Once Zaros, the empty lord, ruled over most of Gielinor. Zaros was feared by all but even he could not hold on to his power forever as he was betrayed by his most powerful general, a mahjarrat called Zamorak. This brought an end to Zaros rule. It's the third age on Gielinor now... a time of total war! More info: This modification for Alexander RTW will aim to have most of the races of Gielinor known to have participated in the wars. Also I will first focus on making units and custom settlements before I try and make a campaign. Playable factions are: Zarosian Empire, Saradominist Kingdoms, Zamorakians, Guthixians, Tirannwn, Fremennik Tribes, Followers of Armadyl, Hordes of Bandos, Desert Empire.
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The new units and maps all look great! It might be the light (which often makes it hard to look at units in RTW), but Efaritay's details are hard to make out.
The swords on the Justiciars are a bit paddle-like, though. If you want huge weapons to really cleave into the enemy, have you considered some form of halberd or Dharok-like axe?
It is the default lightning, I need to manually darken all my textures. The details on the queen are like Zilyana's with some minor edits. I also added a cape and crown. :)
They are supposed to be 2h swords, I could make them a bit less broad.
Looking at some 2H swords in OSRS, I almost think you'd get away with swords as thick as a single one of the pure white sections - the Saradomin Sword is way broader at the base than any other 2H sword I know of, though you shouldn't let modern RS get in the way of rule of cool. Lots of culture and knowledge was lost in the God Wars, and the modern Saradominist kingdoms seem to me to have a more functional aesthetic based on ranged and melee than prayer and magic, which makes sense when you consider their histories - pre/early GW kingdoms don't have those same limitations, and also have the benefit of a (weaker, less experienced, but still powerful) Saradomin to rule in the flesh.
A bit rambly, just woke up
The design of this weapon is Justiciar Zachariah's blade. He is the last surviving justiciar back from the GW.
Also I have yet to figure how to include Saradomin or Zamorak. Would make the game extremely unbalanced... My idea was to make their most important generals the faction leaders. What do you think?
Sounds good to me. You could have three temples available to build, that (in addition to bonuses to food, happiness, law and whatever) boost melee, ranged units or the spellcaster units (if they're in the cards). Maybe something like this:
Temple/Altar/Church/whatever of Order boosts everything a bit, has lots of stability due to high bonus to law,
Temple of Valour/chivalry boosts melee units and lets you recruit an elite type of priest-unit,
Temple of the kept peace/adventurer/given quest boosts your archers and gives you access to units of elite rangers (maybe some text hinting that they act as a secret police in times of peace, if you go with "kept peace"...
Edit: Looked at Zachariah, I think his weapon looks really out of place
I can make the blade half as broad. I think that will make it look it better.
There will be spellcasters. I just need permission of another mod first to use their spellaster animation. If I am succesfull at making flying animations for the aviansie I will make special RS themed spellcaster animations for each type of magic (in this case Ancient, Lunar and other ancient type of spells since runestone magic didn't exist yet).
The spellcasting units I have in mind are:
Guthxians: Void Knight Mage and fairies
Zarosians: Nex's spellcasters and Mahjarrat
Zamorakians and Desert Empire: Mahjarrat
The rest I still need to figure out or come up with an alternative strenght. Do you have discord by any chance? If so sent me a message with your username so I can add you.