War of the Silmarils mod for Medieval II: Total War: Kingdoms

Hello and welcome to the home of War of the Silmarils on ModDB! The mod had indeed been inactive for a long time, but, being a leading member of the original team, since last year I took it upon myself to revive and finish it, retrieving all the content made by my old team so far and starting the modfolder from scratch, and finishing the map, which during the last year I have vastly improved and perfected. I shall be posting news and previews on this page as development continues, so stay tuned!

War of the Silmarils is a submod of Third Age: Total War for Medieval II: Total War Kingdoms, based in the TATW submods section over at twcenter, and it aims to bring the heroic wars of Beleriand into the Total War engine. It will feature more than a dozen new factions with unique and original unit rosters while taking care to follow the lore of J.R.R.Tolkien as closely as possible, and a new campaign map covering all the lands west of the Blue Mountains in the First Age of Middle-earth.

War of the Silmarils takes place at a time many thousands of years before the events of The Lord of the Rings, a time when Men had just awakened and mighty Elven kingdoms dominated the west of Middle-earth. A time when the first Dark Lord, Morgoth, commanded Balrogs, dragons, werewolves and innumerable hosts of Orcs from his stronghold of Angband in the North. The campaign starts at the year 455 of the First Age, just before the Dagor Bragollach, when all the Elven princes are still alive and strong. Set amidst a grand tale of theft, exile, blood-curdling oaths and terrible wars, as recounted in Tolkien's Silmarillion, War of the Silmarils lets you take command of one of the many factions vying for power in Beleriand, and fight for survival or destruction in a time of total war!

The Factions:

Noldor:

• House of Fingolfin
• Nargothrond
• Sons of Fëanor
• Gondolin

Teleri:

• Doriath
• Falathrim
• Laiquendi of Ossiriand

Edain:

• House of Bëor
• House of Hador
• Folk of Haleth

Naugrim:

• Belegost
• Nogrod

Creatures of Morgoth:

• Angband

Easterlings:

• People of Bór (unplayable, spawned by script)
• People of Ulfang (unplayable, spawned by script)

( * A few unplayable microfactions will also be included for the sake of lore and immersion, as well as the Host of Valinor, which will be scripted to arrive under specific conditions.)

The Team:

• Ellin Athinaios - coding, scripting, mapping, modelling, skinning, 2D art, descriptions, lore research, unit concepts
• Diogolindir - soundtrack

Old team members:

• JorisofHolland - coding, scripting, lore research, unit concepts
• Earl of Memory - lore research, concept art, modelling, skinning
• glassakias - modelling, skinning
• Colonel Cleg McLeg - mapping
• Squeaks - modelling, skinning, name logo, signatures
• sgawara84 - modelling, skinning

Contributors:

• gigantus - mapping (Thanks to gigantus for making the first version of the map.)
  
  

The mod is based over at twcenter, so visit the thread at War of the Silmarils, in the submods section of Third Age: Total War, where you can see more information on the mod.

You can also visit War of the Silmarils on facebook, here:

Special thanks to King Kong and his team for giving permission to use TATW content!

(Copyrights of featured artwork owned by Andreas Marschall, made for the cover of the Blind Guardian album "Nightfall in Middle-earth". Logo made by Squeaks.)