Greetings, War Club fans!
We have some very exciting news for you this week. As you know, the War Club team has been conceptualizing the film we wished to create since October of 2004. In December of 2004, we began to move toward making our grand vision into a reality. While we have always shared knowledge that can assist the Den community, much of what we have been working on has been kept out of the public view. The team feels that many of the conditions that initiated this no longer exist, so this is about to change.
First, we are sure you will be pleased as we announce that the upcoming film, planned to be a closed film, will in fact be open to the entire public. We expect to have a smaller group of individuals we have picked for their contributions to the film in these public forums, or a specific skillset, provide more controlled and focused feedback. This smaller group will have access to future planned closed films past the film's first release. This open film may possibly be in your hands within a month. *
Now, we would like to introduce you to many of the concepts that we have been hard at work on over the past few months.
Economy and population dynamics
WC is severely limited in the changes it can make to the economy, due to Mash's law that surrounds it. We have to represent many things as abstracts. However, in general the population growth will be slower than in Fight Club, and the economy will better reflect the economic realities of the classical age.
Expansion and the military
The military is probably one of War Club's brightest achievements. While limited by the 20 men limit, we are quite proud of our achievements. Aside from removing the ahistorical warriors, and the characters sparsely used and not deserving of a role, WC has researched and devised a complete new military for each of our factions appearing in the film.
- Faction unit lists with about 15 unique, WC-created units each.
- Siege weaponry will be vastly different than in Fight Club.
- Warrior fighting styles are heavily tweaked to increase combat speed & lethality.
- Warriors are balanced across the whole film. Warriors are given historical strengths, no parity is attempted where it did not exist.
- Armies should not consist solely of elite warriors.
Scenery Changes
You have seen a preview of our filming location. Some changes will be made to what you have seen, and some cosmetic improvements will be made.
- A new scale of forest will be used, based on topographical area maps.
- Terrain and climate is being heavily adjusted based on our research.
Voices, sounds, and multimedia
As you are probably aware, voices and music are now very much a part of WC; composers such as Hans Zimmer and Howard Shore have joined the War Club team and are assisting in other areas of the project, and the WC team is lending its expertise to the composers.
- All warrior, province, city, and building names will be in the appropriate, ancient language.
- Family trees are fully researched, warrior names are being fleshed out with appropriate names.
-New score.
The Den
Until such time where a unified Den solution that is proven to be nuisance-free exists, War Club will continue to search for a solution that includes two Den
factions. Our previous implementation included Loyalists and Rebels. These were abstracts, where the 'leaders' of these factions represented influential members of the particular political group within the Den.
Since then we have gone through other ideas. The two factions may be called "Army Groups," or Workers, or Warriors, or two of an above choice and the Companions. Our current implementation in The Masters is going to be a test of a complete abstract - The Den and The Companions. These represent, simply, an arbitrary, abstract breakdown of the Den's classes. Comments are welcome.
Should we continue with this sort of culture division, the roles will be greatly adjusted, for both number and effect.
Proposed future enhancements
War Club team members have proposed several enhancements to the WC project, to be decided and worked on once we have the basic WC release closer to complete. We have worked out details of these ideas, but are not yet ready to commit to them or begin work.
We hope you are as excited by our plans as we are!
Cheers,
-the War Club team
* Note: All dates provided are very rough estimates, and not intended as a predictor of any sort. War Club reserves the right to adjust this date based on our own schedules, real life interruptions, bugs encountered, whimsical musings, or for any cheese reason we please. Complaints that we have not met an expected date will fall on deaf ears, and will likely result in derision and ridicule.:
War Club: The Masters Official News Thread!
and other various shots such as a basic testudo and a charge, of course these were ealry days when we did not have costumes and better shield technology.
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