Forth Eorlingas v1.7 Patch Released!

**Amroth** · February 09, 2007, 07:18 PM

The Fourth Age: Total War Development Team presents:

THE FOURTH AGE: TOTAL WAR – FORTH EORLINGAS V1.7

1.7 is a fix patch for The Fourth Age: Total War – Forth Eorlingas v1.5/1.6. It includes many improvements and tweaks requested by the community, as well as some additional features such as a unit of Uruks available to Dunland. The FATW Dev. Team would like to thank everyone who has downloaded and played FE; a special thanks must go out to those who have offered us their feedback and criticism, as we could not have made this patch without your input. The patch should be savegame compatible, but this has not been tested extensively.

List of Changes introduced with 1.7:

Year changed to 2007 in 1.7 menu backdrop.
Larger Outlaw symbol added to Rohan UI.
Royal Spears changed to Riddermark Spears in that unit's description.
Note on clicking on Aglarond banner added to critical information tga.
Rohan garrisons tweaked (mainly reduction of Rohan Levies esp. in east).
Starting populations tweaked to make relatively correct.
Barracks added to HD.
Dunhere (HD) assigned Helmingas bodyguard.
Dunland BM captain added.
Incorrect Dunland settlement besieged event image corrected.
Pop. growth bonus added to orc bldgs.
RK settler cards added.
3 missing texture lines added.
Orc lethality and morale increased slightly.
'Chainmail' changed to 'mail' in EU.
Fram now has normal hair colour.
Northmen wife now has normal hair colour too.
Northmen city icons now displaying correctly.
Uruk Spears added (Orc-hold renamed to Uruk-hold).
Orc officer 'shrunk'.
Ancs & traits updated/corrected.

Download links:

Forth Eorlingas v1.7 Patch | Mirror 1 | Mirror 2 (11 MB)

Installation Instructions:

Double-click on the fe_patch_1_7.exe that you just downloaded, and make sure that you have it pointed to your Rome directory where you installed FE v1.5 (this is normally C:\Program Files\Activision\Rome - Total War, or - if you have Gold - C:\Program Files\The Creative Assembly\Rome - Total War). After the initial extraction is finished a dos window should open briefly to finish the installation. You can now click on the FE shortcut on your desktop, and continue to play!

**Arbaces** · February 09, 2007, 07:58 PM

ZOMG!! Right when I was going to get to sleep... Ehm... I'm out of words since you released CI, so no more praising. I've already lost quite a lot of nights with FATW, going to lose many more, and my 1 week holiday is over soon.

Arbaces.

**monkeyman** · February 09, 2007, 09:38 PM

i like the addition of the uruks to the dunland faction and lethality of orcs

. but not the lowering of the rohan soldiers but its not my mod

**DaVinci** · February 10, 2007, 07:00 AM

Ah well, you are very diligent.

After the initial extraction is finished a dos window should open briefly to finish the installation. You can now click on the FE shortcut on your desktop, and continue to play!

Installation: I just executed to a neutral folder (to look at the files), and then i have overwritten the 1.6 data folder with the patch 1.7 data folder. So far not the problem.

My question is: What does the bat file for the finishing (bold) of the installation?

**Amroth** · February 10, 2007, 07:36 AM

It just deletes map.rwm.

**Arakorn** · February 10, 2007, 07:37 AM

Deletion of map.rwm.

But perhaps you could just run the exe once more?

EDIT: Damn!

**DaVinci** · February 10, 2007, 08:00 AM

Ah ok.

But you can provide it easier: Just put in an empty map.rwm (0 bite) file and everything is okay. It overwrites the former one, without that the user has to bother with that thing.

**MasterOfNone** · February 10, 2007, 08:25 AM

Yes, you are right DaVinci though it's good for downloaders to get use to it for when we have to remove things

I will do it the simpler way if we need no bat file in the next patch.

BTW, I always install files to a temp folder too when I download mods - I like to see what they are and see what is being done

**Ciaran S** · February 10, 2007, 12:14 PM

Great news, and just in time, too. I just finished my Dunlending Campaign, so I don´t have to worry about aborting one.

I love the orcs, by the way, they´re great, even though perhaps better named "goblins", since the´re so small. But I love them still, snaga archers have played a vital role in both Rohans and Gondors defeat - as a bait for the other´s archers

By the way, does the patch fix the fact that when you should get a Rohan Traitor, you get a Dunland Traitor? Or didn´t anyone mention that issue? The Gondor traitor works fine, by the way.