This mod will be set in the time of the petty Andal and First-men kings of Westeros. Over 1000 years before Aegon the Conqueror's Landing.
You'll have:
- The last First-men King of the Riverlands fighting a desperate battle versus the surrounding Andal Kingdoms. The King of River and Hills is desperately fighting to keep his faith, his customs and his people alive.
- The Boltons and Starks fighting over dominion of the North.
- Yronwood, Dayne and Martell battling over Dorne.
- House Hoare leading a Golden age of the Ironborn, the ironmen could rightfully claim that "wherever men can smell salt water or hear the crash of waves," his writ ran.
- The Lannisters, Stormkings and Gardeners expanding everywhere as they are trying to become the most powerful kingdom of the continent.
This can only mean one thing, TOTAL WAR in Westeros!
This is the first complete overhaul submod for Westeros Total War.
It uses its own mod folder and is completely self sustainable, you can use it next to the normal beta and the enhanced submod. It uses the previous enhanced version as a base and has all the improvements which that version made.
We'll remake this mod when the 1.0 version of Westeros Total War is released.
FACTIONS:
House Lannister, the Kingdom of the Rock
House Mudd, the Kingdom of Rivers and Hills
House Hoare, the Kingdom of the Iron Isles
House Durrandon/Stormkings, the Kingdom of the Stormlands
House Bolton, the Kingdom of the Dreadfort
House Gardener, the Kingdom of the Reach
House Stark, the Kingdom of the North
House Martell, the Kingdom of Dorne
House Yronwood, the Kingdom of the Dornish Mountains
House Arryn, the Kingdom of the Mountain and the Vale
FEATURES:
- 5 completely new factions
- All other factions have had a complete overhaul (new generals, skins, regions etc)
- New regions such as Oldstones, Castamere and Ram's Gate
- New ancillaries
- New traits
- Unique strat models
- Completely reskinned units for all factions
- New UIs
- Much more!
Installation:
1. Download the file
2. Extract with a program like winrar or 7Zip to Medieval Totalwar II/mods
3. Click the KingofRiverandHills.bat file in Medieval Total War II/mods/KingofRiverandHills to play.
4. Download the Patch and extract the data folder in Medieval Total War II/mods/KingofRiverandHills. Click yes to overwrite.
Video, made by one of the fans:
If you have a foreign language version of Medieval Totalwar II and you are experiencing problems when you're trying to start the campaign it is advised to copy the entire sound folder from Medieval total war II (in data) and paste it in the data folder of KingofRiverandHills folder, yes to overwrite. This should fix the issues.
Team:
Dux: leader, coder, mapper and scripter
Prophet1331: skinner
Noobas: 2d
Kiliç Alì: scripter
ariobarzanes1388: Skinner
kiwibloke: coder and tester
Luke: writer and researcher
Hermod: unit card creator
jacb547: researcher and beta tester
antoniusz: beta tester
Skizbot: beta tester
You want to help?
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We could use:
1... modeller, to also start revamping some units here and there
---> we were thinking of using some open resourse mods, as base (like the great Rusichi) so that we could start by
-cutting plate elements, in order to enfatize the ancient setting
-maybe adding some "epic" attachments (like horns or other stuff), in order to enfatize the legendary feel
We are not asking anyone to create whole new units, just some tiny bits here and there to make units more unique and give them an ancient feel.
Of course, we'll always welcome anyone who wants to create whole new units.
2...obviously, more scripters, mappers n coders are always welcome too !
Credits:
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Cedric37..... for flag base / faction badges base / menu and loading screens art, base
Danova and the The Last Kingdom team, as wells Disgruntled Goat and the 1066 team.... for their strat map ships
Montebello..... for the custom portraits
Ariobarzanes..... for the reskinned lannister units
CptTripz..... for his enhanced submod which we use as a base
Lord Condormanius..... for the captain stratmodels, captain battlemodels and the Dismounted Mailed Knights
Davide.Cool..... QVINQVIREME ROMANA and KYRENIA MERCHANT SHIP
Rusichi Total War development team..... various stratmodels.
HannibalExMachina for some battlemodels.
Yiu_DJC........for the Dismounted Guard model and unit cards.
Westeros total war beta team..... for creating the beta.
GrnEyedDvl..... for his college on the Modding basics in the Total war University.
Baratheons took sigil, lands and words from Stormking. Does Baratheon last name even belong to them or they took it from them as well? Because Orys was bastard brother of Aegon and Baratheon doesn't sound like Valyrian name.
March 03, 2012, 08:06 AM
jacb547
Re: [Submod ideas]The King of River and Hills
They took the last name
I also think we should put the crowlands as rebels and the Targaryens as the Lords of Dragonstone, it could be good to substitute the Mudd family should there be no heir, also what about events such as the Greystark rebellion?I can come up with some names if you guys want
March 03, 2012, 08:17 AM
Prophet1331
Re: [Submod ideas]The King of River and Hills
Quote:
Originally Posted by jacb547
They took the last name
I also think we should put the crowlands as rebels and the Targaryens as the Lords of Dragonstone, it could be good to substitute the Mudd family should there be no heir, also what about events such as the Greystark rebellion?I can come up with some names if you guys want
Maybe a script if the new ruler of the Stark faction has weak authority and a brother or another relative, the relative joins the Bolton faction with some units
What is the faction limit for the game? I heard it mentioned once or twice in other topics.
March 03, 2012, 08:23 AM
Dux
Re: [Submod ideas]The King of River and Hills
The Greystarks were supporters of the Boltons and ruled the Wolf's Den (now Whiteharbor). I think we should add them to Bolton territory.
I'm pretty sure Baratheon was the name of the bastard and not the original name of the Stormkings, Gurkhal mentioned Veb as last name of the Stormking but I have no idea where he got that from.
What do you guys think of House Hightower and House Dayne as kings?
I don't know the factionlimit but I do know it is not reached with 12 factions.
March 03, 2012, 08:26 AM
jacb547
Re: [Submod ideas]The King of River and Hills
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dux
The Greystarks were supporters of the Boltons and ruled the Wolf's Den (now Whiteharbor). I think we should add them to Bolton territory.
I'm pretty sure Baratheon was the name of the bastard and not the original name of the Stormkings, Gurkhal mentioned Veb as last name of the Stormking but I have no idea where he got that from.
What do you guys think of House Hightower and House Dayne as kings?
House Hightower was king, Dayne I dont know
limit is 30 i think(dominion of the sword has more)
March 03, 2012, 08:31 AM
Antoniusz
Re: [Submod ideas]The King of River and Hills
I think House Dayne should be minor under Yronwood control.
March 03, 2012, 08:37 AM
Prophet1331
Re: [Submod ideas]The King of River and Hills
Well you could either make many factions, but not all having bannermen or that could claim a kingship (You'll end up with kings everywhere, which would be similar to the age of kings but would require a lot of work and creativity, "king of the... something")
Or have several factions (Kingdom of the Marches, Dorne etc), each with their own bannermen (and because the factions aren't named Stark/Lannister/Arryn it wouldn't look weird if your Arryns all die and the Kings of the Vale are Corbrays or something).
March 03, 2012, 08:46 AM
Dux
Re: [Submod ideas]The King of River and Hills
Quote:
Originally Posted by Prophet1331
Or have several factions (Kingdom of the Marches, Dorne etc), each with their own bannermen (and because the factions aren't named Stark/Lannister/Arryn it wouldn't look weird if your Arryns all die and the Kings of the Vale are Corbrays or something).
Well, the main mod also suffers from that problem. But perhaps we could indeed name the factions after the specific Kingdoms to prevent these things from happening. This also brings problems tough, E.G what would be the name of the Kingdom of House Bolton?
I edited the op with possible faction leaders, in some cases it are the only kings mentioned before the conquest and not really from this time period (Mors Martell). The other houses have no mentioned leaders before the conquest, so we have to come up with names.
March 03, 2012, 10:29 AM
Toho
Re: [Submod ideas]The King of River and Hills
the more factions you have, the slower the game progression (Hello! Stainless Steel!)
March 03, 2012, 02:14 PM
ariobarzanes1388
Re: [Submod ideas]The King of River and Hills
Quote:
Originally Posted by Toho
the more factions you have, the slower the game progression (Hello! Stainless Steel!)
Isn't the speed perportional to the settlements each faction has? In other words, is there a difference between 30 factions that have 2 settlements each and 30 factions with 7-10 settlements each?
March 03, 2012, 03:53 PM
MagUidir
Re: [Submod ideas]The King of Rivers and Hills
Not sure if im the only one who caught this but the crown wasnt added to the Barantheon sigil till Robert became king. So it would just be a Stag on a golden field. :)
March 03, 2012, 04:34 PM
Antoniusz
Re: [Submod ideas]The King of Rivers and Hills
Quote:
Originally Posted by MagUidir
Not sure if im the only one who caught this but the crown wasnt added to the Barantheon sigil till Robert became king. So it would just be a Stag on a golden field. :)
Stormking was King :P
March 03, 2012, 09:34 PM
MagUidir
Re: [Submod ideas]The King of Rivers and Hills
yes.... he was but good sir the crown was added to the Barantheon coat of arms when Robert usurped the Iron Throne.
March 04, 2012, 01:08 AM
Noobio
Re: [Submod ideas]The King of Rivers and Hills
great ! best of wishes for this..can't wait to play it
does anyone know, how complicated it would be to actually make such a submod into an optional campaign ? (instead of just overwriting teh main game?)
you know, like the Fellowship Campaign in the TA
March 04, 2012, 06:58 AM
MagUidir
Re: [Submod ideas]The King of Rivers and Hills
I assume it would be almost like creating a whole new mod...
March 04, 2012, 07:38 AM
Noobio
Re: [Submod ideas]The King of Rivers and Hills
Quote:
Originally Posted by MagUidir
I assume it would be almost like creating a whole new mod...
you assume that based on what ?
i just think that such a cool "sub" mod, like for example also "war of the usurper" would be awesome as optional campaigns, or even expansions, so that one can easily play em all without having to either make multiple installations of teh main mod or just play one at a time..
not really sure how/if it's doable though..:hmm:so can someone confirm/reject this based on evidence and not assumptions ?
(no offence MagUdir..)
March 04, 2012, 08:35 AM
Toho
Re: [Submod ideas]The King of Rivers and Hills
it is perfectly do-able, just check Battle Axe mod, they have like 6 or 7 campaigns, basically each acts as a separate mod but they all use the same files but they use different world files.
so yes it is totally possible to have multiple campaigns with even different maps in the same mod with no text work but as i remember it Battle Axe was kind of buggy in the menu. god forbid you stayed in the menu too long or clicked too many things...
as for Robert's Rebellion submod/sub campaign. that is very easy to do actually. i think when 1.0 is released with the help of Edric i can make this campaign in less than a week. of course if you want scripts and events it would take much longer than hat :)
and no i will not say how it can be done in such a short amount of time, people who mod should probably already guess the answer and i don't like spoiling surprises :)
March 04, 2012, 11:48 AM
Dux
Re: [Submod ideas]The King of Rivers and Hills
Quote:
Originally Posted by MagUidir
yes.... he was but good sir the crown was added to the Barantheon coat of arms when Robert usurped the Iron Throne.
You are right, but it is plausible that the crown was also removed from the sigil of the Stormkings when the first Baratheon took it. I say we keep the crown, they are Kings after all.
Thank you for your support Noobas, about those different campaigns, I guess it could work. But this will just be a separate submod I think, we'll see what happens.
We need ideas about the last name of the Stormkings.
Shall we keep Baratheon? or do we use Veb (Gurkhal mentioned it in an other thread but I still have no idea where we got that from), or another house of the Stormlands, or are we going to make up a name?
We also need names for the factionleaders of the houses Bolton, Stormkings, Yronwood and optional Dayne and Hightower.
March 04, 2012, 12:34 PM
Bastard King
Re: [Submod ideas]The King of Rivers and Hills
House Lannister was named after Lann the Clever. The first storm king was King Durran. I think it would be appropriate to name the Stormalnds faction after him rather than keeping the Baratheon name.
