1205 AD on GEM

[ijnavy]

Good job on the Orthodox religion, I think I'll add it to my mods.
I wanted to ask if you if your mod plays on the new patch.

 

[Traiano]

Good job on the Orthodox religion, I think I'll add it to my mods.
I wanted to ask if you if your mod plays on the new patch.

Thanks a lot.

I havent updated it.
I'm not sure yet if I will as first I'm trying to see if Zebra will provide me with the python code to trigger a Crusade event.
I'd really like to trigger recurring Crusades to liberate Jerusalem during the 13th century.

 

[Qing Dynasty]

Hi Traiano,

I can't wait to halt the Mongolian horde as Southern Song Dynasty! I currently have BTS v3.17 and I was able to restart the game after selecting the 1205 AD on GEM mod. However, I got an error message after choosing my civilization (cannot load the map). Does this mod only work with BTS v3.13? I have a pretty solid system with 2g of ram and I'm able to load GEM v5.2. Thanks.

 

[Traiano]

Hi Traiano,

I can't wait to halt the Mongolian horde as Southern Song Dynasty! I currently have BTS v3.17 and I was able to restart the game after selecting the 1205 AD on GEM mod. However, I got an error message after choosing my civilization (cannot load the map). Does this mod only work with BTS v3.13? I have a pretty solid system with 2g of ram and I'm able to load GEM v5.2. Thanks.

Hi there,

Sadly yes, this mod runs only with Bts 3.13 and GEM 4.2.
However the GEM is modified, as I included several of the units/tiles modifications implemented by Genghis Kai.
See the first post for more specifics.


Truth be told I do not know if to upgrade it to 3.17

I still hope that Zebra provides me with the python code to trigger the crusades recurring event before thinking about an upgrade (yes, I do not play with the 3.17 patch and frankly do not plan to use it).


T.

 

[Traiano]

Good luck halting the Mongols!
First the Song have to handle the Jin Dynasty, as they start at war with it, even though sharing buddhism as main religion (with the Mongols and Jin) helps to forge a peace treaty...

As Buddhist holy city I chose Lhasa.

For the Hindu I picked Varanasi (Hindu States).

I didnt select one for Confucianism.

 

[Dementual]

Aww. It seems as though you've put a _lot_ of work into this mod. It's a shame I can't play it because it isn't on 3.17. =/ Maybe ask around to see how to upgrade?

 

[Traiano]

Aww. It seems as though you've put a _lot_ of work into this mod. It's a shame I can't play it because it isn't on 3.17. =/ Maybe ask around to see how to upgrade?

Thanks.
I will peruse the forum in case Genghis Kai or Ace posted anything in that regard.
However I'm not positive about the existence of a breakdown of how to edit the ini and xml files to upgrade it to bts 3.17.

I'd love to but sadly these days I really do not have time to try and test it on and on, until I figure out which files were modified by the new patch.


T.


p.s. last update I made was yesterday, a minor one that I didnt even advertise (but I did upload it under the 2.6 label), where I just placed at war the Bulgarian Empire & the Byzantines (see Kaloyan vs Theodore Laskaris).
I also handed Rhodes directly to the Byzantines and Cyprus to the County of Toulouse (I know, it is historically dubious to make Guy of Lusignan a vassal of Raymond of Toulouse, but it bothered me to see that within few turns the Seljuks culturally engulfed Cyprus every time - as Cyprus used to be a barbarian city.)

 

[Traiano]

Hi Traiano,

I can't wait to halt the Mongolian horde as Southern Song Dynasty! I currently have BTS v3.17 and I was able to restart the game after selecting the 1205 AD on GEM mod. However, I got an error message after choosing my civilization (cannot load the map). Does this mod only work with BTS v3.13? I have a pretty solid system with 2g of ram and I'm able to load GEM v5.2. Thanks.

I have now upgraded A Clash of Kingdoms to BTS 3.17 and Gem 5.2.
Surprisingly easy to do thanks to Ace's work.

Enjoy,


T.

 

[Qing Dynasty]

Hi Traiano,

Thanks so much for the update. I tried loading your excellent scenario and it worked. Wow, your scenario is quite historically accurate. What kind of research did you do when you make this MOD? Are you very interested in Chinese history? As Southern Song, I will hold off the Jin and the Mongol by keeping my best general Yue Fei....haha. Thanks again for the great mod!

 

[Traiano]

Hi Traiano,

Thanks so much for the update. I tried loading your excellent scenario and it worked. Wow, your scenario is quite historically accurate. What kind of research did you do when you make this MOD? Are you very interested in Chinese history? As Southern Song, I will hold off the Jin and the Mongol by keeping my best general Yue Fei....haha. Thanks again for the great mod!

I used Jnavy excellent 1100AD Mod as the basic template, then tweaked a few things: in the Far East I just added Korea and modified the Jin Dynasty's territory (and gave extra units to the Mongols).

Yue Fei? ahah, might have been possible to give a great general to the Song, but they are probably already quite strong as they start right now.
In my playesting games Mongols, Song & Jin ended up among the top 10 civs, scorewise.


Also, if I recall correctly the Mongols start at war only with Xi Xia/Tangut (the 1206 AD first campaign) while the Jin and Song dynasties are facing each other.
The other Far East civs are at peace, even though the Mongols have furious relationships with Jin & Song.

 

[Gregg_Bandy]

Can I use this game for a LAN?

 

[Halt]

I notice that you used the older version of GEM without the change to Harbors to balance out Financial. Without that change financial is kinda puny, with water giving only 1C

 

[Traiano]

I notice that you used the older version of GEM without the change to Harbors to balance out Financial. Without that change financial is kinda puny, with water giving only 1C

Thanks for pointing it out.
I'll address it in the next version, when I should finally get the python for the crusades event.

 

[Halt]

I want to try my hand at Portugal!

What difficulty setting do you recommend we play at?

Most of the other GEM Scenario’s I have been playing at Monarch, Emperor, or higher depending upon experience.

 

[Traiano]

I want to try my hand at Portugal!

What difficulty setting do you recommend we play at?

Most of the other GEM Scenario’s I have been playing at Monarch, Emperor, or higher depending upon experience.

Mmm...I usually play at Noble because I do not play aggressively and like the fact neither the player nor the AI get any starting bonus/malus.

Portugal's starting position isnt bad but in the long term range isnt great either.
Everything depends on colonizing Africa and managing to complete the Reconquista against the Almohades.
It is also vital to maintain decent relationships with Mali and Ethiopia, to turn them against the Almohades.

You'll start out with a good fleet (2-3 Carracks), so colonization is doable, even though your army isnt large (but you have a horse resource).

Have fun!

 

[Halt]

When is the next update?

 

[Traiano]

When is the next update?

Halt,

The main thing left to add is the crusade event, but Zebra hasnt got back to me regarding the python code, therefore I'm not sure.
He was and might still be overwhelmed...

 

[Lean]

Haha! I love a chance to restore Byzantine to its former glory! And I'm well on my way to doing that. Well, after destroying the Eastern Latin Empire, I faced a large army of Seljuk Turks attacking my capital, and taking it. So, in this chain of events, Constantinopel became my capital once more, and I built up my forces. It took about 100 years or so, but I pushed the Turks back, and left them without any cities. I continued my hard, and often fustrating conquest of the Middle Est, until I reached The heart of the Arabs, Egypt. I struck fast and hard, capturing Cario and Alexanderia. Soon, Cario was lost, and after about 20 years, I had deeated the Arabs. Now, I fell quite happy with myself, and got a bit over confident. I attacked the Almohads, only to have them conqure my newly aquired Egypt. They began pushing into the Middle East, even capturing Jerusalem before I was able to stage a mass ****er attack. By about 1450, They fell, and I had Venice, and Rus as my vassals. I got greedy, and looked toward Rome. The Pope and I...had some disagreements. So, I declared war on them, and in about 10 turns, Venice captured Rome, ending the Pope's regin, and brining the Christian capital nto Orthodox hands. However, the conquest of Rome must've angered the House of Hohenstaufen, for they attacked Rome, causing me to take action against them. Seeing an open, the House of Welf reclaimed the cites they lost to Hohenstaufen, while I captured Southern Rome and the rest of Hohenstaufen land. The House fo Welf soon became my vassal, and together, we conqured Bohemia, making that Welf territory. I compliment you with an amazing senario, and great use of leader heads. I enjoied, and am still enjoying, this senario. It seems the world will go quite differnt, wont it?

 

[Traiano]

Haha! I love a chance to restore Byzantine to its former glory! And I'm well on my way to doing that. Well, after destroying the Eastern Latin Empire, I faced a large army of Seljuk Turks attacking my capital, and taking it. So, in this chain of events, Constantinopel became my capital once more, and I built up my forces. It took about 100 years or so, but I pushed the Turks back, and left them without any cities. I continued my hard, and often fustrating conquest of the Middle Est, until I reached The heart of the Arabs, Egypt. I struck fast and hard, capturing Cario and Alexanderia. Soon, Cario was lost, and after about 20 years, I had deeated the Arabs. Now, I fell quite happy with myself, and got a bit over confident. I attacked the Almohads, only to have them conqure my newly aquired Egypt. They began pushing into the Middle East, even capturing Jerusalem before I was able to stage a mass ****er attack. By about 1450, They fell, and I had Venice, and Rus as my vassals. I got greedy, and looked toward Rome. The Pope and I...had some disagreements. So, I declared war on them, and in about 10 turns, Venice captured Rome, ending the Pope's regin, and brining the Christian capital nto Orthodox hands. However, the conquest of Rome must've angered the House of Hohenstaufen, for they attacked Rome, causing me to take action against them. Seeing an open, the House of Welf reclaimed the cites they lost to Hohenstaufen, while I captured Southern Rome and the rest of Hohenstaufen land. The House fo Welf soon became my vassal, and together, we conqured Bohemia, making that Welf territory. I compliment you with an amazing senario, and great use of leader heads. I enjoied, and am still enjoying, this senario. It seems the world will go quite differnt, wont it?

God job!
I'm glad you enjoyed the scenario.
It seems in Europe you managed to have the upper hand, as probably from now on just France will be a major threat (France always does very well in my games).

The Rus are quite tough, if nobody attacks them within the first 200 years.

It seems you are on the right path to win the game, even tough land wars in Asia are problematic to say the least.

I think your major rivals will be the Mongols, The Song and the Jin Dynasty.

Have fun!

 

[Halt]

Been waiting on the change to Harbors and a few other tweaks before I play more... any update news?