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[Stealthsnake]

FXParticleSystem SarumanIstariLightRays

  System

	Priority = ALWAYS_RENDER

	Shader = W3D_EMISSIVE

	Type = DRAWABLE

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	Alpha2 = 0 0 100

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[{IP}LORDOFDARKNESS]

It needs to be attached to a bone (saruman's staff bone). I was the one who created the fx for you so just send me the codes back and i will fix it if you want. Cause i think i forgot to attach it to a bone my bad.

[Stealthsnake]

well thats all the code you sent me...

[{IP}LORDOFDARKNESS]

Okay then i didn't remember correctly, i thought i gave you more. Wait i will pm you at BoG and i will fix it.

[Bart]

doesn't it also have some code in sarumans ini? maybe it's there

[Stealthsnake]

it was the fxlist code he wanted, whcih he forgot to send me, so ive sent him the code i used. Anywya this is happerning over pm now. So back onto topic

[Skywaters]

Hmm I like the look of them with HA and I can understand your reasoning. Fair Enough

[Stealthsnake]

Today I throw all the info out for Southern Fiefdoms and show pretty much everything of this awsome new faction.

Here is the Lebennin Mustering Ground. It can train Clansmen of lamedon, Town milita, peleglir spearmen at level 2 and banner carriers at level 3.


Here is the Anfalas Warhall. it trains Ringlo Vale swordsmen, Pinnath Gelin Milita, morthlond bowmen at level 2, royal warriors of langstrand and fire arrows at level 3.


This is the Lossarnach Barracks, it trains Lossarnach Axemen, Lossarnach Raiders and at level 2 the battering ram.


Here is the Dol Amroth Stables. You can get forged blades at lt level 1, dol amroth fighters and heavy armour at level 2 and knights of dol amroth at level 3.


Here is the Bordor Defence. Its the best form of tower in BoG. It fires arrows at enemys nearby and can be garrisonned as well as a balister inside to greatly damge a enemy charge. Anfalas Hunters are also trained from here.
This mini fortress can be brought for 1500.


Here is the new builder unit for Southern Fiefdoms.


Here is Hirluin with his men of the Pinnath Gelin.

and hirluin using his Wrath of the Green hills power.


Here's Forlong and his men of Lossarnach.


Here's Angbor with his men of lamedon and peleglir.


Here is Duinhir with his men of anfalas and morthlond.


Duinhir
Duinhir is the captain of the morthlond bowmen. He can wield bow and sword, he is best along side your archers though.
Powers = Toggle Weapon, train archers, slam shot, leadership and man of gondor (large armour and attack boost).

Angbor
Angbor is Lord of Lamedon. hes a great fighter, but he can speed up your production speed if you keep him near your production buildings.
Powers = Great Gathering (speeds up all near by production buildings training time), Fury of Pelegir (gains a small armour and attack boost), Angbor the Fearless (angbor cant take damage for a period of time).

Imrahil
Prince of Dol Amroth. Imrahil is a great leader of his knights. He is the one to use to lead your charges, along with his legendry knights.
Powers = Mount, Prince of Dol Amroth (all nearby knights of dol amroth gain more armour and experince), Amroth for Gondor (all nearby knights of dol amorth only take 10% damage), Hope of Gondor (all nearby units become resistant to fear).

Forlong
Forlong is lord of Lossarnach. Along with his axemen hes like a tank, he can break through enemy ranks with easy, using hes large spear or sword.
Powers = Lord of Lossarnach (leadership that effects lossarnach units), Passed on Wisdom (gives all units in the its radius some experience) Summon Host of Lossarnach.

Hirluin
Hirluin is lord of pillath gelin. He wields a shield and axe. He is a hero killer. His level 10 power and throw knife power when combined can be very effective.
Powers = Throw Knife, Lord of the Green Hills (gives all nearby units a speed boost), Wrath of the Green Hills (for a limited time gains a armour and attack boost
The next lot of screen shots are of a skirmish game agaisnt a brutal modor ai.

Dont take too much notice of the powers they will more then likely change or be updated.

now here are aload of screen shots of a skirmish match agaisnt a mordor brutal ai.

















Now to cap things of ive got 10 mins of ingame footage of southern fiefdoms. parts are abit laggy, thats do to the recording program. Its still a nice watch and gives a better feeling of the faction. I was Southern Fiefdoms going against a mordor and evil men brutal ai's.

Download the Southern Fiefdom faction footage here.

note that the above upload is the low res version. The high res version should be released later, as its taking awhile to upload. but the quaility of the video should be worth it.

hmm i think thats it for today, i hope that makes up for the lack of updates of late, as i evidently have been working.

Edited by Stealthsnake, 04 February 2007 - 07:09 PM.

[Lauri]

w00t that's nice! Awesome work!

no offence, but you should ask Nert to skin your lamedon people, have them in another photo

[Stealthsnake]

no offence taken as they are ea's skins not mine (except the shields).

the high res version of the video is now released.
http://files.filefro...;/fileinfo.html

[Lauri]

I then meant the other people

[Solinx]

Nice update StealthSnake

Too bad the photobucket screens are no longer visible, you know you can always upload your stuff here at Revora, you are hostee afterall.

And I have to ask you to resize the images a bit next time. I'm browsing with a resolution of 1280 * 768 and these screenshots are too wide for my screen. Keep them at 1024 * 768 max.

Also, you may want to change the screenshot of "Duinhir with his men of anfalas and morthlond.", just above the hero descriptions.

Solinx

[Stealthsnake]

Firstly some screen shots taken by the beta testers....well actualy all taken by caluadan, of the new private beta.






Secondly, ive been working and pretty much finnished a Snowbourne map. Basicly It was a city near to the river Snowbourne. So i thought it would make anouther cool fortress map for Rohan.

This is the main keep area, basicly where you would put your armoury and expensive production buildings.


This is the path leading up to the keep


here are the 3 gates




and a couple of veiws from the keep



Basicly theres a low cliff at the back, going around the keep with a fence going around the top edge of the cliff. There is one way up, and thats up the path. There is then a walkable wall enclosing a large area at the bottem, which has 3 gates. It is a 2v1 map. Outside the walls there is 2 beacons and a outpost. The player inside Starts with 2 inns, due to their limited space for farm building.

This should be released with the first release of rohan.

[Solinx]

Looks awesome, I really like the map (save for the paths), but have you seen my last post?



Solinx

[Stealthsnake]

yes i did see that. Sorry i forgot to resize them, habbit, ill remember next time

[Skywaters]

The Above was me by the way

[Stealthsnake]

hmm very true. But its nertea you need to take it up with not me, as they are his models. Which im not gonna even try to edit them cus
1. id make them look terrible
2. id be slowly roasted over a fire by nertea

anyway, todays update.

For those that did not see the big news yestaday on bog's site. Elves are not now going to feature in bog, but evil men of being split inti Rhun and Harad.

So todays update is of the rhun flavour.

Firstly, the new stats screen.


Here are the Rhun Watch Towers


Here is a back view of the fortress, with house and tower expansions.


Here is the Rhun Barracks (Left) and the Rhun Stables (right)


Here is the Rhun palace (left) and the Rhun Armoury (right)


Here is Uldor with the Rhun Palace Guards


and lastly, Variag Archers, Variag Cavalry archers, Khand Mercenarys and Ulfang.


Rhun
Rhun is a large barren land with plenty of towns, citys and villages. Thier main focus is in archery. But they also have a som nice cavalry to choose from, including Easterling Kataphrakts, Variag Horse Archers then the devastating Wain Riders.

The Rhun Barracks, trains all the basicly infantry for Rhun. Including easterling Bowmen, Variag Archers, Easterling swordsmen and Easterling Spearmen.

The Rhun Stables trains all the cavalry for rhun, and of cause wain riders.

The Rhun Palace trains all the elite units, such as palace guards, Easterling Axemen and Khand Battering Ram.

Fortress basicly the same as it was in ealier versions of bog, except with the harad market replaced with the Rhun House. The House...you guessed it, gives extra command points. It also privides a extra barrier agaisnt siege weapons.

Ive also updated the Rhun Faction page on the site
http://battlesofgond...ge.net/rhun.htm

[Skywaters]

"Hmmm"

This mod changes more than my moods do, and I have bi-polar disorder...

[Nertea]

*wanders in*

Historically speaking, your knights of Dol Amroth, (Specifically the horses) are too "covered".

Sorry, too covered? Do you mean the horse barding? Because if so you are partially right. The horse is done in the chain and cloth fashion which is more common to near-Eastern styles. European horses had shorter, generally more plated armour.

Naturally, by what Tolkien tells us, the Dol Amroth Knights that accompained the Imrahil Prince were his elite bodyguard, and the regular knights were also of a high caliber.

Yep.

IMHO (Humble being the extra word), it's of the same breed and basis of the Paladin Knights of the British ranks. Very elite, very powerful and very well armored. The Knights just look to.. "Bland", like their horses would go down in one arrow. Perhaps updating the skin to reflect such a thing?

Despite not really being sure on what "paladin" knights are, yes, the DA knights are elite. I've based their chest/skirt areas off the more well-known Knights Templar, who did not wear a full plate harness and wore tunics over their armour. If you can't see the armour, don't assume it's not there. The horses have a chainmail barding (again, in the middle eastern style), with cloth worn over it.

On the same point with the horseman, they couldn't wear plate armor and gauntlets as they wouldn't be able to grip the lances. Normally they work chain mail on the arms and plate armor on the chest. Also allowed the horse to move slightly faster

*yawns* Go look at some gothic plate armour and then we'll talk. Italian style plate too... they both have examples of extensive plate gauntlets. The examples you're thinking of are later and earlier period armours, for example late Spanish, that pretty much dropped the arm armour in favour of maneuverability. The true 'knight's objective was mass, not as much speed in a charge, so as to be much more damageing. Also consider that the main mass of armour doesn't lie in the relatively thin arms, but in the helmet and chest areas.

If you want a full discussion based on LOTR material as to why I designed them that way, I'd be happy to oblige.



Anyways, mod's looking nice stealthsnake... are you going to put the Variag axemen in?