Black Knight Mod

[DaemianLucifer]

Admittedly I haven't seen the unit graphics yet, but how bad could they be?

Extremly!If you have played WCIII:The frozen throne,imagine if those destroyers(or whatever those dumb statues were called)could fly without morphing

And djinns should follow.Squeee their hands so their heads can pop up again,please!

[Dublex]

Aah, those.

Ouch.

[Tristan-IJB]

Replacing the treants to the old ones would be a good idea!

[Marzhin]

True, but weren't the Chaos Warriors in Hero Quest as well, which was D&Dish?

Hero Quest was a Games Workshop game (like Warhammer)

[Lord Zeus]

I whipped up a little mod that replaces the necro's Wights and Wraiths with Black Knights and Death Knights. The BK has the stats of a vanilla DK and costs 1400. The new DK is a bit beefier and costs 1800.

Here is a screenshot:


And a DL link:
Black knight Mod

Unzip the contents into the Data folder to use.

There is a bug: the black knight is considered a tier 1 unit therefor every necropolis hero gets a couple of them instead of skeletons.

[Wolfshanze]

Well, I think it's cool, and I'm going to try it out.

One question... in the Necro campaign, the main hero automatically recruits Undead to his side... but NOT Death Knights.

How does this mod effect that?

Does it remove Wraiths/Wights from the game all-together (replacing them with DKs), or only in the Necro castle (in other words, if there's a neutral stack of Wights on the adventure map, are the replaced with Death Knights, or are they still Wights?).

If you run into Death Knights in the Necro campaign with the mod, will you be able to recruit them?

[Arstahd]

There is a bug: the black knight is considered a tier 1 unit therefor every necropolis hero gets a couple of them instead of skeletons.

Oops, I must have uploaded the wrong file. I had them replacing skellies for testing. I'll fix it when I get home.

Quick fix would be to edit the two stat files (in the Game-something folder) and change them to tier 6.

Sorry for the inconvienience, I should know better than to upload files at 3 am.

[Wolfshanze]

Please let us know when the upload is fixed... also any answers on how this mod effects wandering adventure map monsters and the necro-campaigns "auto-recruit" function would be nice.

Thanks for the effort(s)... I for one (as a fellow modder in other games) appreciates the work.

[Arstahd]

Well, I think it's cool, and I'm going to try it out.

One question... in the Necro campaign, the main hero automatically recruits Undead to his side... but NOT Death Knights.

How does this mod effect that?

Does it remove Wraiths/Wights from the game all-together (replacing them with DKs), or only in the Necro castle (in other words, if there's a neutral stack of Wights on the adventure map, are the replaced with Death Knights, or are they still Wights?).

If you run into Death Knights in the Necro campaign with the mod, will you be able to recruit them?

To be honest, I don't know, I haven't got to the Necro campaign yet. They were changed to be Necro creatures, so if the free recruiting is based on town type they should join, otherwise probably not.

Wights/Wraiths were unchanged, I only edited thier building to produce the knights instead.

[Zamolxis]

Well, the red one looks sort of Chaos Warrior ish, which is more Dungeons and Dragons than Heroes... maybe the red could be changed to a deep purple?

Don't you mean Warhammerish?

Either way, it's the same think. Nival knows like two fantasy games only, and whatever they did "original" in H5, is copied from those games.

[Orfinn]

I just noticed that the Black Knight has bat wings on the helmet instead of horns, seriously can you really adjust such details? If so thats just great, time for some extreme makeover for certain creatures

[LongDarkBlues]

True, but weren't the Chaos Warriors in Hero Quest as well, which was D&Dish?

They were in Fighting Fantasy game books as well, but they were drawn in monochrome so don't count.

Hero Quest was made by Games Workshop in the Warhammer world, though - anyone ever get Advanced Hero Quest?

[Campaigner]

Cool change. Time to make a priority list for creatures that must change.

1. Treant (I want a T-R-E-A-N-T! Not a wooden stick!)
2. Speed of units. (Slow units rush forward like it was a race)

[Arstahd]

I fixed the creature tier problem and re-uploaded the file, use the link from the first post.

I also increased thier cost by 200 each since they are a bit better than what they were replacing.

[Kalah]

Thank you. I'll make this available for download from the main site if that's OK with you?

[Angelspit]

We talked about it earlier today and he said he was fine with the idea. I'll get to it now.

[asandir]

just to clarify, my "it starts ...." post was not meant as a criticism, just a statement of fact

[Angelspit]

The mod is now hosted on the new mod page at Celestial Heavens. I will post something in the news tomorrow.

[Tristan-IJB]

Arstahd is there any chance to make a treant mod? Please you are my only hope!

[Dublex]

That might be more complex, as the Black Knight is already in game as a neutral creautre along with the elementals.

A Trenant would mean a reskinning job, which looks like it is possible (as the black knight replacement shows) but would probably take longer to do.