Viking Invasion II Released

[MasterOfNone]

A Mod for BI 1.6

"Breathes new life into one of TW's tightest and most atmospheric iterations with simplicity, balance and superb quality." - Antagonist

With Generous Contributions from Arthurian Total War, Chivalry Total War and the defunct Age of Vikings and Fanatics Total War...And with the sterling support of Aradan for his unrelentingly-perfectionist work on traits, ancillaries, unit balance, campaign balance, testing and tweaking...



"This is about as good a Christmas present as the Total War community could hope for" - PCGamer, February 2009

VI2 aims to recreate the campaign of MTW: Viking Invasion on the Rome BI engine. It sticks closely to the original campaign, only making changes to correct large inaccuracies, to improve gameplay and comply with the new engine. It is also set a little later than the original campaign at AD 851 - two years after the birth of King Alfred the Great of Wessex...

Find out more here: http://topnotchmods.net

Kindly hosted on Halie's In The Shade forum and at TopNotchMods.Net

[Salvor Hardin]

Congratulations on another amazing release.

[Halie Satanus]

At last a mod has broken the curse of Vikings in TW games...MoN (and his little helpers) has created yet another masterful product, (hopfully not his last).. As is customary with MoN's works this one plays harder than most mods, it's certainly not for the faint of heart or weak of bladder..

So grab a horn of ale and sharpen your axe, for tonight we dine in ''Valhalla''

Enjoy..

[Antagonist]

Another well-earned mega-congratulations, MoN. It was an honour to be a part of it but the accolades are Halie's, Aradan's and most of all your own.

Antagonist

EDIT: And I need hardly add that this baby needs to hit the Front Page ASAP.

[Arthum]

Wow, sounds and looks great.I appreciate your work and obviously the result of it.

(The website isn't working for me though...)...everything fine now,already dl'ing

[Marcus Orentius]

I am so glad this mod carried on, even when I gave up on it. Kudos to you guys!
Oops, my idea was for M2TW, sorry.

[Aradan]

Hopefully M2 will see at least one more Vikings era mod, VI timeframe and map is ideal for a mod that will be exciting but not take 3 years to do.

Congrats are in order for MoN, for hours upon hours of hard work!

Yeh, yeh, we want a frontpage!!

[Legio]

Awesome! Finally, a good reason to reinstall BI!!!

[Marcus Orentius]

Got a bug, I tried a wessex campaign, and although I was meant to have 15000 shillings, I start with nothing. Just checked descr_strat, nothing wrong there.

Also, the faction symbols in the selection menu overlap. Is this meant to happen?

[Halie Satanus]

Also, the faction symbols in the selection menu overlap. Is this meant to happen?

Yup, that's a special feature, it took me ages to get them to do that..

[Legio]

Originally Posted by Halie Satanus

Yup, that's a special feature, it took me ages to get them to do that..

Halie that is awesome.

[MasterOfNone]

Thx all.

Got a bug, I tried a wessex campaign, and although I was meant to have 15000 shillings, I start with nothing. Just checked descr_strat, nothing wrong there.

Yup, that's intended too. The campaign only uses the descr_strat as a base and the details are tweaked according to which faction you choose to play via a campaign script. It is chiefly Aradan's work, with initial help from Anallein (RTR).

[Marcus Orentius]

Blimey, harder than I thought then. Just got utterly crushed by the danes when I outnumbered them 2:1. :O

[Aradan]

Awesome, that's the kind of feedback I want!

[Chevalier IX]

Excellent in every form of the word!Finally this wonderous age of darkness and turmoil comes to life on an updated engine.The usage of elements of the original serve well to bring back the old feeling of nostalgia that reminds us all why we love the TW series to begin with.Thanks for an excellent piece of work!

[DaVinci]

Just got the message from Aradan, that the mod is thrown out of the productions-location.


MoN, congrats also to your new site, looks very good, seems you don't wanna retire from modding?

Will dl soon to judge afterwards on the now final setting of the mod, hopefully i'm satisfied and don't have to make my own tweaks (again) whereas i'm sure Aradan did its best along all the balance discussions, and that it is very well made in the end. Good to hear, that one Wessex player has been crushed by the Danes ... sounds good.

[Icedie El Guaraní]

Excellent, is the first time someone has post a mod for this.

[Skandinav]

What a noble undertaking this is, and what sparkling talent you have; I´ve played all night and the entire morning and I must say you do the ( brilliant ) original much honor, which is no simple task, and you have every right to be awfully proud of yourselves.

[DaVinci]

Originally Posted by Skandinav

What a noble undertaking this is, and what sparkling talent you have; I´ve played all night and the entire morning and I must say you do the ( brilliant ) original much honor, which is no simple task, and you have every right to be awfully proud of yourselves.

I guess Aradan and MoN would enjoy a bit more info about your hours of play.

[Emperor Domitianus]

Seems very very interesting. Going to download now....