The Last Kingdom - DOWNLOADS

[danova]

The Last Kingdom challenges players to control 13 new factions, including the Vikings themselves, the Saxons, Scots, Irish, Welsh and Norman, and to embark on a campaign to dominate the British Isles. With a wealth of new historical heroes, players can lead a range of new units into battle - including Viking Berserkers, Saxon Huscarles and Fyrdmen - while conducting sieges and epic battles.
You can conduct the campaign on a new map focusing on North Europe, in the continent, in the Isle of England or Iceland or starting from the Norwegian peninsula.

I would prefer a historically authentic mode which only substantially follows the history. Unfortunately we don't have capacity for a more serious work.
So, this mod is also "historically inspired but creatively done" so the work is not perfectly historical...

Download - the Last Kingdom

Regular download at danova's site not working at present (18th Nov 2012), please use the torrent download below.
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Download at our German partner TotalWar-Forum.de - this download is in 7z format and includes the 3.06 patch and the quick fix dated 2012.11.09. Click this symbol on their page: Datei speichern (requires log in)

Spoiler for Datei speichern: 

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Download at our German friends Infracta.de - this download is in 7z format and includes the 3.06 patch . Click this symbol at the bottom on their page:
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Torrent download - is privately hosted and contains version 3.05 plus the 3.06 patch.
Download and extract the torrent file and run as a normal torrent download. Install as per instructions below.

the Last Kingdom - beta version of the tLK modification
TotalWar Medieval II. - Kingdoms expansion required (with 1.05 patch)
895MB, installed size 1.80GB

Latest patch here:
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...73#post9937873

Installation

• Download all three parts into one directory, double click\run the EXE file. The other files will be automatically be used!
• Simply click through the procedure, the installer finds your M2TW game through the registry entry.
• Should you get an unfamiliar path, simply point the installer to the main folder of the game (C:\...\Medieval II Total War).
• The whole installation procedure will take approximately five to seven minutes depending on your hardware. At some stages it might seem that no progress is being made - this is due to the large size of some files, particularly the pack.dat file which contains new animations.

Notes

• The in game screenshot size is set to a width of 1680 (see Creating a World - High Resolution Screenshots), if you are getting lines through your screenshots, change the setting to the default width of your monitor by opening the mod's CFG file with notepad and change the number marked in the example:

[video]
##windowed = true ## used for modding
movies = false
tga_width = 1680

Note for installation: 'the last Kingdom' requires the use of the kingdoms executable. It will be enough to install any one of the four available kingdom campaigns if you have not done so.


Attention Steam Users
Please read this tutorial\resource before installing: Creating a World - Mod Install for Steam

[danova]

Patches:

Download the LastKingdom Patch v.3.06
Download at MediaFire / Version 3.06 (21st January 2012) - 30.4MB

The patch is not save game compatible due to changes in descr_strat and map files!

Installation instructions\tips\advice:
If your installation path contains "MyProduct" then the installer cannot read your registry entry for M2TW. You will have to browse manually to your M2TW main directory, typically "C:\...\Medieval II Total War". Do not browse to the mods sub directory!

Important: due to omitted string.bin files and a possible problem with timestamps you will need to delete all string.bin files in the mods\Last_Kingdom\data\text folder AFTER installation of the patch.

Please note:
After installation of the patch it will take a while longer (only the first time) for the campaign to start, up to 2 minutes on slower machines. That is due to a new map being generated.





Additional QuickFix - 2012.11.09 (replaces previous Quickfix)
For version 3.06 - 40 kB

- there is a typo in the Harsfjord Battle event leading to a crash
Simply extract in Last_Kingdom\data\text!

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I just did some testing and the settlement that is needed is Njarđř - so maybe the text should be changed (Maybe its becaus the settlements had different names in 3.05).

The settlements needed are:
Skiringssalr
Akr
Njarđřy
Hlađir

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*** known error corrections
- Isle of Muff renamed to Isle of Muil, settlement renamed to Tobar Mhoire
- Pics for 'Followers of Christus'
- Pics for 'Ridire bodyguard'
- simplified Hotseat configuration
- moved misplaced resources
- set Vikings to 'War' and negative attitude with everybody except the three other Scandinavian factions.
- set East-Anglia to 'Neutral' with Wesex
- Rebel unit 'Ridire Bodyguard got a skin now
- Vikings will not siege own settlements
- Lindholm can build port
- River port that blocked ship travel has been moved into a 'bay'
- tooltips corrected (coal mines)
- Berserker and Hirdmen now properly available for slave faction
- Normans no longer destroy churches after conversion
- Loyalty of Northumbrian heir increased
- removed vanilla units from custom battle
- fixed <beserker_vnv_trigger2> ancillary trigger
*** other changes
- incorporated Ulfhednins "True to the sagas" submod:

several historical names and characters\family trees corrections (Vestfold, Wessex and Normandy)
spawn of historical characters (Vestfold and Normans)
adjusted several rebel garrisons in Scandinavia to include historical generals and kings
Berserker and Hirdmen now properly available for slave faction
coming of age and min adoption age set to 12 years
occurance of a Norwegian rebellion

- initial invasion fleets have alternate co-ordinates for AI
- made Magyars playable in custom battle
- changed unsuitable accent of factions
- strat models for rebel factions corrected
- added 'High Quality Sky Textures Project 1.0' by Hereje
- corrected royal banner for Vestfold\norway
- corrected glitches
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[danova]

Main information about the game and some important facts:

To unite Norway you have to fulfill the following requirements:
- Occupy the following cities: Niđáros, Selja, Akr, Skiringssalr
- .... and the kill of the leader of Hordaland/Vestfold faction.
Its important, that you have to occupy the needed settlements (and eliminated they Faction Leader) before you destroyed the other Norse faction.

Reach the following conditions for Norman baptised:
- Occupy the following cities: Cherbourg, Caen, Rouen, Paris
- At least 30 rounds

About the Fyrd:
The Fyrd was solved with mercenary. This means that only the Saxon factions are able to rent mercenary which is cheap to hire but expensive to sustain.
Fyrd's units:
Hundradeflocc - Missile/Light, poor units (javelin+axe)
Geoguthas - Spear/Light (spear+shield)
Ceorlwerod - Infantry/Heavy (sword+shield)

About the recruit:
- We use a Factional Barrack for the factional units (higher than 70% own culture)
- We use a Reginal Barrack for the regional (AOR) units (regional specific units)

Some important details:
- You can't recruit any units in a village. ( e.g: diplomat)
- We use navigatable Rivers
- The Bards raise 2 the culture of the region

Building tree:
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/attac...9&d=1313705817





Basic info:

Period:

Starting date: 865 / Finishing date: 1066
2 turn is one year
(... one year before the viking invasion of Northern England.)

Maps:

Number of regions: 120
A big English map (with Iceland, brought it closer to the British islands), with the Norwegian peninsula and a bit of Normandy.







Factions & Cultures:

Viking culture:
Kingdom of Denmark, Jarldom of Hordaland, Jarldom of Vestfold, Norman clans (early Norman - mixed Norse settlers, from 911)
Anglo-Saxons culture:
Kingdom of Wessex, Kingdom of Mercia, Kingdom of East Anglia, Kingdom of Northumbria
Gaelic culture:
Kingdom of Connacht, Kingdom of Munster
Celtic culture:
Kingdom of Gwynedd, Kingdom of Alba
Caroling culture:
East Frankish Empire
Norman (late) culture:
Duchy of Normandy (late Norman - Late period, approx. 1000)
Viking rebel / Saxon rebel / Celtic rebel / Irish rebel / Fries Rebel





More info and previews:

BASIC INFO and FIRST PREVIEW
CAMPAIGN mini PREVIEW
BUILDINGS PREVIEW
FACTION PREVIEW / WESSEX
FACTION PREVIEW / HORDALAND
FACTION PREVIEW / SCOTLAND
FACTION PREVIEW / CONNACHT
FACTION PREVIEW / EAST-FRANKISH

[danova]

Known Issues & Bugs:

- Some settlements and regions contain spelling mistakes and gramatical errors (i.e Scottish settlements)
We are working to sorting these mistakes.
- Sometimes when in combat a General will be 'stuck' in combat and remain fighting even if his unit has been withdrawn or routed. This mainly happens with the AI armies, but does happen with player controlled army also. We are hoping to correct this issue shortly, however we are unsure what is causing this problem.
- The Great Heathen Army, a Danish fleet with various troops, will not attack England as intended. Instead the AI will disembark the troops in Denmark. In the coming patches or versions we hope to have the Great Heathen Army scripted when the Kingdom of Denmark is controlled by the AI.
- Some of the Accents are a little miss-matched. Such as the Welsh, Irish and AI-Viking Faction.
- There is a random Menu crash, however this is a Vanilla issue and cannot be resolved. Fortunately, this crash is very, very rare!

Please feel free to come forward with any bugs or issues you find regarding gameplay! It makes our lives much easier and the issues will get resolved quicker!


The Last Kingdom - Bug (Reports) & Technical problems & Support
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=467617

[danova]

Team and Credits

Members:

daNova - Idea, Conception, 2D art, Skin & Modell
Gigantus - Map, Coding & Scripting
Csatádi - Coding & Scripting & TecHelp
GatorMarine1833 - Coding & Scripting
Celtichugs123 - Testing & Research, PR
Ulfhednins - Historical research & Scripting

Former members and Supporters:

AlexanderPrimus - Research & Descriptions Text
Dansk viking - Map
dome - Modell & Consulting
Gonxas - 2D works & Test
k_raso - Descriptions Text & Research
King Yngvar - Research & Scripting (Viking culture)
NagatsukaShumi - Research
Ruire - Irish Research
Socal_infidel - Coding & Scripting
The Northern Marches - Research
uanime5 - Descriptions Text & Research
Yelü Dashi - Skin & Modell
Alex1987 - Scripting & others
Asgath] - Music
Echuta - Scripting & others
raziel_eire - Scripting & others
MasterBigAb - Trailer, Splash movie ...

Special thanks:

Gubzol
Hross
Madtao
nce_wht_guy
Nibs
Tzar
RobinCato
smoesville
any Testers...
... and many-many more!

(I'm so sorry if i forgot someone, please drop a PM in this case!)





Credits:

Cities-Towns model - New Cities Strat Models, v 1.0 - for Agart
Ships model and some portraits - 1066 mod
Custom battle place - 1066 mod
Battle AI - XAI
Magyars (battle and campaign) - Magyar Mod
Some model heads - Lithuania Mod
Some model's attachments - Rusichi Total War
Magyar's Horse - Rusichi Total War
RealHorses - ArgentUsher
Some campaign elements and info - Viking Invasion II Team
High Quality Sky Textures Project 1.0' - Hereje
...

(I'm so sorry if i forgot someone, please drop a PM in this case!)

[danova]

Forgot i something?

Yes, this is the end and produce of my last three years! This was hard but i did it...!
Thanks everybody and please enjoy!

daNova
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[Celtichugs123]

Celtichugs123 - Testing & Research, PR

Haha! Awsome! That's me! That's me!

Edit: Everything looks perfect now mate! Congratulations on your amazing and hard work! Hope I've been of atleast some help and I hope to remain member of the team! A team that has done some amazing work here! Well done all!

[General_Meevious]

HURRAH!

Congratulations, Last Kingdom team!

[mBratach Glas]

Amazing I am downloading now. I am sure the mod will be a credit to all of your hard work. And I thank you in advance.

[tavix]

Just.... awesome .

Thank you guys!!

[Lord Derfel]

Downloading now. Big thanks for Danova and the entire team. Been waiting for this for a while now and its very nice to see the release. Congratulations guys!

[Majkl]

duh gonna drink all day! xD
btw: such few poeple been working on mod?? i expected like three times more xD

[TW_User]

Downloading now. Thanks for the mod. You are the best

[Avetis]

Thank You for Your great job!

[carth]

awesome!! didn't expect to see this when i opened my browser!! hurray!!!
thank you very much for all your hard work

[Northman75]

Wow!!!! Congratulations for the release and thank you so much Danova and Team for 3 years of hard work

[Ubermomo]

Didnt believe it when i came here, so happy, well done lads

[The Byzantine]

Congratulations on your amazing work!

[The Vengur]

yay!



btw may i suggest a torrent version for those who don't want to download in their browser?

[Coeur de Lion]

Speechless! Really well done, downloading now....congratulations!!

EDIT: is the donate button on the download site for the team or the site? I was going to have a look but just wanted to know it would go to the people who really deserve it.