thewanderingknight
Sergeant
Hello, Sands of Faith is a total conversion mod for Mount&Blade Warband settled in Middle East during the "Crusades" at the beginning of 1185. At the time Crusaders were already starting to lose territory especially to Salah al-Din armies and Jerusalem itself was already at risk. It's up to the player decide to join the new Crusade or join the armies of Ayyubid Sultanate or Sultanate of Rum.
IMPORTANT:
If your game crashes in some town sieges, before trying the optional patch, I recommend lowering the resolution and/or lower the corpses as this shall fix it if you have a good computer. The crashes happen due to the huge size of the towns combined with the high poly textures of environment, buildings and units equipment and it seems to happen when reinforcements keep coming adding to the corpses already in the field, so having less corpses in the battlefield shall be a huge help. This is only problematic in TOWNS sieges, in castles sieges and normal battlefield this is not an issue. Lowering resolution also helps when just visiting towns both in loading time and also to avoid crashes as it can also happen after you have visited a couple towns because this will hit your v-ram. The higher the resolution the bigger the hit on your v-ram.
Sands of Faith Gameplay by James Strongman
Factions:
Important Info for Roleplay:
Main Features:
Recruitment System:
Creating Teutonic Knights:
Cultural Stores:
Important Information:
Special Thanks To:
Credits:
DOWNLOAD:
http://www.moddb.com/mods/sands-of-faith
http://www.nexusmods.com/mbwarband/mods/6027/?
Sands of Faith Banner by TheElPadrino:
http://www.zupimages.net/up/15/36/17vz.png
Spanish translation:
http://www.caballerosdecalradia.net/t4586-spes-sands-of-faith
Russian translation:
http://commando.com.ua/mb/modswarband/2944-sands-of-faith.html
INSTALLATION:
- Extract to your Mount&Blade Warband/Modules folder
- Choose Sands of Faith v2.3 on the launcher mods list
- Play and have fun
Sands of Faith v2.3 RELEASED
Changelog:
Freelancer reworked (to join cavalry you need to start as an "impoverished noble"), overhauled castle sieges, replaced naval battle scenes, fixes to campaign map pathfinding, autosell fixed, overhauled some muslim equipment/troops, overhauled some music, fixes/corrections to scenes, many overall tweaks, fixes and corrections.
Released OPTIONAL patches that shall fix performance and crashes related issues, read description of the patches in file description. It is save game compatible no worries. Anyone with weaker computer shall try the complete one and see how it goes.
IMPORTANT:
If your game crashes in some town sieges, before trying the optional patch, I recommend lowering the resolution and/or lower the corpses as this shall fix it if you have a good computer. The crashes happen due to the huge size of the towns combined with the high poly textures of environment, buildings and units equipment and it seems to happen when reinforcements keep coming adding to the corpses already in the field, so having less corpses in the battlefield shall be a huge help. This is only problematic in TOWNS sieges, in castles sieges and normal battlefield this is not an issue. Lowering resolution also helps when just visiting towns both in loading time and also to avoid crashes as it can also happen after you have visited a couple towns because this will hit your v-ram. The higher the resolution the bigger the hit on your v-ram.
Sands of Faith Gameplay by James Strongman
Factions:
-Kingdom of Jerusalem
-Principality of Antioch
-Knights Templar
-Knights Hospitaller
-Ayyubid Sultanate
-Sultanate of Rum
-Teutonic Knights (can be created by player)
-Principality of Antioch
-Knights Templar
-Knights Hospitaller
-Ayyubid Sultanate
-Sultanate of Rum
-Teutonic Knights (can be created by player)
- The folder PLAYER WARCRIES AND VOICE ORDERS has crusader and muslim version for voice on commands and warcries and also crusader female voice, choose the one you want and copy/paste the wav files to sounds folder and sounds.txt to Sands of Faith folder, replace when asked. To perform a warcry press "N".
- The folder USER INTERFACE has optional muslim ui, if you want to change copy/paste the .dds file to Sands of Faith Textures folder and replace.
- By default companions you make lords have Teutonic map icon, if you want to change open the txt file Companions Optional Map Icons in Sands of Faith folder, copy the one you want, open map_icons.txt and almost at beginning replace ikon_tevton_knight with the one you have chosen.
- The folder USER INTERFACE has optional muslim ui, if you want to change copy/paste the .dds file to Sands of Faith Textures folder and replace.
- By default companions you make lords have Teutonic map icon, if you want to change open the txt file Companions Optional Map Icons in Sands of Faith folder, copy the one you want, open map_icons.txt and almost at beginning replace ikon_tevton_knight with the one you have chosen.
- Advanced diplomacy system (Diplomacy 4.3)
- Abillity to join faction armies (Freelancer) (to join cavalry you need to start the game as an "impoverished noble")
- Advanced formations system (PBOD)
- Start as one of the faction leaders or lords or just an adventurer, you chose
- New animations, scenes, graphics, audio
- Epic and voice acted battles (including immersive warcry for player)
- Sea travel and battles
- Ability to duel the greatest knights in the Holy Land
- Ability to play as one of your companions in battles (Custom Commander)
- Ability to chose between "battle continuation" camera or to play as one of the regular troops on death (Auxiliary Player)
- Advanced trade system, including sea trade, merchant ledger, bank system, trade with caravans, moneylenders and landowners
- New quick battles
- Proper Middle-East map
- Proper faction banners and map icons (map icon for player is determined by the horse equipped)
- Create Teutonic Knights Order
- Events with choice and consequences
- Advanced tournament system (Tournament Play Enhancement)
- Realistic recruitment system and historical troop trees
- Historical names for both characters and settlements
- Historical armors and weapons
- Build your own outpost/fort anywhere in the map
- Play fun card game with tavern keepers and try to earn money
- Tons of other great features for you to discover
- Abillity to join faction armies (Freelancer) (to join cavalry you need to start the game as an "impoverished noble")
- Advanced formations system (PBOD)
- Start as one of the faction leaders or lords or just an adventurer, you chose
- New animations, scenes, graphics, audio
- Epic and voice acted battles (including immersive warcry for player)
- Sea travel and battles
- Ability to duel the greatest knights in the Holy Land
- Ability to play as one of your companions in battles (Custom Commander)
- Ability to chose between "battle continuation" camera or to play as one of the regular troops on death (Auxiliary Player)
- Advanced trade system, including sea trade, merchant ledger, bank system, trade with caravans, moneylenders and landowners
- New quick battles
- Proper Middle-East map
- Proper faction banners and map icons (map icon for player is determined by the horse equipped)
- Create Teutonic Knights Order
- Events with choice and consequences
- Advanced tournament system (Tournament Play Enhancement)
- Realistic recruitment system and historical troop trees
- Historical names for both characters and settlements
- Historical armors and weapons
- Build your own outpost/fort anywhere in the map
- Play fun card game with tavern keepers and try to earn money
- Tons of other great features for you to discover
Knights are not part of the troop tree and can only be recruited in towns and you need to be a lord to see the option and
even then only knights from your faction, in towns owned by your faction will join. Knights can be upgraded once to the
faction specific knight. Each knight cost 10x more than a normal recruit (100 denars vs 10 denars). The recruitment system
for normal troops is similar however as only villages from your faction will have volunteers. There are no restrictions to
recruit mercenaries (recruitable in taverns) but they're expensive and of worse quality. Special and unique troops can only
be recruit if you own one of the 6 initial capital towns. Battlefield Priests, Bishops, Muftis and Grandmuftis are special
units that are weak in combat but have party skills. Lower tier ones add to Wound Treatment while higher tier ones add to
Surgery and Leadership. The more of these units you have the more bonus points you get to a maximum of 3, Leadership however
is not cumulative and you don't get more than 1 point.
even then only knights from your faction, in towns owned by your faction will join. Knights can be upgraded once to the
faction specific knight. Each knight cost 10x more than a normal recruit (100 denars vs 10 denars). The recruitment system
for normal troops is similar however as only villages from your faction will have volunteers. There are no restrictions to
recruit mercenaries (recruitable in taverns) but they're expensive and of worse quality. Special and unique troops can only
be recruit if you own one of the 6 initial capital towns. Battlefield Priests, Bishops, Muftis and Grandmuftis are special
units that are weak in combat but have party skills. Lower tier ones add to Wound Treatment while higher tier ones add to
Surgery and Leadership. The more of these units you have the more bonus points you get to a maximum of 3, Leadership however
is not cumulative and you don't get more than 1 point.
Although technically you can create a random faction as in vanilla and other mods, this mod is optimized for the creation of Teutonic Knights. You create a new faction as usually, although you need to own a town (castle is not enough), then replace the default minister with a companion, get a chancellor and ask to change culture and choose Teutonic Knights. Wait like 2/3 days too so that it gets updated. Companions you make lords will have teutonic gear and banner. All you need to do either than that is giving the proper name to the faction and get the teutonic banner, but before make them lords remove all items from inventory and what they have equipped to guarantee they equip teutonic gear. Teutonic gear for yourself you can get from Jerusalem and Antioch stores. There are 3 companions wandering the Holy Land that perfectly fit to be Teutonic lords, they're easy to recognize with their German names (actually the names of the 3 first Teutonic Grandmasters).
Items you can find in stores depends on the faction. Some items are shared with few other factions (like crusader generic armor is shared among all crusader factions), but faction specific items you can only find in that faction store.
- Press "I" to see Troop Ratio Bar, after using orders panel it will revert to the mini map.
- Press "N" to perform a warcry.
- Press "M" to call your horse.
- When on your ship if you go to camp menu you'll have the option to "try to catch some fish", this is related to foraging
skill.
- Press "T" key while wearing an "Helm" to get helmet view, you need to use also "R" key to change to 1st person view to get
the proper view. Pressing "T" key again should reverse the helmet view but when on battle is bugged so press "Esc" to go
to "Options Menu" and then back to battle and it will reverse.
- The default vassal title when you're a faction leader is Baron, just go to camp menu / manage your kingdom / custom vassal
title and replace with the one you want.
- In taverns if you talk to the tavern keeper, you can choose to play an interesting game called "Find the Lady", you might
get lucky and earn some denars or get greedy and lose everything.
- When starting the game as King or Lord either than the troops you have in your party, you also have a complete army in
your town or castle, so go there and chose manage this town or castle, manage garrison and get all the troops you need.
- Talk to your Chancellor to set your kingdom policy if you're not getting money from your fiefs.
- Before start playing go to camp menu and look at all options available, there are tons to tweak your gameplay, most of
the behavior in this mod is optional. Also for ai to use formations properly (if you want to check it) you must also
put ai setting at maximum in Diplomacy options.
- You need to replace your default Minister with a companion to unlock all the special dialog options.
- You can trade with caravans.
- Press "N" to perform a warcry.
- Press "M" to call your horse.
- When on your ship if you go to camp menu you'll have the option to "try to catch some fish", this is related to foraging
skill.
- Press "T" key while wearing an "Helm" to get helmet view, you need to use also "R" key to change to 1st person view to get
the proper view. Pressing "T" key again should reverse the helmet view but when on battle is bugged so press "Esc" to go
to "Options Menu" and then back to battle and it will reverse.
- The default vassal title when you're a faction leader is Baron, just go to camp menu / manage your kingdom / custom vassal
title and replace with the one you want.
- In taverns if you talk to the tavern keeper, you can choose to play an interesting game called "Find the Lady", you might
get lucky and earn some denars or get greedy and lose everything.
- When starting the game as King or Lord either than the troops you have in your party, you also have a complete army in
your town or castle, so go there and chose manage this town or castle, manage garrison and get all the troops you need.
- Talk to your Chancellor to set your kingdom policy if you're not getting money from your fiefs.
- Before start playing go to camp menu and look at all options available, there are tons to tweak your gameplay, most of
the behavior in this mod is optional. Also for ai to use formations properly (if you want to check it) you must also
put ai setting at maximum in Diplomacy options.
- You need to replace your default Minister with a companion to unlock all the special dialog options.
- You can trade with caravans.
- Akathir for the town scenes
- Bismarck for Native Module Compilation that I used as base module system with Diplomacy and Custom Commander merged
- Feyd1979 for the great map
- el xabeo de la cova for the release of the source code with his mod Hispania 1200 wich made possible the integration
of the script to start as king/lord and many other scripts and to allow me to use Hispania 1200 scenes, all credits to
him for all the new scenes (towns, castles, villages, sea battles, lairs, meeting scenes), many scripts and few icons
and items
- Crusaders Way To Expiation Team for the release of their great work which is the graphical backbone of this mod, all
credits to them for almost all items, battlefield scenes, interface, textures, icons, shaders, flora, terrain borders,
skyboxes and some sounds in this mod
- Goodfutter for doing crusader voices on purpose for this mod (also to Matmohair1 for the arabian voices pack)
- produno from A World of Ice and Fire for the help editing the campaign map
- ElPadrino for Sands of Faith dedicated ENB
- Bismarck for Native Module Compilation that I used as base module system with Diplomacy and Custom Commander merged
- Feyd1979 for the great map
- el xabeo de la cova for the release of the source code with his mod Hispania 1200 wich made possible the integration
of the script to start as king/lord and many other scripts and to allow me to use Hispania 1200 scenes, all credits to
him for all the new scenes (towns, castles, villages, sea battles, lairs, meeting scenes), many scripts and few icons
and items
- Crusaders Way To Expiation Team for the release of their great work which is the graphical backbone of this mod, all
credits to them for almost all items, battlefield scenes, interface, textures, icons, shaders, flora, terrain borders,
skyboxes and some sounds in this mod
- Goodfutter for doing crusader voices on purpose for this mod (also to Matmohair1 for the arabian voices pack)
- produno from A World of Ice and Fire for the help editing the campaign map
- ElPadrino for Sands of Faith dedicated ENB
Hispania 1200, Crusaders Way To Expiation Team, 1257 AD, Brytenwalda, Wings of Glory, Crusader Deus Vult, Native Expansion, Tocans Calradia, Gekokujo, 1429 la Guerre de Cent Ans, Native Module Compilation, Floris, Rigale
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Akathir, el xabeo de la cova, Feyd1979, Bismarck, Waihti, rubik, taragoth, Caba'drin, Windyplains, motomataru, Jinnai, Arch3r, MartinF, Anardion, Checkmaty, lucky lancer, Tempered, einhar, Almansur, CounterPoint, Lumos, Lav, sphere, Duh, Ruthven, lazeras, Papa Lazarou, Iboltax, Slawomir of Aaarrgh, Jacobhinds, dunde, Shcherbyna, AndyYa, Goodfutter, Matmohair1, Ibidil, FantasyWarrior, Mark7, Melphiz, KuauiK, DrThomas, Sayd Uthman, Zimke Zlovoljni, Mikeboix, BlackDeer, TheFatty, zedpaolo, Nordous, produno, ElPadrino, HyperCharge, daedalus, Cernunos, somebody
http://www.moddb.com/mods/sands-of-faith
http://www.nexusmods.com/mbwarband/mods/6027/?
Sands of Faith Banner by TheElPadrino:
http://www.zupimages.net/up/15/36/17vz.png
Spanish translation:
http://www.caballerosdecalradia.net/t4586-spes-sands-of-faith
Russian translation:
http://commando.com.ua/mb/modswarband/2944-sands-of-faith.html
INSTALLATION:
- Extract to your Mount&Blade Warband/Modules folder
- Choose Sands of Faith v2.3 on the launcher mods list
- Play and have fun
Sands of Faith v2.3 RELEASED
Changelog:
Freelancer reworked (to join cavalry you need to start as an "impoverished noble"), overhauled castle sieges, replaced naval battle scenes, fixes to campaign map pathfinding, autosell fixed, overhauled some muslim equipment/troops, overhauled some music, fixes/corrections to scenes, many overall tweaks, fixes and corrections.
Released OPTIONAL patches that shall fix performance and crashes related issues, read description of the patches in file description. It is save game compatible no worries. Anyone with weaker computer shall try the complete one and see how it goes.
