Viking Age: Total War!

[King Yngvar]

Try this link Headhunter: https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=37203

I fixed the fist, it looks better.

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[Headhunter]

I deleted the other ones from photobucket and haven't posted up the new one.

Sorry about that.

I'll post the new one in its right format on the other site.

[Headhunter]

I downloaded and installed the DDS Photoshop Plug-in and thumbnail viewer, closed and restarted photoshop,...no new .dds save option available.

[Headhunter]

I don't know whats wrong, but I can post the Jpeg's and someelse can convert them if thats not too much hassle.

[Headhunter]

Is there are any other graphics that need to be done, which can be done in photoshop, let me know.

A list would to work off would be better, like doing this sort of stuff.

I'll do the splash screens if you like, but I thought maybe to keep those until later on if there are other things to do.

[Headhunter]

..and if you can make sense out of that first sentence your a better man than me.

[Meneldil]

You might want to have a look at the symbols in the \Data\menu\symbols folders

[Headhunter]

I was looking at those, but i think they should be done by one person when all the banners are complete to get roll over colours etc matching and so they all conform to one another.

[King Yngvar]

Hey guys, I think both you and Trajan have mistaken the Wessex banner. Here is the real one, posted it at totalrome as well:

[Headhunter]

Tidy.

Whatever you think yourself, I think mine looks a bit too hardcore. That looks more royal.

[King Yngvar]

Yours looked okey but not royal as you said. I think we shall use something like this for Wessex.

[Ranika]

Looks good to me. I'm not actually sure what the banner I have is for, just that it's from Wessex, from around 905, and it has something to do with the royal heraldry, but that could make it, potentially, a lot of things.

[CaeroxVII]

Really deep and great mod i must say, but wheres everybody?
Why has everyone stopped posting here, now the Blue lotus thread have more posts than this mod, lol, no posts in 3 days a boo boo!

[Meneldil]

The official forum is here

[CaeroxVII]

K, thanks for the note, was beginning to get a little scared that this mod might had been shut down... hehe.

[BalkanTourist]

I can't post at the other furum yet.
Just some suggestions about Bulgarian Kingdom.
The names of the 5 provinces Bulgaria will start with:
top right - Northern Dobrudja, or the Bulgarians used to call it "the Ongul" capital Preslavets
below it - Southern Dobrudja, capital Pliska
top - Moesia, capital Preslav
bottom right - Kutmichevitsa (Northen Macedonia) - Ohrid
next to it - Central Thrace - Phillipopolis
Also if I may add a unit - Horse Archers - a traditional very fast horse archer that did not usually fight melee. The Boyars were a heavy horse archer that was slower but could fight well in melee.
How many names do you need? I'll give you some if you guys need more let me know.

Aron
Asparukh
Boril
Boris
Chernorizets the Brave
David
Gavrail
Gavrail Radomir
Ivan Vladislav
Iosif
Kardam
Kiril
Kliment
Konstantin
Krum
Kubrat
Malamir
Metodiy
Moisey
Naum
Nikola
Omurtag
Peter
Presian
Radomir
Samuil
Simeon
Stratsimir
Telerig
Tervel
Toktu
Vladimir
Vladislav

And some titles:
khan
khagan
boil
ichiriguboil
bolyar
knyaz
tsar

Let me know if you need anything else.

[Blacksquare]

If you guys need help in a site and forums I can help out.

[Iron-Chef]

I have to say, being somewhat of an ammature historian I am most impressed with the huge level of historic detail put into this mod, great job all and I eagerly await its arival on the gaming scene!

[ShadowStriker]

I am Norwegian so i will be looking forward to this mod

ps: make the norwegians strong OR ELSE lol

[stebius]

about the word dýrlegr,the modern equilent is dýrlegur,used in icelandic. THe word means indeed Glorius but it is also been used has saintly in the last thousand years.

[ShadowStriker]

if a norwegian read that he would think it meant veteranerian



Dyrelege is the norwegian word for animal doctor bascily a VET

[ShadowStriker]

they would probably think u missed spelled it lol

[ShadowStriker]

i am norwegian but u said it was glorios in icelandic....

[Sebastian Seth]

If you are going to put swedish and norwegians as same faction you can do
the same to all finnish tribes too. That means lot more green instead of
white in finland and more realistic mod.

And novgorod has too much of south Karelia. There are ingrians below karelians and they are finns too.

[Íslendingr]

about the word dýrlegr,the modern equilent is dýrlegur,used in icelandic. THe word means indeed Glorius but it is also been used has saintly in the last thousand years.

Sæll lagsmaðr.

Are you sure you do not mean dýrðligr or dýrligr? E.t.v. styðzt þú við nútíma-íslenzkun á fornsögunum?

[Brother Faolain]

Dang it, I wish this mod was finished. Finally, a mod where there is someone who knows somethin' about Irish Military too Though, I'm not sure about having al those armoured uhits. Irish didnt have much armour, though it was the best in Europe. And Bonnagth was a term that means "to billet" not a actual soldier. Billeting was a old irish thing about, if someone protects your life, the least you can give them is your home. A closer term for a spear-armed soldier would be Gaechadh of literakky "spear warrior" And, one suggestion for a province. Corco Modhruadh, in northern Munster on the border of Connacht. They were like the Orkneys of Ireland, they were renowned fighters who were kind of like mercenaries. They fought mainly for Brian Boru, before his sons pissed them off by taking some cattle. They were also great sailors. So, a province specfic unit/mercenary, Corco Modhruadh Sea Raider. Medium morale, high charge and should charge without orders. They were famed for their ability to get their king killed and still fight like rabid dogs, usually acting as a reaguard for retreats. Kind of like Jomsvikings for the Irish but without the armour and super-uberness.

[Brother Faolain]

Is this mod finito? Are there any modelers yet? God, I hate suspense.

[Nidhogg]

Ok, excuse me if I`m wrong on some stuff, haven`t bothered to read everything in this thread.
Is this going to be a mod where the Vikings are the focus?
Speaking from a norwegian standpoint. If you are to make a Viking era mod, it is time to put away the nationalistic image of the "glorious" vikings that the nationalromantic writers of the 1800s established, and the nazis continued.

- The state of Norway should not under any circumstances have any viking soldiers, Vikings were banned from Norway. And several of the Norwegian kings went through great trouble to root out Vikings, Harald Haarfagri(first king), followed vikings to both Denmark and the islands north of Scotland to slaughter as many as he could. His son was also raised at the English court.
Vikings were in short terms stateless warriors.

- If you are going to focus on the vikings, why are you including a map over all of Europe? The Areas the Vikings managed to establish themself for short periods were mainly the British isles, France, and down in East Europe. To include the south Europe and the middle East would be pointless, the conflicts with the vikings would be mere buzzing in northern Europe. And Norway would certainly not be very strong. First of, they did not have an imperialistic foreign policy, Norway was not involved in any wars with any foreign nations, and the population was low.

- Why does the game start in the year of 900? The Viking attacks started at full a 100 years earlier(even though attacks can be traced all the way back to 500), by the year 900, a city like Paris had been burned like 3 times. And by this time the Vikings had looted out most of the gold they could find on all of Ireland, including digging ut most of the graveyards when all the all the churchgold was taken. Where is the logic in starting the game at 900 if the Vikings are the focus? Most of the bloodbaths in England, Ireland and France was over at the year 900, and they had lost control over Ireland.

-Quick notes.. Vikings did not fight with axes.
Trells did not fight either.

[Meneldil]

1 - I thought vikings were the inhabitants of current nordic states

2 - Because we aren't focusing on the vikings.

3 - Because we want to have normans in the mod

[Nidhogg]

1 - I thought vikings were the inhabitants of current nordic states

About 1% of them was vikings, and they were thrown out, people in Norway were farmers and fishermen. And lived far from each other.