"War of the Ring" thread

[Gandalf Parker]

There are 17 nations which can be altered (I wonder if a mod file hits a limit the way the other files did)

Im getting an impression that Ermor has become the Mordor nation. If more units but not quite "same army" units are needed then possibly another nation such as Ctis can be modified and declared ally to Ermor/Mordor. The wont share an army but they wont attack each other. So possibly that area you were discussing could be setup with "evil men" or whatever.

Ive seen a list here of the various "sides" in this conflict. But what I havent seen and rather expected was a breakdown of what dominions nations would fit those sides.

I know that a nation can be totally rewritten but it might help avoid some rewrite if we got kindof close with a nation whose units and attitudes and style of play seemed to fit.

Saruman would be squeezed into Arcos? Pythium for Easterlings? Marignon for Gondor?
Tien chin is Rohan? Vanheim are elves? Caelum might work for elves since they make pretty good use of bow and spells in combat,or easterlings since the elephants wuold play right. Matchaka for goblins? Abysia for dwarves or Ulm?

Also of interest is that apparently you can change the independents that show up and they will still show up randomly as the race you chose. The trolls are probably fine as they are, and the hoburgs. Change something that shows up only occassionally into Ents? Woodsmen would show up in forests but they dont attack right. Hvy Infantry show up too much, same with Barbs. Raptors maybe would work. They do charge to attack (in a way) and show up rarely in random placement. The big treelords (maybe toned down abit) with lesser entlings as the troop units?

Anyway, just tossing stuff in the pot and stirring. Carry on.

[jowe01]

Any news on the progress over christmas? I am very much looking forward to this one.

[Keir Maxwell]

Originally posted by jowe01:
Any news on the progress over christmas? I am very much looking forward to this one.

I'm sorry to say but I'm suffering from patch watching. When I heard the patch was going to out before christmas I put away my text files. Since then its always been a case of the patch is coming soon (not meaning to complain as I understand there are valid reasons for these things) and so I've kept hanging off for the patch with the mod tools - I'm not that up on the whole scripting/programming side anymore so the thought of what might be an easier interface is very appealing. Hopefully the patch with mod tools will be any day now but sadly much of my holiday time is gone. Still seeing the Return of the King was a big boost and I'm looking forward to making some progress.

I did spend the down time usefully though as I played alot of dom2 and have a better feel for the game now.

Cheers

Keir

[Keir Maxwell]

If anyone has a preference on the map I use please speak now. The links to the maps I'm choosing between can be found early in this thread.

The choice is between a very tidy, somewhat cutsy, map in light colors and a somewhat roughy scanned map in the old map style with light browns. I lean towards the older looking map but worry it won't look so good once the interface is over the top while the more colorful map might suit the dom interface better. Looking at the map of Britain gives you an idea of what I'm talking about.

If you have an opinion speak now or forever hold your peace.

Cheers

Keir

While I dearly love the old map (I actually have one of the fold out ones from an old hardback copy)...

I hate Brittan's map look. I can never seem to tell what type of enviroment a province is so I know what to expect.

I vote tidy and neat for playability while my soul says "Remember Helm's Deep!"

[Keir Maxwell]

Goto:
http://www.taylorcustom.com/localink...mearthmap.html

The map with no names:
http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/...tr_noNames.pdf

Clean, easy to work with, and looking the most likely. I'll probably tone the black of the mountains down.

cheers

Keir

[Keir Maxwell]

Things are going well with adapting Ashen Empire Ermor to Mordor. The amount of differnet creatures that turn up due to your dominion makes getting a varied bunch of orcs easy.

One issue that has come up is that what with Ashen Empire getting no castles with supply its pretty essential that Orcs are rated as not needing to eat. This is a bit sad given the wonderful orc eating scene in the second movie - "I'm hungry, I haven't had nothing to eat for but maggoty bread for three stinking days". Still its not hard to justify as orcs eating habits are a large part of Saurons destructive dominion and if they can always eat each other *shrugs* its ok.

Cheers

Keir.