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Rise of the North Overhaul BETA

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The year is 834. It is an age of total war!

"While Islam was on the march, and Byzantium was recovering from seemingly fatal blows, Europe fought its way up through the "Dark Ages". Byzantine civilization continued to flourish during this period, despite severe losses of territory and prestige. But Western Europe in the sixth century was a chaos of conquest, disintegration, and re-barbarization. Much of the classic culture survived, for the most part silent and hidden in a few monasteries and families. But the physical and psychological foundations of social order had been so disturbed that centuries would be needed to restore them. Love of letters, devotion to art, the unity and continuity of culture, the cross fertilization of communicating minds, fell before the convulsions of war, the perils of transport, the economies of poverty, the rise of vernaculars, the disappearance of Latin from the East and of Greek from the West. In the ninth and tenth centuries the moslem control of the Mediterranean, the raiding of European coasts and towns by Normans, Magyars, and Saracens accelerated this localism of life and defense, this primitivism of thought and speech. Germany and Eastern Europe were a maelstrom of migrations, Scandinavia a pirates' lair, Britain was overrun by Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Danes; Gaul by Franks, Normans, Burgundians, and Goths; Spain was torn between Visigoths and Moors; Italy had been shattered by the long war between the Goths and Byzantium, and the land that had given order to half the world suffered for five centuries a disintegration of morals, economy and government.

And yet during that long darkness Charlemagne, Alfred and Otto I gave intervals of order and stimulus to France, England and Germany; Erigena resurrected philosophy, Alcuin and others restored education, Gerbert imported Moslem science into Christendom, Leo IX and Gregory VII reformed and strengthened the Church, architecture developed the Romanesque style; and Europe began in the eleventh century its slow ascent to the twelfth and thirteenth, the greatest of medieval centuries."

-Will Durant, Historian

This mod is a complete overhaul of the Attila Grand Campaign. The campaign centers around the invasions of the Vikings from the North, the Magyars from the East and the Muslims from the South. In Europe the Holy Roman Empire is about to be divided by the proto nations of France, Germany and Italy while in Spain the moors and the Asturians fight for control of the peninsula. In Russia the Rus and Swedes have established trading bases but are not welcomed by the local Slavs. To the south is the rising Kingdom of Khazaria who are allied with the Byzantines but surrounded by a growing number of potential threats. In the middle East the Byzantine Empire faces off against the Abbasids in a titanic struggle. The Abbasids are the strongest faction but they are already facing threats from within as the Fatimids begin their rise in North Africa and the Seljuk Turks begin their assault from the East. Meanwhile England, Scotland and Ireland are under attack from the ever increasing Vikings raiders. And finally, out of the east ride the Magyars! With their unstoppable host of horsemen they stand poised to take all of Europe.

Every faction will start with a solid core of soldiers that will be complemented with levies. I have reskinned the majority of the units to fit in with the timeline using Ltd.'s excellent models from the Medieval 1212 mod in addition to a few models from Sebidee (Need to get permission) and the Fall of the Eagles mod (Requested Permission). I have also rebuilt the entire campaign map to reflect the timeline. Everything is still WIP but I'm very happy with the results so far and plan to continue releasing updates every week or so.

However, this release is an unfinished product. I am looking for some people to help with the following things:
1. Unit Cards
2. Technology research times need to be extended


*** IN ORDER FOR THE MOD TO WORK PROPERLY YOU WILL NOT NEED TO SUSCRIBE. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS DOWNLOAD THE PACK FROM THIS GOOGLE DRIVE LINK:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7yOixtQrMOTVFZ5bWk1Z0JBMVk/view?usp=sharing&resourcekey=0-_QBLqjhQA-KBm0nYrku7YQ

Simply place in your Data folder and activate the mod via the mod manager.

Please message me if you are interested in making a contribution!

Credits:
Ltd and Medieval 1212 team
Lord Zarmack
Sebidee
FOTE team (Asked for Permission)
Dramabelli
Any one else I forgot to mention!

Please leave feedback! Especially want to hear how I can make it more historically accurate. All thoughts and ideas are welcome!

Check out the TWC page here:
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?2132-The-Dark-Ages