Revolution! Total War

[Hross af Guttenburg]

Although there are mod projects with ideas for muskets such as NTW etc I think there is still room for an alternative to this, namely based around the Russian Revolution. The mod could be aimed at MP and custom battles etc, but I have several ideas that could if implemented make a very unique mod.
The main arguments for the SP would be:
1. religion is political movements and have a much stronger role in the mod since there would be far fewer than 30 factions...and therefore much fewer factions per 'religion'. Obviously religious buildings and characters could be 'propaganda officers' etc
2. time, the era of the Russian revolution was played out over a twenty year time span at the most... therefore we are looking at making the most of seasons etc.
3. campaign map. The map would be more or less the former USSR and some borderlands too, what we could look at is some kind of groundbreaking way of modding railways, perhaps somekind of alternative 'road' that allows a much greater speed of movement for armies once placed on there.
4. cities and battle maps. medieval cities are not really fair representations of post-feudal Russia, so separate hand-made custom maps could be made for the mod so that a style of snow drenched inner city fighting could be made a real feature of the game. I think some of the flavour of Stalingrad could be very nice here.

-Some interesting points might be the music for instance, I already have lots of grammaphone recordings from the revolution era and the wars which would sound very effective when accompanying the red army marching across the steppe!
There now follows several miscellaneous posts to get your imaginations going...

[Hross af Guttenburg]

https://img359.imageshack.us/img359/893/cossackpatrolnearbakuoixv9.th.jpg (https://img359.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cossackpatrolnearbakuoixv9.jpg)
Cossack patrol near Baku oil fields. 1905.

https://img396.imageshack.us/img396/7265/russiansoldiersstandovebj3.th.jpg (https://img396.imageshack.us/my.php?image=russiansoldiersstandovebj3.jpg)
Russian soldiers stand over trench of dead Japanese

https://img359.imageshack.us/img359/1680/thestormpetrelsoftherevsf4.th.jpg (https://img359.imageshack.us/my.php?image=thestormpetrelsoftherevsf4.jpg)
The storm petrels of the Revolution---the sailors---first to raise the red flag in the fleet, always first to hurry to the rescue of the Soviets.

https://img368.imageshack.us/img368/8927/julyuprisingow3.th.jpg (https://img368.imageshack.us/my.php?image=julyuprisingow3.jpg)
Chaos and bloodshed in the July uprising

https://img368.imageshack.us/img368/1658/chineseimperialguard190ug6.th.jpg (https://img368.imageshack.us/my.php?image=chineseimperialguard190ug6.jpg)
Chinese Imperial Guard 1906

https://img359.imageshack.us/img359/6451/russianimperialguardqv1.th.jpg (https://img359.imageshack.us/my.php?image=russianimperialguardqv1.jpg)
Russian Imperial Guardsmen 1900

https://img368.imageshack.us/img368/708/sbattalionguardingthewisz3.th.jpg (https://img368.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sbattalionguardingthewisz3.jpg)
´Soldiers of Second Company of the '1st Petrograd Women's Battalion-' guarding the Winter Palace, October 1917

https://img144.imageshack.us/img144/4273/sbattalionofdeathwithbaqt2.th.jpg (https://img144.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sbattalionofdeathwithbaqt2.jpg)
Marching order from the '1st Petrograd Women's Battalion of Death', with bayonets.

[Comrade Alexeo]

Oh, wow... memories of The Great War: Total War dream are coming back...


I can offer my full emotional support for this. As for something more tangible, though, I don't know...

I can offer you:

-any relevant research I've gathered both on my own time and for TGW: Total War
-possibly some skins and/or models, depending on how different M2TW's code handles such things compared to RTW (I believe I saw that models are different now)...
-possibly trailers; I have a good collection of Russian music and so forth, but I can't necessarily offer too much technical pizazz, as I've only got the basic programs to create such things...



I like the idea of using "propaganda" in lieu of "religion"; "Red Communist Propaganda", "White Monarchist Propaganda", "Black Anarchist Propaganda" could really add an interesting flavor to the mod.

Have you considered how you would consider the various international intervention forces that participated in one way or another in the Civil War?

[Filibustería]

I love the idea! Whats the timeframe? does it ends in 1918 or it continues?

i could research too, if you want.

[Warluster]

Wait on the subject of WW1 (or close to it) what did happen to The Great War:TW?

[Hross af Guttenburg]

Well to answer the questions around the Graet War, yes actaully I am looking including factions and geographical areas that would have relevance to this era. So China, Japan, Poland, Ukraine, the 'stans..., Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Finland and perhaps Czechoslovakia as borderlands, possibly in their entirety.
Where to end a mod's map has always been an issue for discussion and since it is so far away I have no inclination to make absolute decisions just yet. I think this era and style has some possibilities that The Great War does not have as issues, mainly that the country infrastrcuture rather than the sheer all out-and-out war of World War One presents, plus the technology that the Great War saw is not at all the kinds of things that were part of the Russian troubles from the turn of the century until the thirties...

As regards the western Allies I was thinking that they would 'arise' as horde invasions much like the Steppe nomads in the original game...
The Papacy might be the Imperial Royal family, or even the Duma or something similar,...there really are so many options to represent the politics and factionalism of the time.

I am not so sure about dates just yet, -lol, I am that this is kind of crucial but I am thinking that seasons may not be long enough for this mod and that maybe even breaking up the year into even smaller parts would be preferable since the mod deals with a relatively short if turbulent and fascinating era of human and military history.

Feel free to get involved....

[Warluster]

I will help, I good with books and History! (Maybe a bit of Computer stuff, but I was never any good:cry: )

[Cronos Impera]

Hmm.... you could replace religions with political ideologies and have inquisitors turn into comisars, priests into political agitators, crusades and jihads replaced with Revolution and Counter-Revolution.

Factions

Communist
The Bolshevik Party (papacy)
The Stalinist faction
The Trotcky faction
Soviet Republic of Hungary
Soviet Slovakia (emerging faction)
Belarussian People's Republic
Bavarian Socialist Republic

Monarchist
Empire of Japan
Kingdom of Romania

Nationalist
Provisional All-Russian Government
Poland
Latvia
Horthy's Forces
Freikorps

Democratic
Cehoslovakia
Western Entante

[Comrade Alexeo]

Wait on the subject of WW1 (or close to it) what did happen to The Great War:TW?

The Great War: Total War was my attempt to create a WW1 mod for Rome: Total War. Interest was severely lacking and, other than a few early models, not much came of it. Bwian was nice enough to let me use several of his superb tank and artillery models but we never got them ingame before the mod was cancelled.

[Filibustería]

And China?:bow:

[Hross af Guttenburg]

As regards the factions I think it MIGHT be better to have the Imperial Russian family as the Papacy (or some kind of non-present entity called 'the voice of the people' or something? :dizzy2: ) and the communists as hordes at the start pos which would be pre-revolution

Stalin was a Georgian who was part of the Bolshevik group that Lenin ceded, so he would be a general in the Bolshevik group. Trotsky was a leader in the Menshevik group.

I would suggest something like this:

Catholic:
Imperial (White) Russians /papacy?
Imperial Chinese
Imperial Japanese

islam:
Communist Chinese
Soviet Mensheviks
Soviet Bolsheviks

orthodox:
Liberals (provisional government)
-some of the following?

pagans:
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Romania
Western Allies (scripted hordes)
Latvia and other Baltic states

Cronos Impera "Hmm.... you could replace religions with political ideologies and have inquisitors turn into comisars, priests into political agitators, crusades and jihads replaced with Revolution and Counter-Revolution." This is exactly what I would intend to do.

Comrade Alexeo- I must admit the idea of WW1 style tanks roaring around as well as rockets, mortars and heavy machine guns would be amazing but I think even for M2TW a little too far fetched, it would be something we would HAVE to look at without a doubt but the project can and should still go ahead without these things.... we should remember that tanks were not so very common a atleast amongst the revlotuion years, and whilst they may be possible to mod based around cannon-carrying elephants it is so far into the project that I cannot consider it as yet. As for HMGs they are possible by using the ribault as a basic template,

Anyway as I say, we should really be looking at factions and inf, cav and art units as well as the camp map to start with. The tech tree is another area.
There are still some major 'reality' issues that need addressing first though, such as the time scale, can the turns be made into months?

As regards the family memebers for the communist factions, children cannot be born and wives are irrelevant, what we would have to mod would be wives as 'speakers' or 'demogogues' for a specific party member to allow him to come to greater power and create an heir or 'successor' etc, alternatively we could allow only adoption and hide wives, princesses etc. this would be for the communist culture group at least.

since politics is to replace religion we need to think about all the AI characters, merchants, princesses, diplomats, heretics, witches, spies, assassins etc

The map is going to be huge, and only really land masses, provinces which are completely landlocked, navies might not need to appear at all, or at least take a very minor role, therefore the question of 'railways' is very important...can it be done? can armies be given an exponential movement speed if placed on a modded road or 'railway'?

These are all questions I would like to address before any issesu about tanks and specific units arise. I think if we can address those primary issues we could have an amazing mod regardless of limitations of representing tanks etc.


Proletarskaya Revolyutsiya!

[krellan]

Hello, first i must say wonderful idea.

I agree you can skip the navies. Especially since a good part of the waters will be frozen during winter. I dont know if the engine will be able to represent that. But ports on the other hand you should include. I remember from my history lessons that the communists had pretty big numbers of sailors and marine detachments on their side.

For the division of religions to political parties, I do think the communists fit in the catholic slot. Make the papacy the bolshevik party and Lenin the first pope. Then a number of factions that are all communist revolutionists. IIRC there were multiple similar but separate council republics founded by communists.
I would give the islam slot to the imperials. They were only united in their desire to squash the revolutions. And I dont know who could reasonably be the papal states out of the imperials. Especially why should imperial china have to ask imperial russia for a counter-revolution. There is the question if islamic factions can have princesses or not. But if not exclude princesses overall.
I agree orthodox is probably the best slot for non-communists revolutions and pagan for external neutral forces.


For the agents i think spies and assassins can stay as they are. They fulfill the same job and arent influenced by the religions-to-politics change. May be change it so they recruited in different buildings for the communist and imperial factions.

Princesses should be female agents similar to Mata Hari, i dont know a good to the point name. If you can't alter the diplomatic options, i think princesses should fall out of the mod.

Diplomats can stay mostly the same. They should loose the marry-of options, but otherwise i think they fit. I dont think "would you ally with us if we give your successor a nicely trained gal to occupy his time with" is a reasonable option in that era.

Priests become demagogs, with heretics being demagogs straying from the party line to their own vision of the revolution.

Inquisitors become political officers or revolution guards. To keep everyone on the party line.

Merchants could become requesters. Change the resources into villages, farms, mines and factories. They go and make sure the production is up and the profits go to their masters.

For the witches im not sure since i have rarely seen one in-game and don't know much about them.

[AliAS]

WOW this modification looks really cool. I must try it when its done.
and great you want add czechoslovakia so THX :balloon2:

[Hross af Guttenburg]

Thanks for Czeching it out :beam:

Great ideas Krellan, good arguments for the Catholics actually. I agree about the ports where applicable, I have also come across a good deal of marines and sailors as land-soldiers in the revolution histories I have read, *see pic above of 'Storm Petrals'

ps- witches are basically female heretics except they do not convert priests to heretics if they fail, just kill them... again some good political options there...There is no need to keep proncesses (or witches) female but instead mod them to some kind of political officer as you say. Great idea with the inquisitor etc,...it does make sense having the core Soviets as the Papacy

[Hross af Guttenburg]

Suggested mod start: 1898/1900.... As I said, I think we should be looking at making the Game Turns into MONTHS rather than seasons, so if we are thinking of synthesising this era, maybe we should look at a good 7 years (14 turns at least) to build things up before we can reflect the situations that existed in the Russo-Japanese war and the revolution of 1905

1894 - Start of reign of Nicholas II
1898 - First Congress of Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP)
1900 - Foundation of Socialist Revolutionary Party (SR)
1903 - Second Congress of Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. Split (missing text)
1904-5 - Russo-Japanese War
1905 - Russian Revolution/Rebellion.
January - Bloody Sunday in St Petersburg.
June - Potemkin uprising at Odessa on the Black Sea
October - general strike, St Petersburg Soviet formed
- Imperial agreement on elections to the State Duma - October Manifesto
1906 - First State Duma. Prime Minister - Petr Stolypin. Agrarian reforms begin
1907 - Second State Duma, February - June
1907 - Third State Duma, until 1912
1911 - Stolypin assassinated
1912 - Fourth State Duma, until 1917. Bolshevik - Menshevik split final
1914 - Germany declares war on Russia
1915 - Serious defeats, Nicholas II declares himself CinC. Progressive Bloc formed
1916 - Gregory Rasputin killed
1917- Revolution
-Here's were the shit really goes down, military coups, civil unrest, rebellion, offensives and counter offensives with Austro-Hungary.... it's all there...


January


Strikes and unrest in Petrograd

February

The February Revolution
26th -- 50 demonstrators killed in Znamenskaya Square
27th -- Troops refuse to fire on demonstrators, desertions. Prison, court and
Okhrana buildings set on fire. Garrison joins revolutionaries.
Petrograd Soviet formed.

March

1st -- Order No.1 of the Petrograd Soviet
2nd -- Nicholas II abdicates. Provisional Government formed, Prince Lvov PM

April

3rd -- Return of Lenin to Russia. He publishes his April Theses.
20th -- Miliukov's note published. Provisional Government falls

May

5th -- New Provisional Government formed. Kerensky minister of war and navy

June

3rd -- First All-Russian Congress of Soviets in Petrograd. Closed on 24th
16th -- Kerensky orders offensive against Austro-Hungarian forces. Initial success

July

2nd -- Russian offensive ends. Trotsky joins Bolsheviks
4th -- Anti-government demonstrations in Petrograd
6th -- German and Austro-Hungarian counter-attack. Russians retreat in panic, sacking the town of Tarnopol. Arrest of Bolshevik leaders ordered
7th -- Lvov resigns. Kerensky is new PM
22nd -- Trotsky and Lunacharskii arrested

August

26th -- Second coalition government ends
27th -- General Lavr Kornilov failed coup. Kornilov arrested and imprisoned

September

1st -- Russia declared a republic
4th -- Trotsky and others freed. Trotsky becomes head of Petrograd Soviet
25th -- Third coalition government formed

October


Vladimir Lenin, leader of the October Bolshevik Revolution
10th -- Bolshevik Central Committee meeting approves armed uprising
11th -- Congress of Soviets of the Northern Region, until 13th
20th -- First meeting of the Military Revolutionary Committee of Petrograd
25th -- MRC directs armed workers and soldiers to capture key buidings in Petrograd. Winter Palace attacked at 9.40pm. Kerensky flees Petrograd
26th -- Second Congress of Soviets. Mensheviks and right SR delegates walk-out in protest at coup. Decrees on peace and land reform. Soviet government declared - the Council of People's Commissars; Bolshevik dominated with Lenin as chairman

[Filibustería]

1894 - Start of reign of Nicholas II

Hey! my name is Nicholas....:inquisitive: I... think... I... AM THE TZAR!!!!:laugh4:

[Hross af Guttenburg]

Well, you are about to be deposed Nicholas...

Here are some numerous photos of models of WW1 and Russian/Finnish civil war era armoured cars and artillery with excellent information:

http://www.landships.freeservers.com/new_pages/petersgallery.htm

[Hross af Guttenburg]

This map shows the super powers and neighbours on Russia's western borders
In the case of the Austro-Hungarians and Germans we can cut their territories in half to portray the 'eastern front' -their western front was kept busy...northern Serbia and Bulgaria should be represented too.
https://img215.imageshack.us/img215/3184/maps01europe1914nb3.th.jpg (https://img215.imageshack.us/my.php?image=maps01europe1914nb3.jpg)
Poland and Romania like the Baltic states will be fully fledged factions, Sweden may be an issue to think over however, hardly a faction or power and itself never a participant in any of the action but could it have been? I would argue that it be just an uninhabited partial land mass at the edge of the map.

[Abokasee]

Hey! my name is Nicholas....:inquisitive: I... think... I... AM THE TZAR!!!!:laugh4:

And like the Tzar you shall die :toff: :rifle:

Will this mod have any proper warfare in it because In revulations you don't usally get full-scale conflicts and in wars like that theirs a large number of urban combat after the boshzleik uprising (correct me if im wrong)

[Warluster]

So is the mod going to happen? If so there is a number of Musket models in NTWII whcih can be used, recentl the Lordz, the ones who made NTW, released there last NTW2 and have given there Musket models away, but you have to get permission and put them in the credits of your mod, plus stuff like cannons and advanced gun models... If the mod is going to happen can I join the mod team?

[methoz]

wow..sounds great...
Bohemia in some mods and now Czechoslovakia... its coool~:cheers:

[Hross af Guttenburg]

Well I would love this mod to pick up pace but without interested skinners or coders I can't do much, I have the research and the basic structure for untis, buildings, maps etc but no team....
Glad you all liked the idea anyway, nice to have a winning concept

[Hross af Guttenburg]

Anyone know if machine guns are possible? As in a constant and fairly rapid rate of fire -is that possible? What are the speed, reload and missile limitations in the code?

[Hross af Guttenburg]

I have been thinking about the situation with trenches, not that trenches were used in any great effect in Russias conflicts as say compared to the Great War, but since weaponry is so very effective at this time both in damage and range, and considering that men wore no armour it would be important for the game to bring in some kind of defences in the battle, but how is it possible without making a new building, which the AI wouldn't just ignore? Well, it seems to me that the longbowmens 'plant stake' special ability could be modded to add defence from missiles, it could look like a raised line of earth maybe with tank traps and barbed wire on so that it has the same effect to tanks and armoured cars (modded from cannoncarrying elephants) and cavalry charges as well as obvious direct infantry advances.
Unit formations were not the same as in the Napoleonic era either and therefore units would have new formations, long thin lines of loose order.

Artillery units could be:
Heavy machine gun teams
Mortar teams
...as well as the full range of long distance field artillery

One issue that does bring questions to mind is what is to be done with the armour and the visual 'updates' or evolution of certain units when re-armoured with chain, plate etc? Could we modify this to give a different look to some units and increase their training, fire accuracy, discipline, etc? So for instande we could develop units to specific levels such as say
Peasant infantry
Light infantry
Sharpshooters
Snipers
Veterans
Commandoes
- Just to give some rough examples and an idea, and their development as a unit with each new 'armour' is effected by a visual change, so that veterans or snipers might have more worn out clothing with maybe heavier camouflauge etc...
What do you think?

These are all campaign suggestions, but the basic ability to make a start for MP and custom battles would be best, to actually get units on the go.....
I need skinners, modellers and coders. Please contact me directly if you are interested in this mod.

Proletarskaya Revolyutsiya!

[brokguitar]

Hross,
I created a gatling gun unit for the 1775-1865 mod Im working on. I am using the art. unit already in place in the game but made the effects that of a gatling gun. Im sure this can be implemented the same for a machine gun unit.

I think the art. piece is called ?riboult?

Anyway I have made it devastating to units and quite a site to see in custom battles versus waves of incoming peasants:skull: .

Hope this gives you a idea for your machine gun.

Brok

[Hross af Guttenburg]

Excellent, yes if you look at a post further up I did suggest a ribault as a possible basis for a mahcine gun, now that we know its possible we can get properly stuck into the mod...There are no major realism issues any more!!!

(I think we might have to borrow the blueprints for your gatling gun mate) :2thumbsup:

Thanks man!

[Warluster]

Sorry Hross I realised I will not be able to do coding and stuff, I can probaly only do Mapping and writing still sorry.

[brokguitar]

Hross,
Ive created great looking infantry that would blow your mind! The only thing stoping me is the fact that i cant change the graphics of the units to look different than musketeers. Your mod is very much doable.

Brok

[Icefrisco]

how are you goingt to create models for armoured cars, machine guns, pistols, artillery(breech laoding) and bolt-action rifles?

[AliAS]

HI. Here are some pictures of Czechoslovakia legions.

In russia
http://cslegie.wz.cz/podklady/legieRUS.jpg

In France
http://www.cslegie.wz.cz/podklady/legieFR.jpg

In Italy
http://www.cslegie.wz.cz/podklady/06_07.jpg


Milan Rastislav Štefánik. (One of the creator of Czecholslovakian Legions , second was Tomáš Garigue Massaryk> later Presiden of Czechoslovakia)
http://www.stm-ke.sk/vystavy01image/leg2.jpg

Propaganda poster
http://www.stm-ke.sk/vystavy01image/leg1.jpg


If you want i can find more info about czechoslovakia in that times

[Hross af Guttenburg]

Thanks for the Czech info and pics, a nice help indeed. Some truley great stuff there. Please check your PM...

Adrisco- dunno mate got any ideas? As you can see other mods have developed the ribault to effectively be a machine gun but tanks/armoured cars could be modded from the cannon carrying elephants in the original game, as regards everything else its just a case of animations which have to be drawn and coded in from scratch just as NTW did. As I have stated in my original propsal this will be be taking the initiative in a lot of areas that were just theory before.
I suggest you read through the thread, there are suggestions for in-game defences such as pill boxes, barbed wire and trench-embankments which could either be implemented like a stationary vehicle, ie a unit and placed in the set-up phase. As well as some ideas for field defences to be part of a units special ability such as the longbowmens stakes.....

[AliAS]

I send you pm.

And you´re welcome. This mod looks awesome and I´ll be really happy if i can play it.:2thumbsup:

[Hross af Guttenburg]

RECRUITMENT:
At the moment there are still vacancies in the following areas:
Modellers:
Innovative and creative people who want to really challenge what has been done so far, creating completely new types of battle pieces such as field defences and embankments for units, as well as adapting M2TW artillery to mortars, heavy machine guns and 1900s cannons. There is some discussion at the moment as what is to be done about certain issues such as tanks, land-mines, field defences etc we are not sure yet how we will be implementing these in-game, some ideas are to avoid the trouble of battle models by modding the naval battles system. Join up and get involved in this groundbreaking work.
We also need to completely re-form the animations for the soldiers and create new models, such as new cavalry types and infantry with bolt action rifles.
Building-work is a new area too, look at the Other section
Skinners:
Although not as advanced as above, there will be a good deal of painstaking work neccessary to have units reflect the many excellent documentation and photographs of the historical units. So if you are a perfectionist and what to show off your artisitic abilities- this is the place for you!
Other:
The map and the actual battle-maps is a team effort in itself because we are looking at changing the layout of the siege and settlement-attack system so that huge city areas will exist but not neccesarily with huge medieval walls and gun towers etc. We are looking at making all new maps for cities such as urban environments, many may require new models.
The campaign map requires some brainstorming too, one of the cool features we are working on is a railway system which allows extremely quick travel for armies set on their route to get across the map into different countries.
Emergent factions will need scripting in as well as several other historical events, the turn system requires a complete overhaul too (to cover so much action within such a short space of time) and there are several theories at the moment as to how we can implement this.
The Character system needs completely re-working with princesses, heretics, even the Pope all changed to reflect a modern world rife with political upheaval and social change. Factions are political parties, including some monarchies, but where cardinals will be replaced by political figureheads and statesmen, generals in the 'royal family' have a different place and role, as do wives and children which for the none-monarchistic cultures will be totally replaced by a new system. Get involved and become part of the Total War modding community's hottest new movements and its most innovative...It's a revolution comrades!---Sign up here......


Although this is a big project we have set our goals on a step by step development beginning with a set of custom map/custom battle/historical battles SP and MP first to implement units.

[Warluster]

Did you get my PM? If so was everything understandable?

[Hross af Guttenburg]

:dizzy2: Your English isnt that bad, yes thanks...I understood it all. Thanks, feel free to help with research but I guess your own mod will be taking up most of your time now. If there are any of our resources that might be useful then we should definitely share. Let's see how things develop.

[Icefrisco]

thanks hross, i now have comlete faith in this mod succeeding!

[Hross af Guttenburg]

Incidentally, we now have an idea to give some units a grenade special ability by modding the fire arrow variation for archers. obviously we realise that it will still be a very difficult thing to mod, dependent on totally new animations etc. However we think we can start by modding the stats for the fore arrows so that they more resemble grenades, short range, poor accuracy but powerful attack effect, with effect on buildings, scares horses and men etc. We will keep you posted as to how this develops and at what point we run into a brick wall.

We are looking at realism and so we have already decided on ammunition and fatigue limits that are much lower than vanilla, allowing the player to really think about how his armies are used. you can't just shoot away as much as you like or charge the enemy all around the map. When ammo runs out you might want to charge the enemy but if you are too far away or already worn out by long marches you will have a more or less useless unit. we think its a good idea. we will be combining this with a new unit formation so that a large unit will not be all rank and file but a loose line of two or three men deep. This might be an early preview if we ever get that far!!!

[Filibustería]

good,good

[Hross af Guttenburg]

For you ALias....
maybe just some parts of these...


https://img100.imageshack.us/img100/9695/0602im8.th.jpg (https://img100.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0602im8.jpg)

Just the heads from this? https://img100.imageshack.us/img100/6071/0889sb7.th.jpg (https://img100.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0889sb7.jpg)

I think the top half of this is very effective
https://img100.imageshack.us/img100/9449/0855td7.th.jpg (https://img100.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0855td7.jpg)

Although this one says it all maybe
https://img100.imageshack.us/img100/1608/2083ig2.th.jpg (https://img100.imageshack.us/my.php?image=2083ig2.jpg)

Perhaps in time a few variations can be developed for different factions and aspects of the game.

[methoz]

For you ALias....
maybe just some parts of these...


https://img100.imageshack.us/img100/9695/0602im8.th.jpg (https://img100.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0602im8.jpg)

Just the heads from this? -> Socialism open up freedom colonial nations
https://img100.imageshack.us/img100/6071/0889sb7.th.jpg (https://img100.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0889sb7.jpg)

I think the top half of this is very effective -> Never!
https://img100.imageshack.us/img100/9449/0855td7.th.jpg (https://img100.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0855td7.jpg)

Although this one says it all maybe
https://img100.imageshack.us/img100/1608/2083ig2.th.jpg (https://img100.imageshack.us/my.php?image=2083ig2.jpg)

Perhaps in time a few variations can be developed for different factions and aspects of the game.

i make translation... :D
and other two - i dont speak russian.

but i think..this isnt possible us in game...

[Hross af Guttenburg]

Yeah, I know- not for in the game just as we develop different factions we can have different advertisement banners for them

[cegorach]

Similar mod is prepared in an Ukrainian forum, but with more detailed data and better choice of factions.


Anyway here goes my little contribution to your cause

the extremely detailed nationality map from the beginning of the XXth century

https://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b356/cegorach/028_029.jpg


here on Rapidshare as the full 5 mega large JPG

http://rapidshare.com/files/15527065/028_029.jpg

[Hross af Guttenburg]

Thank you cego, what is your mod about then?
Our map will only have the eastern half of europe, up to Berlin in the west -kind of where your map parts in two actually- and then we are going all the way east to include Japan and parts of China. We are discussing how far south we are going to take the map, some ideas are that we should include Turkey and Greece others that we should stop at the Turkish border.

[Rozanov]

Greets

Sounds like an interesting mod.

One faction that looks like it has been missed:

makhnovist insurgent army (ukraine)

I'd be happy to help testing and doing historical research on the project.

[Hross af Guttenburg]

Thank you, help would be very much appreciated. I think we do plan to have the 'Greens' as they were called -maybe we haven't listed an up to date faction list, but in that case more concrete mod info is forthcoming...

[Hross af Guttenburg]

We have had questions and PMs about how on earth are we going to mod field defences like trenches and barbed wire etc...well, we can't yet- like most things we will have to hope for a few tools from CA or the mod just will never happen but, this gives us some clue as to what we might be able to work with...
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=79007

It might be that CA includes these models in any possible expansion pack too

[cegorach]

[QUOTE]Thank you cego, what is your mod about then?

It is not mine, but I know its creators well.


Our map will only have the eastern half of europe

The full size map if you download it will be useful enough to have some detailed knowledge in western part of your project, but you've already seen it.:book:

[AliAS]

what you say on this :smash:

https://img69.imageshack.us/img69/7079/revolutionbackcu5.jpg

[Hross af Guttenburg]

Its really powerful, great stuff. I think some more communist symbolism would be even better though. I tried this one, I think we will just use it as a temporary thing, perhaps as the banner for the Bolsheviks-

[Marius Dynamite]

Incidentally, we now have an idea to give some units a grenade special ability by modding the fire arrow variation for archers. obviously we realise that it will still be a very difficult thing to mod, dependent on totally new animations etc. However we think we can start by modding the stats for the fore arrows so that they more resemble grenades, short range, poor accuracy but powerful attack effect, with effect on buildings, scares horses and men etc. We will keep you posted as to how this develops and at what point we run into a brick wall.

Why not just use something like the Naffatun? They can use swords as secondary and grenades as first, swap it around to rifles as first and grenades as secondary? Just suggesting


The other thing I would like to say is that I think you should make a unit of Red soldiers or something and get a short video of it shooting something, for 2reasons

1. To establish your barrier breaking mod.
2. To raise morale and interest of your supporters and team.


I look forward to you mod and wish I was skilled enough to help.

Very good luck!

[The Moonlit Knight]

I like the idea of using "propaganda" in lieu of "religion"; "Red Communist Propaganda", "White Monarchist Propaganda", "Black Anarchist Propaganda" could really add an interesting flavor to the mod.

I love this idea, and would love to see it in the mod. Speaking of which, I hope the Anararchists will be represented as a full faction; it'd be interesting to see if they can overcome the Soviets against all odds.

But on a more serious note: is this mod still being made? The thread hasn't been updated since at least two months ago, and I'd be terribly disappointed if this mod wasn't completed.

[Hross af Guttenburg]

Thanks for your support and encouragement, but without certain basic tools being released from CA most of what we aim to do is just impossible. We can only plan and prepare the code for the basic structure, when the specific tools get released or invented by some clever guys out there in the community, and especially when the expansion pack comes out with a lot of new possibilities maybe then we can start developing the mod with concrete results. Besides, at the mo we need a hell of a lot more coders, skinners etc

[Filibustería]

I think a modelling tool has been released...

[Hross af Guttenburg]

For units maybe. Things like armoured cars and tanks are still a bit beyond... We need new animations for the bolt action rifles too, at the moment musketeers are about this closest thing we have and the engine isnt really made for battles full of missile units. The kind of heavy modding needed just to get any kind of basic online or custom battle function started is still a long way away. As I say, without more people working on the project then this is a dead thread.

[Warluster]

Do yuo ahve a link to the modelling tool Filibusteria?

[Filibustería]

Here it is:

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showpost.php?p=1628859&postcount=113


As Hross said, it only works for human figures.

[Luganland]

Hi there!

If you need any help gaining Historical knowledge on Lithuania I can help. Just tell me what ya need an i can get any information you need. Still have some Family members alive who remeber everything about that era.

[Icefrisco]

Hross can you show us a preview soon?

[Vorge]

I believe there has been a tool released at TWCenter to mod mounts. I would love to see this mod implented. Also can you release some film of some sort of progress in textures and what not.

[Hross af Guttenburg]

Thanks for your interest guys, but as I have already written above in previous posts- we are in desperate need of modellers, coders and skinners without expanding our team this mod is suspended at least until a review of the situation after the kingdoms expansion pack later this year. Sooner or later, perhaps in a few years the community will be advanced enough to tackle a mod like this. But for now it does not really seem do-able. I can keep the mod running in terms of planning for that day I suppose...

[Anarzius]

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[King Orko]

Excuse me, but is this mod alive?! it's sounds great and want to know if it's gonna happen

[Hross af Guttenburg]

Sorry, no its dead. Basically I need a larger team and the even then the tools are not really in place yet to completely remodel the game. Perhaps the time will be right in a year or two, perhaps after 'kingdoms' who knows.
The idea definitely seems to have been good but, I think, a little too ambitious.
Thanks for your interest.

[brokguitar]

Hi,
I never got far enough with the mod to keep working on it. I am going to wait for empire to come out and tune it up to fit mod ideas, considering it will be implemented better than M2TW was.
How far did you get with revolution?

Hross your PM is full.