Viking Invasion II (for BI) Released

**Dol Guldur** · 09-24-2008, 00:15

A Mod for BI 1.6

"Breathes new life into one of TW's tightest and most atmospheric iterations with simplicity, balance and superb quality." - Antagonist

With Generous Contributions from Arthurian Total War, Chivalry Total War and the defunct Age of Vikings and Fanatics Total War...And with the sterling support of Aradan for his unrelentingly-perfectionist work on traits, ancillaries, unit balance, campaign balance, testing and tweaking...

VI2 aims to recreate the campaign of MTW: Viking Invasion on the Rome BI engine. It sticks closely to the original campaign, only making changes to correct large inaccuracies, to improve gameplay and comply with the new engine. It is also set a little later than the original campaign at AD 851 - two years after the birth of King Alfred the Great of Wessex...

Find out more here: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=1036

Kindly hosted on Halie's In The Shade forum.

**Dol Guldur** · 09-26-2008, 23:21

IMPORTANT: For those with version 1.0 a patch (1.1) has been added which removes a loophole in the coding which can create and end-turn ctd under certain - thankfully rare - circumstances.

Download it here: http://www.topnotchmods.net/downloads/VI2_1_1_patch.rar (less than 2 megs). Please visit the page from whcih you downloaded the mod (see opening post) if you require instructions.

Thanks to jimkatalonos for drawing our attention to this.

Game-save compatability is not gauranteed.

**Aradan** · 09-30-2008, 13:13

Viking Invasion II patch 1.2 has been released - both as an upgrading patch, for those with 1.0 or 1.1, and as a full new installer.

It includes: changes in the campaign balance for the Danes, new "Viking Looting" and "Viking terror" traits to simulate the effect of raiding, a series of evolving RP-traits for Alfred the Great, rebalancing of the HBs, reskins of the mercenary units and a few more minor tweaks.

You can get hold of it HERE. Instructions (also in video) included in the page.

1.2 is NOT compatible with savegames started under previous versions.

Thanks to the many who have downloaded it and providing great comments and feedback!

**Raz** · 10-01-2008, 12:40

Looks interesting, I'll give a spin sometime soon.

**Fate** · 10-14-2008, 16:22

I've started up on this campaign, and ive gotta say for the most part, very impressive!

Few niggling features though -
*Occasional glitches in the graphics in the start of turn scrolls
*Occasionally the music will start looping, and the game will freeze up, leave it for a minute and it'll go back to normal, but it is disconcerting
*The Economy! Having played ATW, im sure the immense and sickening level of debt that you get in early doors is intentional, but really, it completely rapes you! Ah well, i'll fight off the mercians as the welsh and see where it leads me!

**Aradan** · 10-14-2008, 22:11

Never had the first two issues you report, maybe it's a gfx/sound card incompatibility of some sort? Will check it out anyway.

Yes, economy is meant to be tough, especially for factions like Wales, that are very Hard. In case you want a more rlaxed go at the game, there's a "basic" version of the campaign script that does not apply penalties to the player's faction. just swap it with the campaign script (change names or change the script defined at the bottom of descr_strat).

**Aradan** · 11-13-2008, 14:50

Viking Invasion II patch 1.5 has been released - both as an upgrading patch (.rar), for those with pre-1.5 versions, and as a full new installer (both .exe and .rar).

It includes: minor error tweaks in descriptions and text, a couple of fixed portraits and Orretje's 'Realistic Trees' mod.

You can get hold of it HERE. Instructions (also in video) included in the page.

1.5 is cumulative, and includes everything from patches 1.1 to 1.4, so these are unnecessary.
1.5 is NOT compatible with savegames started under previous versions.

Thanks to the many who have downloaded it and providing great comments and feedback!

**Dol Guldur** · 01-16-2009, 17:06

Viking Invasion II has been featured in the best-selling PC Games magazine, PCGamer(UK).

Get the full scoop here: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...34#post4283934

**Spartan198** · 01-19-2009, 04:36

Hmm, I think I might give it a try. The thought of rampaging across the land with a Viking horde, raping and pillaging as I please...just gives me that tingly feeling deep down inside.