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    Icon3 [BATTLE RELEASE 3] The DragonDawn Christmas Battle 2013 - Ildiri vs Khezdruli



    The Third Battle: A TRUE Christmas Present!

    "Fields of Elysan"

    There was no reason in hell we thought we'd do this, as it's Christmas and hadn't been thought about at all...however, a couple of people wrote nice things and it was decided that we'd make an xmas battle. Except there's two. It's a tradition to do SOMETHING, but this year.....uhhmmmm....

    The Modfolder for this is interesting...you'll see some stuff of what the mod will be like, some half finished, or bits tested and left to be developed either seperately or just 'later'. Quotes are in, load screens and some ui stuff, but it will be different for the release. The text colours and things are annoying, but it shows the lengths of experimentation we're doing, and I'd like you to see it, even if you think it's awful Just put up with some useless bits and enjoy the better stuff!

    It's a present. Unprepared for, little time to get working (bits of the last 4 days only), so accept it as that. We will begin to fiddle more, of course, and get things up to scratch, but please don't get annoyed if everything's not perfect in there It's not.






    THE ILDIRI Kingdom of SWANS

    The setting of this battle is 15 years after the end of the war depicted in the main mod.

    The Kingdom of Swans is a kingdom founded a mere few hundred years ago, given in land abandoned by the Khezdruli under the Azaraghal Accord, whereby the Khezdruli would limit their plunder of resources, returning such lands to the care of both Elves and the Rhysthari, who could heal damage, regrow minerals and the fabled Ley Crystal deposits in order to save the Dragon from harm and keep the Abyss at bay. The wounds to the Dragon and it's weakness led to Infection before, and will once again should things be as grievous as they were before the war that brought an end to uncontrolled plunder.


    THE Swan Princes, firstborn of the Heron Kings, held this land for their people, and their ways were of a different bent from the older Ildiri lands. They valued open dealings, longed to demonstrate their chivalry and perfection, and they weakened the Ildiri whilst remaining on a war footing for several hundred years. COnstant tourneys, military 'manouevres' and massive production of intricate and beautiful armaments drained the treasuries, and mismanagement of other areas were telling. However, when the war came, they were ready, and they survived the brutality, despite the length and depth of the suffering. By it's end, they were a tired people, and their greatest strength was all but broken. There was no Swan Prince to lead them, and the military fell to the Black Swans, an elite guard unit, and them alone. Swan Knights and the Imhrain remained, and the Heron King was to send a cousin to rule.

    Before this, however, it became apparent how the Khezdruli had remained strong. They had broken the Accord and plundered massively, creating thousands of Gnomes, automatons for their own war against the dark that fell upon them. The Rhysthari reportedthat they had not stopped, even after the main danger was passed, and the Infected had begun to manifest once more. Such a thing could not be allowed, and the Black Swans marched. The Khezdruli became aware, and they sacked the border fort of Pielsantair, then marched to meet the Ildiri. Avatars gathered, and some took action against the Khezdruli, but were swept aside.

    This is the battle that occurred.

    NOTE: I shall include the write-up of the original battle, that was set out a good year ago. It's in the battle's description in the game itself.


    Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

    Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 


    There is a full-faction Preview of the Ildiri here:

    http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...ction-Preview!





    THE KHEZDRULI Kingdom of ANGARECH


    The setting of this battle is 15 years after the end of the war depicted in the main mod.

    The Khezdruli made a harsh decision, and it was one made at the brink of losing everything. They had agreed to an Accord, whereby they would limit their mining and their Making to within limits that the Elves and others felt was 'acceptable', and the Dragon could recover from - a ridiculous tale for children. The Dwarves had kept to this, and had even given lands so the Ildiri could set a Princeling in his own demesne. When the war came, the Khezdruli fell to their knees, in the path of enemies that would have swept other kingdoms away. However, they made the decision to manufacture war engines, weapons and armour for their survival, and they went too far. They survived, and the war ended, save in the deeps, where the Infected had begun to rise. No-one could learn of this, so they built more, and slaughtered the Infected, but never destroyed them, as they were leaking into Reality from the Abyss, even in small numbers, and the Deeps heard their screams.


    The Ildiri were told of the continuing plunder by the Lizard-healers, but not of the reasons, and it was all it took to force war on the Dwarves, so they marched to battle, sacked a border fort and planned to bring the Kingdom of Swans to it's knees, to wring a treaty from them allowing a brief period of 'controlled' excess....they may even explain the Infecteds' return in a position of advantage, should the war go well. Sadly, the Ildiri marched to meet them, and nightly attacks by strange creatures wore at the Dwarves. They met in battle, but did not expect that others would take advantage of this war, or that they were in such numbers and bold enough to walk in the open air.

    Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 



    There is a part-faction Preview of the Khezdruli here:

    Post 2....

    http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...art-2-RELEASED



    There are two battles. There is the xmasbash AND the xmasbashnonghaur. Both include the same units and factions, but the second also involves the army of Infected that followed the Dwarves, unplayable (not much point), and it will be a harder, more hectic one, as they keep coming PLEASE play the non-Infected one first, to fully appreciate the second.

    Please also note that we will be integrating the units of the first two battles, so you can play parts of 6 factions in custom battles yourselves.


    OLD NOTES/GUIDE ON INSTALLING BATTLES

    Note that the name listed here is Dragonborn.....we've called the mod DragonDawn so we don't confuse things. However, it is DragonDawn now.


    Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 
    Now, for those that know these things, it's simple indeed. Just download, unrar/zip the modfolder and stick the Dragonborn folder from INSIDE the folder created when unzipping into your mods root folder in MedII...in other words, it's fully modfoldered


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    For everyone else.


    Spoiler Alert, click show to read:



    Open Program FIles>Sega>Medieval Total WarII (or whatever the folder the game's in on your pc), then open the mods folder




    Put the Rar file of Dragonborn in the root of the mods folder



    THEN Go to unzip, brining up the path the unzipping software gives you for extraction



    Where it says /Dragonborn as the final word, this will install the ACTUAL mod folder INTO a folder called dragonborn.

    We don't want this, so delete the word dragonborn.




    Then unzip...it will unzip into the mods folder of medII as a folder called simply Dragonborn.

    Here, I've now entered that folder



    NOW, to get a desktop shortcut, make a shortcut to the batch file Dragonborn (in the pic above) then drag the shortcut to desktop

    IF the game beings windowed. If you want it to be fullscreen, you doubleclick on the Dragonborn cfg file, below the batch file, as shown here - open it




    Then change

    windowed = true

    to

    windowed = false

    Ta Dah! Full screeen





    This may seem utterly ridiculous to show to some people, but, trust me, when I first tried to put a mod in, I was utterly bemused by it all, so I thought I'd give this guide...I hope it makes saense and stuff. Pm me if you have any probs, or write here. SOrry if it's not very good

    STEAM USERS

    see here


    http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...h-pictures-!-)






    DOWNLOAD and stuff

    The setting of this battle is 15 years after the end of the war depicted in the main mod, a snapshot of what history could be after the main mod.

    You have 2 choices of Download sites:

    The first is Rapidshare

    http://rapidshare.com/share/A147B75F177D311AA303B7F9A1F657DF

    The Second is DepositFiles - I will use a third if needed, but I doubt it will be.

    http://dfiles.eu/files/ps7vagnvq

    to be filled

    FORGOT ABOUT THE FIRST TWO BATTLES, AVAILABLE HERE:

    http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...nd-Haagen-Pike



    OTHER MODS for RTW and MedII


    We wanted to try to be a little unselfish and point to some other mods for the Rome: Total War (one) and Medieval TW 2, so you get a jump straight to ones you may not have seen yet. DO have a look, DO post and support them. Anyone modding needs support.

    We concentrated on Fantasy Themes


    OTHER MODS for RTW and MedII

    TOLKIEN INSPIRED MODS



    These are fantastic mods, and if you think that older games can't do something amazing, think again!



    Lord of the Rings Total War (RomeTW Alexander)


    http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forum...W%29-%28ALX%29


    Silmarillion Total War (Build from LotRTW)


    http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...s-Silmarillion


    The Fourth Age (RomeTW BI)

    http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forum...TW%29-%28BI%29

    First Age (MedII Kingdoms)
    WIP
    http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...lin-preview%29
    http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...nd-preview!%29
    http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...ves-preview%29
    http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...of-F%EBanor%29
    http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...lum-preview%29


    Third Age (MedII Kingdoms)
    If you don't know this one.....



    http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forum...-Age-Total-War


    WARHAMMER MODS


    Warhammer (RTW) The whole World of Warhammer!


    http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forum...mmer-Total-War

    Call of Warhammer (MedII Kingdoms)

    http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forum...l-of-Warhammer

    The Sundering (MedII Kingdoms)
    The Elven schism in Warhammer


    http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forum...the-Witch-King


    FANTASY MODS


    Unique and personal settings


    Akthross (MedII Kingdoms) A Unique World by a lovely friend


    http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forum...ross-Total-War

    End of Days 1 and 2 (RTW)
    See what our Teamie Makanyane did with Halie Satanus


    http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forum...-Days-%28BI%29

    http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forum...ising-%28BI%29

    Hyrule (MedII Kingdoms)


    The World of Zelda


    http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forum...-War-%28HTW%29

    THERA: Legacy of the Great Torment (MedII Kingdoms)

    http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forum...-Great-Torment

    SPECIAL MENTION (Historical for MedII Kingdoms)

    Rise of the Three Kingdoms


    Based on the Three Dynasties of Ancient China


    http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forum...oms-%28RotK%29

    The Last Kingdom
    http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forum...e-Last-Kingdom

    Go see them!

    Buy the game if you don't have the right one.







    Teamies and Credits

    TEAMIES and STUFF


    The World/Setting and Writing: Squeaks
    Models/Animation/Buildings: Squeakers, Makanyane, BanditKS
    Text Work and the Really Nasty Stuff: Kaiser Leonidas, Makanyane, Danny X, Sqweeks, BanditKS
    Code Work etc: Makanyane, Mank, Withwnar (:p)

    Most definitely not Sqwakks


    Combat, Fighting, Unit Stuff: Willowran, DeVrie
    Graphics: Squeakford, Shankbot, Danny X
    The Map:
    Danny X
    Main Testy-types: Kaiser Leonidas, Nekogenijalan, DeVrie, Willowran, BanditKS
    Extra Help with Animations: AlreadyDed, Eothese and the anims from TATW; so King Kong and Co


    The rest is loooooooooooong, and listed everywhere. I've forgotten most of it, but it's all there!

    If I have missed something, then it really isn't intentional

    Thanks to everyone for being interested and nice.






    This really is down to the nice people who support this. It wasn't a planned, intentional ting, and several people came together to pump this out a few days before Christmas for the lot of you, because of TWC fans who deserved it. So, bit late in the day, but HAPPY CHRISTMAS.
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    Default Re: The DragonDawn Christmas Battle 2013 - Ildiri vs Khezdruli

    UPDATED with second d/l link

    http://dfiles.eu/files/ps7vagnvq

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    Default Re: The DragonDawn Christmas Battle 2013 - Ildiri vs Khezdruli

    Yay! A surprise Christmas gift, how nice. Thanks Squeaks and team! Merry Christmas!

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    Default Re: The DragonDawn Christmas Battle 2013 - Ildiri vs Khezdruli

    It is a very nice gift, it is very fun as well. And those "infected place markers" are very scary indeed.

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    Download in progress. Thanks a ton and Merry Christmas!
    What's life like if you don't take a chance now and then? ~ Matrim Cauthon

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    Default Re: The DragonDawn Christmas Battle 2013 - Ildiri vs Khezdruli

    HUZZAH! IS A DRAGONDAWN CHRISTMAS!

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    Will Download when I finally find my Med II disk.

    Total Crap:Rome II certainly won't hold up next to this. It barely holds up next to Med II Vanilla.
    Rep me and I'll rep you back.

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    Yeaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!!


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    Hope everyone had a great Christmas!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sol_Man View Post
    Yay! A surprise Christmas gift, how nice. Thanks Squeaks and team! Merry Christmas!
    Ta. Kind of done this every year, so it didn't sit well to leave it totally alone. Leaving it til 4 days before xmas wasn't the brainiest idea....

    Quote Originally Posted by BarnicleBill1 View Post
    It is a very nice gift, it is very fun as well. And those "infected place markers" are very scary indeed.
    Forgot about that...should really have done something. I leave placeholders around to test things out that may not work or not be good enough....

    It's my UTTERLY vain attempt to organise myself, as I forget what's in what placeholder and all sorts. Very pleased to hear you liked it. Did the Infected prove a worthy little tweak? I love hearing what people think

    Quote Originally Posted by deusvult6 View Post
    Download in progress. Thanks a ton and Merry Christmas!
    Do tell when you've played it....you're a regular supporter here Merry Xmas

    Quote Originally Posted by The Holy Pilgrim View Post
    HUZZAH! IS A DRAGONDAWN CHRISTMAS!
    I wonder what Chrsitmas presents the Abyss give out? Or the feds...they probably provide quicklime to each family....

    Quote Originally Posted by ggggtotalwarrior View Post
    Will Download when I finally find my Med II disk.

    Total Crap:Rome II certainly won't hold up next to this. It barely holds up next to Med II Vanilla.
    Not sure we can claim that one, but glad you're happy, and do tell when you've played!

    Sorry about lateness...I've had it open most of the day without replying, with all the quotes already set up...just a case of ;doh: Again

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stath's View Post
    Yeaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!!
    Now that's a nice Christmas pressie...an excited Stath

    Quote Originally Posted by Kaiser Leonidas View Post
    Hope everyone had a great Christmas!!
    It was remarkably pleasant A bit more maybe Need a month to get over it now...

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    Default Re: The DragonDawn Christmas Battle 2013 - Ildiri vs Khezdruli

    Yes they did, and those Slaughterstars are downright terrifying.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BarnicleBill1 View Post
    Yes they did, and those Slaughterstars are downright terrifying.
    Ah, forgot I left that one in Technically, they aren't Cthonic units, but it was fun. When

    I know Leonidas played one battle in particular, and found he won, but all enemies were dead and he had lost 95% of his fellas too. When Descati's Ward go fully 'unveiled' in the main mod, these chappies will sprout out left right and centre....luckily there's a little one without them before, but then you add the Haladin instead...possibly worse.

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    Default Re: The DragonDawn Christmas Battle 2013 - Ildiri vs Khezdruli

    With units like that, and the other machinations you all have created it promises to be a very interesting campaign.

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    Merry Christmas, my loves! A wonderful release.

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    Enjoy the battle! congrats to the team members who worked hard to get this out to our fans!



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    Quote Originally Posted by BarnicleBill1 View Post
    With units like that, and the other machinations you all have created it promises to be a very interesting campaign.
    Well, hope so. It'll be released in bites at first, but the eventual big thingy will be something else, we hope.

    Quote Originally Posted by Chloe View Post
    Merry Christmas, my loves! A wonderful release.
    aw, thanks Clowee. Do miss you!

    Quote Originally Posted by BanditKS View Post
    Enjoy the battle! congrats to the team members who worked hard to get this out to our fans!
    These are the enjoyable bits

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    Default Re: The DragonDawn Christmas Battle 2013 - Ildiri vs Khezdruli

    Nuts....

    added The SIlmarillion Total War, based on LotRTW (for Rome TW) to the 'other mods' listed at the end of the release (and future ones)....it's quite impressive!!

    http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...s-Silmarillion

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    UPDATED OP with link to the previous two playable battles....

    http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...nd-Haagen-Pike

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