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

[Vladyvid]

Hi everyone!

Its been a long time since Ive been active here, but for no nonesense reason. I had a car accident and spent almost 2 months this summer in a hospital.
Im not gonna get into too much detail in here, I think its enough to say my body was broken and Im still healing up, glad not to be in a wheelchair or dead.
Ive been out of hospital since 15 september and started working with the team to release the stuff which I had made before and never even presented.

Today I show some of the many units which Ive been sitting on. This is a set of 5 basic units for Captains Confederation and the Moonshae Isles.
I have similar sets of 5 (lets say militias) units for other factions aswell, and will be presenting them all in due time, as soon as Im able (cause they need to be implemented into the game first, some textures have to be finished etc).
All that covers 11 human factions in total including the two presented here.

More updates and previews will follow shortly, some probably within a week or two.

Thank you for everyone supporting this mod during my absence and giving the team positive feedback!


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CAPTAINS' CONFEDERATION
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Town Watch Spearmen

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Town Watch Archers

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City Guard Spearmen

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City Guard Halberdiers

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City Guard Crossbowmen

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MOONSHAES
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Town Watch Spearmen

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Town Watch Archers

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City Guard Spearmen

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City Guard Halberdiers

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City Guard Crossbowmen

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[Vladyvid]

AMN

Town Watch Spearmen

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Town Watch Archers

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City Guard Halberdiers

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City Guard Spearmen

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City Guard Crossbowmen

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TETHYR
Town Watch Spearmen

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Town Watch Archers

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City Guard Halberdiers

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City Guard Spearmen

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City Guard Crossbowmen

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[assurbanippal]

heavy skeletons ( match with their living counterparts posted above)

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light skeletons ( match with their living counterparts posted above, added mounted archer tho)

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zombies

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slaves (human and goblins)

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divine champion of cyric

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lizardfolks (2h, 1h and archers)

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non standard units must be resized, only few are. Still some normal maps and minor issues to fix but it will be, more or less, thay faction

[assurbanippal]

Thay roster in game
All 3D models made by me from the scratch but hands (they are vanilla) including every mount. all units have been designed for me too due to the lack of pics, same for the previous rosters and incoming ones
Textures: some made by me, some taken from TES: oblivion, skirym, romeII and Dark souls II

black flame zealots

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red wiz

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griffon legion

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Thayan knights

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Thayan light units ( archers, spearmen, swordmen nd cavalry )

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thayan heavy units ( swordmen, spearmen nd cavalry)

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Gladiators

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Knights of the black unicorn

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melee gnolls

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range gnolls

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ogres

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minotaurs

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hill giants

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centaurs

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black orcs ( archers and incenndiary throwers )

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red orcs ( melee 1h and 2h)

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common thayan orcs (1h, 2h, archers)

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tanarukks

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[Frunk]

Amazing stuff mate! +rep

[Vladyvid]

Great job for the mighty Thay! I have to spread some rep to give you more!

[Warcrafthero]

Thank you for these amazing previews Vladyvid and assurbanippal! Also, Vladyvid, will you update the mod's ModDB page in the future?

[Martinskyboy]

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[Vladyvid]

Warcrafthero, thanks! About ModDB its like Martin said, we are all busy doing actual mod work so we probably wont have time soon to update moddb page, and personally i think ive lost the password to that moddb account, so dont know if i will ever be able to update it.

[assurbanippal]

kicking off calimshan, medieval muslim like faction

amlakkar ( city police)

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keltar amlakkar

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memnon amlakkar

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horse

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[Vladyvid]

Just a quick heads up, we are all busy working on the mod, tho i personally have a lot of RL responsibilities which limit my involvement for the time being. I expect there will be some update(s) posted this month. Assurbanippal is making very cool models as you can see above, i have also a lot of stuff which i believe will show my modelling has improved. Titus is working on magic spells used by wizard/mage type units and Martin has been performing all sorts of useful tasks from finalizing name lists to prepairing units info cards. I have a lot of pending projects and although some could already be presented here, i will most likely hold back until i finish up more. At this point, we mostly "only" need to finish the unit rosters and we could make the first release.

Thanks for anyone following our progress!

[Titus le Chmakus]

Yeah, I will give some news on one of the special features of this mod : Magic !

The Medieval 2 game engine was not designed for spells so it was a big struggle to fit in magic missiles in distorting the vanilla normal missiles. It is a shame, but unfotunatly, I could not do better than 1 spell per magic user.

We have planned to have 3 levels of wizards, for most of the factions, having each a different spell, as close to the lore as possible. It still needs to be designed graphically, but the effects work as planned. The lower wizards will be given Lightning Bolt, the average wizards will have Otiluke's Freezing Sphere and the elite wizards will be able to cast Meteor Swarm. Then some faction specific wizards, with other spells will be in, like the Red Wizards of Thay or the Cormyr War Wizards.

The mod will also include Clerics, who will be able to curse the ennemies, as the major interest of Clerics in the D&D rules is not possible in the Total War engine : healing ... All the Clerics will be generic, plus, like for wizards, some faction specific, including the Dwarves Clerics or the Orcs Shamans.

As Vlad said above, thaks for following us !

[Camnarok]

I know "Call of Warhammer" made it a retinue ability to have healing potions which increased the chances of casualties being recovered out of combat. IDK if that's an option (obviously only generals can use that)

[Titus le Chmakus]

I know "Call of Warhammer" made it a retinue ability to have healing potions which increased the chances of casualties being recovered out of combat. IDK if that's an option (obviously only generals can use that)

Yeah, that could be something to think about ! I havfe to look at the code to see how it works ! But thanks for telling us !

[Martinskyboy]

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[Vladyvid]

Bodyguards Update / Preview (Factions: Cormyr, Tethyr, Moonshaes, Waterdeep, Baldur's Gate)

Purple Dragon Knights - Cormyr (bodyguard)

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Bodyguard Knights - Tethyr

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Bodyguard Knights - Moonshaes

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Bodyguard Knights - Waterdeep

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Bodyguard Knights - Baldur's Gate

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[assurbanippal]

Nice units, good job mate

[Martinskyboy]

Just to let you know all that I got kicked of the team last week out of nowhere with 3 other old inactive member with Socrate I got a reason only today. The only reason I got it I was working to much on it. I dont want to make a public exucution of anyone but to much power to one person it what it gave. Anyway I know everyone can have RL problems but he was the one who seeme on the edge of quiting, so that weirds alot that we got kicked insteed. I hope we can come out with some kind of leadership council or something else otherwise I dont think I will be able to continue helping on that mod. Because now that make nonsense even Titus was not aware of anything last week.

[Vladyvid]

I can put it very simply - creative differences. There is nothing more to be said.

[Martinskyboy]

Now it more clear I will not be able to continue help on this mod. I may work on a personnal map. I didnt know yet where I will put those new hour free. I may return to gaming. Sorry for those who wanted I quick release but half of my work was always turn down(bad quality or different creative direction), so in the ends I was not doing much. So I think it will not affect to much the devlopment. Ouside they will need do unit-card with just 3 members. I was beginning some 2d art but wont affect much as almost all the building have already art. For ancilary they can use easily already made one from vanila or free to use. Outside the roster devlopment and unit coding the mod it playable with vanilla faction so I hope guy you get a realease in 2018

I can put it very simply - creative differences. There is nothing more to be said.

Well I just regret to have debuged the map region and keeped the mod alive during your very long absence just to being kicked like it. I hope you will be active longer this time and that my kicking will give you some will to be more active. Finding over 500 elvens names and debug the map was not enough I suppose to get your confidence. Yes I got difference for creativity but you asked about my opinion most of the time. Most of my opinion was by the FR lore so it was not really mine but more about Faerun world go. Those 3d model thing it a little push far as I just done seven models but I understand you want to go with your vision of Faerun & go at your rythme without worry about other idea. I just hope you wont finish on this alone maybe after your 1st release you will find some more hands, but anyway it your mod and you got the skill to finish it alone good luck
*I say it there just in case, you have all right to use any on mystuff without give credit I wont lawsuit you, anyway it all Faerun stuff.

Im out for two week so Merry christmas & happy new years to everyone even the pagan