The Wars of Arda is a (very) large expansion mod for the EA Games title "The Lord of the Rings: The Rise of the Witchking". We will first be heavily reworking the existing factions (adding Rohan and Harad and merging the Goblins into Isengard) and implementing a "minifaction" system where you begin a skirmish map with a "Core Faction" which contains a variety of units and heroes, and you purchase "Mini Factions" as the match prgresses, giving you access to new units and heroes.
The Mod will also be implementing several "Eras" into the mod. This will NOT be an Empire Earth style system where you upgrade from one era to another, but a system where each era is a seperate set of skirmish factions and campaign missions (however all factions will be able to play against each other). The eras of the mod will be as follows.
The War of the Jewels
The Last Alliance
The Rise of the Witchking
The Wainriders Invasion
The Quest of Erebor
The War of the Ring
The New shadow
Each era will consist of between 2 and 7 factions, each with between 3 and 5 "mini factions".
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The demo is available in the download section now.
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The mod also has a new feature called "Be-A-Hero". Wherever possible we are adhering to a mix of the LoTR movies and the works of tolkien, but in many cases there are not enough characters to adaquetely fill the required numbers of Heroes for each faction (10-15 heroes per faction), so we are allowing people to submit designs for their own personal Avatar to appear in the mod. This can be voiced by you and you can even appear on the skin/unit portrait.
Examples of current heroes are Calintz of Rhun, and the black Numenorean General Eraus, commander of the defence of Barad Dur against the Last Alliance (mod team get the most impressive characters!).
I cannot guarantee youll get the character you want (were FULLY stocked with Elves already im afraid) but within reason I will try and include your character, until all the spaces for new Avatars are full.
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Hey,
Happy New Year, everyone!!!!
This update was suppose to come out last year, but I couldnt get around to it.
So here we go,
The last of the Doriath Units for now, the Mounted Glade Guard,
Here's Arwen at Helms Deep, Mounted and Armour in the Galadhrim Armour,
And Final's here is Idrial from the Third Age game, thats all I am saying, for now.
On, a final note, this is going to be the last update from me for a while,
ElrondHighLord
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The Elf Witch of Doriath - Update Doriath Court Part 2, Update 13/12/2009
NewsHere we see the Elf witch / Doraith Sorceress who studied under Melian. Enjoy :D
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NewsHer JEV informs us of the forums maintenence at www.warsofarda.co.uk/forums
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Wars of Arda Demo - The Return of Shadow
Demo 27 commentsThe Wars of Arda has been in development for over a year now, in its current form, and this is our first public release. All going to plan it will be...
Wars of Arda - Trailer 1
MovieThis is the first official trailer of the Wars of Arda mod. Its by our awesome mapper Digital general and features many new maps and units.
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Rest assured that work is still being done on WoA. We've had a few in-house betas since last year's update, and if my line of thinking is correct, we're reasonably close to our first full release for the WotR era, complete with campaign, maps, etc. If you want to check out the community, head over to our website, warsofarda.co.uk, and post in the forums. We'd love to hear from you.
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That's good news indeed ;)
I hope there is a release sometime early-mid spring. I didn't know there was a campaign being done.
Think it's sleeping...
If what I read was as it seemed, RL took over right after the New Year's update and they were thrown off track until sometime around April. And have been working on putting together the next version since. So I would keep a close watch on this mod for another couple of months still.
It seems all the good RoTWK Mods decided to go to sleep on us. :P
Funny isn't it :P
I was looking at the other factions in this beta. (The ones that are not complete) And this mod is looking very,very good. I hope it's finished, I don't think a mod this big would die without someone saying something. Sleeping/Updating Behind the scenes. I look for a release in the coming days/weeks/months. I think RL intervened and they're just trying to finish up the next version, fix bugs, input maps, and get everything put together properly. Finally there will be a Dale minifaction. Never could figure out why EA left out what could have been a brand new faction...
That's easy. Dale wasn't in the movies. :P Of course, the Dwarves weren't in the movie either(Besides Gimli of course) But there's no way they could of gotten away with leaving them out.
But yeah. The Beta is just awesome. So is RJ's. Just wished they'd hurry up and give us something more. ;)
Still though Dale would have been a good faction, I hope we get a new release of this one soon. Alot of work was already done in the last release actually. But it wasn't 'all-there' you might say. (As far as the other factions go. They were provided 'as-is' in the last one.
Meh. Dale is lame in my opinion. :P All they need to do is flesh out the Mirkwood Elves some more. Doubtful, but it would also be awesome if the Dunedain were to become a playable Faction and not just in the Inns. :D
Hope this mod gets pulled together soon. There is already a enormous amount of content. (In the factions that are 'as-is')
will there be new verison?