While unpolished, Total Warcraft (as it should be called) its laudable in its scale, letting you fight as factions like the skittering Nerubian Spider Lords. It's great to see chunky Warcraft 3 and World Of Warcraft character models stomping around a strategic map. SD files there - Battle, Shared and Strategy. If you find the game's interface replaced with a bunch of ugly white boxes, navigate to your Mods/The_Elder_Scrolls_1.6/Data/UI directory and delete the three.
While the current version of the mod appears to run on the Steam version of Medieval 2 with relatively little fuss, I did encounter one common issue. The creators are planning to add the Clockwork City from The Elder Scrolls Online in the next major update. There's some good stuff on the horizon, too. It's a pity their voice acting isn't the best - you might want to turn the campaign map chatter down.
It's easily the most oddball faction here, full of troops that literally don't know the concept of fear. Morrowind fans will be happy to know you can play as loincloth-clad masked demigod Dagoth Ur, leading a mixed army of cliff-dwelling monsters, mutant cultists and devout worshipers.
It's great to see huge armies of Imperials and Nords clashing, instead of Skyrim's small civil war brawls.Īs with Elder Scrolls games, this mod is best when it's touching on the weirder, wilder parts of the lore. But it does a fine job of converting Bethesda's RPG setting into a strategic sandbox. In Total War mods, spells are just fancy arrows, and The Elder Scrolls: Total War is guilty of that trope.
Having Gandalf and his personal guard fight a small swarm of Balrogs feels gleefully daft, although still not as silly as that last Hobbit flim. Battles only grow in scale from there, and there's a lot of focus on conserving every unit you can. The first encounter with the Nazgûl is a knock-down, drag-out brawl between two regiments of hobbit infantry, a unit of rangers and all eleven of the goth brigade. The most unusual feature here is The Fellowship Campaign, a tactical, scripted scenario following Frodo and his hairy-footed cohorts through the films, but on a wildly inflated scale. It feels like a natural fit for Medieval 2, what with overt fireball-slinging magic being rare in the films and books. Orcs, elves, dwarves and seemingly countless kingdoms of men are playable here, including some impressive giant-sized units. Please enjoy the least Lord Of The Rings music in the trailer above. If there's one Medieval 2 mod to rule them all, it's Third Age: Total War, a massive Lord Of The Rings-themed total conversion with a detailed and lore-authentic campaign. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Third Age: Total War and Third Age: Reforged
Fantastic Medieval 2 Mods And Where To Find Them Just run this little tool, point it to your Medieval2.exe and/or Kingdoms.exe file and let it work its magic. This little tweak released along with the Warcraft: Total War mod (see below) should do the trick. Whatever mod you're planning on running, you'll also want to make the game Large Address Aware, allowing it to use more RAM. Which looks like this:Įither method works, so long as you type Directory\Mod Config.cfg, it should work for any Medieval 2 mod on Steam. Or create a custom shortcut to your Medieval2.exe. If you have the Steam version, you'll need to either edit your Launch Options (right-click on the game in your Steam library - it's in Properties), which looks like this: If you've the disc version, these should let you launch mods with a simple double-click. For the newer Steam 'Definitive Edition' the Kingdoms file comes included, but there's some extra leg-work to be done.Įither way, mods should be unpacked to your Medieval II Total War\Mods directory, and many come with a handy launcher file in EXE or BAT format. If you own a physical copy, you'll need the Kingdoms expansion to run most mods. Installing mods for Medieval 2 takes some effort (it's 13 years old after all). While there are dozens of mods with historically accurate factions, today we're going to get our Hobbit on and take a look at what's good for your Elf. Thanks to its robust mod support Medieval 2: Total War still has a large and active modding scene.
While the Total War series has grown into more fantastical settings by itself, it was the fans to first stick pointy ears on the venerable strategy game. It's good to be king, and even better to be a sorcerer commanding a swarm of the undead. Every other Monday, Dominic gives you a reason to dust off one of your old games and dive into its mods with Modder Superior.