(WIP) MOS Expansion Project - Ancillary Overhaul

**Minas Moth** · April 19, 2011, 02:04 PM

DEAR MOS USERS

After some time of "absence" the MOS EP is back, with new stuff... and much, much more...

Here is something i've been working on for quite some time... hopefully, you will like it...

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High Elves Ancillaries
Gwaith-i-Fingolfin

by Hero of the West
Desc: The House of Fingolfin is no more. There is no one left to claim lordship over the Elves that were once ruled by this noble house. But many of his people still remain in Middle Earth and fight on against forces of Sauron.
DONE

Ringil

by Maestro Ugo
Desc: A sword of Fingolfin was lost when Morgoth defeated the Elven Lord. Its fate was unknown for many years. Now it has been found again. It is sharp but stains of Morgoth’s blood can’t be removed.
DONE

Amath Fingolfin

by Maestro Ugo
Desc: The shield of Fingolfin was shattered during his battle with Morgoth. But still, several pieces of it managed to survive. Now they have been embedded in this shield to once again face armies of Morgoth’s servants.
DONE

Fëanorrim

by Hero of the West
Desc: People of Fëanor are one of the most tragic ones in the entire history of Elves. They still bear scars from rebellion against Valars, killing other elves while leaving Valinor and many crimes committed fulfilling the oath of their Lord Fëanor and his sons. But they are also powerful and noble Elves who are sworn enemies of Morgoth and his creatures

Tengwar

by Maestro Ugo
Desc:This book contains Fëanor’s work on elvish alphabet. The tengwar was designed by Fëanor in Valinor, but the elves took this book with them when they left.
DONE

Curufinwë

by Hero of the West
Desc: Makers of the rings of power are long dead, but new fires burn in Eregion, and great crafts are being rediscovered.
DONE

Noss-en-Finarfin

by Hero of the West
Desc: Finarfin was the only Elf lord that turned back when Mandos cursed Noldor after their crimes in Alqualondë. He was forgiven by the Valars and still rules his people in the city of Tirion in Aman . But some of his people did left for Middle Earth. Among them were some of the most powerful Elven lords and ladies.
DONE

Tann Finarfin

by Maestro Ugo
Desc: Not all of Finarfin’s folk returned to Aman. They were ashamed of their participation in kin-slaying and at the same time held great love for Middle Earth that was created by Forces of Arda. As symbol of his love he gave them this banner to be their stronghold in times of need.
DONE

Corf uin Finarfin

by Hero of the West
Desc: When departing with some of his people, Finarfin left this ring behind. It is beautiful but it doesn’t have any magical or other powers, however as it was blessed by Valars it inspires calm, and hope to its bearer.
DONE

Noss-en-Mallos

by Hero of the West
Desc: House of Golden Flower was one of the seven houses of Gondolin. Some elves of this house managed to survive destruction of Gondolin. Carying great grief in their hearts they march against armies of Mordor.
DONE

Magol uin Mallos

by Maestro ugo
Desc: This is a sword of the Guard of the House of the Golden Flower. Use it to strike fear in all creatures of Morgoth.
DONE

Pess uin Thorondor

by Maestro Ugo
Desc: This feather was given to Turgon of Gondolin by Thorondor himself. It is symbol of friendship between eagles and its descendants.
DONE

Falathrim

by Maestro Ugo
Desc: Members of this house belong to the Teler tribe. They are great seamen and experienced fighters. Some of them, like Lord Cirdan have lived in Middle-Earth since the beginning of the First Age.
DONE

Sern uin Balar Criss

by Maestro Ugo
Desc: This beautiful pearls were Taken out from Gulf of Balar. They are the most prized of all the pearls in Middle-Earth.
DONE

Tûr Falathrim

by Maestro Ugo
Desc: Falathrim is the name of the first sailors of Middle-Earth. They are known as the best sailors, and although their number is small, their skill is still great.
DONE

Cirion

by Hero of the West
Desc: Elven sailors have the sharpest eye in all Midlle-Earth.
DONE

Some of you maybe remember me already doing this stuff. well, it seems that only now a whole year (almost) later i matured enough (in modding sense) to be able to make it work as it should. this isn't the only thing that i will or already have done... some of the other changes are:

[B][SIZE=3][COLOR=green]Other Changes[/COLOR][/SIZE][/B]

This other changes will mainly address more ancillaries and traits. You will notice that most of ancillaries are now changed to traits. there are several reasons for this:

1) Ancillaries have maximum number per character (that number is 8)
2) Existing ancillaries can only be removed via script
3) Traits are much better for they offer use of many levels and also can be used to give custom titles to characters

So with that covered let us move to the existing TATW 3.1 ancillaries:

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There is also entirely new building system i made.

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This submod is compatible only with MOS. It won't work with any other submods or vanilla TATW. you can download MOS here:

Massive_Overhaul_Submod

PERMISSIONS

I express my gratitude to all of members of this community that allowed me to use their great work to make this submod. They are King Kong, Shredder (all the original models for High Elves), Louis Lux (new textures that are used by units of the Moon), Dea Paladin (created Imladris pikemen and made alterations to Mithlond units), FRoME developing team, Ozzmosis for allowing to use his idea and Point Blank for allowing us to use RR/RC, Taro_M for his Gondor units and general help with models and textures, Razor for allowing to use his Modified Eldar Units v.3.1. submod.

Special thanks to Withwnar, Ngugi, Hero of the West...

!!! NOTICE !!!

This submod isn't free for use by anyone, in other words you don't have permission to use it for your own work. Why? Well it isn't because i'm a bastard, but because i have used all the work by people stated above and it wouldn't be fair to exploit their permissions by using my mod. The only way you can use it is to get all the permissions from the persons stated above and then pm me with evidence you have got them. In that case i will be more then glad to grant you permission.

**Erunion Telcontar** · April 19, 2011, 02:14 PM

Nice!

Pics?

**Minas Moth** · April 19, 2011, 02:23 PM

OLD WORK

This has already been integrated with MOS. although present or future versions of it may not have all the content listed here. That is normal, as submods are always developing and many things are expelled, while many more are added.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

Hello everyone! I present you my little submods which aim for diversification of High Elves and Silvan Elves roster. Many posts have stated that more units should be added to factions of Middle-Earth. Well, i do understand "hunger" for new units, but i think that some lines have to be drawn... Idea for this mods came to me after i read one post by Disgrunteled Goat about adding units to game. He said that things like balance, necessity, appearance and need for them must all be taken in consideration (this isn't qoute of his statement). I started thinking about adding units but not changing the game's balance and so i came up with this little submods.

MOS Expansion Project asks for your opinions, suggestions, criticism, wishes, offers and all other stuff that can improve this game... just go here and fire away!

MOS EP version 4.0

Dear members of this community, i'm glad to inform you that MOS EP v 4.0 is DONE; it's currently undergoing testing but so far everything works fine and there is actually no reason for not to work as intended. With that being said, i have to inform you that there will be NO DOWNLOAD LINK for version 4.0. It's going to be intergrated in new version of MOS so there is no reason (for me atleast) to release it separetly... i will however post readme.txt of the version 4.0 so you can all see the changes made. also, the MOS EP isn't going to "die" i'm continuing my work on it, but it will be much easier to start affresh whitout worrying about 200 Mb worth of data...

Code:

Contents:
    1. Version History
    2. Changes
    3. Members
    4. Installation
    5. Dislcaimer
    
#################Version History#############
Versions 1 - 3 added various unnits from Forgotten Realms of Middle-Earth submod (FRoME - http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=323812) to Silvan Elves
Added units for High Elves using Ozzmossis's unit project, added two new buildings for High and Silvan Elves that are now responsible for area recruitment of their forces...
Added Veterans building to Eriador after reemerging Arnor - enables retraining Eriador units after reemergence... (was done by Withwnar)
Added Forest paths and historical roads (north-south road, westroad, greenway) from RR/RC made by Point Blank

#################Changes######################
version 3.1 (released on 29. of June 2011.)
Replaced Sidarin names of elven units with english ones (thnx to Vifarc for pointing that out), Sindarin names still visible in unit description
Made buildings available for both castles and cities (saving building tree slots)
Some other smaller changes

version 3.12 (released on 29. of June 2011.)
added Ngugi's Tolkien's Quotes Submod (http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?p=9843151#post9843151)

version 4.0
added new FRoME's units (Galadhrim Heavy Archer, Galadhrim Heavy Spearmen, Galadhrim Heavy Swordsmen)
made slight alterations to recruitment system to better fit with this change(NOTE: Lorien regions can train both types of units for now, i will hopefully adress that issue in the future)
Added Gondor units made by Taro_M:
1) Wardens of the White Tower
2) New Gondor foot bodyguards (Boromir's Bodyguards)
3) Made Veterans of Osgiliath recuirtable in East&West Osgiliath
4) Lossarnach units - Axeguards, Nobles & Riders
5) Winged Swordsmen
6) Minas Ithil Guards
7) Master Ithilien rangers (Faramir's Bodyguards)
8) Gondor Guardsmen & Yeomen & Scouts
9) Minas Tirith Knights
10) reworked Ithilien rangers (movie look)
added Razor's modified Eldar units v.3.1. (released 19-2-2011; http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=261181)

and corrected name: Vifrac shoud be Vifarc; sorry mate :-)

#################Members#######################
As of 29. of June 2011.
Withwnar, Ngugi, Trailhog250, Taro_M, Hero of the West, Minas Moth

#################Installation##################
This will work only with up to date version of MOS (Massive Overhaul Submod) - current up to date version is MOS 5.2

Download the file to your desktop > extract files to your desktop > right click > copy > go to your Third_Age_SP folder > right click > paste > if asked overwrite everything

#################Disclaimer####################
You use this submod at your own risk, and as such neither it nor the members of this team can be held responsible for any damage/problems that can occur on your pc (computer machine). We do try to make it as bug proof as possible and aren't incorporating any malicious software (viruses, worms, malware...). However due to growing rate of the cyber-crime we can't guarantee that the files you download are indeed malware free, so always check files for malicious content... All the questions regarding this submod can be asked at it's thread: 
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=445106

This is it for now,

cheers

Veterans of Eriador

Silvan Elves Rework

General Info

You may know that FRoME has divided Silvan Elves in two factions: Lorien and Mirkwood. We at MOS Team have decided to retain vanilla concept (only Silvan Elves faction) but we try to bring you the best of two worlds. So in such attempt i created this submod that uses buildings instead of Hidden Resources to distinguish forces of Lorien and Mirkwood. This submod doesn't add new units or textures, it uses those made by FRoME developers (so all credits about them are theirs).

This submod uses two new building trees; Bair Eryn Lasgalen (Armouries of Mirkwood)

and Lórien Naid Ceredir (Armouries of Lorien).

Their purpose is to allow recruitment of units either from Lorien or Mirkwood. Building one of this buildings disables building of other ones. Also note that in Lorien regions and ALL Mirkwood regions buildings are present from the beggining of the game. They are indestructible and therfore once you build a building you can't destroy it and build the other one. I have coded this in a way that Mirkwwood armouries are present in entire Mirkwood; including all the rebel settlements + Dol Guldur. In all other settlements player will be able to decide which building he will build.

pics

Units

Well i won't talk much about units, they are all visible on FRoME OP so you can look here. However i did made some changes.
1) Light Elven Archers are now HE exclusive unit
2) Their place is taken by Sentinels of Woodland realmand Lorien Archers
3) 2nd tier archers are now Mirkwood Rangers and Lothlorien Rangers
4) I have added Lorien Spearmen and Lorien Infantry
5) For Mirkwood I added Woodland Warriors (spearmen are the same as in vanilla)
6) Forest Wardens are recruitable in all cities (no matter which tree you build)
7) this new unit system is available only in Cities (castles have original recruitment system)

pic

The unit names are changed also, however durže to some reactions of public, this sindarin names are added to unit descriptions while english names have been restored:

Unit names

SPECIAL CONTENT

This submod also incorporates new "buildings" from Point Blank's RR/RC submod. These are Elven Paths and Forest Paths and lore correct historical roads of Middle-Earth: North-south Road, Westroad and Greenway...

CREDITS

Withwnar - for help and guidance
Sidious - for building cards
Hero of the West - for showing the wright way
Point Blank - for help and tolerating my ignorance

Noldor on the March

General Info

This submod adds two new building to High Elves:

Fountain of Sun

Fountain of Moon

They aren't just looking good, no, no... they have function and that function is recruitment of different units. This doesn't mean that Barracks and such builidngs are obsolete, it means that after buiding certain baracks level player will have a choice to build either of those fountains. Acording to his choice he will be able to train the units the fountain unlocks. Everything follows the game course (barracks events) and upgrades of the fountains enable progressive training of more powerrful units with time

Building Screenshots

Units

There are NO NEW (actually there is one) units in this mod strictly speaking. My opinion is that High Elves are well balanced faction and adding any new unit (with some new weapons) wasn't option for me. Instead, medium and high tier units recieved texture overhaul. This overhaul was done by many people and with their good will i was allowed to use their work and combine it into this submod.

The units (old and new ones) all have recieved Sindarin names, complete guide to them is here (sindarin names are shown in unit description; english names restored):

Unit names

Screenshots of Units

Buildings

The fountains are easily built and aren't very expensive. The first fountain is intentionally more expensive but the upgrades are fast built and cheap. This is so because of the fact that player has to built barracks of apropriate level (city barracks and above) which are expensive and take some time to build.

DOWNLOAD

Download links no longer available. This submod is included in the Silvan Elves Rework so you can download that file from the download link there.

CREDITS

Withwnar - for assistance when it was most needed
Sidious - for creating unit cards and fountains and texture rework
Taro_M - for helping with textures
Hero of the West - for showing some paths

Special thanks to Ozzmosis from whom i got the idea how new units should look like

Future changes

!!!This submod contains Noldor on the March submod, Silvan Elves Rework Submod, Veterans of the Eriador submod and Some RR/RC stuff!!!

**Kiliç Alì** · April 19, 2011, 02:30 PM

Really Good Work.

**Basileutatos** · April 19, 2011, 02:39 PM

Really nice... happy to see some more eldar units...

**TiFlo** · April 19, 2011, 03:20 PM

Looks good. Waiting for the pics.

**el Cid** · April 19, 2011, 03:32 PM

So this basically lets you choose between two different textures of units? Nice.

**Minas Moth** · April 19, 2011, 03:36 PM

Originally Posted by el Cid

So this basically lets you choose between two different textures of units? Nice.

yes it does, nothing fancy but nice refreshment i believe...

**Nergor** · April 19, 2011, 06:19 PM

Nice idea

**paradamed** · April 19, 2011, 07:02 PM

Cool submod!

**flopsies** · April 19, 2011, 08:12 PM

**KnightsTemplar** · April 19, 2011, 10:35 PM

Why the Moon units are purple.....

I guess they should be sliver-bright lore-wise

**brazoragh** · April 20, 2011, 01:40 AM

Hi

i like this very much, this choice between two unit types give a personal note to the elves for me

(i hope you can understant this^^^)

are the armor and weapon upgrades also visible ?

greets

**Captain Zoran** · April 20, 2011, 03:07 AM

Aye silver and blue perhaps, to represent the colours of the old Noldor lords of Fingolin with sons + Finfarins sons? Arn't really that many left of Fëanors people....

**Minas Moth** · April 20, 2011, 05:12 AM

ok, i get the color idea... but, who ever said that Noldor units were gold and black as shown in the movies? no one, so the visual appeareance of the movie Elf units is lore accurate, but this isn't? how so? would someone explain that to me?

**Captain Zoran** · April 20, 2011, 07:50 AM

Originally Posted by Minas Moth

ok, i get the color idea... but, who ever said that Noldor units were gold and black as shown in the movies? no one, so the visual appeareance of the movie Elf units is lore accurate, but this isn't? how so? would someone explain that to me?

It was PJ's interpetation, and noone is stopping you from turning them into that colour/your interpetation. What we are saying is an suggestion, based on what we've read from the Silmarillion. Personally, I think youre colouring looks great, but in my fanboyishm, who wouldn't want to see the Silver and Blue of Fingolfin's decendants march upon Middlearth once again in playable form?

**AragornElessar** · April 20, 2011, 08:43 AM

Originally Posted by Captain Zoran

It was PJ's interpetation, and noone is stopping you from turning them into that colour/your interpetation. What we are saying is an suggestion, based on what we've read from the Silmarillion. Personally, I think youre colouring looks great, but in my fanboyishm, who wouldn't want to see the Silver and Blue of Fingolfin's decendants march upon Middlearth once again in playable form?

Wise words wise words

Anyway great submod MM

**el Cid** · April 20, 2011, 08:57 AM

Originally Posted by Minas Moth

ok, i get the color idea... but, who ever said that Noldor units were gold and black as shown in the movies? no one, so the visual appeareance of the movie Elf units is lore accurate, but this isn't? how so? would someone explain that to me?

I like the current textures, and am not criticizing you, but I think that it would be more logical for the 'moon' units to have silver instead of gold and perhaps dark blue or black instead of blue?

This would make the contrast more clear IMO.

**Minas Moth** · April 20, 2011, 09:46 AM

who wouldn't want to see the Silver and Blue of Fingolfin's decendants march upon Middlearth once again in playable form?

Descendants of Fingolfin were almos entirely wipped out during the Fall of Beleriand. The only remaining member of Fingolfin's house is in Third Age Elrond. He is member of that house only by birth but was adopted in Feanor's house later. For those units to march in Middle-Earth you'll have to wait until War of the Silmarils is released... Also, if i had asked what textures would you all prefer i think we would still be debating and this thing would never be finished...

it would be more logical for the 'moon' units to have silver instead of gold and perhaps dark blue or black instead of blue?

they have silver shields, not the gold ones, their armour is violet 'cause it was texture made by Louis Lux (so this aren't my textures, read first post) and i just used them for this mod... The alterations could be made but i'm not going to do them any time soon, i don't have the time to do this again... so maybe to make a poll, how should this units look like and then when the results are done we can see what we can do about them... also i recieved permissions only to use this textures and models not to alter them (in some cases-blue cloaks; it was necessary to alter some things but that was only to avoid them to be completly black because of lack of textures)...

all in all, feedback is always good thing...

**Hero of the West** · April 20, 2011, 09:55 AM

great job mate MOS 6.0 awaits the new elves

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