Minas Tirith map

[Gothic_war_monkey]

Ok, here it is. I hang out around the metw forums a lot and there is talk about map making, particularly the main attractions from the films eg. Helms deep/Minas Tirith.
I have, many times tried to create a minas tirith map that is functional but still looks good. Basically i am making a request to any of the more experienced mappers to take on the challenge, or to anyone else who can point me in the direction of an existing map.

GWM

[TigerVX]

I have a work in progress Minus Tirith Map. it has all 7 levels and the battlement. It's still a work in progress, I've only made the castle itself so far and it still needs work. I did one test, my as the Byzantines against 3 English, one with all v2 Tebutches, and the other two with junk units or high attack and low defense like Highland clansmen or Urban Militia. They did pretty well on the east side, where there Sieges weapons where. Drove me out of the first level. But the gate stood fast, as did the west side which was unharmed. I recommend more units and siege equipment to see how it really does. I would, but Its lag retarded enough with large units oO So i can't do more.

http://www.angelfire.com/comics/destinyofprelude/SaveMaps.rar

[Gothic_war_monkey]

Thanks for the reply, i'll check it out With the work icare has been doing with models at metw I hope some special features could be created to add to a working Minas tirith map.

GWM

[Gothic_war_monkey]

I assume the walls go all the way around due to problems with the game recognising it as a castle. Well, it works anyway. I attacked 3 part completed noldor factions with the hordes of morgoth eg. avarins orcs/goblins and upsized abyssinian guards as trolls and upsized ghazi infantry as balrogs.
Really captured the mood, SMTW and METW are gonna be great guys you heard it here first

GWM

[TigerVX]

Wow, glad you liked the map. I was hoping even with the city walls, the mass towers wouldn't be too overpowering. How many levels did you get up to? Or did the castle fall completely? Let me know, I don't mind feedback on stuff like that http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif .

[Gothic_war_monkey]

I only got into the second level, I used 1 unit of balrogs, 3 of trolls, 5 goblin war bands, 4 orcs, 2 catapults and 2 trebuchets. Battered the first two levels first and then sent in the trolls who thrashed the noldor, then goblins + orcs. At this point it went wrong http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/frown.gif . The noldor cav (basically chivalric knights) destroyed them while they were attacking the gate and then it was like a scene from monty python and the holy grail. Run away

GWM

[TigerVX]

Wow, that's gotta suck =P. Anyways, thanks for the info. Sounds like my map works pretty well.

[avarin]

Thanks for the great plug GWM http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/cool.gif I'm back

Avarin.

[Julius Caesar]

Can we see some pics of the map?

[dundas61]

Hi TigerVX,

Any chance you could attach the Minas Tirith map here (or email me it direct), as Angelfire won't let me access the site due to "remote downloading" restrictions ?