Third Age Total War Box Art Preview...

[Bloody_Ambition]

What if people could order the cases for free. They would recieve the box-set and on the CD there would be all the current versions (patches) of TATW on there andalso a link to the TWcenter site where they can download more recent patches. We could ask CA to fund the production cost as it would spread their brand with it. Of course on the box it will say 'Requires Medieval 2 Total War & Medieval 2 Total War: Kingdoms to play', that is where CA would profit. It would ultimately act as a free Expansion Pack for MTW2K... Unless CA are willing enough for them to sell it at a proper retail price...

Would it work?

No... Third Age can't be sold/ordered in the first place because of copyright reasons, and even if Sega managed to get permission, the cost wouldn't be worth it unless CA sold the game itself with a cost, but even then, why would we pay for it? We already have almost the full game for free. lol. And what do you mean "unless CA are willing enough to sell it at a proper retail price"? Of course they're willing to sell it at a proper retail price!! They're a corporation, if they can sell it for cash and make a profit then they will. It's a great mod, and it's a cool box design, but can it be sold? I doubt it.

[Evan MF]

No... Third Age can't be sold/ordered in the first place because of copyright reasons, and even if Sega managed to get permission, the cost wouldn't be worth it unless CA sold the game itself with a cost, but even then, why would we pay for it? We already have almost the full game for free. lol. And what do you mean "unless CA are willing enough to sell it at a proper retail price"? Of course they're willing to sell it at a proper retail price!! They're a corporation, if they can sell it for cash and make a profit then they will. It's a great mod, and it's a cool box design, but can it be sold? I doubt it.

But this could be a good method of marketing the game. Right?

A scatterd should be The scatterd peoples of Middle earth are on the brink of destruction, They must unite or they will fall.
and The third age is ending, dark forces amass in the east.

And no the game is near the End of the Third Age. Muffer NI corrected me!

[Maca]

But this could be a good method of marketing the game. Right?

Wrong. Sorry, to put it bluntly TATW will never be sold.

[Evan MF]

Wrong. Sorry, to put it bluntly TATW will never be sold.

No, just to get more people into it.

[Maca]

Sorry, I misunderstood.

Perhaps it could bring more people to TATW, but i'm not sure.

Really, unless you're looking for it particular mods are quite hard to come by, I myself stumbled on this while looking for a mod I could actually get to work. (This was my second, after EB for RTW, couldn't get RTR to work, and in hindsight i am glad, EB was fantastic).

[Evan MF]

Sorry, I misunderstood.

Perhaps it could bring more people to TATW, but i'm not sure.

Really, unless you're looking for it particular mods are quite hard to come by, I myself stumbled on this while looking for a mod I could actually get to work. (This was my second, after EB for RTW, couldn't get RTR to work, and in hindsight i am glad, EB was fantastic).

I stumbled onto it whilst watching empire total war trailers on youtube.

[A1_Unit]

You have made very good art Evan.

[sithlord447]

Sorry, I misunderstood.

Perhaps it could bring more people to TATW, but i'm not sure.

Really, unless you're looking for it particular mods are quite hard to come by, I myself stumbled on this while looking for a mod I could actually get to work. (This was my second, after EB for RTW, couldn't get RTR to work, and in hindsight i am glad, EB was fantastic).

RS is better

i found out about TA:TW like a year and a half ago when i was lurking the kingdoms hosted mods saw TA:TW was like hey that sounds cool and have been here since

[Muffer Nl]

I saw the vids of Lotr:TW So I started searching for a mod for M2TW....

[Blackomur89]

Great work! 5 stars.

I joined this forum in April this year only because of this mod.

[Muffer Nl]

Nice napoleaon touch +rep.

[Danny_K_1]

I saw the vids of Lotr:TW So I started searching for a mod for M2TW....

Same as me. Lurked for months and here I am.

BTW wheres Pippen?

[Muffer Nl]

He's still there.

[Evan MF]

Pippin got Leopracy so he stole Vendetta's mask! Lol.

[jản]

moved to "guides, resources & art" sub-forum

[Evan MF]

moved to "guides, resources & art" sub-forum

Aw, man I won't get as much traffic there.

[Maca]

Prefer the old one without Aragorn, new one seems to suggest that he is a very important part of the mod when infact he isn't, despite having a custom model.

Edit: Also he doesn't look right, kind of cut and pasted, if you know what I mean. Sorry for the criticism.

[sithlord447]

i like the idea better but he seems blurry and as maca said "cut and pasted"

[Evan MF]

i like the idea better but he seems blurry and as maca said "cut and pasted"

Yes it is currently in rough version. I just obtained a much larger picture of Aragorn from it's creator, Louis Lux. I will add some Gaussian Blur, Drop Shadow, Sharpen ans other effects. With that it will look better.

I am also going to try and put the sillhoutte of Middle-Earth in the background like on MTW2 where they have sillhoutte of Europe.

I understand that Aragorn isn't a major part of the Mod, but it was the best picture I could find mimicking the guy on MTW2 cover and I think he is one of the most powerful characters in the book. He represents many other LOTR games too.

[Maca]

Oh, I missed the "rough version" bit.

Well then, looking foreward to the new and improved version. The silhoutte (sp?) is a good idea, hope that works out well.

If it's good enough I might consider giving some more rep