Patch 1.4 Released

[King Kong]

Patch 1.4 Features & Fixes

!!!Please note that the patch is not save-game compatible!!!

New Units

- The Balrog


- Uruk-hai cleavers


- Guards of the Orthanc


- Troll-men of Harad


- Improved Ithilien Rangers
.....


New Heroes (by bilwit)

- Boromir


- Faramir


- Glorfindel


- Elladan and Elrohir


- King Aragorn Elessar




New Settlements and Reskins

- New Castles for all orcish settlements (based on Teutonic order castles)

• no civilian buildings
• no farms
• a lot of space to fight in the castles

- Minas Tirith reskinned


- Gondor uses south european, dwarves northern european models



Map Changes

- Many new and changed strat map models

• Rammas Echor for Minas Tirith with attackable forts
• New hero strat map models
• New strat map models for orcish castles
• Settlement model sizes adjusted
• New dwarven strat models

- New terrain and map textures


- Geography more to middle-earth lore


- Reworked mountain and forest areas


- 5 new settlements
- Small climate changes



Changes of Settlement mechanics


- Citadels limited to Minas Tirith & Barad-dur, Isengard, Moria
- Huge Cities only possible at Dol Amroth, Bree, Umbar, Kelepar, Khand, Dale, Erebor
- less and varied population growth
- less order & happiness for the player
- less income through farming
--> a harder game for the player and more difficult to manage empire happiness, population growth and income.


Other Features

- New Battle AI by Germanicu5

- 6 New regional videos if certain regions are reached


- reeinforcements are now controllable on the battlefield
- Different Bodyguards for several Heroes
- ancillary/trait changes
- public baths/aqueduct for elves deleted
- archers sligthly weakened
- some interface changes
- a few new animations
- slightly changed missions rewards
- darker nights
- campaign and battle map balance changes
- some recruitment changes
- more little things...



Bug Fixes

- Evil factions won't die because lack of family members
- several unit model fixes
- Grishnak battle model fixed
- (hopefully) all unplayable battle maps fixed
- many more little things



Special thanks and credits

bilwit - for the new hero models and the superb texturing
MasterBigAB - for all his support and the awesome in-game videos
Germanicu5 - for his new Battle AI
gracul - for some tips and help
NSFW - for his hints, tips and research about the sudden death of evil factions
HGLordKoal - for telling me the reeinforcement feature was missing
Twist of Cain - for inspiring me to change the orcish castles


Please give some rep to those guys!

Thank you all for your support and your help!

Download Links

http://www.filefront.com/15252043/TATW_1.4_Patch.exe

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=57XDJPO4 (Thanks to the The Holy Pilgrim for this mirror)

Installation
- Requirement is an installed Third Age - Total War 1.3.

- Install TATW_1.4_Patch.exe into the default 'Medievall II Total' War directory.
(Normally this is: 'Programs/SEGA/Medieval II Total War')
If you have installed Medieval II into another folder, please select the folder manually.

- Start the mod with the 'Third Age - Total War' shortcut on your desktop

And happy new year everyone!!!

[zmv]

Im first
Thanks

[BlackViper]

Jeeeuuhhh! Now lets see what people I have to rep for this

[BlazingDragon]

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! Morder conquers all!
edit: 200 posts!

[Tokus*Maximus]

Great work - as always.

-- Tokus

[newplayerisin]

yeah thank you king kong for this great patch

[Cyrus the Virus]

Looking fine.

I'm yet to have played this though, have been waiting for some patches, it looks like there have been a few now.

[MeHoW]

OMG ITS HERE I just went to the toilet and came back

OMG THIS JUST MADE MY DAY!!!

THANK YOU THIRD AGE TEAM

For all that you have done! and this awesomeful patch!!!

[Rebel6666]

Thanks Kong

[Earl of Memory]

Yeiiii! Long awaited patch is here now! *and by the way the great kong kept his promise of realising it before the end of the year XD*

[Haigojan]

HOOAH!

[Brego]

Awesome! Thank you so much!

Happy new year to you too!

[Beregond]

Thanks! I knew it was coming

[Matt91]

I signed in for this! Great job and thanks

[Lordinquisitor]

Nice!

Now i only have to wait for an updated RC/RR.

[Ascarona]

And I was just about to give this mod another try, this is rather odd .

[LOTR-MOD]

thanks +rep TATW Team great job

[DuDe|Total:war]

haha no way!

[*Ranger*]

OMG, YES!

Thanks TW team

[Plumo]

Speak of a nice start of 2010 ! Thanks alot KK, and others !

Cheers