New preview of Dale

[Vindahl]

Again KK and the team sets new standards within modding...
Great textures, the clothes, the faces, the shields and all the details on the units...
Just amazing!
This is no doubt my favourite mod of all time, and the beautiful work there has been laid in the mod really makes it a great great pleasure to play.
Of course I also give +REP, but KK and the whole team deserves much more than just points and numbers... They deserve a huge hug...

Thanks for everything...
Looking forward to the new patch...

[chriswhite]

The faces on these are good as! Nice work!

[Galaros the Wise]

These units look really great! Much better than the old ones! Good job!

[Neige]

Beautiful!

[AnthoniusII]

I think a spesial reward/medal is required to entire RuTW team because their material in the hands of exelent and worthy members like KK give an entire new eesence to the M2TW mods!!!

[Rorarii]

Once again fantastic work ... but these skins are better than ETW .. and it's free!

Where's the catch?

Don't tell me this is a PJ self funded project!

R

[sturmdg]

both dale and eriador are becoming my favourite factions now
good job

[Jean=A=Luc]

Where's the catch?

How about a debilitating life ruining addiction? Once you've played tatw you cannot un-play it.

[Hengest]

Freakin' awesome! Maybe Rhûn won't step on Dale like an insignificant cockroach anymore. I especially like the Rhovanion Gadraughts and the oven-mitts that the swordsmen have.

One of the major changes to the roster is the introduction of the Aihwothiuda Horseguards who represent an ancestral connection to the Eotheod, Aiwothiuda is the Gothic word for the Old English Eotheod, which means 'horse-folk'. The Aihwothiuda are a much needed heavy cavalry which can meet Rhun's best cavalry units on their own terms. The concept I had in developing them was that they would play on this old reference in Tolkien that Eotheod as the northman kingdom of Rhovanion were the main regiment that fought or survived against the Wainriders. So this unit is intended to continue that kind of conflict between Rhun and Dale specifically.

[TiTiTimmy]

They are looking so nice +rep

[Danny_K_1]

Stunning units man, great, great work.

[Brego]

Wow, amazing as always Keep up the good work Kong

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Is it just me or has his reputation stopped growing? Isn't it possible to get more that shows?

[Beregond]

it's not just you, Brego

[Byz]

You should be proud. This shows an ongoing commitment to excellence and I'll tell you why: even with very minimal efforts the old units could have been put to shame, but instead of just settling for better you went the whole way and made them downright great. Acceptable would have been three steps up from the previous skins, so you've gone an extra five steps. Congrats and thanks for your selfless efforts.

I can't wait for new, non-ridiculous Eriador skins as well.

[DjAci]

I would like to ask the community for the opinion and the team for the information regarding a Dale unit wealding a BOW and a SPEAR. It was mentioned by Mithrandir as being a planned unit for Dale

Will it be among the 1 or 2 additional units?

[Valkraye]

Wow, this is simply amazing. I love the models, excellent work boys and girls.

One question though, where did the inspiration for the swords on the Swordsmen come from?

Looks amazingly like the one I'm buying soon

My pretty to-be

http://globalgear.com.au/prod2841.htm

[Confederate Jeb]

I have a reason to play Dale now.

Just kidding, I liked Dale before, but holy cow those units look amazing.

[Hengest]

I would like to ask the community for the opinion and the team for the information regarding a Dale unit wealding a BOW and a SPEAR. It was mentioned by Mithrandir as being a planned unit for Dale

Will it be among the 1 or 2 additional units?

Yes we did plan this, it was going to be called something like 'Esgaroth Borgshields', our idea was to have them look a little like cloaked Roman centurions with the Byzantine or Hird helmet and large pavisse style shields. Unfortunately it did not make KK's cut, which I can only assume was for balancing issues or maybe he felt it didn't work. There was a large pool of pretty heavily designed ideas and KK took up around 70% of them, I have no idea if he plans to implement anything from the other 30%.

[frontier-auxilia]

Damn those are some sexy units!!! (no homo)

For some strange reason, i was expecting the re-do dale list to get cataphracts. Great job there.

[Jean=A=Luc]

Yes we did plan this, it was going to be called something like 'Esgaroth Borgshields', our idea was to have them look a little like cloaked Roman centurions with the Byzantine or Hird helmet and large pavisse style shields. Unfortunately it did not make KK's cut, which I can only assume was for balancing issues or maybe he felt it didn't work.

It took me a while to chew through the "Borg\shields" and "cloaked Romulan" parts. First I thought it was a joke, then I thought you were actually serious, then I thought it was a joke again but then I concluded you were indeed serious. I admit I found myself a little disappointed.

I assume these are the Centurions you were referring to:

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They really do look like they're wearing chainmail avec plated skull caps. Just add spears, tower/pavise shields, bows and the "hide anywhere" attribute and you've got Dale sympathizing Cloaked Romulans pwning Rhun with plasma coated arrow heads and spear tips.