Viking Invasion Mod for Britannia Campaign

[Marcus Orentius]

Hi,

Some of you may know me from Britannia Total War mod, but I've been thinking of a different area. As the area BTW was focusing on is already taken by mods like Kingdom of the Scots, I was thinking of making my mod a VI2 kind of mod.

If this has already been done or is being done please let me know.

Otherwise it will essentially be just like the original Viking Invasion expansion pack with better graphics. I'm sure there's a lot of people out there (including me) who would have loved CA to do a VI2 expansion, and as this hasn't happened, I'm going to make it happen if it isn't already being done. Your thoughts?

[Baron von Stadler]

I always liked the Viking Invasion expansion for the first MTW. I say go for it, and best of luck to you. (And no, I don't know of any such mod in the works).

[Lord Condormanius]

Great Idea Marcus! I was thinking of doing something like this about a year ago, but I never got around to it. I think it's a great idea and I am here for any help needed.

[Marcus Orentius]

Ok, I'll be wanting somewhere that has unit lists etc. for VI, as i appear to have lost my copy Otherwise, somebody else who has a copy to help on information first.

[Lord Condormanius]

I let a friend borrow my copy. I'll get it back in a few days.

[Marcus Orentius]

Ok, cheers. I have a feeling i may have let a friend borrow my copy as well...

[Hesus de bodemloze]

nice idea in what year will it start? think VI for mtw1 started around 800 - 900 ?

[Marcus Orentius]

If somebody with a copy of VI would be so kind as to be my informer, that would be great.

[Lord Condormanius]

If somebody with a copy of VI would be so kind as to be my informer, that would be great.

I'm pretty sure that VI starts in 793 or 794.

[Marcus Orentius]

Ok, so we have the date, roughly. Now we need the units and factions etc. etc.

[billydilly]

Original Viking Invasion factions:
-Mercians
-Saxons
-Northumbrians
-Welsh
-Scots
-Picts
-Irish
-Vikings

Idea for factions:
-Essex
-Wessex
-Sussex
-East Anglia
-Dalriada
-Kent
-Mercia
-Northumbria
-Ireland
-Ireland
-Ireland
-Dumnonia/Cornwall
-Normans
-Vikings (Norwegians)
-Vikings (Danes)

Map:
You could use the Kingdom of the Scots map, but add northern France, a part of Norway and Denmark. Some settlement names would need to be changed.

Her's a link to a Wiki page_
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval:_Total_War

[Marcus Orentius]

Does anyone have a map of the territories in VI? as the first version will try to be almost exactly like the original VI.

[billydilly]

I googled these:

[Marcus Orentius]

Wicked, thanks. Any faction symbols while you're at it?

I also found out wich friend has borrowed my copy, and he will be bringing it back as soon as possible, won't he? *glares at friend*

[Lord Condormanius]

Wicked, thanks. Any faction symbols while you're at it?

I also found out wich friend has borrowed my copy, and he will be bringing it back as soon as possible, won't he? *glares at friend*

I just got my copy back today. It seem that the graphic files are in .BIF format. Does anyone have any idea what that means?

[Marcus Orentius]

Dunno ask, anyone who has experience modding MTW.
EDIT: There appears to be a BIF reader, somewhere in the works, but I haven't found it yet.

[Antagonist]

Here's a shot of the faction symbols:


(Left to right: Irish, Mercians, Northumbrians, Picts, Saxons, Scots, Vikings, Welsh)

I'm a big fan of this period and it's always irritated me that no-one has successfully released a mod set in this period for any TW game, despite any number of attempts and projects.

I appreciate your goal of starting off by simply re-making VI. I'm very proud of the amount of research we've accumulated in WotN, but that level of scrupulousness definately makes for a lot more work and can sometimes bog down concrete progress. With that said, however, vanilla VI has a number of major historical inaccuracies (I'm not talking finicky little historian things here, I can live with those, but there are a few things which are totally off for the Viking age, for the Celts especially) It would be nice to see a mod which would try to correct those without perhaps going to far in the other direction, but if you want to start out with pure VI for expediency's sake I can understand that.

Anyway, I'm always keen to give what help I can to projects like this. My expertise, such as it is, is with Gaelic factions (Ireland and early Scotland) but as I said, I can understand a focus on getting something done before worrying about accuracy. For a start, I have VI minimized right now, so I could post up the unit rosters or whatever if you want them (even if some make me wince )

Good luck,

Antagonist

[Marcus Orentius]

Cheers, I notice that a couple of the symbols are exactly the same as the current ones, so that's two symbols I don't have to do.

[Orko]

Great! a Viking invasion mod!
may I suggest factions:
Denmark
Norway
Wessex
Essex
Kent
East Anglia
Mercia
Northumbria
Gwynned
Picts
Scots
Dal Riada
Leinster
Munster
Cornwall
Sussex
Dyfed
Connacht

[Marcus Orentius]

Like I've said, I'm going to stick with the original Vi format, and modify it a bit. I want this to feel like VI and not be too elaborate.