Attention Games Workshop fans (both of you)

[Jesse Coombe]

We're taking it all into account, hopefully the end product will be free of problems like that

[Jesse Coombe]

Hey guys! check out the website i just found! The link here gets you to a 40K timeline but you can access the rest of the site from there http://www.role-play.co.uk/w40krp/timeline.shtml enjoy!

[Jesse Coombe]

Heres another one but this time the fantasy timeline http://www.siegetower.com/warhammer/timeline.htm

[Bodiless Jack]

Re: Attention Games Workshop fans (both of you)

Originally posted by Jesse Coombe
I'm in the early stages (very early, only 1 or 2 units on the conveyor belt so far) of a Warhammer/Warhammer 40,000 mod and I'd be interested if any of you guys would be interested in playing and/or helping out with the making of the mod. Thanks for reading.

Count me in I can't contribute any unit animations but I can come up with ideas, work on pedia references (I have some Warhammer Fantasy material at home) and play-test. I'd prefer the fantasy option - I never played 40k.

[Jesse Coombe]

Great to have you on board!

Now our team consists of:

Self Biased
DJensen/Kal-el
Lab Monkey
Bodiless Jack
Jesse Coombe

Looks like we are developing a bit of a following!

Spread the word to anyone you know that plays Civ and likes Games Workshop Games and who knows, we might get our own web-community someday!

[Bodiless Jack]

Originally posted by Jesse Coombe
Great to have you on board!

Now our team consists of:

Self Biased
DJensen/Kal-el
Lab Monkey
Bodiless Jack
Jesse Coombe

Looks like we are developing a bit of a following!

Spread the word to anyone you know that plays Civ and likes Games Workshop Games and who knows, we might get our own web-community someday!

GW fans

A team of 4 does that mean we can get started?
Excuse my enthusiasm but I think we need some direction. If we agree on some basics I think we can start doing something productive, so I've come up with a list for gauging opinion

1. fantasy/40k/both
2. list of civs, traits and their units.
3. a tech tree

My personal prefs are
1. fantasy.
2. Here's a list of civs that we could represent in the mod. I've stated civ specific traits and units where I could:

Border Princes,
Bretonnia,
The Empire, Mil + Com,
Estalia, Com + Exp,
Kislev,
Norsca, Berserkers
Tilea,
Albion,
Araby,
Nippon,
Cathay,
Southlands,
Amazons, Rel + Sci, Kalim Warriors (someone's already made a bunch of Amazon units which are great).
Slaan, Rel + Mil, (Eagle/ Jag/ Gator warriors + Cold One Riders, Slaves)
Orcs, Exp + Mil, (Orcs + Black Orcs + Goblins + Hobgoblins)
High Elves, Sci + Rel,
Dark Elves, Mil + Sci,
Wood Elves, Rel + Ind,
Dwarves, Ind + Com,
Skaven, Ind + Exp,

Ok there's too many so we could trim out a few of the old worlders eg, Border Princes.

3. I liked some of the ones on your list Jesse eg. beast handling could make a heap of useful units available: cold one riders for Slaan; wolf/boar riders for goblins & orcs.

Some more ideas:
I think barbarians could represent chaos. If we give them access to beefier units we can make them quite formidable. Also if we get a good map of the world we can put lots of settlements in the Northern wastes that would spawn chaos units to descend on the unfortunate civs in the north.

Magic is going to be hard to represent in the game but we could look for technological advancements that look like magic eg., airports can be portals.

[Jesse Coombe]

great to have such enthusiasm but I've been speaking to the Games Workshop legal guys and they are re-doing their policies by the sound of things so to stop us getting sued we I think we should wait til I've spoken to the GW guys again. Djensen might be able to tell us exactly how we stand legally, can ya reply and tell us what we can and cant do?

[Shadowlord]

Sounds great, although I have nothing to contribute personally... My skills mostly involve programming, and that's mostly useless for something like this, eh?

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

If you ever hear back from GW let me know I'd love to help out on the Leader flc's and units for the Fantasy part.

[Kal-el]

As far as the legal situation goes, if GW doesn't want us to do this then they can probably stop us from going ahead with it. I can't imagine why they would want to prevent the creation of this mod.

Be sure to indicate that we will not be attempting to make any money from this mod and in fact it is free advertising for their products. IMO it would be a public relations slip up to prohibit the making of a Warhammer Mod for Civ3. If I am not mistaken there was at least one warhammer mod made for Civ2.

But the ball is in their court. They have the copyright on the name and all the associated names and histories that they developed.

It would have been better to not contact them at all and just go ahead with the mod. then if they didn't like what we had created after we were finished they could have gotten a court order to stop us from distributing it. Oh, well.

[Jesse Coombe]

This is the important stuff that we need to keep an eye on http://www.gamesworkshop.com/Legal/ippolicy.htm

[Bane Star]

I'm working on A Fantasy Mod, and The graphics are coming along quite well, When I'm done and I release it all, you guys might wanna use my graphics for your warhammer fantasy Mod if thats the one you decide to do...
Fantasy Mod

p.s. I'm a big fan of Warhammer so I'd love to see either mod in its completeion, that would be fantastic... I might even do some Eldar Units for the fun of it

[ChaotikVisions]

Hmm, i'd be interested in helping if you guys are still doing this. Though we might want to wait for the XP so we can use the (hopefully) better game editor. I've got the Dark Elf codex from when I used to play, and the main rulebooks for it so I can toss in what info I know from that in. I don't think GW would have anything against us making a mod, since it won't come close to games like Final Liberation or Chaos Gate, or any other of the GW games. It will be Civ-style Warhmmer, not Warhammer style Civ.

Or at least thats what I got out of it. I don't however know much about the 40k end of things, ment to try it sometime but I didn't have alot of cash and I wasn't playing fantasy games too much anyway.

[Jesse Coombe]

Great to see that theres still some interest in the mod, I'm sorry things have been quiet lately, I'll keep vieiwng this page whenever someone posts and I'll keep you updated on whats going on

[Jer8m8]

I don't mod, but maybe I can help in some way... I play Lizardmen. Lizardmen, and not Slann


I could try finding pictures of units...