THIS WILL MAKE YOU RETURN TO TOTAL WAR

[@AndysTake]

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[@xXAlduin99]

I think this is what I always wanted. Thanks for the video

[@AndysTake]

My pleasure! :)

[@ahmadalfalasi194]

If there is any medieval 2 remaster coming (which I doubt) I would pretty much ask the developers to add this as a grand campaign map or as a second campaign. For me this is the default vanilla Kingdoms grand campaign that every one should atleast try.

[@DP-it7zm]

There is a warhammer game coming (again) but after that M3tw is next on the list (coming from legend of total war youtube channel)

[@ahmadalfalasi194]

Did he mention it on his channel .. could you refer me to the video?​@@DP-it7zm

[@mscapeh4451]

​@@DP-it7zmwill be bad if they dont make new engine warscape engine sucks with units

[@hardywatkins7737]

I heard a rumour recently (via 'legend of totalwar') that there will be a medieval 3 total war, and that it's still a few years away but that they've decided to make it.

[@basileusp5494]

I will take either a Medieval 3 or a Medieval 2 remastered. Given recent CA offerings I almost would prefer the remastered Medieval 2. It has incredible potential.

[@ares106]

You lost me at “a lot more cities to conquer and manage”. Why almost every single overhaul mod is obsessed with that idea that more conquering and managing is more better is beyond me.

[@anathardayaldar]

Some people love to micromanage and play traffic cop.

[@phuongtran-ot8bm]

There are auto-manage option tho😅

[@tillercaesar-kq4ou]

Um because it’s weird that there’s only like 4 cities in all of France??

[@oliverhughes610]

Because a great, continent-spanning empire shouldn't have only half a dozen settlements.

[@tillercaesar-kq4ou]

@@oliverhughes610 yes

[@Borer2]

this video has hyped me up for medieval 2 remastered (if it ever releases)

[@DarthLevicor]

Man I feel you but we need a Medieval 3 even more 😭

[@Borer2]

@@DarthLevicor i agree

[@charlesmiv3842]

Chivalry Remastered mod for Rome Remastered is the best medieval remaster right now.

[@jaywerner8415]

@@DarthLevicor Do you ACTUALLY expect CA to not F it up?

[@DarthLevicor]

@@jaywerner8415Honestly no lol

[@gilmer3718]

Mods make these games come alive. Even the good versions get better with mods.

[@AndysTake]

Absolutely my friend!

[@Smenkhaare]

I always wait for the mods. Right now I am playing Age of Bronze with Rome 2 and it is not finished yet so sweet. Andy turned me on to that one as well. The only quibble is that I have so many mods to play and the game play models look so old. Please remaster Medieval II CA and/or even better Medieval 3 please... In My Lifetime... am 60 years old now. LOL.

[@Sakarraterrum]

I love this mod. Its simplicity and vanilla Style makes me enjoy creating lore to my own games, which I always find unique

[@AndysTake]

I love the vanilla style too, you *almost* play the Britannia campaign as its very own campaign, but on this larger map. It’s fantastic!

[@contecrusoe]

This and Tsardoms reignited my love for Medieval 2

[@alals6794]

ALOT more cities to conquer and MANAGE.....At this point, I stopped the video. Don't get me wrong, Medieval 2 Total War is the 2nd best TW title I have ever played. Second only to the 2004 Rome TW and I still played it as recently as 2022 and will go back to it in 2024 but lets be honest here: ALOT MORE CITIES TO MANAGE becomes a grind when your empire expands significantly. Now some people like the grind and that is fine, but grinding for grinding sake is not what makes a game better, in my opinion. Anyhow, I'll check out the rest of the channel and thanks for the video.

[@azarisLP]

This. Why are so many mods just "let's add a million billion factions and regions that totally break the pacing and scaling of the game"? This is not a Paradox game. The faction spam does not make the game better.

[@mashek331]

This is actually what I've always wanted. A campaign that improves on vanilla, while not drastically changing it. I always disliked how there were great swathes of empty land in various parts of the map, but it looks like this actually adds important settlements (one example being Sinope). Every other point you've hit the nail on the head.

[@nofearofwater]

You may enjoy total vanilla beyond more though because this mod has a garrison script, meaning it adds full garrison to settlements you besiege. It’s more hardcore comparatively.

[@mashek331]

@@nofearofwater Certainly won't complain about that!

[@hardywatkins7737]

I tried out most of the vanilla style mods with larger maps, more cities and regions ect. This is by far the best mostly because it's stable (no crashes in months of play), has a ton of regions and settlements, and it's really forgiving on your system also. My laptop struggles with some mods but this one runs quite well. I've actually spent the last couple of weeks totally overhauling the mod ... moving factions around, adding 60 forts to the map, more rebel generals and more interesting rebel armys, changed merc recruiting, overhauling cities and their buildings, rearranging troop recruiting and build times, sharing more troops between factions and overhauling the troops themselves as well as creating a bunch of new ones. Now i've got it just how i like it.

[@AndysTake]

@@hardywatkins7737 that sounds awesome! Is your mod uploaded anywhere?

[@hardywatkins7737]

@@AndysTake No it's not, i've done things which might be considered unhistorical and i've made alot of units available really early ... so it's like a fun mod and not a serious mod.

[@hardywatkins7737]

@@AndysTake You've encouraged me to make a better version however, perhaps something i 'could' upload somewhere (or simply email to you it wouldn't be very big). Just need to make some tweaks and keep track of the unit card files that've been changed. I really want to balance the troops better than the mod does, divide all the troops according to their repective buildings i.e stables, archery range, barracks, for the most part apart from some basic militia units, so the power balance between nations is more even. I'm going to make stables and archey ranges buildable in cities also. I'll be sacrificing some troops (peasant archers, town militia, pisan + geonese sailors, fanatics, ... crappy units) to make room for a few new ones so each faction get a new shared or unique unit or two, so Spain, Portugal, England, France and sicily now all get dragoons later on, Spain get's archer militia and hopefully some dismounted knights of santiago. England gets swordsmen militia and mounted longbowmen (for some reason the mod deleted the mounted longbowmen), Keivan Rus and Novgorod get sudovian tribesmen and dismounted tartar lancers, the moors will get some egyptian units, HRE will get some teutonic order units, Antioch will share the tripolitanian squires with venice, renaming them to 'Italian Infantry' antioch and jerusalem will be more uniform and 'crusader like' in their troop roster. I'm also buffing every unit a little especially the muslim factions and the mongols and lithuania, just making them a bit more of a challenge, so people can play a lively and challenging campaign. Trying also to balance the economy and farms and population growth also, every faction now gets 12000 kings purse and has had their town, cities and castles changed with more farms, markets to aid population growth and income.

[@StormKnight1]

Do you really want a medieval 2 Remastered or medieval 3 ? I think med2 being settled and not getting a remaster is a better sendoff because modders are keeping it alive and well, plus it's not old to a fault like Rome 1 is, though don't chop me for saying that, I love Rome 1. Anyway, I hope you get my point. I'm sold on the mod btw it sounds like a great thing to get into before I prepare myself for stainless steel.

[@AndysTake]

Medieval 2 Remastered personally, the modding potential is immense!

[@StormKnight1]

@@AndysTake oh yeah, thing is I trust modders, I don't really trust CA to do a good remaster, like Rome 1s art remaster being good and having enhanced modding support is more a stroke of luck, at least in my opinion, a lot off things have to align properly including a lot of very specific and talented people for a remaster to actually end up turning out a way that it's community likes. And even than you have to pray for it to get of the oven, as was with some of Rome 1 remasters short coming. And once it's out the oven extended support for it slows down and wed be lucky to get anything fixed before the ship sales, all the internal conflicts devs have with management to fix one more thing before time runs out, though developers like that are an uncommon blessing instead of a norm.

[@DoomTobi]

I would already be super happy with an AI remaster. Especially modded late game castle sieges could be so epic if the AI wouldn't be so stupid

[@StormKnight1]

@@DoomTobi A high quality texture upscale is possible from the community, well, AI method is also possible but what I'm talking about is tools that use graphics cards to upscale work. Would need some setup, like finding someone who owns a powerful GPU for better results.

[@ThomasHector-xv3pn]

We need a remaster because of better battle controls, camera, the lift on the hardcodded limit to factions as an example and the increase on the campaign map size too There are also game breaking bugs like diplomacy bug penalty, dead factions penalty and 2 handed bug.

[@papagator7471]

Video Starts here 2:37

[@James-sc5dn]

Is there anyway to disable the garrison feature? Whenever I sieged a city, a invisible garrision would appear making it rather decieving edit: garrison script is a bit sketchy, doesn't work well imo

[@mikem8574]

This mod playable on ios?

[@tha_MVPLAYA]

Not even android supports modding unfortunately

[@armandom.s.1844]

There is an almost identical mod called Vanilla Kingdoms 2023, with even more vanilla style but all Kingdoms factions, units and buildings in grand campaign too. Absolutely recommended. Edit: as far as I see Vanilla Kingdoms map is smaller, it only adds a few extra cities in the Grand campaing to fit the other factions.

[@AndysTake]

yup, to my knowledge it also adds new city models a la stainless steel (maybe even new music) which in my opinion makes it a big no-no for a vanilla-style campaign

[@vonblunder]

Looks good, but did they solve the diplomacy bug where taking control of a new region makes everyone hate you more, and the 2 handed weapon bug ?

[@AndysTake]

Hmmm don’t know?

[@krekk2751]

​@@AndysTakeyou're such A KZbinr clown, you call yourself total war veteran and dont even know anything, not even the 2 handed bug and that it is fixed in the Kingdoms version of the game. What a absolute rat.

[@boricns]

wow... today o learned that "hotseat campaing" was a thing...

[@AndysTake]

Today?! Wow! :O

[@boricns]

@@AndysTake i been looking for mods that would let me play two factions never knew that was a thing in mediva :Dl

[@AndysTake]

@@boricns it only came with kingdoms and then they never implemented it ever again… saddest things in the universe

[@DP-it7zm]

In the teutonic campaign you can use hotseating to play two factions yourself at the same time... (havent tried it with other kingdom campaigns

[@timbow1833]

playing as 2 or more factions sounds brilliant

[@erloriel]

Funnily enough, a lot of these features were already integrated by the Schwert und Speer mod, way back in 2011 (or somewhere around there).

[@danielepenco9295]

THANKS,ANDY!I missed this video months ago but today i've immediatly downloaded this mod. WHAT A MOD!!!....Its like the real med2 i Always wanted....an expanded vanilla version.Improved everywere....without the overhaul mod that sometimes,in the search of ""perfection"" become ....boring. I just would like tu THANK u and aski more details about your graphic and CAMERA improvement. Cheers

[@AndysTake]

@@danielepenco9295 glad you’re enjoyed it, love this mod so much! If you look up camera movement mod on google or moddb for medieval 2 the camera battle mod should show up :)

[@danielepenco9295]

@@AndysTake Thank u again and.....MARRY CHRISTMAS....BUON NATALE

[@LoremasterLiberaster]

Return? I never left

[@krystofcisar469]

Nice. That seems like simple yet genius mod. Gonna try that right away. Its nice that MTW2 still gets some care.

[@conordoyle139]

Does this mod fix the misc vanilla bugs? (Pike, 2-h animation, constant diplomatic malus, etc)

[@AndysTake]

Might do, you’re free to try it!

[@MrJsStrategyPlays]

I downloaded this mod because you suggested it. It seems fun but I’m not sure why every time I attack a settlement, a full garrison magically appears. Why couldn’t this person just add the factions and the extra settlements and keep everything else the same? It’s ridiculous

[@MrJsStrategyPlays]

And why is the recruitment pool and time to build buildings all messed up?? Seriously I feel like I have to make a video on just how disappointing the mod is

[@husselbeh1058]

Honestly the thing that stops me from coming back to these older titles are the control schemes. After playing so much of Rome 2 and the Warhammer trilogy it's very hard to go back to no WASD, janky camera and meh unit control. The modern stuff has it's issues but it just feels more fluid imo. It's a shame because I'd love it. Rome 1 was my first and I adored that game. Sometimes wish I'd experienced Medieval 2 before the more modern stuff.

[@HelpMePleaseOhGodHelpMe]

You can easy play with WASD in med 2 by swithcing controll scheme top "FPS Style" and use the mod Freecam to get a beatifull and smooth camera experience in battles. Makes it much more playable

[@thedude9461]

You can change your key bindings lol

[@Person0fColor]

It’s called FPS but you can’t remap “R” to double time so you have to make it “H”. If that truly is the only reason you’re not playing it you should be on a whole other grind. I recommend Tsardoms and SS

[@walidou6434]

Name of thé modd??

[@AndysTake]

Kingdoms Grand Campaign Mod!

[@leakarenzel3796]

how come are the troops deploed at 120 etc. while my campain on very hard is 60-75max

[@Josuegurrola]

I wonder if the Ai is not stupid. How you can play versus yourself? Autoresolve I wonder.

[@rhoetusochten4211]

I think all battles in "hotseat:" are auto resolved

[@AndysTake]

you can't play both sides versus yourself, but you can play offensive battles and defensive battles versus the AI!

[@Josuegurrola]

Than you guys! My brother will love this

[@AndysTake]

@@Josuegurrola great! Just look up how to defend, because if you wanna do that you’ll have to change a like in the config, it’s not hard :)

[@ElJorge97]

How can you change that ?​@@AndysTake

[@ElJorge97]

can you play the battles in the hotseat ???? Ot just auto-resolve?

[@legomaster7982]

What is the difference between this and total vanilla?

[@liamwarren7590]

Yeah but have they fixed the camera movement speed?

[@MacbookJesse]

Any tips on how to play this mod if you have M2TW on Mac Steam?

[@AndysTake]

I personally don’t know if mods work on Mac, you’d have to check for the answers sadly!

[@OguzhanKuloglu]

What about Timurids?Does the mod include Timurid Invasion

[@alexpeers9863]

Nice video. Thanks Andy! While I'm here, Hey CA if any of your staff are watching this channel, answer me this? Why do you hate money? A remastered Med 2 with full 8 player multiplayer campaign support would sell like hotcakes. Do you not have the programming skill to emulate an engine over the top of the core unit? Shame. It would not be hard or take much work. £20 retail on Steam. Full Steam mod access. 100 Thousand + copies sold right there.

[@AndysTake]

A medieval 2 remaster with multiplayer campaign 😩😭 I’d buy 10 copies and play forever

[@bamblaster5865]

Oh yeah i remember hotseat campaign solo with 4 factions insanely fun me vs ai. But i wouldn't trade it with scripted solo campaign though if it enhances my gameplay enjoyment and I'm quite confident that in the last 5 years i played a lot of DaC and its sub mods than any of the historical Med 2 mods combined. I'm also guessing that in this year I'm going to play Med 2 and Kenshi again lets see if i manage to get another 1000 hours by the end of the year with both of those games.

[@ultimoguerreiro82]

This or Vanilla Beyond?

[@piracybringer4057]

arre there custom cities maps ?

[@riccardocappelletti9652]

How do you have such a nice graphic definition ? Is that re-shade ? I have a very new computer andstill definition is not as good as yours

[@broncos1600]

Needs more units for Byzantine empire

[@setsunachiame]

Can I ask for a link to this mod?

[@AndysTake]

It is smack down right there in the description

[@onespot6371]

My med 2 crashes intermittently ?

[@MBP1918]

It is glorious

[@AndysTake]

You said it!

[@garrettlionheart]

The only thing I don't like about the mod is that you can't play with Portugal 😢

[@hardywatkins7737]

You can

[@Hjorth87]

Interesting mod. I think I'll start with Stainless Steel though. When I figure out how to get it in 2024. BTW, your background music has a really confusing effect combined with your speech cadence. Especially in the beginning of the video.

[@lugia2421]

No Bulgaria?

[@gelhardthemd8903]

Well, Stainless Steel 6.4 in bigger, I guess.

[@frankishempire2322]

Nope, i am done. Nothing will bring me back.

[@nsawatchlistbait289]

Hope content again?

[@AndysTake]

There is always hope

[@adrian-dragosbalaban6401]

if only fn CA did this instead of just making you start with 2 empty provinces lol

[@Jalalabud13]

Deus lo vult where?

[@The_Last_White_Man]

Medieval II The Best Total War Game Ever...! Sad... 🫣

[@kingie66]

Too bad that all the new mods are either for definitive edition from steam or for Kingdoms; i have just old 2006 and stopped playing coz of trading and infantry bugs but not gonna buy new just for mods.

[@leakarenzel3796]

in battle the bottom bar is just white... cant fight like this :(

[@fedgesmedjji7494]

noice!

[@Jay-wf8hj]

Shame you can't rename your factions

[@R3GARnator]

Super flat campaign maps that mods use irk me.

[@Tonystarkes888]

I can't play medieval 2 graphics are to old

[@Reaf121286]

Leaving this comment before I even watch the video - NO IT WILL NOT! That is how confident I am! Total War has been dead since Shogun 2. This zombie you and channels like yours are parading around by covering mods with clickbait video titles is not gonna change that fact.

[@crnimacak707]

This mod is not simple anymore, it went too far for my taste. I was just looking for vanilla experience with all kingdoms factions. And no teutonic order?

[@siluda9255]

Every video this guy he sound like the soyjack pointing at OMG CURRENT COOL THING PLEASE GIVE ME MONEYRINOS

[@AndysTake]

Every video people like you comment the most fasc coded shit I’ve ever seen, and in your case, don’t even realize that this mod is over a decade old, not a “current cool thing” and that I’m genuinely excited to show it off to people who have no idea it exists. So cope harder, loser.

[@peeter2624]

bruh this man is posting about total war in our lords year 2024, he is not in it for the “moneyrinos” lmao

[@LostPhotograph]

Oh look a 4chan cringe incel. Good luck with your pointless existence.

[@arvidgreat]

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