Hello everyone. Once again I have to apologize for the long absence. The past months have been mostly spent caring for my father in his fight with cancer. He has now passed away.
I intend to resume work on this wonderful mod and finish it as soon as I can, first and foremost for myself, and for anyone who still wishes to play it. Cheers.
Fear not! This mod will be finished. I took a long break due to personal/real life issues, but I'm still working on this, and I'll have a lot of time this summer to finish it as soon as possible. Stay tuned.
Hello, thanks for the offer! I'm still working on this yes. I took a long break due to personal issues, but I'm back. If you're interested in helping, I can always use help with Tolkien-esque descriptions (unit/building/ancillary etc)
Apologies for the long absence, on winter I found out my father has terminal cancer, so I took a break from modding. But I'm getting back at it now, I'll do my best to finish WotS soon. Some coding and scripting left to do, balancing, 2D art etc.
No, only main campaign, starting at FA 455.
It depends. In sun-years, or Valian years?
Be patient, everyone, you won't be disappointed. This will be the most Loresome mod of all mods.
Just got my hands on the new Tolkien book, The Nature of Middle-earth. Time to delve deeper into the lore... A lot of work has been done on the mod during the past months, updates and previews are coming soon.
Hopefully!
I was recovering from surgery, I'm back.
Let's say it's a hopeful possibility.
Currently recording new voices for campaign and battle map for all factions in their proper languages, among other things. When finished, this will truly be a loresome mod.
There is no Discord server for WotS no, but thanks for the suggestion. Perhaps at some point.
I've been working on the mod almost every day for the past months during the lockdown here, so a lot of work has been done; and after taking a dive into the HoME and the lore, I've made a lot of changes and additions. Apologies for not previewing yet, I think everyone would agree that time is best spent working on it than preparing previews.
Cheers
No, I doubt that. But the House of Bëor might be wiped out very early, which would be lore-friendly, of course. It will probably have the hardest campaign.
Heh, time flies.
I'll post an update soon.
Not any new custom settlements, but you can see in the map preview screens all the unique settlements from Third Age that have been used, always fitting for the part. For example, as you said, Cair Andros for Minas Tirith, and Minas Tirith for Gondolin, Thranduil's Halls for Menegroth and Nargothrond, etc.
Angband will be immensely powerful, and helped by scripts etc. And one of the Easterling factions will also be evil, so it's two evil factions. The goal isn't to balance it, but to make it difficult for good factions to survive.
While working on the campaign script, I posted a few screens showing the scripted sieges of 11 settlements at the start of turn 1; the Dagor Bragollach!
Don't worry my friend, this campaign will be filled with lore.
Only Eru knows. Possibly Mandos too.
You can post your take under each screenshot.
All factions (models/units) are finished, only coding and scripting left now.
Help with Tolkien-ish unit descriptions is always welcome!
Hello everyone! I've added screens of the Green-elves of Ossiriand: the Laiquendi, the Laegrim of the Nandor; the Host of Dân, the Wood-elves, the Wanderers, the Axe-elves, the Hidden People. Feel free to contribute with your unit descriptions!
More factions will follow.
That's not a bad idea! I'll think about it, for now I'd better invest my time on finishing the mod. I'll post many unit screens soon for descriptions.
There's a lot of coding and scripting left, and some 2D art. Hopefully this year.
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