[Development Thread] World of Legends - Revived from the dead!

[cybrxkhan]

Yeah, I already know, I was playing around with the image scale values to try to make the hero units a bit bigger than the usual units, but it seems it was a bit too much. I'll just have to make the image scale smaller in the xml, no problem.

EDIT:

More screenshots for your viewing pleasure...

Scipio Africanus, the Roman military hero:

A duel between the Spanish and Aztec military heroes, Hernan Cortes and Itzcoatl:

 

[cybrxkhan]

Alright, more screenshots just to show everyone the hero "ancillaries" that can join a hero's retinue - i.e., super-promotions for the heroes.

First here is one of the several possible ancillaries that can join a hero's retinue, a minister:

Secondly, here we see the Egyptian military hero, Thutmose III, obviously about to win a fight:

After he wins, he gets enough xp to give himself a new ancillary:

 

[CurryAztec]

Very smart of you to blend in RTK XI art with Civilization IV

 

[The_J]

I think, the 2 heroes are an interesting concept .

Very smart of you to blend in RTK XI art with Civilization IV

Agree, looks great.

 

[cybrxkhan]

After a sudden burst of inspiration this afternoon, I just released a small modcomp, "Militia", which includes various concepts that will also be in WoL. The thread for it is here: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?p=8298465#post8298465

To make it short, the Militia ModComp adds three "militia" units, all of which utilize the unique "Militia" promotion which gives an attacking militia unit +100% strength, although it will be disbanded after combat regardless.

Screenshots below:

 

[Huayna Capac357]

Awesome! This is really progressing, and the heroes look awesome.

 

[Forcystus]

Question, why was Holy Rome eliminated from the mod?

 

[Huayna Capac357]

The Holy Roman Empire is the medieval era Germany. It is totally redundant. We already have France, Rome, and Germany. What more do you want? The city lists even overlap. It's like having the PRC and imperial China; the USSR and tsarist Russia; the US and the 13 Colonies; Scandinavia and the Vikings; or British India on the one hand and every other India on the other.

 

[Forcystus]

Well I'm going to miss Charlemagne

 

[Huayna Capac357]

Add him to France and the Landsknecht and Rathaus to Germany.

 

[cybrxkhan]

HuaynaCapac pretty much said the reason on why I'm removing HRE. With WoL, we'll have Germany, Austria, Italy, and Rome (even France to some degree) as civs, so there is way too much overlap there. Other questionable civs, like the Byzantines, have much more better arguments in my opinion; the HRE has simply way too much overlap with many of the other European civs. I was also considering for a short time to split up the Native American civs, but I wanted to add other civs from other regions too, so I'll leave it at that.

I'm considering making Charlemagne a German leader, though making him a leader of France is not out of the question yet. The Rathaus and Landsknecht will be removed from the game, although the Rathaus art will be used for the Austrian Conservatory UU and the Landsknecht be used as the unit art for the Austrian hero Charles V. I'll probably try to give some other new UU and UB the bonuses of the Rathaus and the Landsknecht if I can.

 

[snipperrabbit!!]

I'm considering making Charlemagne a German leader, though making him a leader of France is not out of the question yet. The Rathaus and Landsknecht will be removed from the game, although the Rathaus art will be used for the Austrian Conservatory UU and the Landsknecht be used as the unit art for the Austrian hero Charles V. I'll probably try to give some other new UU and UB the bonuses of the Rathaus and the Landsknecht if I can.

Weird. You should try to make an Alaman leader a ruler of France too ! That will be funny !

 

[Forcystus]

I was just curious that's all, but it definitely makes sense. Even if I don't agree with it, lol.
However, the mod looks fantastic.

One last question, there will be Great Generals right? You got a bit of name overlap so I was just curious.

 

[cybrxkhan]

Of course, the Great General list will be changed, so that there won't be a Leonidas Great General and a Leonidas Hero unit running around at the same time. More names will be added for greater variety.

Also, as a note to anyone interested, please feel free to suggest any modcomps for the mod. I love adding in little things to tweak the game, so if you see anything interesting or awesome, please feel free to suggest it!

Here's some more screenies. I'm almost done with the heroes, I have about 20 or 30 more of them to go. Anyhow...

WoL's African EDU

The Vietnamese military heroes, the Trung Sisters, trampling over the Korean national hero, Gwanggaeto (credits to Bakuel)

 

[cybrxkhan]

Done with the heroes at last! I'm starting up the Guilds now, and hopefully I'll have a couple screenshots of those up in a day or two.

Anyhow, here's two screenshots of what happens when the heroes get too old or get killed (they go off the map, permanently). Credits to The_J who did all the python voodoo :

 

[Huayna Capac357]

That's pretty awesome

 

[The_J]

Great to see it in action .

 

[cybrxkhan]

Now here's some more screenshots!

Half-way done through the Guilds; in fact, I could even be finished with them in a week or two, and then I could even release the next version of WoL!

Anyhow, Guild screenies:

 

[Huayna Capac357]

This mod has awesomesauce.

EDIT: With respect, I don't think Ind/Agr are the best traits for Taizong. I think Prog/Org or Imp/Org would be better.

 

[TheLastOne36]

Wow the mod looks great.