The Last Kingdom challenges players to control 13 new factions, including the Vikings themselves, the Saxons, Scots, Irish, Welsh and Norman, and to embark on a campaign to dominate the British Isles. With a wealth of new historical heroes, players can lead a range of new units into battle - including Viking Berserkers, Saxon Huscarles and Fyrdmen - while conducting sieges and epic battles. You can conduct the campaign on a new map focusing on North Europe, in the continent, in the Isle of England or Iceland or starting from the Norwegian peninsula.
This mod is epic! Dark age Europe and the Viking invasions are the most intresting parts of history (I think so anyway) so I'm glad their is a mod set in this time period!
It could be seen ( and is better ) like one of those Kingdoms expansion scenarios for medieval 2 since it sets the tone of the high points of the viking age in north western Europe very well with most of the major factions during the time period while having a large map with a diverse enough unit look/style and a good way of tackling culture in this time period!It also changes the battles from regular medieval 2's game play to fit more with the style of battle during the time (major example is the shield wall). I highly recommend this mod and it does offer at least 3 different faction variety of fun such as playing one of the Scandinavian countries, Anglo-Saxon or more main land European such as the French or Normans. One of the best Medieval 2 mods out there and in the same tier (I believe) as other mods like Stainless Steel, Third Age, etc even if the goals aren't the same!
I love Vikings, saxons and that ****.... This is a dream come true!
My favorite
This mod is really fun to play. There is a TON of content added. I love the Norse art design, the music, and the voice acting for the Viking characters! The Viking units are also very detailed, incredibly powerful, and fun to play as! I can't believe you also included Suomi (sami) warriors! What a great touch.
Feedback on things I've noticed that need fixing:
-Hordalands begins the campaign by losing 1,000 florins from their budget every turn. If this is on purpose, please make a short note explaining this and how to survive it (either on Moddb or in the game)
-Hordaland units use a bugged German voice about 1/20 times, the diplomat is even worse, about half the time.
-Battles are crashing about 1/5 times.
-Autosave is buggy. Occassionally, loading an autosave will crash the game.
-I do agree with other players that not all units types should be available immediately at the start of the game, at least for the sake of fun through progress (historically, having all the units available at 860 AD IS accurate, so I'll give you that). HOWEVER the fact that I have elite units sacking IRELAND, and taking minimal losses, is the only reason my faction has survived 10+ turns.
-The music is excellent (Helvegen by Wardruna has been stuck in my head for days). If you add a few more songs, this would be awesome as the loop seems short right now.
And also, thank you Nygren for being awesome and staying active by answering questions from you fans :D
NOTICE FOR NEW PLAYERS:
If you play as the Vikings, the game is trying to kill you from turn 1! You MUST throw out your old habits from playing Total War and learn Viking raiding strategies to survive.
For example, currently as Hordaland, you start with a 1,000 loss every turn due to upkeep. The only way I'm able to survive in the game right now is to raid (I define "raiding" as sacking towns, and then destroying buildings for money, then pulling out all my troops and letting the town revolt after a few turns). I've never played TW like this before, but after I saw that it worked, I determined that its probably how the mod is meant to be played. After I disbanded about 1/3rd of my elite army in Dublin, to fix the upkeep bleed, I sacked all of Ireland's towns, and am sacking England's coast on the way back to Norway to replenish troops.
The Last Kingdom is a epic mod set in latter period of Dark Ages in which Vikings dominating world. Are many great things in this mod, unfortunably still in beta version. Highly recommanded
I really enjoyed this mode and changes in it.
My only nitpick is that individual units should be smaller in 9th century.
Everything else felt good, battles were fun with new units and I likde designs of both units and buildings. The campaign is more stabble than other Kingdoms mods I tried (EB2, bunch of GoT mods, Stainless Steel).
You know it's a great mod when you still have the same feeling of playing the original game, yet nothing seems familiar. This mod certainly does that with a very well-made map, a great focus on the different factions and their cultures and historical accuracy. Hell, it even has an unification of Norway campaign with a great deal more historical details than I would ever expect!!
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loved the mod dude, 10/10 had a great map and only thing id like different is more factions instead of just rebels but that's just being picky....... other than that loved the music choices and the building trees with the different pictures for the buildings... good unit variety too