Newcomer mod question

[hansnery]

I'm new to CK and i'm searching for a mod that is like the VIP for Victoria, any suggestion? (The best ck mod)

 

[Veldmaarschalk]

Well 'best' depends on your own preferences I guess.


But there are two 'big' mods

The Alternative Scenario Set-up Mod

or

Deus Vult Improvement Pack


Both mods need the CK-expansion Deus Vult, the mods aren't compatible. So what most players do is make 2 (or better 3 installations of CK

1. CK + DV vanilla
2. CK + DV + TASS
3. CK + DV + DVIP

There is also the

Before the Conquest Scenario Mod. Which has a new map and most of the things that are also in TASS, but it only has 2 scenarios, who both start in 1066.

 

[Madpainter]

Personally I'm using TASS but DVIP is good as well. I prefer TASS but only by a small margin.

 

[unmerged(126175)]

What do the different mods change in the game?

 

[Veldmaarschalk]

Read the first post in the DVIP-thread and the TASS-thread.

DVIP

This is a mod for Crusader Kings - Deus Vult.


Deus Vult includes much of the work on the unofficial 1.06 Improvement Packs that were discussed after Crusader Kings' patch 1.05, but not everything made it in.

The intended scope of the DVIP is more or less the following:
-Historic characters at scenario start
-Historic realms and provinces at scenario start
-Edit or add events to allow cultures to change more-or-less historically (melting pots)
-Fix remaining Deus Vult bugs where possible (events, database files, CoAs)

This mod was originally based on the work compiled for CK 1.06 by Byakhiam, and would be impossible without the input of other CK: DV players.
An incomplete thanks list:
Aylo1, Bruit Bleu, Calgacus, Drachenfire, echopapa, FinnN, Hasimir Fenring, gigau, Jinnai, Joe Public, Llywelyn, Mohe, Mrdie, Praetor, Rogan de Auria, tombom, Topher, Vasious, Veldmaarschalk, Walter Hawkwood
Apologies to anyone I left out.


DVIP is 'optimized' for an AI aggressiveness of Weakling (1) or Coward (2) -- I don't play with higher settings myself as it makes the AI go insane, and thus DVIP isn't tested for higher values.
You can pick any difficulty, events are scaled for it.

The DVIP is fully compatible with Crusader Kings Deus Vult with the 2.1 beta patch applied.

TASS

The Alternative Scenario Setup Mod​

This is The Alternative Scenario Setup Mod, discussion thread


What does this mod contain

Kingdoms
The kingdom setup has been revised and new 'creatable' kingdoms have been added, like f.e. Novgorod, Kievan Rus, Livonia and The Isles

Dukedoms
The duchy setup has been revised and new dukedoms have been added, like f.e. Limburg, Bar, Rügen, Neopatras, Hercegovina and The Palatinate.

Counties
Several scenarios (especially the 1066 scenario) have now, new counties that can be played from the start, like f.e. Kleve 1066 (von Kleve dynastie), Lecce 1066 (de Conversano dynastie), Brescia 1066 (di Bergamo dynastie), Buchan 1066 (McRuardi-dynastie)

Cultures
The cultural setup of all the scenarios has been changed and new cultures have been added, like f.e. Lombard, Breton, Cornish, Norse-Gaelic, Frisian, Saxon (low-German), Flemish, Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Carinthian (Slovenian), Albanian, Vlach, Kurdish, Berber and Nubian.

Economy
The province base income have been revised. The very rich counties, like f.e. Venice, Byzantion, Cordoba, have been made 'poorer' while counties that surround them have been made a bit 'richer'. Also some regions (Britain, Ireland) have a complete new income-setup.

Traits
This mod has three new traits, Patriarch, Homosexual and Epileptic

Events
This mod has a lot of new and modified events, f.e. this mod contains the SMACK-events, some of which have been modified. But it also has 'homosexual-events' , 'patriarch-events', 'epilepsy-events', 'inplausible-demesne events' and so on.

Also the Crusade-events have been revised. There are only 4 Crusade-targets left:
1. Jerusalem
2. Santiago
3. Rome
4. Byzantion

Characters
In all scenarios dozens of historical characters have been added to the game, also existing ones have been modified. Also there have been added new 'friendship', 'rivalries' and alliances.

Graphics
This mod also contains Gratianus Face Mod and Tunch Khan Muslim face mod, which adds many more possible 'face-combinations' to the game.

Scenario
This mod contains two new starting dates in 1066.

One starts on January 5th 1066 where Edward the Confessor is king of England.

The other startingdate is January 8th, 1066. Harold Godwineson is just crowned king of England.

In both 'scenarios', William 'the Bastard' is still only duke of Normandy. Can you do what he did and become King of England ?

In Norway, king Harald Hardraade rules. While Mecklemburg is ruled by its first christian prince, Gottschalk and the duchy of Brittany is ruled by Conan de Rennes.

Download
The download thread can be found here

Before the Conquest

IMPORTANT MESSAGE:
This mod needs to be downloaded in two parts

I. Download the mod
Here, this includes the new map and the first version of the other files

II. After having installed the above file, then download version 1.02 from here

Welcome all,

This is a new (or rather modified) scenario-mod for CK-DV. It is a stand-alone scenario mod, which means that I have made changes to some game-files that will make the originial scenarios look very weird.

So to use this mod you can best do as follows

Copy your entire Crusader Kings DV-folder or make a fresh installation. If you do the latter you will have to do it like this
- Install Crusader Kings
- Install Deus Vult
- Install the latest beta-patch of 13 June 2008
- Install the Before the Conquest Mod


What is this mod about ?
The mod starts on January 8, 1066. Harold Godwinson has just been crowned king of England. Which means that William the Conquerer is still only known as the Bastard and just the duke of Normandy.

What has changed compared to vanilla-CK and TASS ?
This mod uses the British Isles Map mod made by Kurek. Which has added provinces to Wales and Ireland this mod therefor mostly focuses on the British Isles.

There have been some changes in the cultural setup. Cultures that have been added are:
1. Anglo-Danish
2. Cumbrian
3. Norse-Gaelic (now with its own usuable tag)
4. Scottish and Irish Gaelic are split again

Which means that the British Isles now have the following cultures: Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Danish, Cornish, Cumbrian, Welsh, Scottish, Irish and Norse-Gaelic.

Removed cultures are
1. English
2. Albanian
3. Carinthian

Wales has received 2 new duchies, Powys and Glamorgan, Ireland has received 1 new duchy, Tyrone. Removed are the duchies of Limburg, Hainaut and Urbino

The 'English' duchies have received Anglo-Saxon names, Mercia, East Anglia, Kent, Wiltshire and Hereford.

All the generic 'English' dynasties (Percy, Redvers, St. Grey and so on) now have generich 'Anglo-Saxon' names (Wulfnothson, Uthredson, Aethelstanson and so on)

This mod, contains all the events and new traits from the TASS-mod.

Any suggestions, advice, bugs-reports are welcome.

I especially could use some more help with Cumbrian characternames, I now have mostly used this site, Early British kingdoms. Which means that the Cumbrian characternames also contain Welsh, Breton and Cornish names

Special thanks and credits go to Kurek, Jodarkelf, Drachenfire, Calgacus, Vertinox, Wiz, MRAKoris and people I have forgotten.

 

[hansnery]

I shall try it out.
Thanks!