With Fire and Sword 2 (Огнем и Мечом (II) 2: Total War ) !!!!RELEASE!!!! v 0.9.2 BETA
Огнем и Мечом (II) 2: Total War
(With Fire and Sword 2 (English), Ogniem i Mieczem II (Polish))
OiM II (With Fire and Sword II) develops ideas of precursor and in many respects similiar to it. Some aspects of the mod stays the same, but many of them will change. Another engine of Medieval II and later date of campaign start (first With Fire and Sword 2: Total War started in the year of 1569 , this mod starts in 1618) - not only factors that affects the difference. Who played in first WFaS, of course, will feel nostalgia, and it'll be almost completely new to rookie players. There are many interesting stuff prepared for both categories of players.
Story of With Fire and Sword 2 unfolds in 17 - 18 centuries, to be exact, since 1618 till 1700 year. While plaing we'll take part in many conflicts and try on the crown of one of many rulers of that time period. There is wide choice of them, because WfaS II map covers the territory from central Germany in the West to Caspian Sea in the East, and from Sweden in the North to Siria in the South.
As we see in the states roster - total war geography will be wide enough. In WfaS II you can easily simulate events of 30 years war, establishment of Zaporizhian Sich, Osman's invasion into Balkan, "The Deluge", First Nothern War and much more at the same time. Though no one forces you to keep histiricity, and, for example, playing for the Sweden you can attack Safavids on the other side of the map...however, restoration of authenticity of that age, of course, become main visiting card of the mod. It's impossible in single campaighn to prevent AI actions and to negotiate with it, but plaing Hot-seat it is possible to play few local histical wars at the same time in one campaign! This is a gift for Hot-Seat players and fans of histirical reconstruction indeed.
Sure, each faction has it's own advantages and disadvantages, own features, unique troop tree , mentioning all of them needs separate article.
As we said before, developers reconstructed atmosphere and historical likelihood very considerably. In WfaS II there are likelihood local map with existed at that
moment towns, armies, warlords.
As you can see, modmakers included in WfaS II almost every state, that affected political situation and redivision of the world at this time period. Developers artfully keep balance between histirical authenticity and gameplay, not allowing historical thoroughness to interfere game balance and vice-versa. We know many mods, that developers made boring and uninteresting to play in, trying to get
absolute historical authenticity. Fortunately, this mod is far from it.
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Used elements of of models and textures (permission is obtained)
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Re: With Fire and Sword 2 (Огнем и Мечом (II) 2: Total War )
Looking good (pretty much exactly like M&B WFaS, obviously, but that's not a bad thing unless it leads to copyright issues), and I'm looking forward to it.
I like the time period, and if FKoC is any indication, pike & shot works out rather well on the Medieval 2 engine.
Re: With Fire and Sword 2 (Огнем и Мечом (II) 2: Total War )
YES!!!!!! This is the best news possible! I am still playing OiM for RTW and its a fantastic mod! This will be excellent!
Looking good (pretty much exactly like M&B WFaS, obviously, but that's not a bad thing unless it leads to copyright issues), and I'm looking forward to it.
I don't think Paradox holds a monopoly over the name. After all, it's based on the historic novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz and it is a distinct period in history. That's like saying LOTR mods can't exist due to copyright, but worse, since this is a real historical context.
Last edited by atheniandp; June 28, 2012 at 09:05 AM.
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Re: With Fire and Sword 2 (Огнем и Мечом (II) 2: Total War )
With regard to factions etc., according to the description it's not meant as a carbon copy of RTW's OiM and has a later start date. To me, that's just one more reason to be eagerly waiting for both releases (this and Granto' s OiM), not favouring one over the other.
Re: With Fire and Sword 2 (Огнем и Мечом (II) 2: Total War )
Great news Shredder! I always wanted to play this mod in a more suitable engine than RTW. Not to mention the possibility of details is much greater. Beautiful preview!
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Re: With Fire and Sword 2 (Огнем и Мечом (II) 2: Total War )
Guys, there's the whole team working over this mod. My contribution was models and textures, as well as some help in unit polishing. komatozz911 was assembling units.
It's my omission - I should have included the list of the team members ...
Re: With Fire and Sword 2 (Огнем и Мечом (II) 2: Total War )
That's good to hear about the models, and a big thanks to Shredder for making them, both for M&B WFaS and now for this, with some nice additions/modifications like the new reiter helmets.
Re: With Fire and Sword 2 (Огнем и Мечом (II) 2: Total War )
Looking very good. As atheniandp I'm still waiting to play the Rome version which is almost ready thanks to Granto's efforts to revamp it and include the English translation. It's a bit dissappointing that unlike the Rome version this one lacks the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldova. But hopefully, as komatozz mentioned they will be implemented in future versions.
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Yes, I hope all the factions from the original will make it in eventually. One of the great things about OiM for RTW was playing as the smaller and often overlooked principalities. Judging by the map if these factions were to make it in there would basically be no more rebel factions; which is fantastic.
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Originally Posted by MrrRandomDude
I really do like how you got your models from M&B and apparently you are the author of them.
