An Edain Submod: Showcase

[Glorfindel23]

Preview : The Khentïyukh map

Hi everybody!
Yesterday, we introduced the story of the Khentïyh, we want now to show you Khentïyukh the region where they live.

Like we said, Khentïyukh  is a parched, rocky and desert land. Far from any water point, it does not allow its inhabitants to build any building on it. The Khentïyh so decided to live in cave under the mountains of Üghûl Kâhtïykh also called "the Brown Montains".
 
Today we so decided to show you two previews of the map of Khentïyukh and especially of the Khentïyh's caves.





Note that this is only a preview, the map will again receive a lot of new things in the future.
Good night and see you tomorrow!

[007hasan]

Showcase

Hello everybody!
In this topic you can see all the art files which will be used in Submod:

Hey, buddy, there's more races and heroes in the first era. Can you make a sub mode about the 1st era? Or will edain come in the future?

Factions Models

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Osgiliath 2475














Helm's Deep






Cair Andros










Minas Morgul








Barad Dur










Mithlond






Minas Tirith


Mirkwood


More to come...

[Glorfindel23]

Variags (Khand people):

Hi! today we want to show you a little thing, the Khand inhabitant model.

"Variag" is the name given to the people who live in the lands of Khand.
Like for the other factions, we wanted some citizens un our maps. It's a pretty good way to give life to the cities or camps.
We so decided to make that model which will have some variation elements like the face for for example.



See you tomorrow!

[Elendils Cousin 3. Grades]

So this is basically an NPC walking around on your maps? Neat.

[Glorfindel23]

So this is basically an NPC walking around on your maps? Neat.

Yes, like for the gondor civilian in Minas Tirith for example. We will put them on the cities/camps and in some wild map because the variags are nomadic people in our submod.

The enemy will be able to kill them like other units during a siege.

[Glorfindel23]

Tûvshinbât, "Cherbí"

Hello! We know that you already know his story (if ou have read our Khand plans article), but we want to show you his new appearence (he have now his own armor).
Note that we will bring you some new elements on his story during the coming days ^^

Historical summary:
Tûvshinbât was on the side of Ûbesêsh from the beginning of his reign, he is a part of his oldest soldiers.
He is a Variag of Ûmkhân, a land in the far north of Khand.

Tûvshinbât was a experimented warriors but also a good commander having more than once proved his bravery.
When Ûbesêsh planned to invade all the Khand's lands, he graded Tûvshinbât to the rank of infantry commander, after some battles Tûvshinbât become the main battle advisor of Ûbesêsh.
After that Ûbesêsh became the Khaghân of Khand, Tûvshinbât was appointed chief of the Khan personal guardsmen and swore to protect his Khan until death.

One day, Tûvshinbât was patrolling next to the Near Harad" with a few numbers of men when he was attacked by sevaral half-trolls. He did not expect to be attacked by that kind of beasts so far from the extrem south of Harad.
Under the ambush effect, his troops was in hight dificulties in front to those great enemies. One by one, the variags was falling to the ground lifeless.
To save his soldiers, Tûvshinbât decided to charge these massive Half-Troll to let them the time to retreat. Every Variags present this day was thought that he never could defeat all those savage beasts.

Tûvshinbât is also known to have defeated several half trolls and saved his men during an ambush. A feat that earned him the title of «The scourge of Half-Troll».


See you tomorrow!

[Glorfindel23]

Historical summary : Scout Riders

Hello everyone!
Today we want to show you one of the unit

Historical summary:

The Scout Rider was the first troops lead by Ûbesêsh when he was still a young future Khan.
Like Ûbesêsh and Tûvshinbât, the Scout Riders are Variags of Ûmkhân.
They are light rider which move fast. They are experimented archers able to shoot their target while being on horseback. Later, Ûbesêsh decided that each of his scout riders should learn how to handle melee weapons to be able to join the battlefield in any situations.

Before joining Sauron in his fight against free peoples, the Scout Ride rused to hunt the orcs deserters who crossed their lands. They are discreet opponents who never miss their targets.

Unit description :
The scout riders are accessible from the start of the game, they are cheap mounted archers useful to disperse the enemy troops. They can be upgraded with heavy armor forged blade and barbed arrows. They become able to switch between melee/distance when Ûbesêsh is level2 and unlock "Cavalry Tactic".




See you tomorrow!

[Glorfindel23]

Hi all!

Historical summary : Heavy Riders

Historical summary :
Like the regular Khand infantry, the soldiers who make up the horde of heavy riders come from many tribes. They are strong cavalry able to broke many lines. Their shields allow them to resist against the enemy spears and their armor has been renforced to better resiste to the enemy arrows.
It is an attack unit, even if they are robust, their strong point remains their powerful damage capacities. The heavy rider handle two kind of weapons in a same horde, a war axe to break the enemy shield during the charge and a short and lightweight Khandish sword to kill the enemies who would dare to approach too much in the melee fights.

Abilities:

- NoLevel = Heavy units: The heavy units are already upgraded with forged blades when the player recruit them.
- Heavy horsmen (passive ability): All the 1 minutes , the heavy riders are able to charge a spearman horde without receive any damages. However when this ability his actived the riders lost 50% of their rapidity for 25 secondes
- Unlocked by SpellBook = Weather resistance (passive): All the Khand units are now immunised against the severe weather and become more resistant to element like fire.




Note that the elite rider have been changed like some other units, we will so update our Khand Faction plan with all the new informations and pictures after the end of the Advent Calendar

See you tomorrow!

[Glorfindel23]

Batsaïkhân & Enkhsaïkhân, Sons of Ûbesêsh

Hi everyone! Today we post only a small part of story because we will wait Ûtanvâh to tell you the whole story of the Three sons of Ûbesêsh.
We still show you their new model which has been reworked recently and offer a small summary to tell you a who they are :

Batsaïkhân & Enkhsaïkhân are twins, they are two of the three sons of Ûbesêsh.
Batsaïkhân is a good archer able to hit a very distant target. He is also a good rider. Enkhsaïkhân handle a axe. Even if young, he is a stong fighter which know already the art of the war.
Both have some experience with the battle strategies and the armies comand. In fact, their father already gave them to responsibiliy to lead some part of his armies during battles in the past.



More to come, See you tomorrow!

[Glorfindel23]

Rocks and Cliffs for Khand Maps (preview)

Khand will have many rocky maps, we so decided to make some rocks and cliffs models. Note the picture is really big, then don't forget to zoom in by right clicking and oppening it in a new tab.

Be sure we will post pictures of them in-game soon ^^



See you tomorrow!

[Glorfindel23]

Utanvâh, Son of Ûbesêsh

Hi! Today we decided to post one of the two Variation that we totally reinvented for Utanvâh.

Only a small reminder :
Utanvâh was the first son of Ûbesêsh, he is a strong warrior able to defeat the greatest heroes of Middle Earth. He is a polivalent fighter which now the art of war in many situation. He is an excelent bowman, an impressive swordman and one of the best rider of Khand.

When it is in melee stance, he use two sword which allow him to defeat until three enemy at time.



See you tomorrow for a new content!

[Glorfindel23]

Ûtanvâh, Heir of Ûbesêsh

Hello everyone!
As we said yesterday, Ûtanvâh will own two armors. We so decided to introduce his armoured version today.



See you tomorrow for more explanations!

[Glorfindel23]

Historical summary : The Sons of Khand

Hello everyone and sorry, I'm a little late this evening. As we had promise some days ago, here is the historical summary of the Three Ûbesesh sons :

The first of them is Ûtanvah. He have in mind that only the best one of him or his brothers would be able to take the succetion on his father. Eager for power, he began to practice the handling of the swords from an early age to become the war master than he is. Powerful with his Swords or his Bow, on foots or mounted, for him, the real value of a Khan can only be prouved at combat. And for this, he want to defeat the best warriors on the west such as Boromir that is reputed even in the lands of Khand. When he feel a great duel, he take his Royal Armor and goes on the battlefield.

Enkhsaïkhân and Batsaïkhân are twins. They are like their big brother entitled to become the future Khaghân of Khand. But the twins, not as strong as Ûtanvâh, they don't wanted to follow the way of the warrior. They learnt how to fight, to ride and to shoot but, they quickly begin to learn the battle strategy. A fact which made them wiser than their brother Ûtanvâh. They are now at the head of part of the Khand armies. In combat, both complement each other, Enkhsaïkhân charge the enemies in melee handling his axe at time than Batsaïkhân eliminate the distance enemies with his bow.

Nevetheless, even if they often fight together, one elements separate them. Batsaïkhân have a great respect for his older brother Ûtanvâh and would like to see it as Khaghân. Enkhsaïkhân secretly jealous his brother Ûtanvâh. He would like to confront to him to become the master of Khand hisself. But, he is wise enough not to make a decision that would harm Khand's unity. Batsaïkhân is the only one which know that secret.



See you tomorrow!

[Glorfindel23]

Rocks and Cliffs for Khand + Map builders system

Hi! Today we want to speak about a new system for people which like to make maps.



As we said in a old post, we worked on Rocks and Cliffs elements for our maps.
But they are not simply decorative elements :
As you already known, our Submod will work with maps and, the art of mapping is the central task for us. We like to work on giant architectures and we want to help all the mappers to release their project.

In An Edain Submod, the props will get options of personalisation.
1) Instead of made object already finish, we prefer to make object segments will wich allow you to build your maps with your own interpretation.
We know that a map which own too many objects are hard to load for the game and, that's the reason why we find a balance between that system of personnalisation and the numbers of objects. For example, for the forest map, we decided to make models with grouped trees in the one object. Worldbuilder will so read only one object for something like 20 trees. Note there will be some group with diferrent size (5/10/20/30 Trees). An option which will also allow the map builder to work faster.
2) We also introduced a texture option, I explain with an example :
In the current version of WorldBuilder, when you put a unit on your map you have some upgrade availibe to tick for him. We made the same thing for the props. For example, the rocks and cliffs you can see on the following picture https://zupimages.net/up/19/51/bvkj.jpg will get some textures options which will allow you to put until two differents retexturization on the same object type present on the one same map.
→ This system will be use to bring some other sttings like object geometry, or visibility.
→ We added two new categories of objects : "For map settings" and "Natural objects".

See you tomorrow!

[Glorfindel23]

The scourge of Half-Troll

Hi all, today we introduce the second part of the Tûvshinbât story.


Historical summary:

"One day, Tûvshinbât was patrolling next to the Near Harad with a few numbers of men when he was attacked by sevaral half-trolls. He did not expect to be attacked by that kind of beasts so far from the extrem south of Harad.
Under the ambush effect, his troops was in hight dificulties in front to those great enemies. One by one, the variags was falling to the ground lifeless.
To save his soldiers, Tûvshinbât decided to charge these massive Half-Troll to let them the time to retreat. Every Variags present this day was thought that he never could defeat all those savage beasts.

Tûvshinbât killed the first beast by planting his spear directly in the heart, dodging the attack of the second Half-Troll, he success to powerfully throw his spear at another one which was immediatly diying at impact. There was now only one troll left, but Tûvshinbât had no more weapons. Without wasting time, he picked up a sword and an axe on the bodies of these soldiers lying on the ground and engaged a fight that lasted a few minutes. The Half-Troll was stronger but Tûvshinbât moves was fast and thorough. He ended up defeating his last enemy and was able to finally join these troops who acclaimed him as a hero!

A feat that earned him the title of «The scourge of Half-Troll». Nevertheless, the variags prefer to call it «Cherbí» which mean «Good man». They even renammed that place «Cherb-Kê-Vât» which means "Man who defeats". These land are now a part of the Khand kingdom."






See you tomorrow!