Battle for Sicily

Normans, Arabs and Byzantines battle for control of the Mediterranean's most strategic island. In this version, the entire map is active and the player can be a vassal of any of 14 lords. New features include a named lord leading each major faction party, and the beginnings of a political system. This version adds an economic system, and probably a number of new bugs. 0. 502 fixes some of the bugs from 0. 500 and 0. 501 (details in the thread), and should be savegame compatible. Features

• []A reputation system where both the player character and NPCs are rated for nine different traits, which are affected by the player's choices in game. The beginnings of a political system where the relations between characters determine who is awarded lands and titles. []A dynamic campaign system, where enemy patrols respond to the player's movements, raids are met with reprisals, and looting the enemy lands affects their ability to field troops. Castles can be both attacked and defended by the player, and the AI will try to recaptured fortresses that fall to the enemy. []Armors and weapons relevant to the time period, and changes to the combat system based on 1066 []New scenes and buildings that (I hope) are plausible reconstructions of what the villages and towns of 11th century Sicily -- a mixture of Arab and Byzantine influences -- would have looked like. [][] KNOWN BUGS/OMISSIONS: []Starting between game turn 4 and 10, you may encounter an error message ("Assertion failed... m.number > 0") once every 24 hours. If you hit "ignore", the game will continue. You may have to minimize the game window to see the message -- try alt-enter or ctrl-alt-delete. It will not affect play. []Most character classes are not supported, at least for now. It's best to play as a Norman, Arab or Greek aristocrat.

File History0. 502 -- Fixes more bugs, but not all. See changelog at http://forums.taleworlds.net/index.php/topic,24841.msg603685.html#msg603685 0. 501 -- Fixes some bugs in 0. 500, does not fix others 0. 500 - Adds economic system, fixes bugs in 0. 408 but probably adds some more. 0. 408 - Uploaded on March 1, fixes bugs in 0. 404 and activates some features that were previously not working. 0. 404 - uploaded Feb 8, updates to 0. 808 and adds many new features 0. 303 - uploaded Dec 7, fixes bugs with the Arab campaign 0. 302 - uploaded Dec 2