After figuring out on paper how I wanted to handle the monetary requirements in order to progress from Settlement to Hamlet, I realized that I was still missing two buildings:

The last building I needed to complete the building requirements for Settlement is the Almshouse. It's suggested that you make it a residence and have it be occupied by a

The Fischer twins, Josef and Ernst and their sister, Juliana , lost their father in that pesky Plague that swept through the settlement last year, so they are doing their

When Sunday rolled around, I decided to do something I think I've failed to do with my families who have been followers of Eostre so far, and sent the Fischers

It's finally time to get some fighting men into our settlement! I'll be adding a couple more Knights-in-Training to the ranks, but to start, here is the newly appointed Marshal

I'm a huge History nerd, so I had a lot of knowledge on the European Middle Ages going into this, but I have...

Honestly, there are a shockingly large amount of resources out there for a Medieval/Historic TS2 game, and I'll list some of my favorites

For me, this is where the most fun of a Medieval game is...trying to replicate an actual economy and create supply and demand.

There are "essential" mods that were also covered in the Part 3: Essential Mods for Game Health section, so I won't rehash those

Part 6: Default Replacements

I won't gloss over it, making the game Historical is a labor of love because it takes a good bit of work.

This is probably the area of thought that has occupied most of my actual game setup so far.

I really would suggest that you start with a clean neighborhood template to avoid having the Maxis townies generate

A while back, a friend of mine who mostly plays TS3 was interested in what I was doing with my TS2 game

I've learned how to convert animations from both TS3 and TS4 to The Sims 2.