Drenai - Total War

**TheDawnRaven** · August 02, 2008, 01:09 PM

Hey all, I'm a huge fan of David Gemmell and would like to create a M2TW mod in tribute to him. I wont go any further into this unless people show some support. If this mod does start up, I wont be leader, due to lack of modding skills, but i will do research etc.

**Osiiic** · August 02, 2008, 03:04 PM

Welcome to the forums!

I dont know anything on Drenai but even if you dont find any expirienced modder, dont be affraid to lear how to mod by yourself. It is not complicated, yes, maybe it is sometimes boring and irritating (because of neverending CTD's), but if you realy want it, you can do it!

**TheDawnRaven** · August 02, 2008, 03:37 PM

Thanks, I was planning on learning to mod, but my pc crashed and hasnt been fixed yet, so im a bit stuck...

By the way, if anyone who views this is interested in helping, just post and ill write down a list

**High Chunker Greens** · August 04, 2008, 05:59 AM

Did he write lord of the silver bow? I think I know who you mean

**TheDawnRaven** · August 06, 2008, 07:53 AM

Originally Posted by 10greenbottles

Did he write lord of the silver bow? I think I know who you mean

yeah, thats him. great to see some other people with support, the mod would begin at around the time that druss defended the tomb of oshikai, i chose this time because druss was around 40, there was great friction between the gothir and the drenai, Ventria had been starting to conquer all the territory around it, and events such as the battle of skeln hadn't happened yet

**stormbringer951** · August 07, 2008, 05:43 PM

The Thirty as a guild (with very very limited respawn etc.)?

I think that you need a list of nations in the game

Ventria
Naashan
Lentria
Vagria
Drenai
Gothir
Nadir
Sathuli
Angostin?
Kydor?
Cadia?
Panthia?
Chiatze?

Most of them are never really fleshed out (Gemmell never really talks that much about military matters or cities in the same way that for example, George RR Martin does, but we can make assumptions based on the empires / cultures they were based on).

PS: I was thinking of something like this myself. Unfortunately, I'm not a modder, and I'm already heavily involved with Westeros:Total War, but I'll keep an eye out here as well.

**Vincenzo the Damned** · August 04, 2008, 07:38 PM

I have been thinking the exact same thing for a while now, though i'm in a similar situation in regards to knowing next to nothing about creating a mod! I'd love this to happen tho and would help in any way i can. The campaign map is already laid out for us in "white wolf"- handy. The variation in units and unique units and even timescales is awesome- Druss as a unique unit Legion riders of Delnoch a recruitable heavy cavalry, Nadir horse archers, Shaman special abilities in battle- like an opposite to the "flower of chivalry" ability in Kingdoms:Crusade -use the ability to lower the morale of the enemy and cause some units to rout straight away etc. Gothir lancers, immortals, loads!

**Captain Kirk** · August 05, 2008, 11:57 AM

PLEASE do it. Love drenai and im sure you could easily create 5/6 unique factions. I wish I had some skills as a modder (or the time to help for that matter) but, unfortunatly, I do not.
Still, chin up!

**TheDawnRaven** · August 08, 2008, 06:20 AM

I was thinking of Panthia being part of Ventria, and using Pagans Kingdom as an African faction...

Also, how about the thirty being a Drenai unique unit that spawns as an event every 150 turns or so?

**Ardour** · December 28, 2008, 05:53 PM

Not sure if this mod had taken off or not? Is there a group interested in this idea? Id love to help if it had. Im a computer games graduate with alot of free time on his hands thanks to the terrible situation of the economy!

**el Cid** · February 10, 2010, 03:01 PM

I would love this to happen though we'd need more team members, (and probably some more experienced ones too).

I have some skills in modding, but I'm not that good.

**Huene** · February 13, 2010, 11:55 PM

i like this idea. David Gemmel was an amazing author. unfortunately i can see that it is already destened to fail. the "i have no modding expeiance" has nothing to do with anything. everyone starts out knowing nothing. then they try something and it fails, so they try it a different way until it works. also there is the mod workshop which has everything anyone who needs to learn how to mod could possibly need to know. and in the off chance that it doesnt, there is a nice section where you can ask all the modding gods out there. as someone i can remember once said. the only thing holding you back from learning is your own lack of inititive. if you want this mod badly enough you will learn how to make it. if not, this is as far as it gets.

not trying to offend anyone, just telling you how it is.

**Kaelin-Ring** · May 23, 2013, 10:31 PM

Hi everyone!
As I can see many of you would like to create a Drenaï mod, well I want to as well, and I have already started to learn how to mod (thanks for your post Huene

what your are saying is true).
I'm currently re-reading all the Drenaï books (so 11 books), Taking every bit of informations that is interesting: culture, soldiers, equipment, history of this world, etc as well as sentences that would fit as quoting.
The problem is that David Gemmel wasn't a worldbuilder, so the nation are partially depicted (excepted for the drenais and the nadirs). So a lot of the work would be guessing.
I will try to stay as close as possible to gemmell vision of Drenaï, as I am a huge fan.
I've discover this autor 8 years ago with the "Rigante" series.

**Kaelin-Ring** · May 23, 2013, 10:45 PM

I'm going to do first a "battlemod" then if the project is still running, we will be able to start doing the campaign map, and events.
I hope some of you are still interested i will pot a subject on TWC for every one to see it with the descrition of the project

Cheers

**Ardour** · May 26, 2013, 02:24 PM

I wish you luck with this mod Kaelin-Ring! Please keep us updated on how things go

I am afraid I am going to have to retract my origional offer of modding. Real life commitments see that I have no time to devote to such a project.
Time to play any finished mod though!

**Kaelin-Ring** · May 26, 2013, 10:43 PM

Thanks

. Well for the moment, I'm stille the only one, working slowly but surely.
I will probably create a New topic, or do you think it's better to post on this one?
Because then the date would be "2008" and won't really bring a lot of people I think =D"

**Kaelin-Ring** · June 04, 2013, 12:37 AM

Nobody interested yet ? I've done a few drawing of units (very humble ^^) i will post that later

**Kaelin-Ring** · June 28, 2013, 06:09 PM

I every one, The mod project is slowly starting, have got a few people in it at the moment, gathering the infos and drawing units ideas and textures. All of us are french, so the mod will go in this language at the moment, when we will have realise a few units, i will post the screens, as i prefer to post 3d work on the topic rather that just drawings

. Hope that when we will have get a few units done, some other people will join us =).

**lekseus** · June 28, 2013, 11:35 PM

This world has a weak describing in books, too little information. So, main part of it you will hae to create youself. But, good luck anyway.

**Kaelin-Ring** · June 29, 2013, 04:55 PM

Yes, that's what I thougth first, but after re-reading all the books and collecting every info, I came up with a lot, so we are just gonna try it like that, and we will see! But thanks