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Holy Knightly Orders - Units (crusader units) [2.0]

Hello and welcome to a new crusade!

Please don't ask for a WH3 port. Currently I have no clue if I port this one or not.

This is a "remake" version of my "Holy Knightly Orders" mod.
If you are new to this (H-K-O mods) than you are good to go and just start with a new mod activated in your launcher.
For those of you who play/played the original mod I recommend to deactivate it since both mods are not compatible with each other.
I will leave a discussion thread where I wrote down all changes that I made from "HKO original" (old) to "HKO remake" (this one). --> changes found here


Please make sure to read the following mod description and the informations below before you ask questions or request updates etc.
If you like the mod you are welcome to press the "thumbs up" button or leave your feedback in the comments.
Even if you don't like the mod you are welcome to give your constructive feedback.


Now to the mod itself: this modification aims to bring historical knightly orders and units from the crusader age to the four Bretonnian main factions. And yes Chevaliers De Lyonesse/Repanse in both campaigns (in the Mortal Empires campaign you have to conquer at least a second region/settlemet to build the buildings).
These orders are the mighty Knights Templar, the fearless Teutonic Order and the Knights of St. John (Hospitaller Order) just to name some.

Each order has a decent amount of new units and comes with a unique recruitment building. So it is completly up to you wich order you want: only the mighty Templars or fearless Teutonic Order, both of them or like I prefer it ALL of them - just build the "Chapter Hall" of your favorite/s.
Next to these order buildings I added a "church-chain" at the support tab. This chain grant you access to non order themed units like squires or the "Knighs of Jersualem".
The units themselfes cover a wide variation of types, tiers and castes - well, every order have a knight unit and a dismounted knight unit but on top of that there are gunners, crossbowmen, spearmen, axemen... and even cannons.
Depending on the units tier I set an additionally building requirement like the carpenter for the gunners and cannons or the smiths for knights.
Furthermore I created custom attribute groups for all units - for instance the Teutonic Order benefits from both heat and cold resistence whilest other orders only have heat resistence. I don't list all of them but I think with this example you get the point.

Because I don't want to force you to use a specific order because it has the strongest units, I designed this modular structure (I tried to described it above). On the one hand this might be seem repetitive (and yes it is repetitive) but on the other hand - despite from the well known main orders - all orders are equal and you have the choice to use your prefered order/s or unit/s.
Furthermore I'm limited to the games core data/files which inludes the models and their textures aswell as the animations for the different races. So even if I want (and I want it really) I'm not able to create complete new armours, helmets and so on.


Current added Orders:
- Knights Templar
- Knights Hospitaller/ Knights of Malta
- Teutonic Order
- Order of Santiago
- Knights of St. Lazarus
- Knights of Calatrava
- Knights of Alcantara
- Knights of Aviz

The screenshots above only show a small selection of units!
A full unit list can be found here


If you want that your Orders were led by HKO-lore Lords pay a visit to my
Holy Knightly Orders - Lords mod
or if you want a more crusader-themed faction changer for the Chevaliers the Lyonesse look here Holy Knightly Orders - Faction changer mod

Link to SFO version:
https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2187582594

More medieval-styled units can be found here:
https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2205253036


- mortal empires: Chevaliers De Lyonesse starting region have no access to the buildings (conquering the whole province should fix this)
- "Pilgrim Route" and "Chappel" using the same picrure (well not an issue but on purpose)
- spearmen animations are based of the Tomb Kings halberds and shield animations so there might be some situation were these men look a bit weird
(since day one I wanted the high elven spear animations but these uning an other skeleton as the humans so no compatibility - hopefully in TW3 we get better human spear animations)

If you experience a problem, issue or other things like that please levae a comment in the "Compatibility" discussion.

Please before you request an update (because of changed game version/new patches etc.) make sure that my mod is really not working anymore or causing a crash.
The vanilla game launcher marks a mod as outdated as soon as the game version is changed - a changed game version might be not campatible with a mod anymore but most times it's nothing but a outdated mark.
If you have troubles with that simply use the mod manager linked below.

Kaedrin's Mod Manager
https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1399787504


Gorgos
Custom Great Helmet and Plain Plate Armor Models for Modders:
https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1942084576&searchtext=assets
-> models were edited by me to reduce clipping issues with body combinations

hooveric
Dryrain Bretonnia Reskin:
https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1160678432
-> I'm using some of his heads and recreated them

balrok99
Historical Units: Crusaders
https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2003817079
-> I used the wood textures from his shields as inspiration

ChaosRobbie
He creates the amazing crests for the Teutonic Order

Knowledge and base informations about minor orders aswell as the descriptions are taken from
https://www.flaggenlexikon.de/fritter.htm

Inspiration was given by a mod for Medieval 2 (Kingdoms) called Stainless Steel
https://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?314-Stainless-Steel


All mods that I created and all these which may be created by me are free and will be free for all time. But complex or big mods mean many of hours spent modding and testing!
If you want to show your appreciation or have the feeling that you want to give me something back, a small donation is always welcome.

PayPal donation link:
https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=4CFB4KR246CTS


If you are a modder and want to create a xyz-version of this mod you are allowed to do so but:
1. please write me and give credit.
2. you are only allowed to use the content that was created by me - for "third party" content please contact the modders listed above
Same for translations, I'm German so I use German or English language, if you want a transaltion for your language feel free to do so but have my mod as requirment.