New optional lance recruitment system, aiming to emulate medieval feudal recruitment system.Join a crusader order as sergeant or a knight!.Crusading system: Join a crusade or start one yourself!.Play as one of your soldiers after your death, with the auxiliary player feature (can be turned off in the mod options in the Camp menu).Weather system, including desert storms, blizzards, rain storms.Custom battle scenes, realistically depicting each region of Europe from barren desserts, palm filled oasis, european swamps, open steppe battlefields, mediterranean plains, snowy gorges, frozen lakes, thick german forests.Realistic engaging combat system with taunts, formations, improved horse archer skirmishing scripts and other features.Manor system with the ability to build custom settlements (buildings that you build appear in the scene!).Buildable castles with ability to improve its fortifications to three levels.More than a thousand new items, armors, weapons, all historically accurate for XIII century.Hundreds of new historical, region based troops.Huge map consisting of all of Europe and parts of the Middle East and North Africa, featuring 42 factions.