Warhammer 40K MOD

Eradan · #1 July 31st, 2003, 12:24 AM

I was just wondering if anyone else is presently working on a Warhammer 40,000/Battlefleet Gothic Mod? I know about a year ago Atrakius posted two Races, "Chaos Legions" and "Ork Clan", which were really good. Someone else created a "Slaanesh Chapter" Race with a great shipset. I've been putting one together for my own amusement, using the three above plus simple mods of some of the other Warhammer 40K races, but it'd be interesting to see what other people are doing with it.

Especially since those "other people" probably know way more about modding than I do...

Anyhow so far, I've been doing General, Research, and Speech files for Races, but I don't feel confident doing much tinkering with some of the other files.
Eradan

Fyron · #2 July 31st, 2003, 12:46 AM

A good way to start learning about SE4 modding is to read the SE4 Modding 101 Tutorial (linked in my sig). And of course, ask any and all questions you have on Shrapnel, and they shall be answered.

Better turn my sig on when I direct someone to it...

[ July 30, 2003, 23:49: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

Taera · #3 July 31st, 2003, 12:49 AM

im pretty sure there were at least two warhammer mods being developed out there. that had been a while ago though.

Lord Kodos · #4 July 31st, 2003, 01:54 AM

Me and Locutus have been working sporadically on a mod. The main snag, is that neither of us have BFG, so I am basing things off whatever I can figure out. If you wanna help, be my geust.

-Kodos
--DECEPTION! THIS WAS NO CAR! IT WAS A SPY-MOOSE!

narf poit chez BOOM · #5 July 31st, 2003, 04:47 AM

SPY-MOOSE?

THERE ON TO ME!

Eradan · #6 July 31st, 2003, 05:38 AM

Originally posted by Kodos:

Quote:

Me and Locutus have been working sporadically on a mod. The main snag, is that neither of us have BFG, so I am basing things off whatever I can figure out. If you wanna help, be my guest.

Well how far have you gotten?

I've renamed all the bmps in the Drushock shipset for Nurgle, the Plague-God. The Race-Portrait for the Drushock was freakish in just the right way to be a "Great Unclean One" and some of the Drushock ships have a sort of moldy look that fits Nurgle. So I've made their leader "Ve'Meth" (from the 'Soul Drinker' novel by Ben Counter) and his title is "Daemon-Prince".
I'm giving all 4 of the Chaos leaders the title of Daemon-Prince while keeping the original Chaos Legions by Atraikius to represent the ideology and forces of Chaos Undivided as represented in several of the novels.

Yea, actually I've never played BFG either; I got hooked into this SF universe from the novels, some of which are really good. I did play "Warhammer Fantasy Battles" a long time ago. That led me to the Warhammer fantasy novels and then to the 40K books. I love them; they're deep and dark in a way Star Trek never was and Bab5 only flirted with...

For the Eldar, I'm using the Minbari shipset because there's a strong resemblence. The Min AI looks like it's pretty close to what I want to. (Not really a coincidence; the B5 Minbari and the Warhammer Eldar are both derived from Tolkien's Elves) Their leader is "Eldrad Ulthuan" and his title is Farseer. I'm going to make them Propusion Experts as well as making them the only race with the Lucky ability which I've renamed (what else?) Farseer. I'm going to give them an extremely low birthrate to represent their high level of evolution and to balance off the genius level research they'll have. Also, the low birthrate will represent the whole dying race thing the Eldar in the "Real" 40K universe are dealing with...

Anyhow, this is just some of what I'm doing...
Eradan