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The Song of Taliesin - Wars of The Old North
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Welcome to...
The Song of Taliesin: Wars of the Old North

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I'm glad to announce my project, The Song of Taliesin. I decided to make this thread here, to let people know about the mod, but I do have a sub-board for this mod. Here's the link to this sub-board: http://forums.taleworlds.net/index.php/board,106.0.html

Download

http://www.mbrepository.com/file.php?id=893

Song of Taliesin is set in sixth century Northern Britain, featuring wars of Britons, Anglo-Saxons, Picts and Dal Riadan Scots.

This mod seeks to replicate the brutality, danger, and general atmosphere of the Dark Ages, an early period of Medieval. We are trying to make as historicaly accurate, as we can, to make an excellent springboard from many mods, which are not always accurate. Note that a lot of stuff in this period is strongly hypothetical - text sources tend to be very scant for these times. However archeology give us a lot of information, so it's our main source telling us, what happened after Romans withdrew from Britain. Let me present you all features of this mod!

Features list:
  • New Map: A new strategical map of Northern Britain, stretching from Skye and the Caledonian canal to the Humber in the south.
  • New Weapons: Dozens of melee and ranged weapons have been added.
  • New Clothing & Armour: Many new outfits, armors, shoes, hats and helmets have been added to bring you back to the dark ages.
  • New Factions: Four civilizations (Dal Riada, Gododdin, Rheged, Alcluyd, Fortriu, Bernicia and Ui Neill) and a lot of bandits to fight with.
  • New Troop Trees: Varied troop trees designed to highlight each faction's strengths and weaknesses.
  • New Sounds: Included More metal sound mod and added several new sounds..
  • New UI: Featuring new decorated buttons and excellent menu pictures by Morcant and Markus II.
  • Random Events: Which made the mod more interesting and challenging.
  • New Quests: Not much currently, but you can spot some new quests at villages, one from Guild Masters and one from a bard Aethelfrith.
  • New Map Icons: Replaced the Native towns, castles & villages icons
  • New Character Customization: Including new faces and warpaints.
  • New Character Creation: Including faction allegiance and faction-specific starting troops.
  • New Characters: Historical characters lead the armies of each civilization, and fictional companions can join your army.
  • Bribing Bandits: For those of you who don't want to travel all the map to recruit people in villages.
  • New Map Textures: Moorlands!
  • New Mercenaries Dozens of new mercenaries waiting for your commands!
  • Lots of javelins in battles: Which made the battles more interesting and difficult.
  • New Music: Perfectly creating atmosphere of Dark Ages.
  • New Combat Abilities: A lot of new combat abilities, including formations, warcries, shield bash, whistling for a horse, taunting enemies, toggling javelin/spear, turning on/off fog etc.
  • New Skills: Stockpiling allows players to use larger bags of ammunition.
  • An easter-egg for Polish players: If you are not Polish, please don't buy books from booksellers in taverns!
  • New options in taverns: You can now sell the slaves to tavernkeeper and
  • Day/Night Cycle: Special sound effects when the time of day is changing
  • Building Watchowers: You can now build watchtowers on the map and send patrols.
  • A bard Aethelfrith in Din Guardi: He is telling poems and riddles plus playing some traditional music.
  • Quotes: Quotes from the period, replacing the vanilla hints.
  • New Voice Acting: Voice acting for player commands at battle plus townfolk.

Trailer

by Adorno

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG7HFOyFuJA

Screenshots

Early morning
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Day
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Formation
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Elisedd of Powys
Kolba
Charles Kolbusz
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#2
First version of the mod is out : http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/ ... 167.0.html
It still lacks many features, we plan a second release around June. The map will be revamped, lot of new items will be added, alongwith "quests" for a better involvment in the game, cattle raids, "custom settlements", etc. You will be then able to defend mighty strongholds such as Alt Cluit, Bamburgh, Burghead or Dunottar in the late 6th century.

A few screenshots of the current release.

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The trailer of the mod (with some bugs and innacurate stuff, just to give you an idea):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG7HFOyFuJA
"O niurt Ambrois ri Frangc ocus Brethan Letha."
"By the strenght of Ambrosius, king of the Franks and the Armorican Bretons."
Lebor Bretnach, Irish manuscript of the Historia Brittonum.
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Agraes / Morcant map Conmail / Benjamin Franckaert
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#3
Some latest stuff we were working on:

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Elisedd of Powys
Kolba
Charles Kolbusz
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#4
Cool! I've been thinking about trying Mount and Blade, but time is short and I'm uncomfortable with their new copy protection. I don't like the idea of putting anything on my computer which my antivirus can't reach ... maybe I'll try installing it on a virtual machine one day.
Nullis in verba

I have not checked this forum frequently since 2013, but I hope that these old posts have some value. I now have a blog on books, swords, and the curious things humans do with them.
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#5
Nice!
Robert Vermaat
MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
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#6
More preview stuff.

Anglo-Saxon boar helmet and Pictish shields:
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Pictish axe:
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Elisedd of Powys
Kolba
Charles Kolbusz
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#7
A new preview:

http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/ ... 253.0.html
Elisedd of Powys
Kolba
Charles Kolbusz
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#8
Sorry for multi-posting, but I guess it will be easier that way to show you the previews.

This time I will show you the music preview by Pagan (aka Vladan Zivanovic). Let me quote his post:

Quote:Greetings all.

A little while back Kolba asked me if i could help out the mod with some original music if i found the time. I said that i would as i enjoy the mod, and do what i can for this community that has entertained me for 3 years now... and here we are with a little preview, as i was directed to do when i had something to show. I have kept clear of the orchestral stuff and gone with a more organic feel, in keeping true to the mods atmosphere.

I hope the community approves.

The Song of Taliesin=
http://www.box.net/shared/nhkduf863m

Wood Sprites=
http://www.box.net/shared/sx2q2d3h1e

Call of Battle=
http://www.box.net/shared/vtdbfks2yf

Eyes of The Hunter=
http://www.box.net/shared/uc1hr982td

Highland Charge=
http://www.box.net/shared/9bs4xatl5h

Enjoy
Pagan
Elisedd of Powys
Kolba
Charles Kolbusz
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