Louis de la Ferte Ste Colombe
09-03-2003, 21:58
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I don't know if any of you knows about Britannia, an old boardgame from Avalon Hill
1st time I saw the VI campaign map, I immediatly thought about Britannia.
Was a fun game and might make for a fun VI mod.
There are only 4 factions although there are many subfactions (one for each of the different invaders of britania, from the Roman to the Guillaume's Normans).
In the boardgame, esch turn, new subfactions appears and drop more or less huge numbers of troop on the map (think Golden Hord kind of entry on the map). The boardgame movement rule makes it possible for those troops to go very far in one turn. With MTW movements, I guess one Britannia turn shall be covered by many TW turns.
So every 10 turns, we would have a drop of new troops that would start invading over Britannia. They would have some time to settle before the next wave... And it would start over again http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
That would be a rather dynamic game. Building might be interesting... And then maybe not; what to build with a payback short enough to make it worthwhile in 10 years? do you really expect to hold those provinces when 90 units will fall on it?
Modwise needs to be done;
- restriction to 4 factions; all factions are likely to have all basic units; I think it's easier to choose wisely what are in the dropped stack than to restrict units availability; and anyway, don't expect units to be built http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif. Inns might be a problem; to be prohibited.
- what get drooped when and how; here the question is more how many stacks do we drop, with which leader (BTW modding leader would be very helpfull in this case / BTW is it possible to kill/ create new heir throught events?) and how. I can somehow answer the 1st two questions. I think the answer for the last one is something like event moddig and adding new events. And I don't know how/if that is possible. Would be something similar to the golden hord.
- point counting; is GA modable? given how dynamic the game will be, a domination type of conquest is not likely to last long...
- ... Other thing I might overlook.
If you know the game, you know what I mean, if not Down down this page are links that might help (http://grognard.com/titleb.html).
Main problem; I am not a modder. But I think it would be a fun mod idea and am willing to help a a modder interested in it http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
Louis,
I don't know if any of you knows about Britannia, an old boardgame from Avalon Hill
1st time I saw the VI campaign map, I immediatly thought about Britannia.
Was a fun game and might make for a fun VI mod.
There are only 4 factions although there are many subfactions (one for each of the different invaders of britania, from the Roman to the Guillaume's Normans).
In the boardgame, esch turn, new subfactions appears and drop more or less huge numbers of troop on the map (think Golden Hord kind of entry on the map). The boardgame movement rule makes it possible for those troops to go very far in one turn. With MTW movements, I guess one Britannia turn shall be covered by many TW turns.
So every 10 turns, we would have a drop of new troops that would start invading over Britannia. They would have some time to settle before the next wave... And it would start over again http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
That would be a rather dynamic game. Building might be interesting... And then maybe not; what to build with a payback short enough to make it worthwhile in 10 years? do you really expect to hold those provinces when 90 units will fall on it?
Modwise needs to be done;
- restriction to 4 factions; all factions are likely to have all basic units; I think it's easier to choose wisely what are in the dropped stack than to restrict units availability; and anyway, don't expect units to be built http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif. Inns might be a problem; to be prohibited.
- what get drooped when and how; here the question is more how many stacks do we drop, with which leader (BTW modding leader would be very helpfull in this case / BTW is it possible to kill/ create new heir throught events?) and how. I can somehow answer the 1st two questions. I think the answer for the last one is something like event moddig and adding new events. And I don't know how/if that is possible. Would be something similar to the golden hord.
- point counting; is GA modable? given how dynamic the game will be, a domination type of conquest is not likely to last long...
- ... Other thing I might overlook.
If you know the game, you know what I mean, if not Down down this page are links that might help (http://grognard.com/titleb.html).
Main problem; I am not a modder. But I think it would be a fun mod idea and am willing to help a a modder interested in it http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
Louis,