Third Age Total War: Wars of Arda is the only mod representing Middle Earth during 1900 TA. At this time there are the rule of the Kings still reigns in Gondor and their power is seen from the Belaegar to the Sea of Rhun. The dunedain of Arnor however struggle to survive as one-by-one each of the petty kingdoms is picked off by Angmar. The legacy of Vidugavia is in ruins in Rhovanion, and the fractious peace held together by Gondorian rule is shattered after the coming of the dreaded Wainriders! Dragons rule in the North, the Haradrim shake off the yoke of tyranny of their Adunaroth (adunaim) overlords, and the East is aflame due to the machniations of the Blue Istarii. But if that wasn't enough for you, Durin's Bane awakens in Khazad-Dum, a new "Cult of the Ring" forms in the ruins of Mordor, and of course, the Dark Lord himself earns his title of "necromancer" at Dol Guldur. Nowhere else in Tolkien's storied timeline of events on the planet Arda is there a period so packed with action and adventure, save perhaps the Silmarillion. Unlike the Silmarillion, these events are frequently forgotten. We seek tell this story here, and to fill in the gaps that Tolkien left to make for possibly the biggest RTS setting in Middle Earth out there!
Note that we're still early days in development and we could really use some new members of our development team as we're looking to add 4 new factions and a campaign!
Note also that Wars of Arda is looking for modelers and testers! You can find me on the official Wars of Arda Discord: Discord.gg
Additionally, if you would like to see replays featuring the Wars of Arda, you can find such content on our channel: Iron Wolves Productions
Below are all factions that are currently playable in V1.2 (to be released as of writing this update):
The Kingdom of Gondor
The Principality of Belfalas
The Kingdom of Arthedain
The Kingdom of Cardolan
The Kingdom of Rhudaur
The Adunaroth Empire
The Kingdom of Eothrym
The Kingdom of Esgaroth
The Kingdom of Gramya
The Chiefdom of the Ordvir
The Chiefdom of the Gwathuirim
The Hidden Kingdom of Dorwinion
The Kingdom of Eryn Galen
The Kingdom of Lothlorien
The House of Imladris
The Kingdom of Lindon
The Sultanate of Harad
The Loke-Khanate of Rhun
The Khanate of Khand
Wars of Arda Discord:https://discord.gg/MX9ftpc
Mod Credits: King Kong and the original TATW team for originally doing the heavy lifting in creating the TATW mod and community, the DaC team for their model assets, the developers and contributors to the MoS team and their mod for their model assets, the team for Europa Barborum 2 for their vegetation assets and animation assets used, Kuruguro Chan and the Third Age Reforged Team for all of their assets used. Credit to the Silmarillion Team for several of their assets. Credit to the TESTW team for several of their models. Credit to BOTET for several models.
UI Credits: WK for the menu submod as well as our new emblem, and much of our UI. Also credit to Buzzerd for his work with UI creation as well.
Model Credits: Argus, Carmondai, Bill Baraka, Steward of Dale, JMonster, and White in the Blackcloud for their model contributions, kitbashing, and their advice! Credit to Carmondai for his incredible work on unit cards!
3rd party model contributors: 1) Anthony Schmidt: Sketchfab.com 2) Choges Craft Channel: Sketchfab.com 3) dudecon: Sketchfab.com
Sound and Music Credits: Further credit to Fracture Music, Napbak, and Shock blaster for music and voice lines respectively.
Submod Credits: Finally, thanks to Magus and the devs of the Crimson Tide submod.
-Bilbo
P.S. if you are interested in seeing replays at the various stages of the development of this mod, or just replays of all things TATW, check out our Youtube Channel (Iron Wolves Productions): Youtube.com
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Greetings and welcome to another adventure!
I am Bilbo the lead developer behind Third Age Total War: Wars of Arda. I am pleased to bring to you the third installment in our developer diary series! You'll forgive me as this video has been out for some time and I am only just now posting it here. We also have a couple preview images to display for your enjoyment here as a teaser for what is to come:
These are three of the bodyguards for the Kingdom of Zaharinbar, who are better known as the Dwarves of Ered Luin.
And below you can see one of the mountain men of Dorwinion (who will be updated a bit) facing off against one of the horrors of Ungoliant's brood.
You can find the full developer diary video linked here: Developer Diary #3
That is all for today! I have been Bilbo, and I hope you will join us on another adventure!
-Bilbo
Wars of Arda Developer Diary #2
News 1 commentAn update via developer diary that shows all the changes made in V1.1: Song of the Firstborn.
Wars of Arda V1.0 Patch 1 Prerelease
NewsA Prerelease description of what will come in V1.0 Patch 1.
Announcement
NewsThis article previews a bit of what you can expect in V1.0 and gives a rough idea of what will come next!
Third Age Total War: Wars of Arda Developer Diary #1
NewsOur first offical developer diary is here, and we showcase one new faction!
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Wars of Arda V1.2: The Gifted of Iluvatar
Full Version 3 commentsNew Version release! This is a full stand-alone version and does not require anything else for installation!
Wars of Arda V1.1: The Song of the Firstborn
Patch 2 commentsSimply download, and extract to your medieval 2--> mods folder. Run the .bat file to launch! If you have the previous version, you can either remove...
Wars of Arda V1.0: A Shadow Rises
Full Version 11 commentsAt long last! Our first official version of Wars of Arda is released!
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any update on when campaign will be ready
We were hoping to have had at least a barebones campaign ready by now. Essentially we are waiting on a new campaign map and we'll be off to the races.
Is this project still alive? seems like there hasn't been a update on here for quite a while
It is indeed still alive, just under wraps until it's ready for a presentable release.
Yeah that's what I am wondering too....its probably dead now.
Not dead in fact, just lots of work behind the scenes. That and I haven't monitored the moddb page much I will confess.
Without campaign its okey mod but for me very close to one we already have Reforged mod ,i am hoping that this will growe in campaign gameplay rather then multiplayer
We are going as quickly as we can to get started on campaign. Trust me no one wants this more than me. But when we're going to have more factions than any other Middle Earth mod for medieval 2 total war (because we will reach the game's limit) it will be much easier to get our factions added first and then we will start the campaign.
TLDR: stick around and we will shift our focus to the campaign.
is the campaign playable?
Not quite yet unfortunately. We're still building factions for multiplayer. Once we're done with that, it will make campaign development much easier.