Ideas

[Ossie The Great]

Here is a thread were you can post your ideas

[Jubal_Barca]

Alsan to be in battles;
Make a handler with one handled aslan and 6 invisible handlers.

Underway Gnomes as mercs?

[caravel]

[Pharnakes]

Hi I have been looking at the units thread and just a few ideas and possible problems form this.

1. Centaurs I know have been built successfully by moving the rider forwards on a horse to replace its head, but unfortunately they split apart when they die and nobody has been able to think of a way to try and correct this. This might not sound so bad and it isn't for HTH but when a group of centaurs are hit by a volley of arrows and a few seconds later apparently explode...

2. The game only allows for one skeleton for dogs and one for boars (I think thats possible anyway) so Aslan, wolves and leopards are impossible I think. On the other hand I don't know wether or not it is possible to have more than one skin for dogs so perhaps it would be possible to have wolves for Jadis and dogs for Narnia (I think the books mention dogs in Aslan's army)

3. Hoggy I know has produced minotaurs for his blue lotus mod with complete success so far as I know.

4. Dwarves and giants are probably possible as I know it is possible to scale units but I seem to remember something about scaling difficulties.


I can only hope that I am not casting to much of a damper on the mod and say that I am entirely in support of the mod.

[caravel]

The centaurs sound unsuitable from what you've said, in that they're not new models, but the rider moved forwards. The reason that they split apart when killed is because they are not really an individual but still a horse and rider, this is not really good enough. What is needed here is a modeller.

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

Hi Wolfe,
I'm no modder yet, I would have thought that all you need to do is make a new model, a new unit and a new animation and you can have whatever you like with the game's units? The same could perhaps also be true for the dying centaur if you was to try and change it's death animation, if that is possible? I'm not especially sure, sadly I have little or no idea about modding and many other thing due to my stupidity, yet I would have thought that one can. However I would suggest that oscarreeve and other members of the great Narnia: Total War team check with the modding experts first before they can be too sure on this - my knowlage only extend onto how to lose battles.

[caravel]

The centaur would perhaps be easiest (?) as you would have the horses and human models to work with providing you can import/export the meshes to a CAD program such as 3dsmax. I know next to nothing about modding RTW or modelling so I'm not sure of it's limitations, though if someone got a Minotaur into the game, a centaur should also be possible.

[Murfios]

Aslan should be in Historical Battles. Should Arrive late in the ballte where they have almost lost.

[Ossie The Great]

Aslan should be in Historical Battles. Should Arrive late in the ballte where they have almost lost.

I think having Aslan in historical battles is an exellent idea

[Jubal_Barca]

Calormenes also worshipped Zardeenah, lady of the night. She was goddess of virgins and darkness.

[Ossie The Great]

Calormenes also worshipped Zardeenah, lady of the night. She was goddess of virgins and darkness.

[Murfios]

Make the giants not so giant. Lets say like this: The medium size one is my suggestion....
(smallest one is an average human)
Being too big will make the game look weird and imposible to kill them.

[caravel]

Calormenes also worshipped Zardeenah, lady of the night. She was goddess of virgins and darkness.

I did mention this in the earlier thread in the forge before this forum was opened:

I'm not sure how you would impliment Aslan the Lion in a TW game. If he is placed as the initial faction leader of the Narnian faction, he will eventually die, which would be wrong. It is not really feasible to create a uinique unit of Aslan for a game such as this. At the end of the day the Narnian Kings (humans) will be your faction leaders, so where does Aslan fit in? Personally I think Aslan is basically the Narnians' god, in the way that Tash is the Calmormenes' god. I would say that Aslan could be implemented as the diety for the Narnians, with Shrines of Aslan (pagan looking structures to fit in with the "silvan" theme of the Narnian faction - such as the stone table), and large statues of him inside your settlements, but he should never appear in person. For Tash, Azaroth and Zardeenah (Calormene dieties), larger ornate temples of the eastern type would be more suitable. The Tisroc could also have retinues of a Priest of Tash etc etc, the Narnians would probably not have such retinues. Unit's of lions would be viable units as there was another Lion in the LWW.

Do you have any other ideas as to the implementation of the Calormene deities? I'm thinking temples alone, and perhaps a great temple as a wonder or two.

Aslan in historical battles would be less problematic, but IMHO would not make for particularly interesting engagements.

[Ossie The Great]

Erm . I am not to good with my english so I would need to know what implementation ment before i can answer.

and post about a Colormen temple as a wonder in the wonders thered for i think it is an exellent idea