In the name of Jerusalem v1.2 news

Greeting, warrior of Jerusalem.

It has been almost 3 months that we haven’t update this mod, and many people may think we stopped our progress due to M&B2 Bannerlord. Actually…… Yes, to a certain extend. Because many of us have played Bannerlord and it takes very long time to take us back to pregress,

Originally, there are plenty of projects we are going to do in this mod, but since the Bannerlord will release in next few month, we are going to rush our work and put content as much as possible. Because you know, everyone want play Bannerlord, include our team members. Therefore, we have to concentrate our projects in this major update, and this is probably the last major update we are going to have for this mod.

But still, we will continue to update this mod. However, it won’t have major update like 1.1 1.2 does. And there are more and more resources we have putted in this mod, and it put more pressure on PC performance. If you would like to have smooth gameplay experience, we recommend you to play 1.12 version.

Added new faction: The Eastern Roman Empire

After the death of Emperor Manuel I Comnenus, empress Maria rule as regent in Eastern Roman Empire. While Latin merchants, notably venetians, dominating the trade of Aegean sea, which was dominated by Romans before. The riots break out between Latins and Romans due to political and economic disputes, Andronicus Comnenus take advantage of such incident and overthrown empress Maria. At the same time, Siculo-Norman invade and sack Thessalonica, the second major city of Empire. In 1185, Andronicus Comnenus was overthrown by Isaac II Angelus, the later defeated Normand invasion from sea. But that not all, in 1186, Peter II proclaimed as Tsar and rebel against Romans. In this case, will you help the empire to retake her glory, or you prefer to kick such crumble tower and make it collapse?

The campaign map extended to Western Aegean sea and South Black sea, which include whole Anatolia region.

Added Constaninople and other Roman scenes

Expand Rum’s territories to become the major rival of Eastern Roman Empire

Added Praetorian system for Roman Empire. If you join Roman Empire and own military title, you can be able to recruit praetorians.

Added Orthodox faith and Roman starts.

Added Third Crusade

Saladin destroyed the major force of Crusade through battle of Hattin, the fall of Crusader kingdoms will be a matter of time. But Saladin is not unbeatable. When the kingdom of Jerusalem only remain 3 cities, the new Crusade will come, include the King of England, Richard the Lionheart who will to come and replace Guy de Lusignan and become the new king of Jerusalem.

Other contents

Player can build their own faction: If you have sufficient renown, title and faction relations, you can ask faction leader and own your subjective kingdom. The kingdom name will be named by your capital and title. You will start as ally with your metropolitan kingdom. Once you betrayed your high king, you have will to have endless revenge.

1. Adjust the mobilization efficiency of all kingdoms, now you can see all factions will start their epic battle in all places.
2. Adjust heavy amour punishment and weapon damage to make it more reasonable
3. Adjust Armenian troop tress
4. Once you join the Order, there is a monk who will follow you once you are in a court
5. Added dozens of new battle scenes
6. Fixed some text error
7. Added more historical characters.
8. Removed Knight Templar in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, you can only join Knight Templar in Temple Mount
9. Remove flag display error, and added some new flags.
10. Adjust lord’s unit ratio, and they will have better units
11. You need to have acquit some relations in order to have caravan or industry in pagan cities.