Great Castles Map Pack

ok guys, i have just uploaded it to the direct downloads section... hopefully barocca will update them soon

heres the link
Direct Downloads Page

just look for the file MTW Siege Pack.zip

Thank you. Mont St. Michel looks great, and poses a tremendous challenge.

Alrowan,
i have assigned you a prefix, alwr_
please place that at the front of all your maps.
(makes them very easy to find)

to all
If you have already downloaded Alrowan's map pack place the maps into the savemaps folder and rename the following files

caernarfon.jjm
caernarfon.inf
City of Acre.jjm
City of Acre.inf
Harlech Castle.inf
Harlech Castle.jjm
Mont St Michael.inf
Mont St Michael.jjm
Krak des Chevaliers.jjm
Krak des Chevaliers.inf

TO

alwr_caernarfon.jjm
alwr_caernarfon.inf
alwr_City of Acre.jjm
alwr_City of Acre.inf
alwr_Harlech Castle.inf
alwr_Harlech Castle.jjm
alwr_Mont St Michael.inf
alwr_Mont St Michael.jjm
alwr_Krak des Chevaliers.jjm
alwr_Krak des Chevaliers.inf

remember to place them in the savemaps folder.

All the Maps in the pack currently available for download have been renamed

So how are we getting on then m8

I saw this topic being of maps, so instead of creating a new one, why not hijack this one that accomplished its purpose already?

i love challenges, and the one i just set for myself today was making the biggest, baddest, best-looking fortress ever... altough its still not incredibly good looking, its almost impossible to assault this baby, with or without siege weapons.
i will post it tomorrow, but i will explain it so i know if someone made a better one so far.

-It has 5 layers of protection (keep, inner artillery layer, mid-artillery layer, outer catapult/arrows layer, outmost gun/artillery layer and Gate fotress
-It rests on a big hill so every tower has a longer range and can have a clear line of fire
-it would have water all around it, but it would make it impenetrable.

I didnt "cheat" by adding many towers in the same place. In my tests, seven Ai's on expert with 99999 florins against me with 10000 and they got their asses kicked big time, as i "only" lost 80% of my men but i had 2 layers remaining.
I didnt handicap the AI, they had 12 artillery pieces, ranging from ballistas to siege cannons, most of them gumpowder. All of them had a clear line of fire and were used.

took me a day, but IMO its well worth it, you better have a good computer for it, as without any trees it already has 4500 polygons, plus the HUMONGOUS army you will need to take it plus the almost limitless artillery fire from both sides, etc...

if it wanst 3AM here i would fire up a game and show you guys a screenie. its coming tomorrow

lol, sounds like one hell of a castle there

as for my mapmaking, ive put it on hold for a little while i attempt to make myself a new campagin for the game. Might take a while or it might crash and burn, we can only wait and see...

Well, it is a hell of a castle, at least, i like it Take a look:

http://www.totalwar.org/Downloads/Mt...T_fortress.jpg

I've uploaded it into the saved battles, the files is fortress.zip, cant seem to find it in the downloads section...
barocca can you confirm this?

Wow maybe best to starve em out http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...cons/joker.gif

but then it takes the fun away of being shot at by almost a hundred towers http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...cons/joker.gif

that is one heck of a fortress

ive found my Krak des Chevaliers map hard enough to assault as it is... for this one you would need 7 attackers, one defender and 99999 florins to 2000..

if its not raining or it isnt on expert, 50 florins will do against those 99999, tested it today on hard lol.
it will be used as one of the super-LOTR style fortresses for my mod ,i think. Dont worry though, in the campaign map you will have reinforcements, so you can effectively throw 75000 men in the battle to finally crush the enemy's capital province

hehe, i might have to make my firebombs again to assault that monster ;)

K.

Oh dear god no That's scary VERY scary, you'll need some sort of nuclear warhead to crack your way into that beast.

hehe... perhaps ill need my allies to have all cannons in thier armies