23 replies to this topic

[Stealthsnake]

Im afraid the end of the line has come for me. I am retiring from modding. I have not been modding for the past month for varius flue, pc errors and modding break issues. But now thats all over, my intrest in modding and tolkiens world has gone.

I am looking for anyone intrested in taking the mod over. I would give them all the work ive done on bog, contributions not yet released and hand over the website and forums over to them. The only condition being that my name is kept in the credits . If you intrested email me and we can talk.

I would hate to think bog wont be finnished after it collected hundreds of fans, who wanted to see the final version.

Thanks to all those who contributed to BOG and showed their support

Anyway, i have released the last non public beta, which contains the latest and will be my final release.

Download here.

Here is the readme, ( the fixes are whats been fixed since the last none public beta).

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|-----------Battles of Gondor Version 3.5-------------------------|
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Installation
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place the bog.big in the "C:\Documents and Settings\Tom\Application Data\My The Lord of the Rings, The Rise of the Witch-king Files" folder, and run the previous shortcut youve been using.

If this is your first time installing, then go to your main rotwk folder, and find lotrbfme2ep1.exe. Make a shortcut of it, then open propetys of the new shortcut, and add "-mod bog.big" to the end of what ever is in there.

Changes since version 3.4
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There are alot more changes, but these are the ones i can remember.

Minas Tirith
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New button art for citadel guard
New unit Watchman
Spearmen renamed to Osgiliath Veterans
New voice for beregond
New Voice for Denethor
New Spellbook power, the Return of the King
Soldiers speed decreased
New art for heavy armour
new art for forged blades
New random texture for rangers
new art for some hero powers

Southern FIefdoms
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New art for....most units and heros and buildings.
Ringlo Vale Black Formation fixed
Banner Carrier Strongs Fixed
New Spell book
Lossanach axemen speed when in charge formation decreased, aswell as armour decrease and cost increased
Milita Now have forged blades
milita colours darkend
Peleglir Spearmen Cost Increased
Hero Powers Fixed
new art for some hero powers

Mordor
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Grond cost decreased, health increased
Shagrat now has voice
Gorbag now has voice
new art for mollock
new art for witch king

Isengard
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New art for sharku
new art for some hero powers

Other
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Bits of Colour theme fixed
Evil Men removed, as they are in the process of being split
new loading image

known bugs
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alot of new units are hard to select
SF AI creates a game.dat (so dont set any computer players to SF)

Credits
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Stealthsnake - mod leader

Zimoo - alot of models
TheDeadPlayer - Easterling Kataphrakts/Scouts model
Argolas - Gondor spearmen
Valandil - Citidel guard, Rohan axemen, Denethor
Absinth - uruk scout, aragorn mounted
Cobra - uruk raider, black uruk
Nertea - Dol Amroth Footmen, knights of Dol Amroth, Imrahil
BurningPhoenix - Hero Voice's
JEV3 - Ingame Audio
{IP}LORDOFDARKNESS - Saruman's New Fx Powers
Calaudan - alot of ingame art

Enjoy .

I wont be around anymore, so this is good bye.

Thanks to t3a staff for grating me hosting and thanks to the entire community giving me help when i needed it and being a friendly community since the day i joined 15 months ago.

Edited by Stealthsnake, 31 March 2007 - 08:09 PM.

[m@tt]

Haven't seen that much of your work, but I stopped by the BOG website a few weeks ago and was very impressed by it. It's a pity you have lost interest, but this is for fun, it shouldn't be a chore. Good luck with the rest of your life

[Pixel]

Always sad to see a fellow modder leave... Good luck with whatever you do next.

[{IP}Sauron]

cya stealhtsnake we'll meet on the other side (maybe )

[Fingulfin]

So long mate, sad to see you go... Another of the old veterans, passing into the sky. You were no doubt the most popular modder outside of T3A, I would like to congratulate you on your very succesful modding career. Once again, sad to see you leaving,
-Fin

[Uruk King]

Gentlemen, to Stealthsnake! *raises cup*

[L_LongGondorWarrior]

I know little of you. But i have heard so much about you from JEV3, YodaWarrior, D_Bershevits, and El Kevo. You wouldn't give the mod to me if I asked so I won't. Eve though I know what to do with is. I won't ask.

[Uruk King]

what are you getting at? What do you know of me?

[ched]

I think that was addressed to StealthSnake

[Caluadan]

haha yeah he probably did

Edited by Caluadan, 21 April 2007 - 03:29 PM.

[Harad King]

is the mod still being worked on or is it discontinued?

Edited by harad king, 09 June 2007 - 08:48 PM.

[m@tt]

Discontinued, that's why it's in the Archived Mod's section There were plans for the supporters of the mod to carry it on, but I don't know what ever happened with that.

[Lotrfan2]

Discontinued, that's why it's in the Archived Mod's section There were plans for the supporters of the mod to carry it on, but I don't know what ever happened with that.

I think Tom(Stealthsnake) wanted to give the mod to a modder that had alot of free time,by free time i mean that the modder would have no other projects.

[Servant of Sauron]

Sad, t'was a great mod.

[Nazgûl]

Is Tom still reachable?

[Juissi]

I see him at MSN sometimes and if you would email or PM him I think you could reach him.

[Dindi]

at his forums maybe, although if you are looking for him to join your mod i dont think it would be very likely as he said he didnt find fun anymore

[Lauri]

he knows that
But I think that Naz is just interested in some of the BoG stuff which I couldn't really have argued against

[Dindi]

i thought it was free to take as long as you gace credit to whomever made it

[Nazgûl]

Yes, I wouldn't exactly ask a RETIRED modder to join my team

Lauri is right, I wanted to ask if we could use BoG stuff in SEE =)