Take the role as Gil-galad, last High-king of the Noldor, or Elendil, High-king of the Númenóreans in exile, as they rally Elves and honourable Men into the League which is called the Last Alliance.
The counter-invasion Tôl Acharn, 'Vengeance Comes', allows you to move mighty hosts against the Dark Lord.
Strengthen the cause of the League if you wish to, as the indomitable Durin IV of Khazad-dûm, or as the brave riders of Rhovanion (using the Dunedáin Counter Invasion mechanic).
Unless you wish instead to fulfill the will of Sauron? Unleash the hunger of Orcs and wolves, be the warlord over the Easterlings, command the savage natives of Eriador to recapture their homelands
or reign as a Black Númenórean lord at the head of the grim Haradrim, in the Invasion of the West.
Will the Men of the Mountain be loyal to the Númenóreans or become the Oathbreakers? The choice is yours.
DCI: Last Alliance 1.0 Requirements:
'DCI:Last Alliance 1.0' requires the 'Medieval II Total War Kingdoms Expansion' and the mod 'Third Age Total War 3.2'
A fresh working installation of 'Third Age Total War 3.2' is recommended: TATW 3.2 7zip Download Download and Instructions for TATW 3.2
For setting up multiple installations of 'Third Age Total War 3.2' please follow this Guide by Emperor of Hell
DCI Last Alliance installer instructions:
1. Download the file below and extract/unzip its contents.
2. Run DCI_LA.exe, it will automatically find your Medieval II Total War folder. If it doesn't you can manually browse and find it. Proceed with the installation and when prompted accept and overwrite any files and folders.
3. At the end of the installation a cleaner will delete files that need to be auto-generated at game launch, you'll be prompted to 'press any key to continue...'
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4. Likewise, a shortcut for 'DCI: Last Alliance' will be created and added to your desktop, you will be prompted to 'press any key to continue...'
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5. Launch the mod by double clicking the 'DCI Last Alliance' icon on your desktop or the DCILA.bat file (DCILA_NoBaiSwitcher.bat will run DCI:LA without the battle AI switcher).
Optional: delete the Third Age Total War shortcut from your desktop if you have one.
Optional: open your cfg file and switch the [log] level from trace to error.
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DCI Last Alliance manual installation instructions:
2. Extract/unzip the downloaded DCI_LA.7z file into your '...\Medieval II Total War\mods\' folder. Accept overwrite and/or merge folders when requested.
This process will overwrite your TATW files, meaning that you will not be able to play TATW.
3. Run DcilaCleaner.bat - located in your '...\Medieval II Total War\mods\third_age_3' folder. This isabsolutely necessary.
4. Run CreateLauncher.bat - located in your '...\Medieval II Total War\mods\third_age_3\dcilaOtherFiles' folder. This creates a shortcut on your desktop and deletes tatw start.bat.
5. Launch the mod by double clicking the 'DCI Last Alliance' icon on your desktop or the DCILA.bat file (DCILA_NoBaiSwitcher.bat will run DCI:LA without the battle AI switcher).
Optional: delete the Third Age Total War shortcut from your desktop if you have one.
Optional: open your cfg file and switch the [log] level from trace to error.
Additional music tracks (some Med2/Kingdoms tracks as well).
Reshuffled existing music tracks.
Separated HotN and WoE music types, HotN has more viking and WoE more tribal vibe.
Tôl Acharn and DCI mechanics:
The "Tôl Acharn" is a 'counter invasion', the Medieval 2 Jihad-feature renamed; just as TATW has the "Invasion" for the evil factions, which in turn is the Crusade-feature renamed.
Factions with the culture 'Hosts of the West' [religion islam] can join the Tôl Acharns at will.
The unique DCI mechanics allow factions of other cultures [religions] to temporary join the Tôl Acharn, if allied to the calling faction of the 'counter invasion'.
Main Features:
Third Age campaign map adapted to Last Alliance era * Video * Preview *
Team and Credits:
Team members: Louis Lux - modelling/texturing, strat map models, unit cards Araval - unit cards, portrait creation and editing, battle model editing Veteraan- portrait sorting, spellcheck, screenshots, official game tester Earl of Memory- modelling/texturing(And then we do a bit of everything anyway )
Previous & inactive members: Ngugi - lore, coding, unit stats, game balance and sound Withwnar- scripts and coding, strat & battle mapping Emperor of Hell- some battle mapping, NK's roster design
MIKE GOLF- ancillary 2D resource Curufin- roster and modelling/textures misteed- unit cards Celtic Magister- character strat map models xHolyCrusader- movies, screenshots, unit info cards, battle mapping h7GF- some Númenóreans battle models, more detailed 3D assets, helping to refine the design of Númenóreans
Direct contributors and freelancers: Zantorian strat map models: 'barbarian settlements' Kahvipannu creator of the first Galadriel model and the phial model for the new Galadriel cedric37 creator of splash screen and menu Garriath behind the majority of the Númenórean Kingdoms unit description texts goldenrichard for codes and ideas to additional forts as well as some Rhovanion settlements coding Lü Bu for several 3D assets Yarrum for some 3D models DeeLegion Artisan of signatures Bercor for UI interface tweaks Arandir Tur-Anion resource and coding of most of Lindon family trees Boogie Knight proofreading and text updates knight of meh for proofreading
LadyDoll for UI input Arkay improvements to wildmen town and Imladris custom settlements Fahnat creator of Invasion cinematic and promotional videos for the mod BagaturSasha for Gondor Axemen unit card
Test team
Bercor; lordargento; Woold; Gratzy2; Mike Golf; Arachir Galudirithon; JJJaikishan; Manekemaan; Elem; Red Viper; Jmonstra; xHolyCrusader; Macilrille; Hermod; Lortano; Pyres Δt Varanasi; Arandir Tur-Anion de Bodemloze; Arthohir; Shankbot de Bodemloze; KingsofCanada; Tar-Falassion; Basileos Predator; Elem; Roma_Victrix; Flinn; El Monstero29; Etruscan; Aruthiel; HGW; Gratzy2; Boogie Knight; Rampante-Cid; Socrates1984; Greymane; Nimble; King Athelstan; ♔atthias♔; orclover; Bladvak; Philoceraptor; Revan The Great; Fahnat; JVR; Mhaedros
People can distribute copies and modified versions of assets and scripts made for DCI:Last Alliance as long as these conditions are met:
The derivative work credits the DCI: Last Alliance team in every release and preview material that contains DCI:LA assets
The derivative work is a Medieval II Total War modification.
The DCI:LA team is informed the name of the modification and the DCI:LA assets used, either on twcenter or on discord.
The derivative work is released with the same DCI:LA Permission Policy attached to it
Disclaimer: The DCI:LA permission policy does not extend to third party 3d assets, images and music listed in the credits e.g. TATW, The Sundering and EB II assets. (more information in the Credits below).
Awesome! Congratulations for moving the submod out of the beta stage and into version 1.0! Very cool and +1 rep. The beta version is fantastic, so this must be utterly superb.
Congratulations on the release! I have installed the LAA, but as Mordor in battles I command myself the game crashes regularly, without an error message or something, just freezes for 2 secs and the game shuts down. On the campaign map this has not happened to me yet. Is the problem known?
Congratulations on the release! I have installed the LAA, but as Mordor in battles I command myself the game crashes regularly, without an error message or something, just freezes for 2 secs and the game shuts down. On the campaign map this has not happened to me yet. Is the problem known?
Yes it's known. We're still looking into it. Anecdotally, lowering your graphics detail and restarting your computer after a crash seems to help.
Tips for turning the Men of the Mountains into the Army of the Dead (a.k.a: Isildur's Curse script):
After Isildur cursed the Men of the Mountains in the Stone of Erech, capture these Calenardhon settlements immediately when turning rebel:
Tirith Onodlo
Burh Beorg
Oferwaden
Athrad Angren
Defend Nen Hitoel against the Oathbreakers to finish the script. Leave Dunharrow alone, for lore reasons.
In summary:
Capture Calenardhon immediately after the curse had started and gone rebel. Not doing this will crash the game.
I think we have a problem on the pauldrons, used by the Numenorean Kingdoms generals, Harad generals, the Numenorean Guardians, Barim al-Azul, and thhe Zigurun Order members.
A portion of the pauldrons do not match to the texture intended for the pauldron itself.
Instead, the texture assigned to those portions is actually from the TATW Arnor Men-at-Arms boot.
I edited the texture, and checked if the leg guard UV do not interfere or overlap with the pauldron texture.
It doesn't really overlap.
If able, please re-edit the texture, otherwise it will be a nuisance to see.
Tips for turning the Men of the Mountains into the Army of the Dead (a.k.a: Isildur's Curse script):
After Isildur cursed the Men of the Mountains in the Stone of Erech, capture these Calenardhon settlements immediately when turning rebel:
Tirith Onodlo
Burh Beorg
Oferwaden
Athrad Angren
Defend Nen Hitoel against the Oathbreakers to finish the script. Leave Dunharrow alone, for lore reasons.
In summary:
Capture Calenardhon immediately after the curse had started and gone rebel. Not doing this will crash the game.
Thanks, maybe this helps others getting the crash! Have you managed to get any usefule information from a crash log?
Originally Posted by RaiderofMordor
I think we have a problem on the pauldrons, used by the Numenorean Kingdoms generals, Harad generals, the Numenorean Guardians, Barim al-Azul, and thhe Zigurun Order members.
A portion of the pauldrons do not match to the texture intended for the pauldron itself.
It doesn't really overlap.
If able, please re-edit the texture, otherwise it will be a nuisance to see.
Never noticed it but as you proved it's an easy fix. Maybe you could upload your texture, so we could use it then instead of remaking it and other people who are bothered by it could download it aswell?
Thanks, maybe this helps others getting the crash! Have you managed to get any usefule information from a crash log?
I just used the campaign script for reference, and doing some experiments. The only thing that makes the game crash after the curse was initiated, is that the Oathbreakers recaptured the settlements listed. If those rebel settlements were buffed enough to repel the Oathbreaker forces, but nerfed enough for the Numenorean Kingdoms to capture it, there's a chance that the script worked.
Originally Posted by Araval
Never noticed it but as you proved it's an easy fix. Maybe you could upload your texture, so we could use it then instead of remaking it and other people who are bothered by it could download it aswell?
That depends on Louis Lux's decision. Posted this also on Discord, he said he will fix it. I think Earl of Memory has the original files when he's doing the retextures.
I just used the campaign script for reference, and doing some experiments. The only thing that makes the game crash after the curse was initiated, is that the Oathbreakers recaptured the settlements listed. If those rebel settlements were buffed enough to repel the Oathbreaker forces, but nerfed enough for the Numenorean Kingdoms to capture it, there's a chance that the script worked.
Interesting. I'll take a look.
That depends on Louis Lux's decision. Posted this also on Discord, he said he will fix it. I think Earl of Memory has the original files when he's doing the retextures.
You can upload your fix. I'm working on new stuff at the moment so it will take some time till I get around to making fixes.
I am having some problems launching DCI Last Alliance. For some reason my Third Age folder was named Third_Age_4. I installed DCI with the installer, but it didn't work. I then renamed the folder to the correct name, and reinstalled DCI, which seemed to put the files in the right place, but if I double-click the dcila.bat file, it just launches vanilla M2TW. Could anybody help me? thx.
I am having some problems launching DCI Last Alliance. For some reason my Third Age folder was named Third_Age_4. I installed DCI with the installer, but it didn't work. I then renamed the folder to the correct name, and reinstalled DCI, which seemed to put the files in the right place, but if I double-click the dcila.bat file, it just launches vanilla M2TW. Could anybody help me? thx.
I think it's best to delete your Third Age folder and start the installation from the start. Start with DCI:Last Alliance 1.0 requirements in the OP. There are download options for Third Age 3.2, either 7zip or installer, just pick one. I also recommend watching the installation instruction video. If you're still having issues after re-installing rename your configuration.cfg file to TATW.cfg.
DCI: Last Alliance 1.0 released June 26 2022
Louis Lux - modelling/texturing, strat map models, unit cards
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Originally Posted by assassine
