So I've seen a lot of people post about how this mod has crashed or won't start for them and they all receive little to no help on it. I want to see if maybe I can change that with a small tutorial. This mod took me 3 days to finally get working and 4 installations.Step 1: Get the mods here and the 6.4 patch if you want it. (SS 6.4 requires 6.3 to work. 6.4 is only the patch whereas 6.3 is the actual mod base).SS 6.3:SS 6.4:Step 2: Go to your Medieval 2 Total War folder in:C:Program Files (x86)SteamsteamappscommonMedieval II Total WarAnd copy your medieval2 launcher file. Paste the copy to your desktop and rename it 'Kingdoms'.
Drag it back to your Medieval 2 Total War folder.NOTICE!!! - DO NOT START THE SS SET-UP WIZARD UNTIL YOU DO THIS. YOU WILL HAVE TO UNINSTALL THE MOD AND REINSTALL IF YOU DO!Step 3: Once you've renamed the launcher file, go through the 6.3 and 6.4 installation. Designate the destination as your Medieval 2 Total War mod pack and do the same for 6.4 (it should automatically designate them both but always double check. 6.4 will go into the 6.3 folder because duh.its a patch).Step 4: After you've finished the installation of 6.3 and 6.4 and got everything where it needs to be there's one final thing to do.
Inside the SS Mod folder you should see down at the bottom SS set-up. Run that as admin and configure the settings how you like. Now, finally, before you run the game. Go to your Steam Library, find Medieval 2, right click and go to properties, click on Laucnh Options. This should bring up a box with a single type bar.
Inside you want to input:-features.mod=mods/name-of-your-mod-folderExample:-features.mod=mods/SS6.3After you do all that, play Medieval 2 Total War and it should run Stainless steel. If you ever want to go back to vanilla just remove the launch options.Pro-Tip:The latest patch to SS6.4 made heretics extremely OP (they start with 4 piety, spawn faster, drop your religion faster, and convert your priests a lot easier). I've found that the only way to get rid of them is assassins or using your cardinal becuase your cardinal cannot be converted. Any other priest has a 8/10 chance of being converted, so if you want to play the odds then good luck. I watched my Scots succumb to religious unrest and rebel after 15 turns and thus eliminating me. And again after 50 turns, but after 50 turns, 8 factions had already been destroyed from heretics.
There is one way though. The boys who made Stainless steel made submods that altered the heretics and made them weaker. However, I cannot find the mod so I had to manually go into the TXT file and script their values myself. Personally, if you want to do that then google it. It's quite complicated for me to explain. Originally posted by:I've found stainless steel to be a bit unstable, the bug fix pack at has helped me to run games without crashing to desktop from time to time. It also contains the mod for weaker heretics mentioned in OP.
Do note that this pack will make previous save games incompatible.As for battling heresy without the mod, build a church and place one or two priests in the same province as the heretic, don't try to execute him as it'll only make your own priests heretics.Learn how to train priests and develop character traits and you won't need to 'fix' a perfectly good game design. I realize this is an old thread, but I'm stuck:. Disabled UAC on my Windows 10 box, check. Downloaded MTWII + Kindoms DLC from steam, check. Downloaded SS6.3, SS6.4, check. Renamed medieval2.exe to kingdoms.exe, check. Installed SS6.3 mod as administrator, check.
Ran SSsetup.exe, check. Game launched, check. Installed SS6.4 patch as administrator, checkX Ran SSsetup.exe. Settup succeeded but game didn't launch: 'Medieval II suffered a fatal error.' . Adjusted Steam MTWII launch options as suggested, above, check. Launched SS6.4 from steam, checkSo why do I care, you ask, since SS6.4 launched?
Because SS6.4 was CTD so I wanted to install the v.1.27 bugfix patch. Installed BugfixCompilationv1.27, check.X Ran SSsetup.exe. Game didn't launch 'Medieval II suffered a fatal error.' X Launched SS6.4 from steam.
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Game CTD without a message after the new campaign loads but before the map is shown.It looks like something went wrong at the SS6.4 install, but I can't tell what. I've redone this from scratch multiple times.
How do I get some debug output?
I am proud to announce my new mod, Truly big battles for Stainless Steel. It is a rework of the numbers of units in your army.
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So now you have 250 spearmen insted of 150 and 125 cav insted of 60-80.This mod works for SS 6.3 and all other submods as long as they dont thouch they dl. File.I take no credit for the fine work of the main mod for SS.Instalment: simply replace the dl. File(exportdescrunit) for the existing in:C/Programs/SEGA/Medieval II total war/Mods/DataThis allso works for SS 6.4Pro rege et grege.