#Third age total war mods mods#
#Third age total war mods license#

Seeing past that вЂ“ and hoping that the all-seeing-eyes-of-lawyers do too вЂ“ it's riffing off the source material in splendid ways. Based off both the films and the books, taking the design of the character is one thing вЂ“ taking the themes of the film and using stills from it to illustrate all those splendid events quite another.

#Third age total war mods license#

Since every time I've been alone with Creative Assembly since the late nineties I've found myself suggesting they should do a Middle Earth: Total War вЂ“ hey, guys, the Silmarillion's license has to be cheapish, yeah? Or the Adventures of Tom Bombadil? - this glorious chunk of intellectual-property-theft is more than welcome.ДЄnd it really is well into dodgy IP-use territory. If it wanted to do a quest to get rid of the ring вЂ“ and it doesn't, though it does feature вЂ“ it'd involve slowly creating an economic structure large enough to power a military juggernaut hefty enough to bash down the doors of Mordor and shove that ring down Sauron's black throat. While it takes all the lore and runs with it, it doesn't try and simulate the actual film. You can't play Beornings вЂ“ the best of all the Middle-Earth-blokes and bear-changing honey-cake-eating hard-cases вЂ“ but you can hire them as Mercenaries, which will have to do. If you're properly perverse, you even have two variety of elves to pick from. This is a 50-years-before-War-of-The-Ring set total conversion of Medieval II (Requiring the Kingdoms add-on pack) and allows you to take control of any of the 12 main players, from Gondor and Rohan to Mordor and The Orcs of the Misty Mountains.

The team вЂ“ as the size of the project would suggest вЂ“ know their Tolkein. In fact, with the amount of artifacts related to the Smaug-offing, you half suspect it's the one bit of Lore that the development team knows to. It's the one actual bit of lore on Dale I actually know. It's the home of Bard from famous spectrum videogame the Hobbit, of SAY TO BARD вЂњSHOOT THE DRAGONвЂќ fame. They look fancy now, at least, and the sight of the sky filling with fire arrows is as stirring as ever. I'm primarily playing them because Dale is the single major enhancement of the patch, completely reworking what a side who were apparently pretty nob in previous versions. That's the level of fantasy glamour we're dealing with here. See! Rhun! Who the hell is Rhun? It's a Middle Earth Medieval II mod, and I'm happily fighting just some blokes with nary a whiff of Nazgul, Orcs or Hobbits.Д®ven my side isn't exactly over-whelmed with Middle-Earth charisma.

It's eaten mornings and afternoons and evenings I really can't afford to spend beating the hell out of Rhun. This is the one has been eating most of my time.

#Third age total war mods mods#

I've been primarily playing mods this week.