My new let's play: Third Age total war faction vote.

[SusaVile]

Hello there, I'm SusaVile, I'll be starting my first campaign in Third Age total war on youtube. I do have a few questions:

I'm thinking of bypassing most of the scripts to give it more of a "Medieval II" style, like skipping most story related stuff. Is this something that is usually made or not?

Reforging Arnor and the "kingdom of the elves", how does it work exactly? Do I get more unit types or something? Is it easier to start as Arnor or as the Free people's of Eriador?

Also, if you would be so kind, I'm currently making a poll for the faction. You can visit my channel and put your vote there, if you would be so kind. I can't post the link, just type jahander23 on youtube to access my channel.

Thanks!

[knight of meh]

Reforging Arnor and the "kingdom of the elves", how does it work exactly? Do I get more unit types or something? Is it easier to start as Arnor or as the Free people's of Eriador?

reforging Arnor you have to retake the old lands , rebuild the hall of kings in Annúminas and have an alliance with Gondor , it gives you access to an entirely new unit tree but you have to get the culture from Northman to Dunedain . If you want to play as Arnor i would recommend reforging them at start with the MOS submod as by the time you get it reformed (without cheats) most of your pressing enemies will be defeated and you will just finish the game slowly with Arnor units. it's not the easiest game to start with either Eriador or Arnor

for the kingdom of the elves you do get unique units including the ability to recruit Ents but the conditions vary for the high elves and the Silvan elves if you are playing MOS there is a readme that you automatically download that is concerned with script description take a look in there

I can't post the link,

Thanks!

there is a spam filter active on this forum that stops accounts with under 25 posts or that aren't a week old posting alot of stuff

[SusaVile]

I've played so much Total war, but I was never around the forums. So I'm recent here, sadly I've been missing a lot of stuff, it seems. Thanks for the explanation on Arnor, I might consider them for my own trial campaigns. I am using the MOS mod, I hope it doesn't glitch. I'm trying it on 1080p full graphics, hope I can stay that way

[knight of meh]

MOS is very stable but rather slow turn times if you have a weak system

i hope you can stay that way too even with 6000 soldiers and Mumakil on a custom settlement

anyways just remember that med 2 is old so it only uses one core when processing

and that readme should be in the Third_Age_3 folder you installed MOS into it's just called readme sorry i thought i mentioned that earlier

[Wizad]

From the Campaign Script:

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;#####################################################################
;############### Baron Samedi's Elven Reforging script ###############
;#####################################################################
;#########################Lindon reforging script
declare_counter start_building

monitor_event FactionTurnStart FactionType egypt
and I_CompareCounter go_reforging = 1
and not IsFactionAIControlled
and I_LocalFaction egypt
and I_CompareCounter start_building = 0
and I_SettlementOwner Mithlond = egypt
and I_SettlementOwner Harlindon = egypt
and I_SettlementOwner Forlindon = egypt
and I_SettlementOwner Imladris = egypt
and I_SettlementOwner Emyn-Beraid = egypt
and I_SettlementOwner Eregion = egypt
and I_SettlementOwner Druwaith-Iaur = egypt
and I_SettlementOwner Enedwaith = egypt
and I_CharacterExists elrond1
set_event_counter start_building 1
historic_event lindon_notification factions { egypt, }

terminate_monitor
end_monitor

monitor_event FactionTurnStart FactionType egypt
and I_CompareCounter go_reforging = 1
and not IsFactionAIControlled
and I_LocalFaction egypt
and I_SettlementOwner Mithlond = egypt
and I_SettlementOwner Harlindon = egypt
and I_SettlementOwner Forlindon = egypt
and I_SettlementOwner Imladris = egypt
and I_SettlementOwner Emyn-Beraid = egypt
and I_SettlementOwner Eregion = egypt
and I_SettlementOwner Druwaith-Iaur = egypt
and I_SettlementOwner Enedwaith = egypt
and I_CharacterExists elrond1
and FactionBuildingExists >= m_gwaith_i_mirdain
and FactionBuildingExists >= m_greek_history

add_events
event counter reforged_accepted
event counter reforged_declined
end_add_events

historic_event reforged true factions { egypt, }

terminate_monitor
end_monitor

;----------------- accept ------------------------------------
declare_counter lindon_completed
declare_counter high_king_noldor
declare_counter lindon_anc

monitor_conditions I_EventCounter reforged_accepted = 1

historic_event reforged_accepted factions { egypt, }
set_event_counter high_king_noldor 1
set_event_counter lindon_anc 1
set_event_counter lindon_completed 1
add_money egypt 2000
increment_kings_purse egypt 500

terminate_monitor
end_monitor

;------------------ reject ------------------------------------
monitor_conditions I_EventCounter reforged_declined = 1

historic_event reforged_declined factions { egypt, }

terminate_monitor
end_monitor

;#########################Woodland reforging script
declare_counter start2_building

monitor_event FactionTurnStart FactionType mongols
and I_CompareCounter go_reforging = 1
and not IsFactionAIControlled
and I_LocalFaction mongols
and I_SettlementOwner West-Mirkwood = mongols
and I_SettlementOwner Deep-Mirkwood = mongols
and I_SettlementOwner Central-Mirkwood = mongols
and I_SettlementOwner New_Mirkwood = mongols
and I_SettlementOwner Elven-Mirkwood = mongols
set_event_counter start2_building 1
historic_event woodland_notification factions { mongols, }

terminate_monitor
end_monitor

monitor_event FactionTurnStart FactionType mongols
and I_CompareCounter go_reforging = 1
and not IsFactionAIControlled
and I_LocalFaction mongols
and I_SettlementOwner Wrakyaburg = mongols
and I_SettlementOwner Lower-Anduin-Vale = mongols
and I_SettlementOwner Lowest-Anduin-Vale = mongols
and I_SettlementOwner West-Mirkwood = mongols
and I_SettlementOwner Deep-Mirkwood = mongols
and I_SettlementOwner Central-Mirkwood = mongols
and I_SettlementOwner New_Mirkwood = mongols
and I_SettlementOwner Elven-Mirkwood = mongols
and FactionBuildingExists >= a_greek_flora
and FactionBuildingExists >= m_greek_dance

add_events
event counter reforged2_accepted
event counter reforged2_declined
end_add_events

historic_event reforged2 true factions { mongols, }

terminate_monitor
end_monitor

;----------------- accept ------------------------------------
declare_counter woodland_completed
declare_counter king_of_woodland
declare_counter woodland_realm_anc

monitor_conditions I_EventCounter reforged2_accepted = 1

historic_event reforged2_accepted factions { mongols, }
set_event_counter woodland_completed 1
set_event_counter king_of_woodland 1
set_event_counter woodland_realm_anc 1
add_money mongols 2000
increment_kings_purse mongols 500
terminate_monitor
end_monitor

;------------------ reject ------------------------------------
monitor_conditions I_EventCounter reforged2_declined = 1

historic_event reforged2_declined factions { mongols, }

terminate_monitor
end_monitor

;------------------ dol Guldur name-change --------------------
declare_counter Dol_Guldur

monitor_conditions I_SettlementOwner Deep-Mirkwood = mongols
and I_CompareCounter go_reforging = 1
and I_CompareCounter Dol_Guldur = 0
set_counter Dol_Guldur 1
change_settlement_name Deep-Mirkwood Amon-Lanc

end_monitor

monitor_conditions not I_SettlementOwner Deep-Mirkwood = mongols
and I_CompareCounter go_reforging = 1
and I_SettlementOwner Deep-Mirkwood = england
and I_CompareCounter Dol_Guldur = 1
set_counter Dol_Guldur 0
change_settlement_name Deep-Mirkwood Deep-Mirkwood

end_monitor