Faerûn[Forgotten Realms]TW - v0.2 released, check the first post

[Martinskyboy]

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[Socrates1984]

Wow! They look great! The guy that made them must be really talented!

[assurbanippal]

Haha nice work

[assurbanippal]

some yuirwood folks from aglarond roster: pre-ingame

Druids ( when i took the pics they werent completely finished)

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elite rangers of yuirwood

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yuirwood archers

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yuirwood riders

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[BarnicleBill1]

Really cool!

[assurbanippal]

army of the lion members from aglarond roster; pre in game

pikemen

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swordmen

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archers

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cavalry

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at that stage they werent finished so u can see some odd stuff like uncut hidden polygons, missing textures nd such

[Earl of Memory]

I really like how their clothes look so real. Hopefully they would look as well in game!

[Socrates1984]

I really like how their clothes look so real. Hopefully they would look as well in game!

Thanks Earl! Your opinion matters a lot, seeing you are a unit maker yourself!

[assurbanippal]

I really like how their clothes look so real. Hopefully they would look as well in game!

thanks mate, they are already in game, looking good i think

Watchwall guards from aglarond roster

on foot

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Patrol (very light cavalry)

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[assurbanippal]

Griffon riders from aglarond roster; pre in game

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[Mapolq]

Yay, the forum finally allowed me to register.

You guys have contacted me on the Candlekeep forum since you're looking for "Researchers" who're familiar with the Forgotten Realms setting. I've started writing snippets about the factions for you guys, and should be done with all of them in a week or so. Check the Candlekeep thread to give feedback, would be good to know if you're liking the format, tone, etc. I'm using. And if you need any more aid with Realms-related stuff, I'd be glad to help and hopefully have an input on some of the things you're building.

Also, units are looking good, nice work!

[Titus le Chmakus]

Yep, I posted there to say that it is exactly what I was looking for ! Thanks a lot for your help mate !

Edit : got news from our mod leader, Vlad, who should be back soon. So let's keep going on !

[Mapolq]

By the way, what is the faction limit for this mod (not counting the "dummy" faction you'll have)? I'm guessing 22 (which means no prospect of a Chessenta, Impiltur or Turmish)?

[Titus le Chmakus]

The faction limit is 29 but we decided to keep some for a later release ... And you are exactly right, those 3 are the ones we were questionning ourselves about. But Chessenta isn't a nation anymore as all the cities are regularly at war against each other (Cimbar, Lutcheq, Mordulkin), so we don't know yet ...

[Mapolq]

It's true that Chessenta is not a single polity in this time, but it is a very definite cultural region (a nation in that regard). In this sense, it's not much different from your use of the Captains' Confederation, which also doesn't fit the starting date but is a clever way of setting up a faction.

[Titus le Chmakus]

Yeah, that is a very good point ! It will finish convincing Vlad (the mod leader) to add them into the next release, with Impiltur and Turmish. Any other suggestion of other faction ? Maybe the dwarves of the Great Rift ? Border Kingdoms (I doubt) ?

[Mapolq]

As far as flavour goes, the Dalelands would be my first choice. The main problem, and I assume that's why they weren't included, is that representing them well would make the map over and around Cormanthor quite a mess of little provinces. After that I've seen most of my choices suggested here. I'd go with Thesk second. And if you expand the map further south, Lapaliiya and The Great Rift. If NOT expanding south, then Erlkazar and Sespech.

Is there a hard limit on the number of provinces as well? Some of what I read here seems to hint at that, but I'm not sure if it's a hard limit or not.

[BarnicleBill1]

That Griffin rider... nice.

[Martinskyboy]

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[Mapolq]

I don't think planar threats (or those of creatures like dragons and giants, for that matter) fit the Total War game. They will be very hard to make and in the end very much fail to capture the "feel". My opinion is you should really try to focus on humanoid or, at most, montruous humanoid factions. If the map was to be expanded, the yuan-ti could be a great faction (even on the current map they have Hlondeth and Najara, but not quite faction material in my opinion, if you also had the Black/Mhair Jungles and Narubel, though...). And then going south would mean human factions like Chult, Lapaliiya, Durpar, Halruaa, the dwarves of the Great Rift, the Hin (halflings) of Luiren, the mixed human/drow kingdom of Dambrath, possibly something on Shaarreach, Shaarmid, the nomads, wemics, centaurs, loxo...

BUT apart from that being a lot of work, engine limitations won't make it feasible, from what I understand. So I'm suggesting factions that are influential in and near the Heartlands, and those are mostly human. It's less variety, I suppose, but there's a lot of difference between human Realms in Faerûn, and I imagine that's easier to model, too. Maybe you could make a Shining South submod later on.