I love that in the midst of the TWWH3 fiasco people are going back to med2 more and more with those outstanding mods. I played several versions and submods of Divide and Conquer for maybe a decade or so, and to me its the best total war experience. But this, this brings vanilla medieval to a whole new level. Now staring at the main menu. I guess i wont sleep a lot tonight.

Let’s hope medieval 2 gets an uncapped remaster like Rome did and we can finally get a full map total war gme

Loving this mod. When I have to put an army together it always feels like you are preparing for a campaign. I would recruit a unit from a few settlements so as to not fully deplete any of them in-case of emergency, which leads to a greater visual diversity. In a army where fully mailed Spearman from Paris fight besides unupgraded Spearmen from Toulouse, supporting a core of golden chevron foot knigths I've been moving around since the start of that save, all coming together under the command of a general I'm sending on the field in the hope of solving his drinking problem 😂 I wish you could rename individual units like in Empire, cause some of these units could tell a story.

Thank you for this exciting presentation of the SSHIP 098 mod! What I disliked most about the vanilla versions of M2TW was the historical imprecision, the anachronistic appearance of many units. Trying to improve historical credibility was my obsession and that's why I became one of the SSHIP modders focusing on the visual aspect of the units. The units have been reworked to improve immersion... and it's not over ! If I take care of the visual part, other modders work on the other aspects for even more historical immersion. For us, it's exciting. For players, I hope it's a good gaming experience !

It's great to see this mod still lives and is getting such attention! I contributed probably 12 years ago by patching in unit rosters and touching up some Lithuania city placement/naming, among other things. I'd be surprised if any of the work I did still lives in the mod, but I'm still proud of the (everchanging) team nonetheless :)

I did a bit of work with the SSHIP team years ago, though I don't know if any of them are still working on it. Great to see it has had a couple releases this year. Some of my absolute favourite experiences playing Med2 were with SSHIP.

I've been really getting into this mod lately. At first the mechanics got pretty frustrating, but once I got used to them over time I've actually really grown to appreciate and enjoy them. Was just a taste to get acquired to. Especially like how this mod has been the only solution to the game encompassing total war steamroll I've seen, and can really wear you thin the larger you expand Having a blast now sorting everyone's little fief titles like a nerd and having to take the time to build up little Norman strongholds as Sicily!

The Freecam mod has reinvigorated Medieval 2 alongside mods like this, the graphics are just fine for me since I grew up playing games with far worse graphics than this.

It realistically the best revamp of Med 2. The politics take getting used to but the new system keeps the late game fresh. Also the units both faction based and mercenary are unbelievably detailed. The economy is a bit daunting at first but is not as hard to use as it first comes off. I’d say it’s an all around solid mod well worth playing.

Ca doesnt know how much money theyre missing

Playing this mod as Lithuania was amazing. I actually lost in the end but it was one of the best campaign experiences I've ever had. Filled with cool battles too. SSHIP really plays incredibly well. The couple flaws that I remember, thr biggest of which was an odd way the BAI disengaged by going backwards, but that might have been fixed. Some unit skins are vanilla and some are new. While both are great, it does give a feeling of thematic inconsistency. Otherwise, it's a really great, functionally great experience.

This mod is awesome, it brings more depth and an extra challenge to Stainless Steel. I`m currently playing a Crusader campaign, and I really enjoy the fact that I have to micromanage garrisons/important battles and that every decision has to be spot on, especially on the harder difficulties. Props to the modding team for putting in the effort into the GOAT total war game !

Great video, good to see the mod is still being developed. and love what they've done with unit costs and replenishment - adds historical realism by turning armies into a much more valuable asset and war waging into a matter of life and death, all as it should be. thanks for the video.

Personally I think we’re entering a new era of medical 2 modding these are the mods that people have worked on for a decade plus or so and they’re just finally playable this along with tsardoms are telling soon I’m sure we’ll get some more mods just as quality as these ones

I love sship, both the units and gameplay are really great. Even on the more gamy side, one thing i kinda didnt like in stainless steel plain was how quickly enemies chain routed and how absurdly powerful cavalry was. In SSHIP chain routing is still possible, but it isnt inevitable if units are well formed alongside others, and cav is still appropriately powerful for a medieval game, but isn’t like a hot knife through EVERYTHING, including stationary braced shields in defence mode. Also, I absolutely love the early era look. pre great helm visored helmet knights are beautiful. I do wish the teutonic order was in it though. that was my favorite looking faction in stainless steel.

I’ve just downloaded this thanks to your video and I’m really enjoying this so far! I’ve played some with the original Stainless Steel but it kept crashing so I eventually abandoned it. This one is way more stable and it has so much depth to it! You really need to be thoughtful of your actions and take a lot of things into account. I also enjoy that it’s more slow paced, I’m a player that likes to take his time to strengthen his empire before expanding further so this mod really fits me. And I also want to highlight how good the music is! It really helps you to immerse yourself in medieval life of Europe🤗

Great job on this review! Downloaded SHIP Med 2 mod earlier today, so found your review very insightful and a good reason to dust off the cobwebs on Med 2 and get into this "oldie, but a goldie" total war game! Who needs "Pharaoh"! Ha! Ha!

Beautiful video mate. I adore SSHIP and only just started it last week. It’s a close tie between this and Divide Et Impera for Rome2 as my favourite TW experience

Great video, now i have another project to embark upon this Christmas 😉

this is cool thanks. here is the funny part. when MED 3 does come out. none of these cool innovations will appear in it. CA still blows

My fav mod for medieval . I love how slow and hard campaign is and how expensive units are so you think twice before you decide go to the battle ! I hope they reskin cities as well soon

This is funny, I just started playing Medieval 2. I started playing the franchise with Empire total war (which remains my favourite to this day), but then I went trying Rome 1 (which I loved) and now Medieval 2. At first I didn't really understand why so many people loved this game so much, but after getting more hours into it I'm starting to see why, such a lovely game. I have played it only vanilla, but when I finish my current campaign I'll try the mods :)

The Crown System is a bit of a headache though. While i find the idea really great, you don't have enough control over who becomes heir in your campaign. The mod comes with the "next heir script", but even with that, sometimes someone who becomes a usurper or a regent becomes heir, even though the kings' sons are of age. It makes succession very stressful, especially if you consider that it did not work this way in the middle ages. Still love the mod, but the crowns system is annoying.

I like slow paced mods so that's already a plus for me. I don't like expanding quickly or building armies when not war so the recruit mirrors how I actually play. Messages that pop up telling you conquered cities have partially and then fully integrated into your empire after hundreds of years was a highlight for me. Really makes you feel like you're spreading your own culture while dominating and eventually replacing the culture of your conquered enemies. The messages regarding political and military reforms and events is also immersive. Not a huge fan of the constant corruption but that's so minor it really doesn't matter. The economy is a bit difficult to get a hang of the first 40 turns but past that it won't be that much of a problem.

There's a new version of Stainless Steel? God i loved M2TW, it's modability was so great, even in Stainless steel you can configure so much in the txt files. I still occasionally play stainless steel after all these years (but with some changes that could be considered single player cheats). Pretty amazing that this mod is still alive.

Vassals of Tripoli! Crusader Kings 2 had the best music

Are the late-game units with plate-armour available in the mod? A few years ago I played an early version of SSHIP, back then there only was the 'primitive' early-middle-ages armor.

Practically, it's Europa Barbarorum for MTW 2. And this is good! (Europa Barbaroum being a mod for RTW 1 - a fantastic mod, a masterpiece, probably the best mod for a game I ever played).

Still waiting for medieval 2 TW remaster and this mod on it :))

Great vid! This mod looks awesome.

ive played this mod since .95, so ive been playing it alot alot.

Hi Andy, love your videos. Could you write me or do a video about the AI in the several M2TW mods? I love the base game as well as vanilla beyond and SS but i hate the AI cheating at a certain level of difficulty (Spawning units from nowhere etc). Same goes for unrealistic decissions like portugal sailing all the way to attack me on the other side of the map. Which mod provides the best AI that toggles these flaws in this awesome game?

Would you do a showcase of the late era units?

I´ve still been having some crashes mainly post battles (I have LAA on), that kind of killed the excitement at certain points after a 45 min England x France battle :( Awesome mod though, hope they keep developing it so that it´s to the level of Divide and Conquer!

great video, another mod to add onto my list I just wished this had custom cities or castles historically

I bought this game 2 weeks ago and really enjoy it. I'll try this mod and see if it can entertain me more.

Medieval 2 total war is so amazing, I got no idea how long I've spent in total since I had the cd, but I'm currently so in to Lord of the rings mod which has so incredible much content

I want Medieval 2 remastered with removed hardcoded limits....

Hope you do someday a mod review for De bEllo Mundi, which basically moves Med2 into Rome but expanding as far east as China

A great mod, I Will try it, but personally I like more Bellum Crucis, which is for me the most realistic mod a the closest to CK3 youbcan have un medieval 2, even more than Stainless Steel. I recomend you all yo try it too!

I had played this game years ago, but lost track of the progress being made. It is incredible to see the changes made. Thanks for pointing me back towards this classic. Have you checked out The Great Conflicts Mod for Medieval 2? It is a beta, but covers an era and theater that no other mod for Medieval 2 does.

Pretty much why CA do not intend to have a Med 3 imo 😅. These mods about med timeframe (sship, tsardom, bellum crucis, broken crescent on top I'd say) just have all which is needed for an immersive and total experience. A Med 3 would never reach this deepness.

lets hope for MTW2 remasterd and maybe they will lift the faction cap and region cap like they did in RTW remasterd.

personally divide and conquer is my favourite mod so far

This thing is starting to sound a lot like the Gamma or Anomaly mods for Stalker. Will need to check it out again

Think I’m gonna give this a try, only played vanilla a long time ago.

Is there any real solution to the CTD and the “Medieval 2 has encountered an unspecified error and will now exit” issue many people have been experiencing with this mod? It seems to only happen just before or just after campaign siege battles. I’ve tried restarting my PC, turning down settings, and verifying game files but no luck. And yes, I do have the LAA that came with the mod

Stainless steel wasalready big gamechanger.. Not just bigger map, reskin of soldiers and lot more mercenaries. Also like 1-2 hours more soundtrack.. gotta love it.

Hi! I looking for a mod like this, which improves the europa scenario but in which you can also get the americas. Is there any?

the added gameplay choices and scripts seem cool , how does it compare to broken crescent mod and it's buff and shine submod that adds the stainless steel features to it?...

One thing I miss on all of these mods is the Dynastic Roleplaying. Why not make the Dynasty/House an ancillary/Retinue for Nobles with bonuses? This way its much nicer to see how the dynastic intrigues play Only one that does it Bulat Steel

Do you normally play the battles at 4k or was that just for this video? In regular Stainless Steel many battles will crash for me if I run it at that res. I have the LAA installed.

Ah I remember playing this. Was this the one that had Volga Bulgaria?

We need the OG of Total War Dev back in CA.

The reputation system sounds like the pope system on steroids.

I really need that outro music.

Is it possible to break the hard code on the region and faction caps?

I got it after watching a video on it from the terminator and it's amazing and it's the easiest install I've ever done

So to confirm, this is updated from SS6.4?? Also, i love that there any more settlement decisions on top of castle vs city that have meaningful consequences on recruitment and taxes etc.

Tsardoms- Fall of Constantinopol is brilliant

Playing as Venice was SO fun

Does the SSHIP mod for part of the Stainless Steel 6.4 upgrade? Or is it all separate? Currently playing SS6.4, but wondered if this was an additional sub-mod?

really excited for med modding is there any possibility we might get one mod based in the renaissance/early modern period where we play through the transition from feudal warfare to pike and shot?

One of the greatest total war games of all time

I'd like for a mod that makes retraining equivalent to adding fresh reinforcements. It's a broken mechanic in terms of "historical improvement."

Please for the 1000's of players we all want a remake of Med2 if the company that make and run the Total war franchise they will make a packet on a Med3!!!!!!!!! we all want it forget Pharoah just doesn't reach anywhere for near Med 2 for intrigue,for battles for the 100's of hours pleasure this game has given me and continues to enjoy MED3 PLEASE

Yeah!!! Sship mod is the best historical mod for M2TW!!

Andy, I watched with great fascination. But, honestly, between you and Terminator, I will never complete a single game with all the mods y'all introducing. At the moment I have taken a break from ROME2/DEI to play Attila/FoE+EUP (and that was your doing for getting me to want to play Attila). I never played MTW2/SSHIP, but have played some EB2. Maybe I will visit on the Discord. Take care.

did you use any added mods? the game looks different for me. the map and the unit for mailed knights both

The mods for MTW are great if you could install them. Civ series mods are user friendly as are AOE mods.

300+ hours on this mod, still playing

The best total war game

I do enjoy this mod, and all the little quirks that come with it but I do prefer Stainless Steel 6.4 at the moment. Maybe I just need more time to learn the intricacies of this mod.

it's all good but I'd want the IA play with the same playbook.

Always hated mods that make recruitment a million years.. nevertheless seems like worth a try

I still don't understand how is Bulgaria not in any of the TW games?!

Thanks for showing me and others another mod to keep playing medieval 2 with, also can somebody tell me what the song is at 4:47

I gave Stainless Steel a go for the first time this past weekend. I'm having a hard time with the troop replenishment- having to go back to castles and retrain. I'd love the game more if the units were able to replenish in the cities they are holding. I've got OCD issues about capped units.

I clicked on the link you gave me, the problem is that it's so confusing I don't even know what to do. How about a tutorial on how to download and install the mod? This is the second time I watched a Medieval 2 video about mods, and I am just left in the dust, because I am unfamiliar with old Total War games and their mods.

this mod needs a native voice mod compatibility like stainless steel

Honestly the only thing I'd import from the later games to MTW2 is the removal of unit/faction limits and the 40+ unit armies of the warscape engine. Let me fry my GPU in peace.

Great mod, played it as Serbia, tough start, but hey at least someone did justice to meideval Sebian state by puting it in game as it really shoud be in base game to because it formed an empire in 14 century...

i want to try Medieval 2 but the Camera speed is way to high and i dont know how to lower it :(

how do i get more info about this mod? i am 200 turns in georgia and somehow cant get my king crowned......😢

Roma Surrectium III is likewise something that completely revolutionizes the game to go far beyond what the original game ever was- but for rome 1.

i tried to install SSHIP on MTW2 Steam, it worked one time, and all next tries there was an error message about graphics display, that is was too high. I play with a 2070 card all other games. Does anybody know a solution to get it playing again?

Medieval 2 is my all time favorite game. I recently upgraded my PC and I cant play the old one cause the scroll speed in the campaign map is hyper fast and makes it unplayable. Can anyone give me a step by step instruction on how to install this mod? I will be forever grateful, thank you!

And another game is re-added to the backlog.

4:39 Is the "Tutor" ancillary supposed to look like Sean Connery?

I'm still waiting for a custom map of Constantinople...

It's a bit silly that "Kingdom of Jerusalem" includes allies/vassals like The Principality of Antioch and County of Edessa while The "Kingdom of France" is completely separate from its historical vassals. Europa Barbarorum had the best system IMO. Whether a conquered territory was a "homeland", "vassal", or "puppet state" was represented by a building which you initiated.

Faction suggestions?

SSHIP is awesome but definitely feels slower paced especially if you activate even half of the scripts at start. It's great if you want a personal long campaign but doesn't lend itself well to playthroughs, unless you do a lot of editing 😁😁

Hi can you share your reshade settings please

Does this mod have crash issues?

I don't like how the mod limits agression, but the rest looks attractive!

How does his mod compare to ss6.4 in regards of crashes ?

This mod on the surface seem rly great. The more realistic historical aspect and the diversity in this was just what i wanted in m2tw all along. Which hurts even more to see how the Ai system operates here, it basically just ruins the whole immersion for me. I don't know about other zones but in western Europe as soon as they can the Ai will just spam mostly knights and foot knights, which are the strongest units (by far, compared to most other units of that time i noticed), and which can really be countered on a open battle with, you guessed it, other knights! So the whole great diversity thing kinda goes out the window pretty fast in the game, not to mention that if i put 2 or 3 units of knights in my army my whole gold just gets dissipated in 2 or 3 turns. But the Ai literally can afford to spam them in this mod, how is that any close to fairness and not just dumb broken boring af? Even if i could recruit the knights (or similar heavy units equivalent) close to what the Ai can i still wouldn't want to just fight knights vs knights all the time, it just defeats the whole purpose of the diversity in this mod for me. I can get past and live with all the other unbalanced hardships in this mod, like the crazy unit upkeep and so on, i enjoy the challenge, and don't get me started on the generals you get vs the ones Ai gets and how that whole things plays out, but the thing that the Ai can just spam OP units, when you struggle to just put together a decent army alot of the times, even when you are taking some of his provinces btw, it just sadly defeats the whole point of this game for me. The Ai should get penalized for recruiting the OP units, but he is not, is even worst than in vanilla, and guess what, the buildings doesn't cost the Ai anything too, so he can get the ones that give him the strong units and the strong armor upgrades with pretty much no problems. I feel like the mod is cool for the first 120 turns or so, maybe i'm just a casual who just wants to enjoy a well made game, and the "hardcore" players would have taken the whole map by then, but again, that just defeats the whole point of enjoying this mod for me.

Can you do a vid comparing this one with "Bellum crucis"

Does "attack only with general" applies to AI factions? That would be great. No more meaningless battles.