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Red's European Knights

Hello everyone,
welcome to this mod page.


Please make sure to read the following mod description and the informations below before you ask questions or request updates etc.
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Even if you don't like the mod you are welcome to give your constructive feedback.


I got the idea for this mod after my Holy Knightly Orders mods - during the creation of the HKO mods I got several unit ideas that fit the medieval theme but not the crusader theme at all - so I decided to create this mod.

The goal of this mod is to add knights or other men at arms from different European kingdoms of the medieval times.
Just to name some: England, Castillia/Spain, Holy Roman Empire, France... .

If the faction you play with has access to the units you should be able to build a new building chain in nearly all settlements in both, Vortex campaign and Mortal Empires campaign.
It might be possible that this building appear for other human factions to but than these factions does not have access to the recruitment since the units are locked to specific factions or faction groups.

A full unit list can be found here


For this project I try to be as historic as I can in terms of heraldry.
Maybe some of you will say that the combination of the different patterns/symbols does not make sense timescale wise but please have in mind that I don't want to unify all these things.

Faction available units:
-> French and English units = Brettonian factions
-> Holy Roman Empire and Byzantine units = Empire and imperial factions
-> Spanish/Castillian and Portugese units = Estalia
-> Milan and Venice units = Tilea

You still need a faction unlocker for the non-playable factions!

All units will be available for the Empire and Empire only in custom battles.
-> for me it's easier to test all units in one battle instead of fighting a battle for every faction
-> units will use pre-defined colour schemes so no worries about faction colours etc.

You are welcome to post any unit ideas here or balanacing tipps, compatibility issues or any other things here


- no known game-breaking issues

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


ChaosRobie for creating the pavise shields.

Marthenil for creating and implementing the morion helmet.

Cataph for the Southern Realms mod, which includes the mentioned assets and their textures from above:
https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1158737832

All used symbols (heraldry) are either self created or are taken from Wikipedia (public domain)

Unit set up ideas are taken from the game Medieval 2 Total War and Medieval 2 Total War: Kingdoms aswell from the mods
Stainless Steel
https://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?314-Stainless-Steel&s=683a59722dbbcf8be11dddf4a138806e
and
Schwert und Speer
https://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?204304-Schwert-und-Speer

Unit description texts are taken from the Total War Wiki: https://wiki.totalwar.com/w/Units_in_Medieval_II:_Total_War.html


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.