1:13 - total conversion post-apocalyptic mod

[Hengest]

one world, 13 factions, one survivor

1:13 is a project exploring the dark and chilling world of the future. 1:13 presents a post-apocalyptic landscape of dystopian totalitarian societies competing for resources and survival. Climate change and nuclear fallout have devastated the face of the earth, and centuries after seeking refuge underground, mankind is scrambling back out of the bunkers to the surface.

New Post Dec 2011

I'm planning a multiplayer/custom battle mode phase first before even considering anything like a full campaign. Since the mod would require a solid working battle system, which is difficult to achieve based on 'gunpowder' units in M2TW -it just wasn't designed for that, the units would just stand and face each other whilst laying into each other with automatic weapons!

So my plan is to develop the battle mode first, and for that I'll need skinners, modellers and EDU coders- which are always in such a high demand. But if I can do that then I think the mod could be a riproaring success.

There are mods made already that give unitmakers something to work with.

Breech reloading animation.

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=141434



Gasmask "apocalyptic" style units

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=322093



So if you are interested in any way in working with EDU stats coding, projectiles and battefleld behaviour, and if you have any interest in playing around with skinning and re-assembling models etc then let me know!

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We did consider the project for ETW for a while but we are now focussing on M2TW as our platform. We are inspired and pay homage to the full range of media -films, games and books on the Post-Apocalyptic genre to give a full RPG experience from the strategic perspective.

Our factions are based on devolution of societies and civilisations, so we have a retrograde Steampunk vibe, a return to 1940's era industrialisation and using historical stereotypes for different faction 'flavours'. We will actually have more than 13 factions on the campaign map, but probably only 13 core playable factions.

Weaponry will range from explosives, automatic fire and cannons, infantry will be able to evolve armour and technology through the campaign progress. We will incorporate an armoured land vehicle unit, and we plan to represent 'airships' capable of aerial bombardment on the strat map replacing one of the agents.

Our map is totally new, a unique and challenging world that you will find it hard to recognise. Making the campaign a voyage of discovery and not allowing you to exploit your knowledge of geography in the fog of war!

Small preview:
We now have 4 different looks for the map. Which one will be used hasn't been decided yet, though.

Map

You can read more here- see our teaser movie and download our main theme soundtrack
http://www.moddb.com/mods/113-total-war



We are recruiting coders, skinners and modellers of all levels.
Current team:
Hross
Meneth
Spamostoc
lolgast
Russian Gondor
Trotski12

[Ruckulf]

I like the drawings! Did you make them?

Anyways nice mod idea, hope it goes into development. I'm afraid I won't be able to help much...

[Shonos47]

How would you incorporate advance air units?

[Hrobatos]

go for it! mod aim is not realism so you can fit it into Total War easily
concept drawings are awesome!

[Finlander]

Hey, who made those drawings. They are fantastic.

[IVIarkI2I]

damm again , seriously idea is perfect , but imagine how much time it would require to make it fully playable , some time ago I made terrorist unit with AK-47 , thought might be helpfull for a new start

[Hengest]

damm again , seriously idea is perfect , but imagine how much time it would require to make it fully playable , some time ago I made terrorist unit with AK-47 , thought might be helpfull for a new start

Thanks guys, the drawings are from Googling 24 hrs straight into the depths of the net.

An AK47 for M2TW? I'd be interested to see that.

As for other questions, there won't be any advanced things like flying machines. AFAIK the apocalypse is written in stone.

Modding this would be first just custom battles -that would just require new units and new battle maps, which is not 'that much' work. 2D art for the menus, screensavers, UIs and new music would be a bonus, but again fairly straightforward to mod.

[Sulfurion Blackfyre]

I think you guys are better off doing this kind of mod in a strategy game like Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars or that kind..

[Ruckulf]

Or Men of war maybe, Thats like the perfect game for this mod....

[Alexandros I.]

Great idea! The drawings are awesome!

[IVIarkI2I]

AK 47 unit , Ive created it year ago

[Horsa]

Looks pretty awesome!

[Hengest]

AK 47 unit , Ive created it year ago

You weren't joking!

Did you mod the gunfire/reloads at all? I assume you didn't replace the animations

[\Vazul's Ghost/]

Wow, twin towers replacing the 'N' in 'Afghanistan'. That's balsey.

[Vítor Gaspar]

Men of War would definitely rock with a mod like this one
You should totally check on that.

[Ataegina]

i like the concept

i guess making the models is easy but what is more harder is the animations (i'm unitmaker)

[Hengest]

I know, you used to be in Dominion of the Sword when you were starting out, remember

Yep reloading animations would be a big thing, although you could probably just ignore that first if there were working units that looked and sounded and acted right. Looks are possible with a unitmaker. Sound is no problem.

But the AI- even the behavious of your own army- you don't want units to just stand around getting picked off by automatic fire, grenades, mortars, rockets and cannons. A battle would be over pretty quick.
I wonder about using the cantabrian circle and other features to add special behaviours or actions to the units

But a campaign with a blackened post-apocalyptic landscape with industrialised, polluted dystopian totalitarian states would be an awesome gaming experience.

[IVIarkI2I]

nope didnt touched animations for gun reloading , becouse the project was like "one night mod" so no havent even created more units

[Hengest]

We've gone ahead with this project, you can read more here. We have also released our main theme tune from our soundtrack. We also have new promo art. We will be releasing more detailed information on the map, factions, unit rosters and the tech tree in the next few weeks.
http://www.moddb.com/mods/113-total-war

[Hengest]

updated OP
we plan to launch a Hosted Forum here in a month, where we will likely have an initial preview including the map