Isengard culture submod - For TATW 2.1 >>> Update : !!! Version 1.0 released !!!

[Radboud]

Permission

Hi Radboud,

sorry for my late response, my current time-management is really terrible.
But of course, feel free to mod Isengard like you want, no permission is needed for that. Just give credits if you use an existing unit and make "your own" unit out of it.
Good luck with that, I'm really looking forward to how your new generals and heroes look like.

Regards

Features

Please note that this is not meant insulting, but I plan to do this because the Isengard faction feels strange to me and I want to make it more appealing for the (Isengard) fans.

version 1.0

- New culture. - UI by cedric37. - New portraits. - New event pictures - New advisor - General Ufthak is renamed to Mauhur

version 2.0 (WIP)

- New models. - New picture for the Mine. - New heroes, Sharku (wargs) and Lurtz (archers). - New ancillary for Lurtz. - Maybe a new battering ram.

Previews

Art by Radboud

Event Pictures

The border for the event pictures was made by cedric37

Models/Textures by Lü Bu

Uruk-Hai Heavy Infantry

Link

Uruk-Hai Berserker

Link

Art by Louis Lux

Saruman

Link

Portraits

Team

Radboud - Coding, 2D-Art
Lü Bu - Modeling/Skinning
Louis Lux - 2D-Art
Zack-Stefy - Concept Art

Credits

TATW team - For their incredible mod
Alletun - For base helmet mesh, shield and hair of his Uruk-Hai infantry unit
cedric37 - For letting us use his UI and for making the event pictures border + the portrait background
Yarrum - For letting us use his dagger model

Special Thanks

Gigantus - For guiding me with coding

Download

ICS v1.0 (Installer) @Filefront >> DOWNLOAD @Mediafire >> DOWNLOAD

Installer Instructions

To install simply download the file, double click on the ICS v1.0.exe file and follow the instructions. For further information check the ICS_ReadMe file in mods/Third_Age, the features can be found in the top of this post right above the previews.

ICS v1.0 (.zip file) @Filefront >> DOWNLOAD @Mediafire >> DOWNLOAD

.zip file Instructions

To put the files in their proper place simply extract the Third_Age folder from the .zip file to the Third_Age folder on your computer.The folder is usually located under C:/Program Files/SEGA/Medieval II Total War/mods/

Enjoy and feel free to post in this thread if you run into any problems (though there shouldn't be any problems).

[Lü Bu]

I looking forward to see those new units

[ELB27]

looking forward to it! sounds like a great idea

[Rusery]

Amazing! Isengard has been may absolute favorite to play since i started with the game. A nice change would be warg heros, and more than one. I personally love the wargs but unlike other factions we can't have a general protected by them and a fast moving general with ancillaries would be a godsend. Sounds and portraits is an issue too so im glad you are addressing that! The skins for raiders should have included helmets (on the odd orc or so) to be more accurate with the lore of Isengard. Whats is your time line looking like for the completion of these tasks and what kind of help would you be looking for? =)

[Radboud]

Thanks for the support everybody.

Amazing! Isengard has been may absolute favorite to play since i started with the game. A nice change would be warg heros, and more than one. I personally love the wargs but unlike other factions we can't have a general protected by them and a fast moving general with ancillaries would be a godsend. Sounds and portraits is an issue too so im glad you are addressing that! The skins for raiders should have included helmets (on the odd orc or so) to be more accurate with the lore of Isengard. Whats is your time line looking like for the completion of these tasks and what kind of help would you be looking for? =)

Thanks, I too felt that Isengard needed an adjustment to better represent the faction (just my opinion). For now I want to make only one hero unit with wargs. As for the Raiders, I have no other plans for them than using Brevi's units. I have no idea as to when this will be released since I have other projects to work on as well, help from a coder would be very much welcome (it would speed up the progress).

[Methismenos]

You couldn't just stay to second age you want to mod them all.Joking of course,i really want to see your isengard mod.And i think it will be very good.

[The Holy Pilgrim]

I thought that the culture limit was reached

[Baron Samedi]

I thought that the culture limit was reached

I believe I have read somewhere some time ago that there is a limited number of 7 for the number of cultures. TATW-vanilla uses right now:

1. gondor
2. northern_european
3. southern_european
4. greek
5. eastern_european
6. middle_eastern

So there is one left, but I do not exactly know if there any limitations associated with using another culture slot. One question that pops up: why did KK not seperate the middle_eastern culture for Harad & Rhun in the first place?

[The Holy Pilgrim]

I believe I have read somewhere some time ago that there is a limited number of 7 for the number of cultures. TATW-vanilla uses right now:

1. gondor
2. northern_european
3. southern_european
4. greek
5. eastern_european
6. middle_eastern

So there is one left, but I do not exactly know if there any limitations associated with using another culture slot. One question that pops up: why did KK not seperate the middle_eastern culture for Harad & Rhun in the first place?

Simplicity maybe? And could you show me your source of information? I could've sworn that it was that you could only add one culture for both Rome: TW and Medieval 2.

[kaiser1993]

Love to see this done, so good luck
p.s if you want to use some music from my submod just give us a call

[Grimbold']

sounds interesting Radboud!

[Radboud]

I thought that the culture limit was reached

The culture limit is 7, Ishan (who is a skilled coder) posted that somewhere on the forums and as far as I know there are no limitations to it (also see Baron Samedi's post).

Love to see this done, so good luck
p.s if you want to use some music from my submod just give us a call

I'll have to check it out first.

sounds interesting Radboud!

Thanks mate.

[mattgoby]

New heroes, Sharku (wargs) and Lurtz (archers

wasnt sharku the name that they used for saruman?

[Bela]

The culture limit is 7, Ishan (who is a skilled coder) posted that somewhere on the forums and as far as I know there are no limitations to it (also see Baron Samedi's post).

Hardcoded limits of the engine (from docudemons):

AgentTypes 12
Building Trees 128
Buildings in Tree 9
Cultures, number of 7
Factions 31
Regions 200
Resources, desc_sm_resources.txt 26
Resources, Hidden 64
Units in export_desc_units.txt 500


Anyway, good luck with your project, it sounds very promising!

[Tatoru]

- New music.

YES!
I know my priorities are weird.

Wish you good luck with this.

Do you plan even some faction gameplay improvements, like emerging of Isengard faction or something like that?

[kaiser1993]

@Radboud
I'd love to see Isengard with its own music, in my mod mordor and isegard share the same music due to them having the same culture
p.s the link for my mod is in my sig

[Radboud]

wasnt sharku the name that they used for saruman?

Yes, you're right (I believe they also called him Sharkey sometimes although I don't remember that from the books). However, in the movies Sharku is the orc general who gets sent by Saruman to intercept the travelling people of Rohan and he is named Sharku as far as I know (he is also the one who says about Aragorn : "He took a little tumble of the cliff"). So in short I'm using the movies as a reference.

YES!
I know my priorities are weird.

Wish you good luck with this.

Do you plan even some faction gameplay improvements, like emerging of Isengard faction or something like that?

For now I plan to do the changes I stated only, maybe for a later release and I will not make an emerging faction out of them.

@Radboud
I'd love to see Isengard with its own music, in my mod mordor and isegard share the same music due to them having the same culture
p.s the link for my mod is in my sig

Thanks, I'll check it out.

[Hrobatos]

they called Saruman Sharku, which means "old man" in Black speech

[Radboud]

Thanks for backing me up with the info.

[Lothar135]

Sounds interesting. Looking forward to it.

I would dare to suggest to use also uruk infantry and uruk banner from Brevi's reskin submod.