Comments - ReiksfartTW

Nothing to download. I'm waiting for the next BotET patch, then it could be weeks, months or decades before I finalize a first release.

I had made some small changes to the roster. Other than that I had nothing planned except standard bearers and a battle standard, which I'm adding to all factions.

I have a nuln ironsides model someone else made, who gave it to me about 4 years ago. At the moment I can't say what is going to make it in. Going to need the new version of BotET.

That was a particularly close battle fighting against the wood elves. 90%+ casualties each side. Fun stuff.

No, it's one of the wood elf general units.

Yes, taking a break to refresh. Has to be done every so often or the modding suffers. Flying home for christmas in just over a week and won't be back until January, so will get back to it then. Hopefully the new BotET patch will be out by January.

Yes, all the new dragons are from skyrim. Current dragons in BotET are from warhammer online.

If you click 'view original' at the top you'll get the full size pic. Pics look squashed because I use an ultrawide monitor and I've cut out the UI at the bottom and the 'paused' graphic above.

Yes, will be adding in as many named heroes as possible.

Wargor in the army book.

Beastmen will be a separate faction. Won't be adding that in until I have the new version of BotET. Chaos factions certainly won't have access to ghorgon's etc, maybe just some gor/ungor mercs. Most obvious changes will be on the battlefield and the new factions. The campaign will essentially be the same as the original BotET, but will play differently because of different balancing techniques and rosters.

Should be possible but I have never added in a new projectile model. Got to learn the IWTE I think, a tool I've never used before.

Milkshape and 3DS Max.

Yes, but they aren't true unbreakable allies. It will be a loose alliance which can be broken. Another option would be making the beastmen faction a follower of chaos undivided who will have a solid alliance with the chaos undivided faction and neutral to the 4 chaos gods factions. Can't give a firm answer until it's all tested in game. Whatever gives the best result will be used.

Not according to the official army book. I only add in what is in the army books.

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Initially I did have different models for khorne warriors and knights, but giving all 5 chaos factions unique units for their basic troops uses up too many unit slots. All my old work is going to be replaced with the new warrior, knight and marauder models and only a texture change between each faction. They'll all have unique model unit champions, standard bearers and musicians though. All the Chosen will be unique too as they are already, but all are being replaced with new models.

That's the great thing about modding warhammer. You are only limited by your creativity, and there's really no limitation because it is a fantastical setting, especially with chaos oriented factions. 'Modding' the miniatures is popular too rather than just using the regular GW miniatures, so people can add their own personal touches to it.

This one looks light compared to another couple I made. I have a huge amount done which I haven't shown yet. Just under 2 gigs of work, not including the custom mixed music I made for vampire counts.

Do you mean mercenary units from factions such as Nippon, Cathay etc? Not from me.

You mean does my submod for BotET (Beginning of the End Times) have a different roster?

There will be some differences, but whether mine will have a larger roster I don't know. I have the carnosaur riding general unit, so that is +1, but I've also removed one unit which doesn't exist in the army book (archers) and there are some other smaller additions/changes with the way I'm dealing with certain aspects of the mod. I'm not privy to the new BotET rosters coming with the new patch though so I can't give a definite answer.

Other than a few small changes already done, absolutely nothing planned for skaven.

Yeah, and it might have been done a few years ago for Call of Warhammer had I been part of a team. I learned that being part of a team on a pet project like this doesn't suit me because I have my own ideas I want to develop for the game. I helped the Sundering warhammer mod back in I think 2011/12 with their coding, added in lots of my ideas such as the hero units, but it was all butchered before I could refine it, which I wasn't happy about. So I'm done with teams. However, although I'm not on the BotET team we're still working together in some ways. They are adding in animation scales I need and I've given them some models to add into the next patch such as the colossal squig and jungle swarm, and hopefully they'll have the ripperdactly in too.

Could argue orcs, night goblins or a few other factions don't have a tax system either. Got to work within the confines of a hardcoded engine and make the best of what you have available.

I haven't even got as far as adding the faction into the game yet, and won't be until some time after the next BotET patch. They will play different than a regular faction.

The battlefield A.I is more challenging.

This will be the roster following the latest army book:

Generals:
Beastlord
Wargor

Great Bray-Shaman
Bray-Shaman
Doombull

Core units

Gors - hand weapon and shield
Gors - Two hand weapons
Ungor herd - spear and shield
Ungor raiders - hand weapon and short bow
Tuskgor chariot
Chaos warhounds

Special units

Minotaurs - hand weapon, shields, light armour
Centigors - Great Weapons, light armour
Harpies
Bestigor herd - Great weapon, heavy armour
Razorgor herd

Rare units

Cygors
Ghorgons
Chaos Spawn
Giant

All that will be missing is the razorgor chariot, which I don't want to add in. One chariot unit is enough for a faction. And the Jabberslythe, which I may take an attempt at, but it's not going to be something I try until past a first release. Named generals from the army books are planned too, but not a priority.

I haven't even looked at the rules for cygors yet, but once I have the cygor done I'll try to get it as close as I can with how it is supposed to perform in battle. However, weaken magic isn't going to be possible in the med II engine.

This is a solo project, but thanks anyway.

The Empire will be combined down to 6 or 7 factions instead of 10. Which one's I have yet to decide.

No, I won't be doing anything with Araby, Tilea, Estalia, etc. Just guessing from what has been said in the past this is all something the BotET team will be doing in an optional submod. As for which other factions I'm working on, I won't be posting which until I have work to show for them. Priority now is having the beastmen faction ready for the next BotET patch so I can then focus fully on merging and finishing coding and testing.

When they are finished and have them in game. Currently working on finishing the Ghorgon. Got it in game as I've been supplied with the scaled animations I requested from the BotET team. Lots of tweaking needed with the rigging so the animation looks right. Got to say, it looks awesome in game. Dwarfs even the giants and looks far meaner.

Ideally horde, but whichever one works best for the A.I is what I will use.

Campaign map will be the same. Provinces/ownership of a few areas will change to accommodate new factions.