Kingdom of the Scots 3 - Previews

[The Bruce]

Welcome to the 1st of 2 Previews for Version 3.0 of Kingdom of the Scots.

The next version of the mod will feature several Custom Battlemaps in Campaign


Custom Battlemaps will seek to recreate the famous battle fields of the period.
The following screenshots are taken from the new Battle of Stirling Bridge scripted to occur in 1297.



William Wallace triumphed over a vastly superior English force and gave a nation the will to fight against tyranny. Can you repeat his victory?






Beneath Stirling Castle the English forces prepare to meet the Scots "rabble"




They begin to cross the bridge to what they believe is certain victory!



The Scots appear to offer limited resistance.



Until they sally forth from the nearby woods!





Soon it appears that the English have a real fight on their hands.



Clan MacDonald are relishing the action





Any subsequent battles fought at this location will use the same battlemap.

[Hounf of Culan]

Sweet, if only I had kingdoms.

[The Border Reiver]

Sweet, if only I had kingdoms.

At 15 pounds you should buy it!!

Bruce...well done on the custom battle map Preview, it would be good to perhaps mention other plans you have for additional tiles.

[wilddog]

Very nice custom tile map. Well done.

[The Bruce]

Cheers Wilddog

I may tweak it some more, particularly the castle (the Border Reiver sighs in the background .... not again)

[zznɟ ǝɥʇ]

Very cool!

[firelord213]

i dont know if this is only for me but i think norway are overpowered... when i played as the scots and met the norwegians i almost lost... i had like 1200 units and norway had 500.. i almost lost! no im not noob.... but i had like 30 spearman against one general with all his guards dead and he almost pawned them all... and then i had 100 vs 12 and they killed like 10 and my 100 killed 3 O_o.
it was my 100 spearmen against 12 the light infartry (huscarls or something)
could you try to make them weaker if its a bug
Btw very nice 3.0!!
looks very good

[Swagger]

i won it easly....too much easly


delete andrew moray from the battle (and his army)

[The Bruce]

Swagger, Andrew Moray will be present with his army. Its called history.

Are you playing on VH/VH?

The Battle of Stirling Bridge in version 3.0 will be very different from 2.2.

[Swagger]

yes im always play VH/VH


and about andrew..it's fine for me

he didn't made a thing

[The Bruce]

You don't have to use the reinforcements...yet

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Aftermath



Should probably make the English stronger!

[The Bruce]

Stirling Castle remodelled

[TheMadcap]

wow...that is friggin amazing. I tried to mod the battle of stirling bridge once for another game using the same map you have there. This looks incredible. Stirling Castle looks beautiful as well. Since I had some problems with 2.0 I'll be waiting anxiously to see what you guys come up with for 3.0. Really good stuff. It's immensely appreciated.

[Nevada]

wow, that's great!

i really like this mod and those ingame historical battles belong to the greatest ideas a modder brain ever had!

[The Bruce]

Hi Madcap - did you ever get version 2.2 to work? Hopefully we will sort you out for version 3.0. I worked from photos, memory and threw in some artistic license - then modified further for gameplay purposes!

Nevada, well what can I say! Modesty prevents me from agreeing with you (but I don't feel very inclined to argue either!)

I could be wrong but I don't think using custom battlemaps in campaigns has featured in any released MTW2 mods thus far.

[TheMadcap]

No. I was pretty far in and kept ctd'ing at the same spot. I figured I'd just start from scratch with 3.0, install everything fresh and go from there.

it's looking real sharp.

[The Border Reiver]

wow, that's great!

i really like this mod and those ingame historical battles belong to the greatest ideas a modder brain ever had!

It's funny you should mention that...I hated playing historical battles because they seemed pointless...and I thought well if you can spawn armies, you can spawn battles. So I just did it ans as far as I know this mod was the first to have real team historical battles, and now real time historical battles with customised battlefields!

Bruce...your new screenshot of Stirling is much better!

Madcap...sorry to see you never got any further due to your ctd issue...we are still a while from having Version 3.0 available, at least a few weeks (probably 3 for beta testers to volunteer)!

[Nevada]

It's funny you should mention that...I hated playing historical battles because they seemed pointless...and I thought well if you can spawn armies, you can spawn battles. So I just did it ans as far as I know this mod was the first to have real team historical battles, and now real time historical battles with customised battlefields!

well, i don't hate them, but it'smuch more atmospharical (well, I'm german, so I'm sorry for this sentence^^) to play them directly in the campaign.

but well, I'll only have time to play your mod over the holidays, i want to release an alpha of my own mod this week....

[seleukosART]

looks very interesting guys!

[Arakorn]

Oh wow, this mod looks really great (judging on the screenshots), and that's coming from a guy who rarely plays M2TW anymore and only uses mods that aren't focusing on one thing. (Such as Crusades, Scotland, Reconquista etc.)