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Okay, just for fun since it's nearly the UK Election (in a couple months).

Here's my challenge. Create your own political party! Or join one someone else has made. Then, when we have all of them we'll put it up to vote and see which is most popular.

We're going for this to assume the absence of a recession; you're competing to control a medium sized, moderately comforatble but not terribly rich country. Thus you can indulge in whatever political philosophy pleaseth you most. :)

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Had to be done. "Story" books only please, either fiction or historical novels. I'm also going to put the restriction that you may only put one book in from each author (so for example each of us can give one Terry Pratchett book but DD can't come in and post all of them in a list).

I'll start with the first 5.

1. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
2. The Once and Future King - TH White
3. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
4. Small Gods - Terry Pratchett
5. Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8588527.stm

Take a look. These guys didn't realise that practicing Islam was LEGAL in the UK, which goes to show how good the Taliban propaganda machine is. It makes me wonder how much better the world would be if people just tried to understand one another sometimes...

Thoughts?

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Warsword / Jubal's Progress
« on: March 21, 2010, 06:46:12 PM »
I'm gonna post any progress I make with Warsword here.

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Warhammer; Total War / New Progress Thread
« on: March 13, 2010, 12:14:47 PM »
Progress will be reported here when it happens.

Boar Boyz and Black Orc Boar Boyz have been added to the game as of today.

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Warsword / My article on Warsword
« on: March 12, 2010, 05:38:46 PM »
Article written for the Call To Arms e-zine;

http://s1.zetaboards.com/A_Call_to_Arms?topic=2919758

Enjoyyyy. :)

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Herein shall lie the great debates on who should run that sceptered isle. Feel free to weigh in from the States or the Continent, interesting to see what you think of it all!

Current poll from YouGov (3 March):
Conservatives 38%
Labour 33%
Lib Dems 16%
Other 13%

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Warsword / My notes on potential improvements
« on: February 28, 2010, 02:06:32 PM »
Okay, most of these are naming things, you might already have 'em sorted but I thought I'd post anyway.

OVERALL
Add more cities, even if that means making lots of carbon-copies. Each Imperial province should really have a city, several Dwarf holds have been missed out too. Also don't be afraid of factions having an odd balance; the Dwarfs should have few castles as all their small forts often get nabbed by Skaven, but several large cities, whereas Orcs rarely if ever congregate in cities but will hold lots of forts/castles acrss the map. The map's big which is lovely, but it needs to be mroe populated.
More bandits would be nice too, making lil' marauder parties spawning round the Drakwald would be good.

DWARFS
Karak Karin should be Karak Kadrin
The Dwarf King is called Thorgrim Grudgebearer
Other lords should be Ungrim Ironfist in Karak Kadrin, King Kazador in Karak Hirn.
Karak Norn should be in there (in the pass between Nuln and Brettonia).
Zhufbar is (in Dwarf terms) a large city not a village. Karak Hirn is a city likewise.

EMPIRE
Marienburg is not an Imperial city, it's independent. Praag is Kislevite not Imperial, too.
Volkmar's title is arch-lector not Lord.
I'd give each province a city, to make the Empire look bigger and more balanced (not with many more Lords, mind, but plenty of cities).
I'd call it the Empire of Sigmar or just The Empire, since Men exist in many other places (Brets, Estalia, Tilea)
Brass Keep is overrun by Chaos.
They have too many archers/crossbows in their armies, more handguns would be nice.

RATS
Skavenblight is actually south of those mountains at the bottom of the map, dw about that too much though.

ORCS
Why is Skarsnik an Orc?
Can you decrease the numbers of arrer boyz the orcs get? The balance being very mcuh towards combat would be better.

BRETS
The King is called Louen Leoncour.
The archers should have a type of crappy kettle hat, then they'd look wonderfully like the models.

DARKELVES
Car Karond should be Clar Karond
The King is called Malekith.

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Southern Realm / Faction Overviews and Background FAQ
« on: February 20, 2010, 02:42:25 PM »
The Factions

OK, here's a quick overview of all the SR factions and very potted backgrounds of them!

CALRADIA and the NORTH

The Vaegirs
Old enemies of the Swadians, the Vaegirs are a northern Calradic people whose split with the Swadians helped to cause the breakup of the once great Calradian Empire. Their excellent footmen and tough knights make them good all round fighters, not perhaps the most given to discipline but certainly brave and personally tough, from their footmen right up to their mounted nobles.

The Swadians
The flowers of Calradic chivalry, the Swadians (and their vassals in the Duchy of Suno, which contains Calradia's old capital city) consider themselves the direct successors to the old Calradian Empire. Their knights are second to none, with peasant crossbowmen dragged to battle by their feudal lords.

The Rhodoks
Mercantile, community-driven, and strong believers in tactics over personal valour, the Rhodoks are one of Calradia's newest realms. Once part of Swadia, the oppressed merchants, peasants, and nobles of the rolling southern hills rose in revolt, and their semi-elected kings have been vigorous opponents of the reduced Swadian realm ever since.

The Vorroks
Mountain cousins of the Rhodoks, good healers with a traditional religion and a strong sense of community who live and mine around Calradia's highest peaks to the south of the Rhodok lands.

The Princedom of Curaw
A revolt against the Vaegirs by the northern sub-tribe in Issakev, over the mountains, has now found its centre in the larger town of Curaw, captured by the Issakans some years ago but now ruled by a native upstart from Curaw who rules both Issakan and Vaegir lands from his power-base there.

The Nords
Raiders from their homes far to the northwest, the Nords sweep down to the shores of Calradia for loot and battle. They now hold the port of Wercheg, and have long been a terror on the Alanian coasts too.

The Alanians
A realm between the Swadian mountains and the sea, famed for its deadly longbow-wielding archers and bold knights, and built strong in the face of repeated Nord invasion attempts.

Zendar
The mercenary capital of Calradia, based in the fen and river lands of the west.

THE GEROIAN PENINSULA and the SOUTHWEST

The Commagene Empire
A major power to the south of the Geroian peninsula, the Commagene realm is protected from the Gorin Empire by formidable mountains. This old realm once dominated more of the plains to the east, but has been beaten back to its old heartland in recent years. It may recover, however...

Geroian Republic
An alliance of mercantile city-states under the powerful thumb of Geroia, their largest city.

The Grand Duchy of Monemvasia
The Monemvasians, in the turmoil of the Gorin Empire's rapid expansion, have recently gained their independence from both Gorinia and the Commagenes.

Lacontia
In the mountains of the central Geroian peninsula, the city state of Lacontia is famous for its pikemen, operating a vigorous training regime from birth with a military class of total professional warriors who are led by their two kings into battle.

Tenthala
A smaller city state on the west side of Geroia, famous as a haven for merchants but also smugglers and pirates.

THE GORIN EMPIRE and LUSITANIA

Aurothia
The isle of Aurothia lies just to the west of the Lusitanian peninsula. Centred around the old city of Estarinia, the Aurothian rulers and people are perhaps the most ancient realm still in existence, with ancient stores of lore guarded from other peoples and an effective trading fleet.

The County of Thuralia
A tiny independent duchy founded by a freebooter.

The Dharroks
Southern cousins of the Vorroks and Rhodoks, living in an upland region and causing no end of trouble for the Gorin cities of the plains.

The Duchy of Mallardia
A tiny independent duchy founded by a freebooter in the southeast of the Lusitanian peninsula.

The Duchy of Rhonewar
A tiny independent duchy centred around an exceptionally defensible castle in a hilly, forested region just north of the plains.

The Empire of Gorinia
A vast Empire stretching from the Lusitanian peninsula across the southern plains and up to the borders of Calradia. Their disciplined sword-armed infantrymen and tax-funded army are currently one of the world's dominant military forces.

The Empire of Lusitania
Something of a rump state, the Empire once dominated the Lusitanian peninsula and beyond before Gorinia revolted and rose to far greater prominence and power. Their professional soldiers still fight in an archaic but efficient infantry army.

The Hematite Emirate
A small emirate in the southern Lusitanian peninsula, unlike most other Emirates which are across the sea to the east.

Lexandia
The most southerly Orinite faction, protected behind a string of mountains along the coast and with a powerful trading fleet as well as a recently reformed feudal system on the model of that in Swadia or the Vaegir Kingdom.

THE EAST and the STEPPES

The Khergit Khanate
The huge Khergit hordes have exploded out of the east to dominate the steppe regions where their horse archers and tactical flexibility have made them an almost unbeatable force.

The Red Khanate
A southern offshoot of the main Khergit horde, the Red Khanate is now a powerful force in the bloodily contested Holy Lands.

Harlaushia
The city of Harlaushia was once part of a far greater eastern realm, but has retained its independence primarily through its status as a wealthy trading post on the route between the southeast and Calradia.

The FAQs

This is also going to be a sort of FAQ thread for SR's background. Here I'll post questions and answers to any questons like; "How was Alania formed?", "Why is Geroia a Republic when in Native Lezalit is the count's son?", "What the hell is up with Taugard anyway?", and so on.

So go for it! Questions!

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Southern Realm / SR: How You Can Help
« on: February 14, 2010, 01:27:50 PM »
This thread will be a list of competitions and minor contributions YOU can make to Southern Realms. Anyone who does will get their name in the credits, and possibly even a lord/character named after them ingame!

Okay, current things I need doing;



COMPETITION: DESIGN A CLAIMANT

I need you to design a faction claimant for either the Duchy of Rhonewar, the Duchy of Mallardia, or the County of Thuralia. All you need to do is fill in a convincing, interesting, and clever dialog into the Module framework. The one below is an example, my claimant for the Red Khanate:
Spoiler: click to toggle

All the faction claimants use the same pattern of dialog: an intro and 3-part story for the claimant, and a 2-part response from the reigning monarch. Feel free to name your characters what you like, and make up all sorts of ways in which they were justly or unjustly thrown out of the kingdom. Fill your story (in proper standard English) into the pattern given below:
Spoiler: click to toggle

The best claimant for each of the 3 mini-factions will go ingame and the maker's name added to the credits!


TASK: SCENE BUILDING
As you've probably all worked out, there are lots of scenes in SR that are incomplete or nonexistent, and several of the ones that are there are rehashes of native. So here's how you can help:
- First, start your game in edit mode. This can be selected on the options when you load up M&B.
- Play the game!
- When you DO come to a scene that you feel needs work, press cntrl + E, then get on with building it up.
- When you're done, go in Windows Explorer to Mount & Blade -> Modules -> Southern Realms -> SceneObj
- Using the below list of places, find the scene you were working on. The list is kinda long, so I'd advise putting the list into a document so you can use search on it for the town/castle/village you want.
- Zip your scene, post it as an attachment in this thread.
- Look on with pride as your name is added to the SR team list!

Tutorial on AI meshing (there are many locations without them or with bad ones so please check).
http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,61126.0.html

Tut on getting started with edit mode
http://s9.zetaboards.com/exilian?topic=467530

FINALLY, if you need someone to ask for advice, xGhost4000x is the team's most experienced scener so looking in at his "scene progress" thread and/or talking to him or myself would be good ideas.


TASK: TRADE ROUTES

This is both the most boring and the most useful task. Basically, the below bit of code creates the trade routes between cities. And it ain't finished. I need someone to go through, decide which cities should trade with which (routes should be to should be 2-4 of the closest cities), and fill them in. As you go down you'll have less new entries for each city as ones from lower numbered cities wil already point there.

Look at the city lst for scene editors: that will tell you which city is which.
Aaaand this is the set of script calls you need to edit; it all goes in the same pattern as the ones here, just continue from what I've given you.
Spoiler: click to toggle

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Southern Realm / New Bugs Thread
« on: February 12, 2010, 10:23:21 PM »
Please report errors and bugs with the latest release here!

KNOWN BUGS (Please read before posting)
- Tataca's exploits dialog doesn't work.
- The fenlander sword gets held wrong (out to the right)
- Some item values are oddly low/high

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Announcements! The Town Crier! / New Mod Releases!
« on: February 12, 2010, 10:22:09 PM »
Bring out the trumpets! Hark!

For this day I declare that Exilian had brought forth two more mighty MODS for you to play, both for Mount & Blade;

Jubal's Southern Realms mod has its best EVER beta edition, with more stability, more features, and more crazy ***t to mess around with than ever before. The features list is pretty vast, and the faction and troop trees are as giant as ever.

Download thread is HERE:
http://s9.zetaboards.com/exilian?topic=7186329

But not only that! Dimos has released his Europe 1080 mod, which transforms the base of SR into the dark world of Mediaeval Europe. 22 historic factions are vying for control of a continent; will you join the struggle?

Download thread is HERE:
http://s9.zetaboards.com/exilian?topic=7151207

Many thanks, and happy gaming!

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Southern Realm / New Screenshot Thread (With Gallery Link)
« on: February 12, 2010, 10:18:19 PM »
Please post all your screenies here!

The main gallery can be found here; Southern Realms

Here's some shots to start you off, please post your own:


Gorin troops on the march...

The older parts of Calradia, plus new additions.

A view over some of the new Southern Realms of Calradia.

The Imperial Palace at Myriocephalum and its fortifications.

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Southern Realm / Southern Realms; Main thread and Latest Release
« on: February 12, 2010, 09:52:01 PM »


This is Mount & Blade as you've NEVER seen it before. Southern Realms adds a lot of variety to the game, giving you more opportunities, skills, and... and I'll let the features list do the talking, since I'm rather chuffed with it myself.

<big>MBRepsitory Download Link</big>

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Main Features List:
- Map almost doubled in size from native, showing the Nord homelands, the mighty Empire of Gorinia to the south, and more!
- An extra 18 factions, each with new lands, troops, and heroes.
- Naval travel and combat adds a new dimension to the game; battle cutthroat Nordic pirates or the proud Alanian navy at sea with 2 different ship types and improved boarding ability.
- Foxyman's formations give you the ability to command your troops with deadly precision, but beware; morale failing is now a real problem that can crush the cohesion of your forces.
- Huge troop trees, including several non-faction ones.
- Religions; join the Orinite, Varalite, or Conirile churches to gain access to their holy men, healers, and (of course) battle-hardened religious warriors...
- Face enemies with powerful special abilities such as healing nearby troops, raising morale, or even regenerating health in battle.
- Become a Town Watch commander, with control over the defences of one of the many new or old cities in Calradia
- Hunt deer and boar for food or trophies; these latter can even be taken and sold to those who want them...
- New locations, including country taverns, two universities, and the rogue outpost at Jarren's rock
- Learn one of three skill sets, allowing you an incredible amount of choice in your character development. Either train as a barbarian with the Doaghan, or an Assassin in the alleys of Harlaushia, or learn the arts of command with general Tataca.
- Pubs are rather more interesting; meet the gamblers and drunks of Calradia, along with new mercenary forces that you can hire!
- A ton of other special features; villages now spawn refugee parties when burned, new bandit types roam the map, several companions require quests to allow you to hire them, and troops can be hired in city marketplaces.
- Other new features include shield bashing and spear bracing, both employed by the AI as well as your own forces.

New Factions List
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8509765.stm

Thousands of Iranians, on the 31st anniversary of the revolution, are more split than ever within the republic. The Islamic Republic had never had any real protests until last year; the governement there is now permanently off balance, helped along by the driving force of opposition leaders demanding change and of course the rising power of the virtual revolution; twitter has, through ordinary Iranians, learned how to squawk and squawk loudly.

This is probably one of the decisive conflicts of our generation; a pro-freedom revolt in one of the main bastions of fundamentalist intolerance in the middle east would be an perhaps destabilising step in the region but would nevertheless deal a major blow to those who see Iran as a powerhouse able to resist modernity through strength of arms.

As ever, the world watches.

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