Dragonlance: War of the Lance

[Kranar Drogin]

Well, lets try this again, shall we?

Well, I am going to continue from Supa's thread on Civ 3 only this wil be for Civ4. Basically will be building the world based off of Post War of the Lance. I have include preliminary screen shots of the continent of Ansalon. I still need to do rivers and resources yet, but I wanted to get this out first. This is my first attempt so please bear with me. I will be using Rhye's Converter also.

Tenatively the continent will be broken down like this:
Solamnia - Solamnia, Sancrist - Gunthar Uth Wistan
Qualinesti - Qualinesti, S. Ergoth (1 city) - Solostaran Kanan
Silvanesti - S. Ergoth (1 city), Silvanesti (1 city) - Alhanna Starbreeze
Northern Ergoth - Northern Ergoth - Mercadior Redic V
Red Dragonarmy - Kern - Karalas
Blue Dragonarmy - Sanction - Kitiara Uth Matar
Green Dragonarmy - Khur & Blode - Salah-Khan
White Dragonarmy - Icereach - Barbarossa
Black Dragonarmy - Goodlund, Mithas, Kothas - Lucien
Thorbardin - Thorbardin - Glade Hornfel Kytil

I am going to need help designing the dragons, cause I have no idea. But I am thinking they would be based off the gunship, where you can travel but are still a flying unit. I am still learning how to do all this, so please bear with me.

We are using the War of the Lance reference book, for most of the info outlining this event.

The Pics are nothing special, just showing Caergoth.

 

[Supa]

It looks quite good. I see nothing wrong at this scale.

Scenario-wise, you could fill Silvanesti with Barbarian cities for the ancient Silvanost towns, now in ruins and inhabited by the shadow-thing.

Graphics-wise, fantastic mods and scenarios are probably the most challenging project at the moment. Beyong reskinning, no new unit can be done.. yet. But when it will, it would be good to have a great backbone scenario and gameplay like this to put new units on.

 

[RxP13]

>> Mean while, I bet the map by itself could be fun too. I also think that a scenario would be awsome... I also think a Eberron and Forgotten Realms would be cool too ^^;;. But alas, I shouldn't talk since I don't mod. Anyways, it looks great.

 

[Kranar Drogin]

Tomorrow I will post just the map that I created. It isn't going to be totally on scale with mountains and whatnot, but thats ok for now, that could be fixed up on the World builder.

I have already thought along the lines of Silvanesti, and this is what I am going to do. Starting as just the Silvanesti means you have only two cities:
Silvamori on Southern Ergoth
Silvanost in Silvanesti.

I will then load a bunch of troops up in Silvanost, put it only at a 1 or maybe a 2, and the rest of the cities will have barbarians. So it will be a scenario within a scenario.

The big problem I am running into is the Python program. I am not good at this at all, and am sorta stumbling my way through. So any assistance on this would be awesome.

 

[Kranar Drogin]

Ok, I have updated the map. This is the very preliminary one with no rivers or resources (haven't had time in the last couple days). If you were to play it as a scenario, the game would just pick spots to start the nations and you wouldn't be playing as any nation from Ansalon, so I don't think it will be very fun.

 

[Tivoli]

Looks like some really great work so far. Are you still working on this scenario?

If you're looking for any reference material, the old DragonLance module "Dragons of Glory" would probably be very useful. It was a strategy board game that covered the War of the Lance.

 

[jamie006]

is this by any chance based off the dragon lance chronicles with strumbright blade,tanis half elven and everyone else?????
as for the dragon unit there is one being made right now. I know because i prob will use it in my eragon mod....

 

[darkedone02]

I never read any of the dragonlance books, nor do i played any games off of it. However, i like to see this mod to come out successfully with no problems and very much customized like Fall of Heaven. Please do so that you have a good mod just like the other mods out there.