La Guerre de Cent Ans - The Hundred Years War wiki page

[karamazovmm]

Dear La Guerre de Cent Ans - The Hundred Years War community,

We of the wiki team are in the search for some information to create a wiki page for this mod. If you fans/creators could answer some simple questions we could get the page up and running in due time.

Form is below:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

= Description =

= Features =

= The Team =

= Included Mods =

=History= (of the mod how it all come to it, how was the development, any info related to the process of the development

=visual material= (you can include any screenshots, fan made vids, factions previews, feature previews)

Many thanks in Advance,
The TWC Wiki Team

[=NF= Vasileios_the2nd]

Will gladily provide you with the info you seak. Is posting here the stuff enough? Or do you want me to go to a specific page of the wiki?

[karamazovmm]

just post here, I will be very glad if you did! i might even catch that butterfly

[=NF= Vasileios_the2nd]

Give me some time please. I am busy with RL atm.

[karamazovmm]

alright 2 min is more than enough?

[=NF= Vasileios_the2nd]

was that a joke?
What do you mean 2 min?

[=NF= Vasileios_the2nd]

I will write here piece to piece the info you need. Don't take it now, i will edit again and again the post to improve/add stuff. Once completed I will inform you.

[karamazovmm]

alright will wait, like a very sad panda

[on a mountain]

Vas, I will take care of the text part of this today. Sadly, I still lack any graphic capabilities.

[=NF= Vasileios_the2nd]

Ok. Move forth and do it!

[on a mountain]

I have sent the article. The only thing I don't have time for is an extensive collection of artwork. For those who are interested, here is the short historic summary I wrote for the article (I didn't re-read it, so I hope it gets edited for style and errors):

The mod started out as a crazy idea of on a mountain in the summer of 2007. The first thing to be finished was the map work, which already looked 90% of how it looks now back then. This is the main reason, by the way, why it is a M2 and not a kingdoms mod.

Very soon theStig began contributing regularly, and a bit later Vas. The mod almost came to an end during the winter of 2007/2008 because its member were all bogged down in real life work. Also, the task of actually putting all the details in seemed enormous and insurmountable.

It was Vas who resurected the effort in the spring of that year, and stig followed suit. On a mountain only very reluctantly rejoined the effort, but was coerced to it in the end, as we decided that we might have a working version by the end of the year.

The strategy was to first put in the main factions and then add more and more components and complexity. So, England and France were taken over almost as they were. Burgundy and Aragon were included, and then Savoy and the HRE.

TheStig hat a simple and brilliant idea for the conception of the factions: we would strip them down to a few essential units. Simultaneously we would make mercenaries available, in a way not seen in M2 or kingdoms. This was to reflect the style of war then effective. Furthermore, cities would be reduced to villages, to give the player a lot of financial difficulties in the initial phases of the game.

These simple implements gave the mod, from the very beginning, a very different feel to other mods.

During the course of 2008 on a mountain bought reams of books that covered the war, and read his way through many biographies and accounts of battles. This was to serve as the base for the large family trees featured in the game, and for a variety of historic descriptions.
Simultaneously, Vas did an incredible amount of his own brand of byzantine artwork, while stig was busy with the mercenaries, making large lists of possibilities and regionally diverse fighters.

The map saw a succession of mutations. Smoothing of coastlines and mountains, implementing resources, and eliminating dead-ends and overlaps.
Early tests also showed that the number of provinces had to be increased, mainly in the north, to slow the advande of english armies.

Despite the efforts and hundreds of hours of work invested, the mod was far from the goal of our ambitions by the end of 2008. Nevertheless, early versions were published and tested on twc.

With the advent of 2009 we theStig was forced to reduce his contributions as his real life became more demanding. Nevertheless, the remaining members began with the implementation of Flandres and the most ambitious task to date, which was the appearance of scottish hordes from the north. The style of raids were taken over from the mongol faction in M2TW, which essentially is what we used as Scotland.

In the meantime huge lists of names were sieved through, mostly from old archives of actual inhabitants of cities of the time. For instance, aragones names were taken over from birth records of citizen of Barcelona from the relevant years.

Vas did monstruous amounts of coding and cleaning up. By the end of 2009 it actually looked like we could finally put the longed for 1.0 online.
But several massive bugs hindered the work, the game kept crashing for no (apparent) obvious reason. Also on a mountain had put it into his head to expand the game by more satellite factions splitting Aragon into Aragon, Castille and Navarra. Vas implemented Bretagne and Wales as new factions.

When work looked finished, the effort dwindled down once again. Vas had to join the greek military for an inhuman amount of time, and on a mountain got disillusioned and hampered by recurring bugs and crashes.

Once again it was Vas who saved the effort. Once he was back from the military in the spring of 2010 he took over and finished the thing. He published 0.99 recently, and it finally looks like we might get a grip on those mysterious and elusive bugs.

on a mountain, October 2010

[Supermoler]

Dear Le Guerre de Cent Ans - The Hundred Years War community,

The mod's page is completed, thanks for all the info posted here
http://www.twcenter.net/wiki/La_Guerre_de_Cent_Ans

Regards,
Supermoler

[on a mountain]

Thanks a lot for the effort, supermoler, and all those that helped.
If you guys want, Vas will provide you with more pics.

[Supermoler]

We have a lot of them, I just thought the 4 most important is enough. You want more?

[on a mountain]

I'll let the other guys decide.

[=NF= Vasileios_the2nd]

I'd choose this as a banner/sig/whatever (dunno if its permitted though)



Also, if you want something a bit technical, I'd add this, which is a new design helmet:





These gothics are decent too:






And what about this loading screen?




Choose what you like best of these and put it there inline with the main text (I guess?).


PLEASE. INCLUDE THIS VIDEO ON THE WIKI PAGE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfTM-phmVno




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[on a mountain]

I like the loading screen.

[Supermoler]

Yeah nice, loading screen, I'll add this.

About banner, thats too long, the currently is better...

We cant put videos on wiki pages

edit: I was bored, so added all pics

[=NF= Vasileios_the2nd]

We cant put videos on wiki pages

I meant only put a link to the video there somewhere

[twmplayer]

Awesome work. If possible, please post a full scalable campaign map. Would be really helpful due to all those names, and awesome too, cause the map is great.