Name: The Tripartition - The Dragon Awakes "苍龙三国"
Latest Version: beta_0.176_XmasSP
For M&B Version: 0.808(The version based on 0.903 is already in plan,and it will be out in a few days)
More info: http://forums.taleworlds.net/index.php/topic,27312.0.html


*Description:
The Tripartition “苍龙三国” MOD is a Chinese MOD recur a famous epoch in Chinese History.

The Tripartition is a time period in Chinese History during the Year AD 208 and AD 280. In those passed ages, the Cao's Wei State, the Liu's Shu State and the Sun's Wu State were established one by one, and they opposed on each other. That's why that the Chinese name the era as the Tripartition.

This Mod is Not only base on the civil-war history of the Han nation, But also including some important elements from the Chinese well knowing classical novel, the "The Romance Of The Three Kingdoms(三国演义) " :
-- the HEROES! Who have courage to against thousand blades!
-- the CHARGERS!! They are Equipped and Waiting for masters!!
-- the BLADES!!! Flashing for the PEACE of our Homeland!!!
-- And the LADIES!!!! Of course, they love the just hero!!!!

So, are you ready?

Mount it!

*Informations:
Wana to know more about The Tripartition background story by viewing wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_of_the_Three_Kingdoms
Chinese MNB forum:http://bbs.mountblade.com.cn (Sorry, this forum is only for Chinese readers)
BUGs are somewhere, we need your help. Plz Report here:http://bbs.mountblade.com.cn/viewthread.php?tid=13407

*Team:
Scheme group leader：death123
Program group leader：peng31
art moduling group leader：kelavis
scene group leader：kbhhh

Project administrator：death123、muyiboy
Technical advisor：kanesunny

Scheme group:
death123：group leader, most of scheme works writing
jidankegexia(鸡蛋壳得阁下)：work on some scheme parts writing

Art modul group:
kelavis：leader, most of 3D works making
Harekelas：shields and parts of bulidings making
theguard：parts of buildings making
jidankegexia(鸡蛋壳得阁下)蛋鸡壳得阁下：parts of helmets making
dzoocn：map icons making
eoman：logo and loading manu making


Program group:
peng31：leader，most of program writing, testing and assembling works writing
feifei28：national power code and battles code writing
death123：items code writing
sjmind：seige code writing, testing and bug reporting, difficult questions dealing
acbor：troops and parties writing
songyx0：cities codes of parties.py writing
Saulapote：map making

Scene group:
kbhhh：leader, many scene curing and setting, whole scenes' final testing
minglong(明龙)：many scenes setting and testing

Helpers:
oneway：translate it into English
Max.Pain：making the promotional video
walterlohndorff：scene setting of Si Shui Guan, Xu Chang, Pu Yang, Chang An, Bei Ping, Ye Cheng and Bei Hai
fancycedar：scene setting of Ping Yuan, An Ding, Jin Yang, Ru Nan, Luo Yang and He Fei
SIMON60611：scene setting of Hu Lao Guan and Xia Pi
cfx1979：scene setting of Xiang Pin, Shou Chun and Tian Shui
daibiao1983：scene setting of Xiang Yang and Wan Cheng
scarbourough：Background muisc selecting
kbhhh： face creating of Zhang Fei, Liu Bei, Huang Gai, Liu Ye, Xu Zhe, Le Jin, Yu Jin, Cao Ren and Jia Xu
darryyuen： face creating of Sun Quan, Zhao Yun, XiaHou Yuan, Xu Huang, ZhuGe Liang Gan Ning, Jiang Wei, Zhang Liao, Pang Tong and Zhou Yu
lulazhu2006：face creating of Wei Yan, Xun Yu, Zhang He Wang Xiao Hu, Man Chong, Pang De and Xun You
q546286514：face creating of Cao Cao
(zaiciyiliu)在此一流：face creating of Ma Chao
leobreaking：face creating of Huang Zhoong and Cao Pi
121186：face creating of Guan Yu, SiMa Yi, Yuan Shao and Zhang Zhao
(qianhai'an)前海岸：face creating of Lv Bu and XiaHou Dun
guxing815：face creating of Guo Jia
(datouzhen)大头针：face creating of Xu Shu and Li Dian
caty17173：face creating of TaiShi Ci, Lu Su and Zhou Tai
fancycedar：face creating of GongSun Zan



*Background:
Around BC 180, the monarch of Han dynasty was living and ruling corruptly. At that time the weather was bad so harvest was poor. On BC 184, many farmers rise to resist against the heavy taxes burden. They joined together and named themselves as “Huang Jin Army” (which means people with yellow coifs on their head). They seized many provinces and became very powerful. Finally general Dong Zhuo and many other generals repressed this insurgence after a tough war. During the war many generals or governors own a large number of armies. On BC 189, the monarch of Han was dead. A series of power contentions for the next monarch happened. At last Dong Zhuo put the former monarch’s youngest son on the dragon seat. However Dong Zhuo took most of the young kings ruling powers, as he said the new kings was too young to deal with the affairs of dynasty. Dong Zhuo was killed by other court officials later because his ruled very tyrannically. Warfare happened between those generals and governors with many armies. Among them, Wei, Shu and Wu came to the three largest forces after a series war against their neighbor factions. The time of Tripartition started on 208.


[rule] Features[rule]

• 1/Ancient Chinese sight viewing: A beautiful and realistic ancient Chinese world is presented. The real geography, scenes and people life style of Chinese style of the time are made and shown on a whole new map. Based on many historical document and pictures of cultural relics, our art designs and models give you an amazing feeling in the game. (It may still have some Western style constructions in this first version. However the Exclusive Chinese Style will be completely achieved in the coming version. )
  
  2/Unique Path in siege mode: The NPCs' AI is greatly improved: they exactly know where to go and how to go. No longer can you see your soldiers were running into a wall or got stuck by ladders.
  
  3/The intrusions of Barbarians:. Besides three major factions Southern Man, Northern Xiong Nu and Eastern Yue will appeare as well. These tribes which would give you many troubles on your way to achieve your goal have special weapons and powerful warriors with proper wearing.
  
  4/Historical battles mode: At specified time in the game, the total number of four of significant battles will occur. A large number of special armies will appear in these historical battles. The result of these battles will have a big impact on the national power. Live or die, is all in the battles!
  
  5/Innovated realistic equipments: All weapons and equipments have their proper outlooks. The abandon of crouch lance damage will greatly challenge lance users in the game. However with their special attacking method pole arms still have their power while fighting against horse riders.
  
  6/A blue book: Fifty famous characters are introduced into the game. Some of them are brave generals and some of them are wise idea men. They will highly improve the strength of your team if you can meet the requirements to hire them.
  
  7/Hidden powerful equipments: Incisive weapons, hard armors, speedy horses, all these conspicuous weapons will be introduced into the game. In order to obtain these powerful stuffs you need fortune and perseverance.
  
  8/The advance of taking official positions: Focus on your strength and agility or intelligence and charisma? It’s all up to you! After the 6th level with any time of advance on your position you will have bonus points on certain abilities.
  
  9/Reputation system: In order to hire advanced soldiers or those famous NPC you need to consume your reputation points. You can gain reputation points by killing enemies, finish certain missions and by your official position bonus.
  
  10/Bodyguards function: Similar with the Caradial MOD, you can own a troop of bodyguards. These bodyguards would not really surround you while fighting, but they can always follow you on the map mode unless you have order to let them move else where. With this troop of bodyguards you can develop many kinds of useful tactics. Should you use it as a bait or let it siege for you? To be a tactician in ancient China!
  
  11/Some useful functions from Band of Warriors: Manage your teammates’ money, equipments upgrading, tactics of using their weapons and their fighting habit. There small functions will really help a lot in your warfare career.
  
  12/National power system: Six national power levels have different influences on the refreshing rates of national troops. Once a nation fell to the lowest level sieges to its cities may be happened. The more cities a nation owns, the faster it can recover from lower level of national power. A nation will be eliminated only when it has no city left. Protect your nation by defending your cities; gain your honor by attacking enemy’s!

[rule] File History[rule]beta 0.10 released on Oct.1.2007
beta 0.15 released on Oct.2.2007
beta 0.16 released on Oct.4.2007
beta 0.17 released on Oct.6.2007
beta 0.175 released on Oct.10.2007
beta 0.176 released on Oct.14.2007
beta 0.176_EN released on Dec.9.2007
beta 0.176_XmasSP released on Dec.24.2007


Tue, Dec-25-2007

Merry Christmas! this is a special version about The Tripartition, it's a Xmas gift from China for all u MNB fans
hope u like it

Xmas Eve,2007