Stainless Steel 6.0 Released

[그레이스텀]

Hi all,

With a 'little delay' Stainless Steel 6.0 is now 'officialy' released.

Stainless Steel 6.0

Medieval II Total War - Kingdoms expansion required.

Download Links

Part1: http://files.filefront.com/Stainless+Steel+60+Pt1of2exe/;10047151;/fileinfo.html
Part2: http://files.filefront.com/Stainless+Steel+60+Pt2of2exe/;10043111;/fileinfo.html

Installation

Install Part1 and Part2 into the default Medievall II Total War directory.
Normally this is: .../SEGA/Medieval II Total War.
If you have installed Medieval II into another folder, please select the folder manually.

NOTE: Stainless Steel 6.0 will not overwrite older Stainless Steel versions, so you have to delete them manually.

Features


*--- New Intro Video ---


1. The Campaign Map



*- Completely new and huge campaign map, covering most of Europe and the beginning of Persia.
*- New ground types and custom climates.
*- Maximum width the engine allows of 510 movement tiles.
*- Mountains, hills and map outlines are based on satellite data.
*- Maximum amount of almost 200 historically medieval settlements. (A few had to sacrifice historical accuracy for better game balance)
*- Every Region has its own ressources, including new valuable resources in the "outbacks" of the map.

Map Screenshots:
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=138892
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=146099

New campaign map models:



*- New Coat of Arms for most factions
- New character models for all faction leaders
*- New captain models for catholic factions
*- New captain and general models for all orthodox factions
*- New character skins
-* New models for trade ships, sieges and trade wagons
- New models for european castles, fortresses and citadels
- Unique models for brick castles
- wooden walls now have a wooden colour



2. The Campaigns

*- Extended and more reasonable win conditions
- Date is shown shown as years and turns
- Money Script to support AI Factions
*- New menu music
- New campaign music from the Kingdoms Expansion:
* Crusades Music for the middle eastern factions
* Britania Music for north european factions
* Teutonic Music for east european factions
The Early Era Campaign
-Time frame 1080 - 1560.
- 1.5 years per turn and 320 turns.

The Late Era Campaign
- Time frame is 1220 - 1560
- 1 year per turn and 340 turns
- Historically accurate empires
*- Historically accurate family trees (within the limits of the game engine)
- Advanced settlements and units available at the game start
- A few settlements are different than in the Early Era
- Every faction owns one or two very advanced settlements, which will be your local military powerhouse. Loosing this key settlements can seriously drop the military and econimc power of one faction.
- Mongols playable
- Teutonic Order playable
- Kingdom of Jerusalem replaces Knights Templar

Hotseat Campaign
- Play the early Era Campaign in Hotseat mode. (guide to play late era follows)



3. The Factions


28 Playable Factions



New Factions:

*The Khwarezmian Empire
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=133436&highlight=preview+kwarezm+empire

*Cuman Khanate
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=135906&highlight=preview+of+the+cumans

Kievan Rus
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=99475

Crown of Aragon
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=104053

Knights Templar (only playable in the Early Era Campaign)
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=86534

*Genoa (replaces milan)

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

*Lithuania

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

*The Teutonic Order (only playable in the Late Era Campaign)

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Ireland
Norway
Kingdom of Jerusalem


Reskinned Factions:


*Denmark

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

*England

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

*Scotland

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Byzantium

Russia

Mongols



4. Units & Mercenaries

Units

*- New captain and general models
- Maximum amount of 500 Different Units and mercenaries
*- New and additional units for all factions
- All factions now have a logical and more complete recruitment tree and several reasonable and interesting units are added.
- Some units are only recruitable in specific regions or with specific buildings
- Early/Late Generals recruitable in castles/citadels
- Added Additional Units:
Dismounted Order Knights
Dismounted Armored Clergy
Regular Light Swordsmen for many factions
Greek Arquebusiers
Guard Pikemen for Byzantium
Desert Raiders for Moors and Egypt
Calivermen for Scotland
Armored Clergy for Norway
*Mangonels for most factions
*Heavy Hussars for Poland

and many more units from the Kingdoms Expansion...


Mercenaries

- Many new mercenaries for the Early and High Medieval Period:
*Doppelsoldner, Sergeant Swordsmen, Hashishim Mercenaries, Viking Mercenaries, Prussian Spearmen, Highland Pikemen, Armenian Infantry
Pikemen Mercenaries, Hunters, Arbalesters, Macemen, English Huscarls, Swabian Swordsmen, Andalusian Infantry, Mercenary Saracens, Axemen
Pisan and genoese Sailors, Armenians of selicia, Gwent Raiders
- New and more varied mercenary pools
- Greater mercenary variety
- Mercenaries have more experience
- Regions have more mercenary special units



5. Gameplay


Improved AI.

*Campaign:
- More aggressive Ai
- Better defending AI
- Better AI expansion and invasion
- Stronger alliances
- Rarer Catholic - Islamic alliances
*Battle:
- Increased flanking
- Better pathfinding
- Better Siege AI


New buildings

*- New education structures: Schools, libraries and universities
*- Medieval Wonders can now be constructed in important medieval cities: Dome of Rock (Jerusalem), Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Jerusalem), Cordoba Mosque (Cordoba), Kaaba (Mecca), Notre Dame (Paris), St. Marks Basilica (Venice), Hagia Sophia (Constantinople), Great Aqueduct (Constantinople)
- Other buildings: highways, Hanseatic League and pagan shrines.


Role Play Elements

*- Completely reworked military and economical education, based on the inclination towards Military or Adminastrative skills, the quality of schools, libraries and universities and of course skills you show in battle.
*- Different titles for greek, catholic and islamic culture for every settlement. The effects and descriptions are often based on historical backgrounds.
*- Crowns for faction leaders that have conquered historical biggest empires
*- Royal Bloodlines for all existing factions
- Army attrition and supply system demands much more tactical decisions and religion is much more important. Watch and take care of your general and the moral and suply of his army!
*- Most ancillaries are now transferable from one character to another
*- Countless new Traits, Transferable Titles, Ancillaries
*- Several boosts for the AI to get better characters
- Unique Traits and Ancillaries for the Teutonic Order and the Knights Templar
- New Patriarch titles for Orthodox Factions available
- Many broken Character Traits and Ancillaries fixed
- and much more...


Events


*- Interactive Events: great fairs, lateran councils, pirates, tournaments. Choose yes or no with different impacts.
*- Faction Events: emergent Kingdom of Jerusalem, Teutonic Order and William Wallace, the capture of Jerusalem, the first Great Masjid...
*- New Historical Events like Order foundations, Inquisitions, cultural and scientific events, deaths of important persons...
- Informative Events when a certain capital is fallen, when a princess comes of age and when a monarch dies


Improved and challenging AI Armies

*- Ai now uses unit priorities to build their armies
- Ai is forced to make better mix of Infantry, Missiles, Cavalry and Artillery.
- AI produces more Elite and Heavy units.

Agents and Characters

- Historically accurate Character Names
- Reasonable limits for assassins, spies and priests
- Merchants income increased, movement increased
- Inquisitors less effective
- Spy's chances decreased, movement greatly increased
- Princesses movement increased, more charming
- Diplomats movement increased
- Priests movement increased
- Captains are less likely to rebel
- Assasins slightly improved, movement increased
- Imam's required Piety to call a Jihad raised
- Less Heretics and Rebels
- More Witches


Settlement and Unit Recruitment Changes

- Important medieval Cities like Constantinople, Jerusalem, Kiev, Rome and Paris more powerful
*- Many Guilds changes for more varied guilds
*- More logical recruitment, for example cities can build more ships & artillery than castles.
- Fortesses/Citadels & Large/Huge Cities have 4-5 recruitment slots
- Castles-Citadels have 1-2 free upkeep
- City growth slightly reduced
- Slightly lowered law bonus in cities
- Tax Income slightly decreased
*- Money income bonus for late game buildings decreased
- Unit recruitment depends on barracks and armorers



6. Battles


*Complete rework of unit stats and balance.


- Much bigger difference between different unit classes.
- Cavalry stronger and with an devastating charge, very expensive.
- Missile and gunpowder units do more damage
- Spearmen are now stronger against cavalry
- Increased effect of heat on heavily armored units.
- Unit recruitment costs and upkeep costs derived from actual medieval sources
- Improved unit cohesion
- Longer Lasting Battles due to slightly higher morale and lower attack values
- More realistic battle map movement
- Artillery crews reduced, morale lowered
- (Great) Bombards, Serpentins can deploy Stakes
- Shield walls for several early era units

- Ballista/Cannon Towers fixed
- More Archers can deploy stakes
- All Longbowmen ranges increased
- Pikemen very vulnerable to missiles
- and much much more...


Custom Battles



- All historical Battles playable (except Hastings)
- New scenario battles for singleplayer
- New scenarios for multiplayer
*- New Custom Battle Maps


Kingdoms Expansion Features

- Boiling Oil from Gatehouses
- Control your reinforcements



7 Graphics


- New menu design
*- New Unit Cards for all factions


*- New Unit Info Cards for all factions



- New Faction Symbols
*- 42 new epic loading screens
*- New models for Mailed Knights, Armored Sergeants, Crusader Sergeants and Knights, Light Swordsmen, Berdiche Axemen

*- New models and skins for all captains and east european Generals
- New Horse models and skins for Templar, Hospitaller and Montesa Knights
- New skins for all Order Knights
- New upgrade for Eastern Bodyguards
- Special shields for Norman Knights
- New skies from kingdoms, including aurora sky
- More spectacular Sky variations
- New grass textures from kingdoms
- Different interfaces for eastern, northern and arabic cultures
- New unique Shield textures for all catholic factions
- New unique Unit Textures for all European Early & High units
- New unique Unit Textures for all Feudal & Mailed Knights
- New unique unit textures for all Order Knights armor upgrades
- New historical accurate faction banners and banners for special units
*- Improved Musket & Artillery Smoke
*- several other little changes



Credits (also in-game)

First of all, I want to thank Quark for his intense help, support and great ideas in the last months.

Akvilonn (Unit info cards)
Alletun (Faction symbols)
Apkairan (Loading screens)
B.A.L.T.S team (Unit models & textures)
Burrek (Unit textures)
Byg (Army Supply system)
Danova (Unit models & textures)
Dearmad & Pnutmaster (Traits & Ancillaries)
Disgruntled Goat (Unit textures)
Doge Cristoforo (Beta Tester)
Echad (for his great support)
finneys (Historical character names)
hellfire15 (Beta Tester)
Horsearcher (Sky textures)
Ice Beast (Unit stats tables)
IZ Master (Beta Tester)
Joe Dreck (Banners)
Kalos (Unit textures)
Lusted (Battle & Campaign AI)
Point Blank (Unit stats & balance)
Quark (Traits & Ancillaries, Wonders, Events, Beta Tester and great supporter)
Rex Cobalt (Unit textures)
Riczu74 (Trade ship & Siege models)
Rozanov (Beta Tester)
Salty (Shield textures)
Seleukosart (Intro video)
shenryyr (Beta Tester)
Sher Khan (Unit cards)
Nikola Aleksić (aka Sir Nicholas Altman) (Beta Tester)
Skaven (Unit cards, extraordinary efforts)
Tommyknocker (Campaign map)
trashing_mad (Heavy Hussars)
Tyre (Unit textures)
wolfslayer (Beta Tester and contributions)
Xeryx (For great efforts and work, Beta tester)
Ziher (Shield textures)


Thank you all for your work and help and the support of Stainless Steel!

[아하쿠루스트]

말변화랑 원거리정확도 하다가 잘안되더니 원상복구해도 걍 바탕화면으로 튕겨지네;;재설치뿐인것인가;;;;;;

[아하쿠루스트]

안바꾸고 걍할땐 잘됫으니.........

[hkmp5k]

계속 바이러스 경고를 띄우는군요;;

[아하쿠루스트]

캬 음악도좋코 전부 mp3 어유그냥 확팩분위기물씬풍겨 ㅎㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷ

[Richard III]

m/m 으로 성전기사단 땅하나부터 시작했는데 그냥 쭉쭉 나가네요..초반이라 그런가? .베하/베하로 해봐야겠네요...그런데 가끔 25% 확율로 커스텀전투 선택메뉴에서 CTD 나네요..다행히 캠페인에서는 안일어나고요

[[Beta]시라]

윙드후사르 한번 보고싶었는데 ㅠㅠ

[맨발의청춘]

6.0 아무문제업음^^ 지금현재 70턴진행 근데 화살패치좀 다른모드는 기본옵션인데 ~~현실감이...

[카르셀리아]

스페인 신세계병력이 본토에서 나오나요?

[[RTW]ROME]

영국스킨 -ㅅ-

[타마누님]

베하베하로 하고 있는데... 넘 조용한;;

[타마누님]

15턴 정도 지나니 슬슬 서로 싸우는군요~.~

[youn sub]

캠페인으로 후기시대 하려니깐 자꾸팅기네요 ;; ㅠㅠㅠ

[이카루지노스]

youn sub 님 겜 들어가자 말자 바로 후기부터 시작해보세요 그럼 안팅겨요. 여기저기 클릭했다가 후기시대 하려니 저도 팅기더군요. 처음부터 후기 클릭하시면 팅김현상 없어요. 아무튼 ss6.0 별 이상없이 잼나게 잘하고있습니다 ^^

[youn sub]

이카루지노스 님 말씀대로 하니까 잘되네요ㅎㅎ 정말 고맙습니다~~^^

[시저Ⅵ]

90턴부터 자꾸 팅기네요

[브루스윌리스]

저와 같은 증상 있으신분 계신가요? 처음 캠패인 시작시 나라 고르는데에서 시칠리아와 프랑스를 고르면 튕겨버리네요.

[Lord_ET]

메뉴에서 이리저리 클릭질 하면 튕기는건 모든 모드의 공통 특성입니다. 진행하고 싶은 팩션 한번만 선택해서 바로 게임으로 들어가세요.

[yxunomei]

움... 전 전투 들어가면 바로 튕기네요 ㅠ.ㅠ 버그픽스 기다려야하나.... 같은 증상 가지신분 있나요?;;

[언제나 그곳에서]

음. 저도 전투 화면만 들어가면 팅기네요...

[parkjinsoo]

제가 5.0을 예루살렘왕국을 저장하면서 하는데 6.0설치하면 이어서 할수있는거에요?

[나다불만이냐]

세이브파일 호환않되요.. 안타깝지만 처음부터 다시 시작해야합니다..

[털보]

지도가 확장되서 그런지 아메리카쪽은 이동이 안되던데 짤린거임?

[브루스윌리스]

1275년부터 턴넘기려는데 자꾸 튕겨요~ㅠ,.ㅜ

[다베스더]

ss모드 확장팩 있어야하죠?

[하나님]

네 ^^ 암두 답글안하시길래......

[Rome]

생각보다 자주 CTD가 발생하네요.. SS의 가장 큰 장점은 안정성이었는데.. 하지 않을 수 없는 휼륭한 모드인데 조금 아쉽습니다.

[카르셀리아]

아...저도 비잔틴제국 50턴에서 튕겻음....그것도 콘스탄티노플 공성전에서 큰승리 거두고 나서 튕겨서 할맘 잃엇음ㅜ.ㅜ

[다베스더]

님들 실행파일이 뭐에요? 멀로 실행시켜요?

[그려]

자료 감사합니다.

[고기]

이번 버젼 신대륙 없어졌나요?

[lgw827]

네. SS6.0에서는 신대륙을 삭제하고 맵 크기를 늘렸습니다.

[시저Ⅵ]

로마제국 151턴 팅기네요...;;; 로드해도 여전히 마찬가지..

[빈센트]

근데 이거 실행을 어떻게해야 하죠? 킹덤.exe에 확장팩 캠페인 속성에 붙이는 것처럼 Medieval II Total War\kingdoms.exe" --features.mod=mods/Stainless_Steel_6 --io.file_first 붙여줬는데 시작화면 잠깐 뜨더니 에러도 없이 꺼지네요 ㅠㅠ;