Wind of Scandia

**Aradan** · July 13, 2009, 01:24 PM

Wind of Scandia

Russian mod-maker Grif declared release of his great provincial campaign mod for Kingdoms 1,5 about dark ages of Europe, Veneds and Scandinavia - Wind of Scandia! It will include all of the factions and units which will be around that region in The Gathering Storm and Time of Changes - http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=224

Factions in this mod - Veneds, Saxonians, Angles, Yuti. Mod covering territory of Scandinavia, the south of the Europe it is a little and a few territories of the western Russia, about 30 provinces.

Start date of mod - 369 year.
Screens of this mod:

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=277611

Sites of this mod with russian language - http://total-war.ucoz.ru/

http://empiretw.ru/board/index.php?s...ic=4534&st=140

Download link (527 mb) - http://narod.ru/disk/10864709000/Win...andia.exe.html

**Alex1987** · July 13, 2009, 01:28 PM

Great mod! Thanks, Aradan!

**Horsa** · July 13, 2009, 01:41 PM

Looks amazing!

**loet66** · July 13, 2009, 03:04 PM

Hi,

I think it is very strange to promote here mods in Russian language !

I'm waiting for an English version!

**Nakharar** · July 13, 2009, 03:52 PM

looks great

if only the mod leader would talk

**alexal** · July 13, 2009, 03:53 PM

Heh, wait for a thranslation then) And envy those who speak Russian, me for example. By the way, what about more obstinate pre/review? Screenshots, enumerating of mod's features and so on.

**Greve Af Göteborg** · July 13, 2009, 05:22 PM

Looks good besides the misformed and incorrect form of Sweden :/

**grif** · July 14, 2009, 08:46 AM

Thanks for representation Aradan!

Here screenshots.
The worthy description still is not ready..

IMPORTANT!
It is a demonstration example the version. The full version demands an additional site is will be loaded later. The additional site a breaking demonstration example - will be accessible later. English-speaking users can write in themes in English - directly we shall make translation, and we shall speak - we shall discuss details. The demonstration example the version differs - bad quality of units: 3d and texture.

**Black_Nebula** · July 14, 2009, 10:15 AM

Thanks for the extra screen shots, units look awesome!

**TiTiTimmy** · July 14, 2009, 02:00 PM

Nice

**Smeel** · July 14, 2009, 05:46 PM

Awesome! Been waiting for this! installing it right now. By the way, do anyone know if there is a way of changing the Cyrillic font to latin characters? Even if you don't know russian, you can probably figure some words out if they are in the latin alphabet, and translate some words via the internet.
Congrats to the release!

**grif** · July 15, 2009, 06:26 AM

Thanks for support!

Sweden 4 centuries! The card of the English historian a card-founder has been received by us.

We to do the English version do not plan. Too much work on mod Time of Changes - still a minimum year will have to do! Wind Scandia it only representation of opportunities - to shake by muscles - so to say

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But you can is borrowed by translation - we shall help you with difficulties of translation of some words.
Collect a command though can to make also one for 1.5 months.

The important news!
Earlier you could download a demo the version - we had reasons to detain the full version a fashion! Now you can download addition a breaking Demo!
Demo to break

**alexal** · July 16, 2009, 01:39 AM

Scandia that is how Tacitus called this land.
First of all I would like to say that I don’t belong to the team of the modmakers. So that will be more like an independent opinion of Russian player who speaks decent English)
So here it goes)

The first thing you notice even before starting campaign is an impression. Some kind of mood that game creates from the very first seconds. Of course the lion's share of this moodcreating belongs to music. It is very authentic and peculiar but at the same time it is neither noisy nor tiring (listen to some EB barbarian soundtracks and you will understand what I mean)

The second thing you notice is game’s graphics. I can’t say that it is very impressive, there are still some imperfections but it dips you even deeper into the swampy atmosphere of “dark ages”. That peculiarity is linked with

the third thing you notice after half an hour playing this mod. A great historical rigor and scrupulosity. Follow my advice and right after the beginning of the campaign siege and assault the nearby rebel settlement. Though it will not have any fence its assault would be quite a challenge cause this settlement will be looking exactly as the real settlement should look and not like a bunch of huts put together. After that pay some attention to the units. If you meant to see picturesque warriors, knights in flaring and flashing metal armor as in Hollywood movies of Conan-style, heh, then welcome to the reality. Iron was extremely expensive that time and only the richest and the noblest of warriors could allow themselves to wear a chain mail and steel helmet while most of the soldiers managed the chaos of battle with bow or a crude axe or a flimsy spear, equipped in leather of fabrics clothes.

As I’ve said before: the ultimate goal of that mod is not only to entertain player but to make him feel like a warlord of the tribe of the “dark ages”. The ultimate goal of modmakers was to make the history of those times accessible to the players. And thought even historians know little about those times this team did and continues to do their best to achieve that goal. I’ve played this mod for only several hours and even now I’m rather impressed and I know that I’ve even more to discover. Of course there are lots of mods which can surpass that one in graphic or scale component but there are few of them whose creators payed so much attention to the historical atmosphere and to its gameplay.

Some more features of this mod

Brand new faction balance
Lots of attention was payed to the development of brand new fraction balance. While in the vanilla game the point is to create comparatively equal fraction. So it would have been interesting for ordinary gamer to play each of them. Well it wasn’t so in real life. It is always much more cruel and unfair. Some nation always had an advantage in geographical position, natural recourses and many other factors which predetermined its future. But if you don’t have necessary recourses or enough area for development of your tribe it is not a reason to loose. It is Total War series, isn’t it? And all these modmakers tried to implement in that very mod.
Religion
Religion is vitally important both in peace and war. Especially in war, especially in times when almost every warlord was a high priest of his tribe. So praise the gods and perhaps true warriors will appear among the people or your tribe.
Brand new gameplay
The point is not to lead the player along the distinct historical route, but to let him choose the way of the development of his nation or to show him why it was so and not the other way.
And the most important ladies and gentlemen is that this mod is only a basis for a greater one Time of Changes. There are more to come. So if you always wanted to find out what had happened it those mysterious times, prepare a cup of hot coffee, turn of the light, fasten your seatbelts and plunge into the eventful and tough atmosphere of Dark Ages. The time Europe was born.

Of course feel free to ask any questions. I’ll try to answer them.