LOTR Scenario

[EPW]

Heres my Mordor invasion force

[hammersfan]

Hi EPW,

This sounds really cool - where did you upload it from?

What else do you need to play it (modswapper, patch, cradle etc)?

I'd like to give it a go (I've never got the AE version to run on my laptop so am getting rather bored of SAP)

Thanks

[EPW]

You need cradle with the 1.1 patch, along with the scenario. I got it directly from HExagonian, I could upload it if you want.

I found a game breaking bug however: once you kill Sauron you can't build anything in any of your cities!

[Maquiladora]

That's some invasion force!

It's a shame these events don't work though. I'm sure Immortal Wombat understood SLIC better than me, but if you upload it I could take a look to see what might be wrong.

Would be great to get it working with the Apolyton Edition too, and standalone so it's easier to install.

[Maquiladora]

Originally posted by hammersfan

I'd like to give it a go (I've never got the AE version to run on my laptop so am getting rather bored of SAP)

Thanks

What happens when you try to run AE?

[EPW]

Mordor has been defeated!

[EPW]

Originally posted by Maquiladora
Would be great to get it working with the Apolyton Edition too, and standalone so it's easier to install.

I'll see what I can do.

[Maquiladora]

Good luck

[hammersfan]

Maq,

Everytime I load the AE scenario, set the start up options and then Launch the game it crashes straight to the desktop - no error messages, no bleeps.

I can play the "normal" version with all the latest builds, but not the AE scenario.

No-one else seems to have had this problem so I guess the problem lay with my laptop.

By the way I've got the Explosiv disc and play on WinXP.

Thanks

[EPW]

Here's the scenario:

http://apolyton.net/upload/view/47183_wotr_allfiles_04_17.ZIP

[hexagonian]

Originally posted by EPW
I found a game breaking bug however: once you kill Sauron you can't build anything in any of your cities!

I would expect that to happen, since the intent is to kill him to win... Game over...

Based on the fan interest when I originally posted it, Immortal Wombat and I never cleaned it up - and I do not have SLIC expertise to fix it.

From what I recall, most of the actual Cradle tie-in is related to the graphic elements in Cradle. You can check the SLIC list to see which ones are used. It may be that there are no actual Cradle SLICs - I may have labeled all of the pertenint SLICs with the WOTR_ prefix.

It still needs some graphics too (like a flying Nazgul)

[Immortal Wombat]

Well, I guess that's what happens when one's doesn't have beta testers for three years. How odd.

Obviously, I never ran into those bugs while testing; I thought I had checked all the events quite carefully, but debugging has never been my strong suit.

Good to hear it's playable though.