The Gathering Darkness 2.0 RELEASE!

[AdmiralThrawn]

Hey, so this is a script for TATW 3.2 OR MOS 1.6 that gives Mordor RPG Missions to gather its allied forces. These involve sending an emissary to Harad, Rhun, Mirkwood, Umbar, and Haradwaith to gather various armies of evil under Mordor's banner. Any feedback and suggestions are much appreciated. At the moment I would consider this mod mostly done (with the exception of, say, some minor balance changes) and 3.0 will feature Fozzie's Mouth of Sauron as the main attraction. Now that this is done I plan to begin work on an emergent Angmar Mod with several others. Expect a recruitment post soon ! Have fun!

Example Mission Completion Text:


Changes:
New missions with new characters and ancillaries
Black Numenorian Barraks now recruits all wicked men
More choice and chance involved (EX: You can choose whether to finance the corsair invasion of Western Gondor which may or may not result in your fleet being sunk by storms)

The Gathering Darkness 2.0 MOS Link: http://www.mediafire.com/?7z2bau12kdx29dt

OLD (vanilla compatible):
TGD 1.0 3.2 Vanilla Download Link: http://www.mediafire.com/?7gx8a7xvrbcs0jc

Installation: Extract data folder and merge it with your TATW data folder (overwrite all files).

Credits:
King Kong and TATW team for a great mod
Everybody involved with MOS
Me (of course )

Permissions: You all have permission to copy and use my work anywhere you want (just as long as you give credit). That (hopefully) includes the next version of MOS if you guys want it .

[Ichigorukia]

Looks awesome mate nice idea apart from updating this mod do you have other ideas for other mods in the future?

[AdmiralThrawn]

As for full on M2TW total conversion mods, I have plenty of ideas, but for now I would like to get the hang of things by improving Third Age Total War (plus I'm a total LOTR nerd !)

[Fozzie]

Excellent work! And I like your future plans, as well!

[SandraDevilGirl]

awesome! Very very awesome! I love people which takes time to give love to the evil factions!

looking forward for more updates!

[Mr.Jox]

Try to make some missions for Gundabad(e.g. missions to Rise the Realm of Angmar)

[alaricofdagoths]

This sounds awesome! It'd be great to have OoG be able to become Angmar just like Eriador can become Arnor. Does this replace the existing script for Mordor getting free troops, or is it in addition?

[AdmiralThrawn]

At the moment it is simply an addition. However, in the next release I plan to make the Mordor's Call script dependent on mission completion (aka, you won't get Easterlings until you have sent your emissary to Rhun). I especially like your ideas about the OoG and will probably do that for 1.2. If anybody wants to help implement an Angmar faction I would love the assistance .

[Ichigorukia]

I can help you if you need help I can only doing coding, scripts, traits achallies and adding new chartaters and using the EDB and EDU files to add new units.

[Jmonstra]

I can help you if you need help I can only doing coding, scripts, traits achallies and adding new chartaters and using the EDB and EDU files to add new units.

"Only" huh ?

[Mr.Jox]

Sure i also made for 60% my Angmar Rising script, but my for another submod. I can help you with symbol changing, new recrutable units and some more u want.

[AdmiralThrawn]

Sounds good to me . I'm probably a day or two away from finishing 1.1 which includes new missions and a few new structures etc. After that I'd be down to work on Angmar full time . MY hard summer class just ended so now I have time to fully nerd out all I want .

Here's a sneak peek at 1.1:

[Ichigorukia]

Nice Preview Mate I like the unit cards and I look forward to seeing what the unit skins look like on the battle map. Let me know if you would like my help with the list of areas I can mod for you

[Ichigorukia]

Hi Mate do mighted upload the mod to another site as well as I can not get on mediafile for some reason cheers

[Mr.Jox]

Hi Mate do mighted upload the mod to another site as well as I can not get on mediafile for some reason cheers

As far as i know these units are the same as MOS has.

[AdmiralThrawn]

As far as i know these units are the same as MOS has.

Quite true indeed. Full credit goes to the awesome people who made them, all I'm doing is the scripting. Still, those are some great units and they weren't doing much so I figured I could have them play a bigger role in the overall campaign.

As for hosting on another site, it would probably be easier to just email you the file .

[Lord_Helmchen]

Thank you for this interesting submod! I will try it at my next Mordor campaign.

[begri]

1.1. with Mouth of Sauron would be greate

[Araval]

Maybe you'd find something like this appealing:
(Harad example) When the emissary arrives to the needed region an event pops up and asks if you want to gift them gold (for evil men or anything else, maybe living animals or slaves to spiders) as a token of friendship. If you do it you get more troops, if you don't, you get less troops.

[AdmiralThrawn]

Maybe you'd find something like this appealing:
(Harad example) When the emissary arrives to the needed region an event pops up and asks if you want to gift them gold (for evil men or anything else, maybe living animals or slaves to spiders) as a token of friendship. If you do it you get more troops, if you don't, you get less troops.

Excellent idea! At the moment 1.1 will feature something like that, specifically when it comes to financing a corsair invasion of Western Gondor, but I might put some more of that in.

As for 1.1 including the Mouth, I am waiting on Fozzie's Mouth of Sauron mod to come out so we can combine them.

Finally, the script in linear, but I am going to make Mordor's Call dependant on it (aka, you won't spawn Haradrim until you complete the emissary mission).