Silmarillion:Total War

[Apoc]

Great news!

Btw, sent you a PM.

[Aenarion]

will this be a campain ? and is there a list of units wot will be in this Game ?

Hi Axel, thanks for your support. For now I'm focusing more on Custom Battles - to see how it goes - but I'm planning for a hopefully campagin, featuring all lands as is described in the book i.e. from the arrival of the Noldor to Middle Earth to the destruction of Thangorodrim.

As regards to the units, yes. Thankfully, I've managed to gather scattered information from the Silmarillion forums about unit information. As soon as I compile them together, I shall post them here.

P.S Apoc, I sent you a pm.

Thanks,
Aenarion

[axel]

Thank you mate this is going to be a wonderfull game to play

[Aenarion]

As promised, here is a list of the various factions that shall 'hopefully' be included in the game. I thought of dividing the Elves in 2; i.e. the Noldor and the Sindar. There are some minor subdivisions according to the Elven Princes. Thanks go to Monk for his research and the translations into the appropriate Elven languages.

So here goes the list:-

Elves
--> Noldor
|--> House of Fëanor
|--> Unique Royal Unit - Noldor Naar-Tolmen (flame shield)
|--> House of Fingolfin
|--> Unique Royal Unit - Noldor Ninquita-Falquan (White
Shining Sword)
|--> Sons of Finarfin
|--> Unique Royal Unit - Noldor Rilma-Makar (Glittering
Swordsman)

|--> General Units
Noldor Mektar (Swordsmen)
Noldor Ehtyar (Spearmen)
Noldor Kuuneri (Archers)
Noldor Ruveneri (Cavalry)

--> Sindar
|--> General Units
Sindar Feredir (Hunters - main archer unit)
Sindar Celeb-Sul (secondary archer unit)
Sindar Maethor (Warriors)
Sindar Ekhbenn (Spearmen)
Sindar Rhyyyn (hounds)

Dwarves
|--> Khazâd
|--> General Units
Khazad Guard
Dwarven Infantry
Dwarven Axe Throwers
Dwarven Archers
Dwarven Halberdiers


Men
|--> Eastern Men (Easterlings)
|--> Black Men

|--> Edain
|--> First House - House of Beor
|--> Second house - The people of Haladin
|--> Third House - House of Hador


Angband
|--> General Units
Goblins
Goblin Skirmisher
Orc
Orc Archers
Trolls
Wolf Riders
Balrogs
Wolves
(possibly dragons or great worms? ;))
_________________________________________________________________

Here follows a list of the faction titles:-

Faction Titles and Rulers

--> The High King of the Noldor --> (East – Feanor’s Sons)
--> (West – Finarfin and Fingolfin)
--> The High King of the Sindar (Thingol)
--> The Thane of the Khazâd
--> The Lord of the Edain
--> The Khân (Chieftain) of the Easterlings
--> The Leader of the Black Men
--> The High Captain of Angband


That's all for now. Hope to update the list with further info.

Thanks,
Aenarion

[axel]

cooool i cant waith to play the silmarillion campain

[Aenarion]

cooool i cant waith to play the silmarillion campain

Hehehe! It will be hard ... but we'll manage it (... ...)

Also, I'll soon be posting the various places allocated to the different factions for the campaign map.

Any suggestions or improvements for the mod are appreciated.

Thanks,
Aenarion

[axel]

Hi mate here somme links : http://larsen-family.us/~1066/maps/beleriand.jpg
http://images.google.nl/imgres?imgur...%3Dnl%26sa%3DN
http://home.datacomm.ch/psychotic/to.../fingolfin.JPG
http://www.bjornetjenesten.dk/tekste...earth-film.jpg
http://www.anarda.net/tolkien/dibujo...arda_final.jpg
http://tolkien.hr/portal/images/stor...h-warriors.jpg
http://lordotrings.com/default-fl.asp
well i hope you cane do sommething with this there are somme good maps images in it

[christof139]

Hehehe! It will be hard ... but we'll manage it (... ...)

Also, I'll soon be posting the various places allocated to the different factions for the campaign map.

Any suggestions or improvements for the mod are appreciated.

Thanks,
Aenarion

Hi,

This mod looks great!!! Congratulations!!!

Suggestion: Werewolves of Sauron for another Angbad unit.

Chris

[Aenarion]

Hi,

This mod looks great!!! Congratulations!!!

Suggestion: Werewolves of Sauron for another Angbad unit.

Chris

Hi Chris,

Thanks for the support. Good idea about the new unit - I forgot about Sauron's Werewolves, thanks.

I think it would be a good idea for the ME:TW and S:TW to collaborate and help each other out to bring two Tolkien mods to the M:TW VI game. How's it going there?

Thanks,
Aenarion

[Apoc]

I've gathered all the Silmarillion: Total War screenshots from this thread and posted them in their own thread in the new STW forum. There are about 80 screens in total:

[axel]

gg Apoc i have been waithing so long for this campain

[Aenarion]

Thanks Apoc! Much appreciated ...

[dimitrios the samian]

Hi Guys ,, Been almost 3 weeks ,, Any progress since then ? ,, Do keep us informed here at the Org as well ,, cheers .

[Aenarion]

Hi Guys ,, Been almost 3 weeks ,, Any progress since then ? ,, Do keep us informed here at the Org as well ,, cheers .

Hi dimitrios,

To be honest, no work has been done these 3 weeks. I can't manage alone and no one seems to be interested in helping out on modding. I'll see how it will go through the Christmas recess - hopefully to a better start.

Thanks for your interest.

[dimitrios the samian]

Don't give up Aenarion ,, From what Ive read and what screenies i have seen you have quite a bit of it already done ,, Perhaps you can get stuck into it after X'mas and make enough progress for an announcment and a skeletal beta release !! ... I'm sure that will get everyone downloading and hyped and offers of help will come along with those that abandoned the project ... Take inspiration from people like Macsen & Cegorach at present , they are working alone and realising a dream ,, I wish you all the best over the coming months on this mod .. cheers .

[Aenarion]

Thanks for the support dimitrios. I hope I can make it. Will keep you all updated.

[axel]

i know i will play this one

[CountMRVHS]

Hi Aenarion, axel alerted me to this mod and I've checked it out a bit on this site and the Chamber of Records.

I do have some experience with modding MTW:VI, and a decent amount of knowledge about the Silmarillion. School will be starting up for me again in a week, so I can't come on as a full team member, but this is a very interesting mod and I think the MTW system still has a lot of potential, especially for a Middle-Earth based mod. I could offer suggestions, maybe take on limited projects, that sort of thing. I've made a few mods for the Viking map of MTW:VI, featuring entirely new factions and units created from pre-existing MTW or VI units. I'm familiar with Gnome and most of the relevant text files.

I do NOT have any experience with modding the campaign map or battle maps, or creating entirely new units from scratch. But if a campaign map can be made, I'd say that's the one true hurdle here -- after that, making the factions and everything else should be pretty easy. I see you've already got some units figured out.

Anyway, hope things are going well so far with the mod. Let me know if I can be of some assistance, and I'll let you know how much I can offer -- although my dial-up internet connection may be a bit of a hindrance if I start getting really involved. Good luck,

CountMRVHS

[axel]

Hi CountMRVHS,
Thanks mate its to bad i cant mod i would learn but i dont know where to start and my work is keeping me verry buzzy at the moment, but if i cane learn somme easy stuff i would really want to help.
I think there s ever been a campain map made i did see it on the old MEtw forum and the MEtw mod makers did have a campain beta but i did nt work properly i think, but i am not shure.

But thanks for the responce i hope Aenarion will be on this topic soon

[OmarPacha]

To be honest, no work has been done these 3 weeks. I can't manage alone and no one seems to be interested in helping out on modding. I'll see how it will go through the Christmas recess - hopefully to a better start.

Thanks for your interest.

Hi Aenarion,
while you keep working on custom battles modifications, I'd like to try putting up campaign map if you agree, I need only the starting bmp map image and regions names and their approximate location.
I can't say now if I'll get any good output but, just a trial, then you'll say if it's worth developing.

Cheers

[Aenarion]

Hi everyone,

Sorry for the long delay. One thing leads to another. Exams are on the way for a whole 2 weeks so I won't have that much time until February. I've just popped in for a quick review of things. Thanks Apoc for your support and for bringing a new member to the project.

Hi CountMRVHS, thanks for joining in. Don't worry about time. Everyone's free to come and go as he wills. Take your time. So if it's ok with you, maybe you could start editing text files for the campaign map? (is that ok? - the list of factions and name leaders can be found a few posts up in this page). Keep me informed how it goes.

Hi OmarPacha. Glad to see you back! Yes it would be a good idea to work on the campaign map. I'll send you a basic map layout with the factions assigned during the weekend if that's ok, so you can start working on it.

I guess that's it for now. Hopefully, I'll keep you all updated and thanks for following.

Let's get things back into motion ...

Thanks,
Aenarion

[Hound of Ulster]

Keep it going. This could be good complement to FATW.

Did the METW mod for either RTW or MTW ever actually get of the ground?

[Raz]

Hi Aenarion, in the Silmarillion:Total War forum over at the Chamber of Records you posted this:

Main areas of modding needed:-
MAP MAKING - being able to create battle maps representing the various locations in the Silmarillion universe.
CAMPAIGN MAKING - probably the most difficult aspect of the enitre modding process. The ability to create a new campaign map (MAPTEX,etc) based on the Beleriand Map.
UNIT MODDING - one aspect I'm currently working on, but due to the amount of work needed, assistance will be helpful.
TEXT FILE EDITORS - in charge of editing the necessary text files to adapt to the story's world; thus, changing names, unit descriptions, place descriptions, etc

I would help out with the Unit Modding and Text File editing, however I'm caught up with my own mod at the moment.
But I can still do a bit of the Descriptions and names so just send all of the loc text files to me right away if want my err, skills.

Also, Hound of Ulster, the METW mod for RTW I don't believe got very far, but the one for MTW:VI released a semi-stable campaign. However it is quite poorly balanced. Evil faction's units are terribly underpowered.

[Apoc]

Keep it going. This could be good complement to FATW.

Did the METW mod for either RTW or MTW ever actually get of the ground?

Check this post for the progress on the METW mod for RTW.

[Aenarion]

Hi Hound of Ulster, thanks for your interest. I hope this gets going and hopefully be released! We shall see...

Thanks Raz for your help. I've sent you a pm regarding the Loc files.

Thanks to everyone who's helping out.

Hope to give some new soon.

Thanks,
Aenarion

[Hound of Ulster]

I want to play as the various Elvish factions, and I could use more mods for MTW (3 as opposed to the 5 I'm currently running for RTW/BI). Fantasy mods like this one are a good change of pace from the usual historical settings of the total war series as well.

[Heidrek]

Sounds like a great mod - i'd love to see it get off the ground. Not sure how I can help but happy to do so if I can!!

[highlandclansman]

hi everyone - this mod looks great! another good idea for angband unit would be vampires - one was named - i think it was Thurungwethil or something like that. anyway, just and idea.

[Tyberius]

May I offer my help and skills to make all campmap shields and piece shields, battle flags and castle flags, info pics, unit icons, and review panel icons, as well as all weapons and shields for the units? just send me the images to rodrigobarbera@gmail.com

I will be flattered to cooperate with the development of this mod.

[axel]

yes please send them to Tyberius