of it, but I've talked to a few modern jousters, and they tell me that stirrups make it easyer to joust, but that it's all in the leg control around the horse taht keeps you from being knocked out of your seat.

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Roman four-horned saddles were excellent for fighting from horseback, and provided comparable stability to stirrups.

There was a thread on twcenter.net about whether or not your could combine the command system of Rome with Duck&Spackle's combat.  Obviously not, but once I played the demo, I was hooked.  It's like heroin.

InferiorBeing 说:

However, this is ****ing CALRADIA, not some totally 110% historical geek-simulation of medieval Europe, thank God.

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HIS MOD is a historical simulation of medieval Italy, and if the voices are moddable then we've got no problem.  That comment was unwarranted and rather offensive.

For the most part, medieval war taunts weren't so much belittling as claiming the support of this saint or that saint, or the Virgin Mother, or the support of Christ himself.

For example, during the siege of Constantinople by Venetian and Crusader forces in 1204, the Crusaders sent a patrol to a town on the Black Sea to forage for food.  Alexius Ducas (Murtzuphlus) the recently anointed usurping Byzantine Emperor, led a large force of Greeks to attack the Crusader rearguard.  The Crusaders were caught by surprise by the Greek cavalry scouting party, but soon lined up their rearguard.  The Emperor had brought along a holy relic of the Virgin Mother.  The warcries of the opposing parties were recorded by Villehardouin, a French knight present at the battle.

The Byzantines, lowering their lances, charged with a shout of "Maria, Maria, pro Constantinopolem!"

The Crusaders followed suit and charged with a roar claiming the support of Saint Maurice.  "Pro Christum et Sanctum Mauricem!"

The Crusaders smashed the Greek cavalry, and their commander (Boniface of Montferrat) personally slew the Greek commander.  A Flemish knight, previously distinguished in the Crusader capture of Galata, scooped up the fallen relic and Byzantine war banner.  The Venetians paraded these on their ships in the Golden Horn, and the populace believed that the loss of the relic symbolized the loss of the Virgin Mother's favor.

The perceptions of divine favor or disfavor had huge effects on morale in medieval armies, and if the army claimed the support of a saint, that would be their war-cry.

I've been helping Khalid test TLL, along with many other lucky players, and frankly I have to agree.  I can't imagine a Papal legate swinging his mace to "Die, bastard!".  Nor would it really befit the atmosphere of contrade battles in the streets of Verona to have the howls and curses of an action movie.

I understand the rationale behind the changes, and for the most part I was very impressed with the update.  The fleeing horses, new weapons, hand to hand fighting - they were all welcome and very impressive.  I particularly liked the idea of hand to hand combat for the contrade battles.  The faces and voices, however, are rather off putting.  I liked the new variety of the faces, but the hair was a little weird.

The voices would be great if we can mod them - I'd like to see communal armies smashing into each other while howling the names of their respective saints.  Saracen cavalry should charge to shouts of "Allahu akbar!".  But as the voices are now, I don't think they would fit the atmosphere or intended function in the Lombard Leagues.

Though, if they're moddable, my entire point of contention is negated.

phaedo

The price raises a few dollars (or euros, or whatever currency you use) with every update.  It WAS 13 bucks about version .704, if my memory serves.  Now, since we're three updates later, it costs $18.

And I'll take the time to shamelessly pander to Armagan - this $18 game is better at what it does than most $50 - $60 games out there. 

Take it or leave it - but preferably, take it.

You can't generally move characters from mod to mod - mainly because some mods might not have texture support for the gear on your character in, say, the Last Days.  I'm also not sure whether it's even possible to transfer characters, but even if it is, I wouldn't advise it.  Too many models and textures that might be incompatible in the mod to make it worthwhile.

Better to just start a new character.

The meeting of the hosts of the West and of the North is named the Great Battle, and the War of Wrath.  There was marshalled the whole power of the Throne of Morgoth, and it had become great beyond count, so that Anfauglith could not contain it; and all the North was aflame with war.  

But it availed him not.  The Balrogs were destroyed, save some few that fled and hid themselves in caverns inaccessable at the roots of the earth; and the uncounted legions of the Orcs perished like straw in a great fire, or were swept like shriveled leaves before a burning wind.  Few remained to trouble the world for long years after...

Then seeing that his hosts were overthrown and his power dispersed, Morgoth quailed, and he dared not come forth himself... in a last desperate assault, he sent forth all the winged dragons that had not yet been seen, and so sudden and ruinous was their onslaught that the hosts of the Valar were driven back...  But Earendil came, shining with white flame, and about Vingilost were gathered all the great birds of heaven, and Thorondor was their captain...

Before the rising of the sun Earendil slew Ancalagon the Black, the mightiest of the dragon host, and cast him from the sky...

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If that's not sweeping Morgoth's forces away, I know not what is.  Though I think we might be talking about two seperate wars of wrath.

Posh, that's after the Kin-Slaying and all the fun of the Dagor Algareb.  The War of Wrath would be amazing, just to see the sweeping of Morgoth's forces into ruin.

And why Maedhros, Merentha?  The sons of Feanor are some of the most hateful characters in the Silmarillion.  Better to stand with Turgon, son of Fingolfin - true heir to the rule of the Noldor.