Is anyone hyped for Dragon Age Total War? The M2TW-Kingdoms conversion-mod? [UNOFFICIAL][THIRD-PARTY

On a lore note, why do they have ships, the Incaensorborium, that were used first against the elven navy? I know that Maryden's song spoke of Arlathan being sunk beneath the ocean waves but I assumed that actually referred to what happened when Solas raised the Veil. Everything previously suggested the war between Tevinter and the enclave of elves in Arlathan Forest took place on dry land. In fact that has been no ancient iconography or images to suggest the ancient elves even had ships. So is this something that the developers of this mod made up for themselves or have Bioware actually changed tack on this bit of history?

I was well aware this was a mod for a different game (I'm not stupid) but at the same time it is using actual Bioware images from the game and associated lore books. Whilst they might feel that turning a blind eye would allow them some free advertising, I'd have thought it unlikely. This is not like someone developing a mod for using with their game. This is someone using their images and trademark resources for a completely different game. This is why I suggested that maybe it had been done with their permission.

Thus, my second question was asked on the assumption that permission had been granted.   Naturally if Bioware were not involved then the question is irrelevant.

Oooh interesting.

I was so hoping for that CK2 mod to come out for DA, but sadly it never materialised.

I doubt there's that much crossover between TW and DA fans, but I'm one of them and certainly raring to give this a go

Good luck!

Oh shit it is alive ahhahaah

The Tevinter ships themselves are modified versions (i.e. different number of soldiers and defense) of the vanilla M2TW ships. The lore of the Tevinter ships in the description cards? It's a mix of previous established official lore and headcannon (cannon, get it? ) in order to justify Tevinter military might in the campaign and battle maps (except cannons are replaced with mages in the description). 

You CAN'T 100% represent the lore of Dragon Age the games and books in a TW game, especially M2TW. M2TW has the best mod support (unlike the newer installations), and because it is an older game low-end PCs can play it (i.e. mods for this game are very popular, like the LoTR Third-Age mod, or the Warhammer mod, or the Elder Scrolls mod, or the Gothic mod, or the etc, etc, etc.). It's like asking a movie director to represent the entire book, or game developers to represent entire libraries of obscure lore 100% correct. Some things are lost it translation.

The mod is still in development, so if there are ideas and problems, you can log-in and discuss each issue with the creators of the mod.

Bioware has given their blessing, as far as I know, to this mod, because it doesn't use official resources (i.e. copy and paste meshes and textures), but rather the mod creators create the models, meshes and textures from scratch (ala the Elder Scrolls mod). What you might think is copy-pasted in-game armors and other stuff is actually hand-made, with official Total War modding tools.

Also, MODDB doesn't allow such mods for Total War on its servers without the consent of all parties when it comes to copyright stuff (both from CA and the developers/creators of the other lore, like Bethesda, Bioware, and New Line Cinema, or whoever made the LoTR movies). The mod creators are not allowed to ask for money (Patreon or stuff like that), but they can ask for help and resources from other TW mods (like some elven and dwarven face textures, some armors from other mods for the bandits and mercenaries, etc.). They can ask for help from experienced modders when it comes to scripts, textures, meshes, maps, battle and campaign behavior, lore, translations, etc.

10% of armors look like Bioware in-game armors because they are modelled from those armors, but the rest are guesswork. We never saw Nevarra, Antiva, Anderfells, other Marcher city-states besides Kirkwall and Starkhaven, Qunari or Tevinter represented in either games, books or comics, yet, but they try to figure things out. For example the Nevarran troops, while looking awesome, and having official insignia on them, are 100% pure headcannon. 

The same for the lack of unnamed forts and castles, since the official Thedas map doesn't have enough choke-points, settlements, bridges and land-bridges to the player the satisfaction of conquering the map, and giving the AI factions a fighting chance against the player and other AI factions (vanilla AI is notoriously silly).

Diplomacy and finance scripts will be used to balance some factions since it would be odd to see, for example, the Grey Wardens attacking the Anderfels, and allying with the Darkspawn (who most likely won't even have diplomats, and won't be able to be "talked" to). 

For those scared that such a mod would be disappointing, then take a look at the other mods listed by me, especially the Elder Scrolls mod, who is famous for managing to cram every little detail from both the official Bethesda lore and from Michael Kirkbride's creator-fiction (some people call it ramblings, but whatever).

tl;dr: the mod is legal, the lore is half-official, half-unofficial.

Link to the image section of the Dragon Age mod.

Never liked CK2. Too many buttons and features, no battles whatsoever. I always like RTW and M2TW. The perfect mix of strategy and tactics.

Thanks for the links, but right now I have too many other games to play and another one I have yet to buy and play. I'm quite OK with waiting. The Elder Scrolls mod sounds particularly interesting...