Lord of the Rings mod creator interview!

**Epistolary Richard** · 09-23-2006, 10:33

The Chamber of Records - a site for all modifications for Lord of the Rings - has put up a new interview with wlesmana, creator of the The Lord of the Rings: Total War modification. He talks about the future of the LOTR mod, how he got into this crazy business and his tips for mod development:

Originally Posted by wlesmana

If your first thought is “Full conversion!! New everything!! Hey, what’s a DMB?” then it’s probably a failure from the start.

Read the interview here.

Download v1 of the LOTR mod here.

See the latest preview for v2 here.

**Apoc** · 09-24-2006, 23:16

Thanks for putting this up, ER. I think perhaps my favourite part of the interview is this:

Originally Posted by Wlesmana

I never thought I’d start The Lord of the Rings: Total War. I was planning to make only a mini-mod, with a faction of Gondorians in RTW. In fact, I was going to call it “Rome of the Rings” just to be silly. My modding folder in my PC is still called RomeoftheRings until this day.

'Rome of the Rings'. Hehe, I'd play that.

**Dzsonas** · 11-29-2006, 11:10

Nice work!

I love this Mod! Especially one thing, i think the Nazgul-s need to be "cavalry" Pleeease!

**wlesmana** · 12-03-2006, 09:08

The Nazgul will be cavalry in 2.0 as they will be generals.

**ooredoo** · 01-03-2009, 06:33

uhmm cAn i asK??? after the installation of the mod how can i use it??
because i cant understand some other instruction of some mods pls heLp me thx....

**ooredoo** · 01-03-2009, 07:17

when i started the game its loading and it came back to the desktop again pls heLp me

**Aradan** · 01-03-2009, 13:49

Chances are you installed it incorrectly. You have betetr chances of getting a more specific and faster response in LOTRTW forums: www.lotr-tw.net

**ooredoo** · 01-03-2009, 21:58

Originally Posted by Aradan

Chances are you installed it incorrectly. You have betetr chances of getting a more specific and faster response in LOTRTW forums: www.lotr-tw.net

but their forums is inactive i see their post is almost 2 months old

**Aradan** · 01-04-2009, 00:03

Their official forums stiill have members logging on, which might be able to help.
Anyway, the installation is rather simple. All you need to do is download and apply: 2.0b (base build), 2.04 (patch) and the Musicpack. The only thing you have to be careful with is pointing the installer to the location where *you* have installed RTW. By deafult Wlesmana's installers will put the files in Program Files/Rome - Total War, but your game would probably be installed at Program Files/Activision (or The Creative Assembly)/Rome - Total War.