first age total war mod

[waraelm]

hi im waraelm, im quite expirenced mod team leader and a massive fan of J.R.R Tolkiens work, espacially his work about the first age e.g. children of hurin and the silmarillion. though it would be great to make a rome total war alexander mod about the first age. i have moddling experince with the dow mod tools and i am a dow mod leader aswell,http://z15.invisionfree.com/IG_Last_Chancers_Mod, but i sadly can not find the rome total war mod tools. i also have a wealth of information regarding tolkiens work on the first age and already have an idea of the factions involved. but i would really appreciate some help.



I also have heard that there was a first age mod in the past but it is dead now. so now i need to get a team together,if anyone is intreasted in helping me make this could they please say. i would be really gratfull and im shure im not the only first age fan aswell.


Ruff faction list:

sindar elves (grey elves): the greatest kingdom of elves ever to be seen in the mortal world and the finest warriors ever seen.

Edain: the mightest men who ever lived,brave strong and noble. if this goes well i may think about having three edian factions to repreasent the 3 houses, hurin (my fav),haleth,hador.

Dwarves: master miner and crafsmen, the tank faction of middle earth.

legions of morgoth: the servants of morgoth, goblins,orcs,trolls and fire demons (dragons,draks,giant spiders,balrogs).

Easterlings: mean who went to the east and were turned dark and evil by melkor.

good easterlings: the very few easterlings who fought with there edian and sindar allys,to deafet the evil melkor.

sea elves: the elves of the waves and great shipwrigths.

bandits, thugs and other: the people who live in the forests of middle earth who are just looking out for themselves.


i hope you like my list and ,my mod idea and hopfully it can be an actual mod. so please if you can help me please do. like i said if people like it ill give you more info in future.

[MasterOfNone]

Several mods - including First-Age ones, set in Middle-earth have been attempted. Only Fourth Age: Total War and Lord of the Rings: Total War have come to fruition, the rest being dead. I believe one for M2TW has been started or resurrected but I am not sure how "alive" it is.

Beyond the few very specific tools made by the modding community, there really are no editors for TW modding. It's all manual. I would estimate the mod you describe to take about 3-4 years to complete if you have a dedicated and skilled team. FATW and LOTRTW are both about 3-3.5 years old and neither are complete in the sense envisioned, although FATW has had modules released that were complete in and of themself.

Check out http://www.chamber-of-records.com/forum/ for info on Middle-earth mods, inc. TW ones.

[Uranos]

I believe one for M2TW has been started or resurrected but I am not sure how "alive" it is.

it seems they are doing pretty well:
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...34#post2974734

[waraelm]

thanks for the adive masterofnone, being a moddler myself say maybe 2 years,but hay it would be really nice to have a first age mod.

[Aradan]

A mod is way much more than the models and skins...

Anyway, good luck with this nonetheless, waraelm, it's a huge task you're undertaking. I hope you stick with it.

[waraelm]

i know its more then skins and models i have been in the bussiness for a while. thanks for the support anyone just need to get 3dsmax free trial somwere.