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Viking Invasion II (BI) Viking Invasion II aims to recreate the campaign of the cult-status 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. "This is about as good a Christmas present as the Total War community could hope for" - PCGamer, February 2009

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Old September 24, 2008, 12:16 PM / Re: Viking Invasion II Released   #21
 
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Old September 25, 2008, 02:57 AM / Re: Viking Invasion II Released   #22
 
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I very much like it!

However, I am puzzled why you didn't include the Lodbrok family in the danish faction..:hmmm:

I took the liberty to change this in my own installation

One other thing.. I think the Spearmen of all Viking and Anglo-saxon factions should be able to make a shieldwall

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Old September 25, 2008, 05:07 AM / Re: Viking Invasion II Released   #23
 
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Glad you're enjoying it.

I had to cover the families pretty quickly; I am not an expert on such things but I understand Horik was King of the Danes (at least in Jutland) at that time. Though none of the kings is an easy thing to pin down in this era. There seems to have been at least one other Danish kingdom extant, and I think Lodbrok was more of a Sea King which made it very hard to put his family into an actual royal court as it were.

I can't remember why the shield wall is absent from the first-level spearmen for the Saxons and Vikings, but I am sure there was a reason

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Old September 25, 2008, 06:00 AM / Re: Viking Invasion II Released   #24
 
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Great to see a public release of VI2 .

It was a great pleasure to work on this mod - both because of interesting theme of the mod and great teammates
btw. it was the fastest developed mod i ever worked on (and i worked on about 15 different mods)- it was released only after 113 days after its inception.

Enjoy the game

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Old September 25, 2008, 06:54 AM / Re: Viking Invasion II Released   #25
 
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MMS, GaFM, TOL and VI2 have all been developed in about 6 months or less - it's my compensation to the community for FATW taking so long during it's first couple of years

This will be my last mod I think, for the TW series to date at least.

I need to get a proper job now

And a big thx to all who did support VI2 in the hidden bowels of Halie's "In The Shade" forums...

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Old September 25, 2008, 08:59 AM / Re: Viking Invasion II Released   #26
 
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I had to cover the families pretty quickly; I am not an expert on such things but I understand Horik was King of the Danes (at least in Jutland) at that time. Though none of the kings is an easy thing to pin down in this era. There seems to have been at least one other Danish kingdom extant, and I think Lodbrok was more of a Sea King which made it very hard to put his family into an actual royal court as it were.
That's why the Lodbrok family is so good for this mod... You only have one region in Denmark, and the mod is centered around Britain.. If there ever was any Danish "royal" family in England, it sure was the Lodbrok family
Gesaga him éac wordum, þæt híe sint wilcuman Deniga léodum.

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Old September 25, 2008, 09:05 AM / Re: Viking Invasion II Released   #27
 
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Viking Invasion II has been featured on the front page of RTW Heaven - http://rtw.heavengames.com/

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Old September 25, 2008, 09:11 AM / Re: Viking Invasion II Released   #28
 
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Now we only have to wait for twc frontpage!
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Old September 25, 2008, 10:59 AM / Re: Viking Invasion II Released   #29
 
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the units look great, they remind me of some of the units for rohan in the forth age:hmmm:
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Old September 25, 2008, 12:45 PM / Re: Viking Invasion II Released   #30
 
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WoW This is really awesome mod!!! It's good to hear music from MTW again! GREAT WORK MASTER!!!

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the units look great, they remind me of some of the units for rohan in the forth age:hmmm:
Hehe, and we thought nobody would ever notice... Well spotted!
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Old September 25, 2008, 02:37 PM / Re: Viking Invasion II Released   #32
 
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.. I am puzzled why you didn't include the Lodbrok family in the danish faction..:hmmm:
Lodbrok is included as a danish surname though your initial FM´s are not of this family.

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Old September 25, 2008, 07:17 PM / Re: Viking Invasion II Released   #33
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How inconsiderate, I'm doing my A-levels, now you distract me with this, I'm annoyed, yet... at the same time... I think I love you...




















j/k Looks awesome though, gonna DL it now, failing academically has never been so fun.
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Old September 25, 2008, 07:18 PM / Re: Viking Invasion II Released   #34
 
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Old September 25, 2008, 07:41 PM / Re: Viking Invasion II Released   #35
 
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Hi Master !

Another great release : I hope it will work on my system (vista32) !

Anyway, + rep !!
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Old September 25, 2008, 08:28 PM / Re: Viking Invasion II Released   #36
 
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We had no intention whatsoever to ruin anybody's academic career, these things do happen though - worst case scenario, give your prof a copy of BI and VI2...

If RTW works on Vista32 (it does) so will VI2.
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Old September 26, 2008, 02:20 AM / Re: Viking Invasion II Released   #37
 
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As you mention this ... imagine how much money modders lost and loose money through modding, especially if they are independent professionals (or so called free lancers like me). But it is just our own problem (or our own addiction) if we do it that way.

Released TW Modifications:
For Rome Total War & Barbarian Invasion Chivalry I TW | The Medieval Total Conversion
For Medieval 2 Total War/Kingdoms Chivalry II SV | The Multiple Era Campaign Project
For Empire TW Empire Realism | The Reflecting History & Improving Gameplay Project
For Barbarian Invasion William the Conquerer | Norman Invasion Episode-Submods
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Old September 26, 2008, 05:16 AM / Re: Viking Invasion II Released   #38
 
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Thx all - do give some feedback on your campaigns or on any aspect of the mod!

I'm eager to see who will be the first to have a campaign victory playing as the Welsh

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As you mention this ... imagine how much money modders lost and loose money through modding, especially if they are independent professionals (or so called free lancers like me). But it is just our own problem (or our own addiction) if we do it that way.
Tell me about it

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Old September 26, 2008, 08:00 AM / Re: Viking Invasion II Released   #39
 
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Old September 26, 2008, 10:27 AM / Re: Viking Invasion II Released   #40
 
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Downloaded! looks awesome...

What is the recommended difficulty?
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