Preview Scroll Three: The Song Dynasty

Vagabond · Sep 2, 2009

It took 15' for my old rig to browse the preview, dear God.

Very, very impressive. One of the most marvelous works i've ever seen on my entire lowly TWC life. I'm speechless.

Vic Vega · Sep 2, 2009

Awesome! im going to reinstall m2tw

Ketchup · Sep 6, 2009

Very very Nice

Satojinn · Sep 7, 2009

Awesome job, I'm looking forward to this. Alot.

Not because I'm a fan of the Three Kingdoms and Chinese History either! *koffkoff*

alexal · Sep 9, 2009

Very impressive!
TW mods on oriental tematics has always been a kind of elite mods. I'm glad that now it became a tradition

By the way, have you managed to deal with battlemap architecture?

Augustus Lucifer · Sep 10, 2009

alexal said:
Very impressive!
TW mods on oriental tematics has always been a kind of elite mods. I'm glad that now it became a tradition
By the way, have you managed to deal with battlemap architecture?

That is being worked on, not by us specifically but we are endeavoring to help the process along however we can. Certain things are possible and certain other things are still being cracked. As I recall we can input new buildings into the battlemap, but they have to maintain the same number of vertexes(or something) as the model they replace, so it's very restrictive in that respect. Hopefully this will be solved before we need to worry about it, because we have plenty to work on in the meanwhile.

Meneldil · Sep 12, 2009

Wow, this might be the mod that will beat EB gameplay-complexity wise. Awesome.

Hannationer · Sep 12, 2009

Good work guys! Keep it up!

Marcion · Sep 13, 2009

It's been a long time coming, about seven months since the last one. Given that you haven't shown anything of the 12 other factions you're planning, a generous estimate would be about 5 years to have them all done. But if the end product shows as much polish and detail as this, I think it would be worth the wait.

Augustus Lucifer · Sep 14, 2009

Meneldil said:
Wow, this might be the mod that will beat EB gameplay-complexity wise. Awesome.

Somehow I think EB will always win in that category. They do an awesome job over there, and they have a reasonably massive team(at least comparatively!), as well as some very curious gameplay concepts and an eye for balance. We'd be happy to be in the same league when all is said and done.

haereticum · Sep 16, 2009

I'm under the impression that those fire lances are basically gigantic single-shot sawn-off shotguns. Nasty they are....shouldn't they cause a 'bit' of problems when deployed in more than 1 rank? they'll literally be pumping 'buckshot' into the lad in front of him!

Space Voyager · Sep 17, 2009

haereticum said:
I'm under the impression that those fire lances are basically gigantic single-shot sawn-off shotguns. Nasty they are....shouldn't they cause a 'bit' of problems when deployed in more than 1 rank? they'll literally be pumping 'buckshot' into the lad in front of him!

Yes, those look interesting. Are they historically at least somewhat correct or is this gameplay enhancing fiction?

Augustus Lucifer · Sep 17, 2009

Space Voyager said:
Yes, those look interesting. Are they historically at least somewhat correct or is this gameplay enhancing fiction?

They're a historically used device, progenitors of chambered reusable gunpowder weapons. As to firing in ranks, that has to do with formations which can be remedied if it presents an issue I'd imagine.

Taneda Santôka · Sep 19, 2009

Solid preview, massive map, awesome units and Wundailicious buildings !

Only problems are the bad blur ruining some images and some slight tiny alpha channel issues. :buba:

justinius · Sep 19, 2009

Bull said:
Dude, this is filed under MTW/Kingdoms Hosted Modifications....
So it cant be based on ETW......though it achieves far more than ETW vanilla.

One question, where's shenbi nu (神臂弩)? Or are these simply the imperial crossbowmen?

oh lol

justinius · Sep 19, 2009

Space Voyager said:
Yes, those look interesting. Are they historically at least somewhat correct or is this gameplay enhancing fiction?

the chinese first used it in a battle against the nomad Jurchens (records)

LordGuanOfHan · Sep 21, 2009

I cant wait any longer........argggggh...

pistols @ dawn · Sep 21, 2009

Damn handsome preview, gents. Consider the nipple of my interest thoroughly tweaked. Purpled, even. The history in focus is unknown to me, so the Europa Barbarorum level of attention to detail means I am gonna get my learn on. Awesome. A preview for the Khmer Empire cannot come soon enough.

p @ d

LordGuanProtect · Sep 28, 2009

I cant wait to play as the Song Faction to remake Pax Sinica . Thank you for all the effort you guys have put into this mod! If I am not wrong, Song dynasty is the second last dynasty that is ruled by a Han Ruler. One of my favourite dynasties... Keep up the good work. Is there a Mongol preview by the way?

Augustus Lucifer · Sep 28, 2009

The Mongols shown in the video are the Mongols which were co-developed for Broken Crescent in addition to this mod, so they're already publicly available in that mod. As such there's no Mongol preview until such time as there's unreleased material for them.

LordGuanProtect · Sep 28, 2009

Oh I see. Hmm, it's a very good idea to use the Song era as the setting for an Asian total war. This was the tumultuous period when there were various interactions and confrontations between different great Empires in the East. I get a bit tired after relentlessly playing Warring States (Zhanguo) Total war and Three Kingdoms Total war (Chinese version only)- essentially all about long history of Chinese civil war. All under heaven is really an ideal Oriental version of Medieval Total War.

Boyar'sNephew · Sep 28, 2009

Jaw dropping is an understatement. Very impressive preview.

Wundai · Sep 29, 2009

Taneda Santôka said:
Solid preview, massive map, awesome units and Wundailicious buildings !

Hehe thanks Taneda

gaunty14 · Sep 30, 2009

.................that looked cool ^-^

one question, what was the poly count on the units as thiss will probably make my laptop melt into a pile of steaming mush

smoesville · Sep 30, 2009

It actually seems to have no more affect on my machine then vanilla. In fact the lack of feedback loops in the ai means it runs pretty well. I have a macbook pro with bootcamp XP, which means it burns somewhere in the region of 100ºC at its hottest and 80ºC-90ºC on average while gaming. I don't have settings at the max but it's grand. The most taxing part of Med2 is the scripting.

gaunty14 · Sep 30, 2009

ah cool ^-^...yay

slavic_crusader · Oct 4, 2009

this is going to be on of the greatest mods out!

Good job guys, work so far, is a job well done!

medievaldude · Oct 12, 2009

can't wait 4 the dai viet and jin keep up with the good work! great detail and work with the song units!

TXTwilight · Oct 14, 2009

This is going to be epic!
No doubt, one of the best Med2 Mods and the music is fantastic!
Great Job Robin Cato, some more stuff from you and i become your fanboy

Qais · Oct 18, 2009

Preview looks awesome, If you keep this up you will rival BC and/or TATW in my opinion. Can't wait to play this. Keep up the great work!!

Preview Scroll Three: The Song Dynasty

Preview Scroll Three: The Song Dynasty

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