[Warband] The Peasants' Rebellion

[grailknighthero]

Announcing the Peasant’s Rebellion
A Warhammer Modification for Mount&Blade
derived, without permission, upon the Warhammer intellectual property owned by Games Workshop Ltd.

Release date: unknown.

Once the new module system for the latest Warband Patch (1.125) is released, I am going to resume work again.  Currently I am helping del and the Warsword team with Warsword, so there are many scripts that I am doing for them that I will be able to use for this mod.  They have also given me permission to use Warsword items.

I have been thinking quite a bit on what I want to accomplish and what my goals are.  There will hopefully be major changes to gameplay.  I plan to have a very large map with many villages and castles and a few towns.  Villages themselves will often have some sort of defensive structures, usually a motte and bailey or a simple palisade wall.  You will be able to besiege villages.  Villages will not be allowed to be raided if their buildings are all inside the walls until the defenses are breached, although the surrounding countryside will be able to be plundered, which will have an effect on the village.  Unprotected villages will be able to be raided as normal.  The effects of raiding will hopefully be different as well.  It will take a lot longer for the village to recover.  Maybe 2-4 weeks.  But raiding a village will be more difficult because most villages will have a militia of men-at-arms and most peasants will have longbows (as this is the default weapon for Bretonnian peasants when the village levy is called.  Longbows are passed down from generation to generation and are the pride of Bretonnian families, even if they are crude compared to Empire and Elven longbows).  Villages will maintain a unit of men-at-arms, "professional" longbowmen and possibly yeomen.  Yeomen are the "elite" of the men-at-arms and often are mounted.  These will cost money to maintain (however it will not be that much to maintain them).  You will be able to order the militia to join your party, but this leaves the village largely undefended, and if you lose them, it will be a major blow to the protection of the village.  The militia will gain experience and upgrade but this will be a very slow process.  Taxes from villages will be different as well.  Currently you receive money from villages.  This will be changed, as Bretonnian peasants usually lack money and if they do have money it is an insignificant amount.  Life in Bretonnia revolves around the fief and the fief is usually self sustainable.  Food, wool, feed for livestock, and items are all produced in the fief to sustain the village.  But the majority of the items the peasants produce are exported or given to the Lord through the tax.  About 90-95% of all that is produced goes to the Lord.  So if you own a fief, you will be given goods, which you can sell.  You will receive a little bit of money, and some of this will go to maintaining your militia.  Npc Lords will probably receive taxes in the same way as normal M&B to keep things simple.  A tax rate of 95% or more will cause unrest.  100% will most likely cause a rebellion.  If the peasants are fed up enough, they will likely rebel.  Villages will have surrounding hamlets which will be small villages without any protection at all.

Knights and elite troops will be few in number but very powerful.  The player will rarely have a knight troop in the player party.  Usually the only knights that will be in the player party will be companions.  The player may receive as a reward for good service a detachment of knights (as a knight player only).  This will make major lords powerful because they will have the largest bodies of knights.

I will first work on the player as a knight.  The player will start out as a poor, unexperienced Knight Errant.  You will have to gain reknown and experience to be knighted as a Knight of the Realm and be given a fief. 

The faction system will be slightly different.  The overall system of kingdom 1, kingdom 2, ect will be the same, but I am thinking that essentially each Lord will have his own "faction."  This will allow Lords who are vassals of a major Lord to be able to feud amongst themselves.  A fued might escallate over a dispute over territory, hunting in a forrest, treatment of a lord's vassals by another lord, ect.  The feuding lords might then be called by their lord to fight together in his army to fight a greater enemy (another faction).  If you as a player tick off another lord, you should expect him (and not necessarily his kingdom or if he is a vassal of your lord your kingdom) to go to war with you.

There will probably be many small parties on the map like foresters, hunters, shepherds, scouts, patrols, bandits, wandering goblins, wandering undead, maybe a small group of ogres, grail pilgrims following a Grail Knight around, small 5 strong parties of Questing Knights, sea raiders (not necessarily the same type as in M&B), mercenaries, highwaymen...

More coming.

Thanks
You1
Del
Narf
Von Krieglitz
Aenarion - models/textures
Turioko - models
cheeseOnToast -models/textures
Tostig -textures



What is the Peasant's Rebellion?
I'll try to explain without giving too much of the plot away.  The Peasant's Rebellion is a mod based on the Warhammer world in Bretonnia.  The mod takes place in Southern Lyonesse, in the area that used to belong to Mousillon.  The mod takes place during the Nemesis Crown Campaign in the Empire (the world wide campaign GW hosted summer 2007) and most of the lords, knights, and men-at-arms are off fighting in the Empire.  3 of the Lords in the Region, Lord Jacen who is subject to the Duke off fighting the the Empire, Lord Henry the Lion, who is a vassal of Lord Henry the Red, and Lord Edmond, a Baron and subject to none but the king, are squabbling over territory.  Lord Jacen and Lord Henry have allied together for the time being against Lord Edmond.  When open warfare breaks loose an undead army led by Blood Dragons and the traitor Lord Rachard appears to the South from Mousillon and takes over one of the towns and castles held by a different lord.  At the same time the Norse invade from the Middle Sea to the west (see my intro).  They raise two of the major ports on the western coast to the ground and then take a town and castle from Lord Jacen.  To make problems worse bandits, roaming undead, beastmen(when I get them in), orcs and goblins (when I get them in) have sprung up all over, and the Merchant clubs are warring each other as well.  The hardest part of this mod (even beyond scripts, particles, modeling, texturing, etc) will be to create an atmosphere that feels like it takes place in the Warhammer world and Bretonnia.  That is what I want above all else.  Currently I don't even come close, but hopefully with the development of my dialogs and quests, and the help of others in making scenes and world textures, this mod will seem like it takes place in Bretonnia.

Why is it called the Peasant's Rebellion?  I see nothing in your descriptions that explain that.
You will find out when you read the setting at the start in the game.

Why did I choose the location of the mod where it is now?
I mainly chose the location to be in Lyonesse because in Lyonesse the nobility feud more than any other place.  I also chose Southern Lyonesse because the undead have come from Mousillon in the past, and it is not an intirerly unlikely scenerio that an undead army was raised in the area and is now causing trouble.  It is also on the cost, and on a cost that is raided by the Norse, so I could include Chaos Marauders in my mod.

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Me - scripting, texturing, simple models/edits
Aenarion - models/textures - gone for awhile
Turioko - models - gone for awhile
cheeseOnToast -models/textures - has been gone for awhile
Tostig -textures
pentagathus - scenes?

Features for the Peasant's rebellion (A color and a percent.  90% means probably done because something can always be improved):
With the release of .960 and in the future 1.0, most of the coding stuff below is set back to 0% as I want to refine what I have and make most of it better.
Note, I still don't have all I have done on this list.
Green means done or almost done according to percent
Black means not started at all
Red means barely started
Orange means between Red and Green

• Start as a knight, peasant, mercenary, marauder, or blood knight.
• Knight – start as Knight Errant
  • Work your way from Knight Errant to Grail Knight
  • Fief system once you get to Knight of the Realm
    • village production (what's this you ask?  Ill reveal more once I get more of it done.  maybe 20%)
    • Manage taxes (90%)
    • Village and town levy (larger levy than village)?
    • Guard your fief quests?
    • Peasant uprisings/rebellions (75%)
    • upgrade village to have a palisade and have it show in the scene
  • Quest for the Grail
    • Several hours of questing planned
    • Must give up fiefs and only knightly companions who take up the quest can come with you for the time being (1%)
    • Travel across the whole map searching for hidden areas
    • Put on a wild goose chase by damsels, Grail Knights, and the Lady of the Lake until she thinks you are worthy enough to drink from the grail
  • Blessing of the Lady
    • For all knightly characters who are not armed with missile weapons (90%)
    • The blessing heals all troops who have the Lady's favor during the battle (90% but I could make some changes if I wanted to)
                 
  • Knightly Virtues (there are 14 in all
    • Virtue of Confidence (75%)
    • Virtue of the Joust (50%)
                         
  • Full Jousting Tournament system (1%, got the mission template ready but thats all)
  • Quests to kill monsters or other quests to gain “magic” items/renown
  • Many, many, many different heraldry styles with banners to match (?%)
  • Pick a plain banner in the beginning and start off with corresponding horse, shield, surcoat (90%)
  • Advance and gain the option of a more detailed banner and heraldry
  • the player’s men-at-arms uniforms and shields from his fiefs correspond to his banner (now I need to increase the amount of heraldry)
  • Option to use the lance formation (75%)
  • Amount of banners/heraldry (5%)
         
  • Breaking lances for the player (ugly right now, I need the devs to put in some new functions to work how I want it to - 90%)
• Peasant – start as peasant bowman, man-at-arms, grail pilgrim, and others (right now about all you can do is do native quests and native stuff)
  • Given equipment since you are under your lord’s protection
  • Complete orders from your Lord
  • As a peasant leader, have access to the army of your lord (just the men-at-arms)
  • If you didn’t start as a grail pilgrim you can become one
    • Complete with quests and advancement system
  • Special ability?
• Mercenary and Merchant (look at peasant)
  • option to be Tilean, Imperial, Bretonnian
  • No faction but hired by factions (except for merchant) (maybe 50%)
  • Special quests by hiring factions
  • Double agent?
  • Assassination quests?
  • Merchant and mercenary quests and advancement system for the major merchant clubs/guilds (the merchants in native will be lesser merchants) and perhaps some kind of warfare between the major clubs/guilds (fighting, "accidents," economic warfare, etc)
  • Player has a choice of joining a club/guild and will most likely have to fight in merchant wars
• Norse – start out as a dead chief’s son
  • start as a Norseman and become a marauder (25-50%)
  • Sea travel for raiding into unprotected territory (90%)
  • Scripted starting intro
  • plot (plot < 5%)
  • Special ability (90%)
• Blood Dragon – start out as a weak blood dragon (Blood Knight)
  • Quests to gain certain items
  • Undead armies don’t need food (you can pretend they eat humans and brains and stuff but it would be stupid to have them eat regular food! (90%)
  • Special ability (90%)
  • Powerful
  • Gain undead followers from those killed in battle (90%)
  • Force roaming(leaderless undead parties) undead parties to join you (90%)
  • The largest starting party cap, but of course you will mainly have weak followers
  • plot (1% - idea only)
• Band of Warriors style companions
  • Amount of companions (75%?)
  • Injury and death system (90%)
  • Full joining dialog for all characters (25%)
  • (the following is not in Band of Warriors that I know of)
    • Storyline after they have joined you?
    • Advancement system
    • Advisor
    • Yeoman Warden
• Factions
  • 3 Lyonesse lords/factions to swear allegiance to
    • Jacen
      • Jacen’s heraldry – 75%
      • Troop tree – 90%
      • Joining dialog – 85%
      • Errantry quest – 90%
      • Men-at-arms uniforms – 80%
      • Kingdom hero heraldry – 10%
      • Get a fief – 90%
    • Henry the Lion
      • Henry’s heraldry – 75%
      • Troop tree – 90%
      • Joining dialog – 85%
      • Errantry quest – 90%
      • Men-at-arms uniforms – 80%
      • Kingdom hero heraldry – 0%
      • Get a fief – 90%
    • Edmond
      • Edmond’s heraldry – 75%
      • Troop tree – 90%
      • Joining dialog – 85%
      • Errantry quest – 90%
      • Men-at-arms uniforms – 85%
      • Kingdom hero heraldry – 0%
      • Get a fief – 90%
  • Norse
    • Do I need to say more?
    • New bodies, armors, helmets, shields, weapons
    • I just had an idea, perhaps have more show up on boats every so often?
  • Undead
    • Powerful leaders
    • Huge armies of weak followers but also with powerful grave guard and black knights and ethereal beings
    • New armors, helmets, shields, weapons, horses (for Blood Dragons, Grave Guard, and Black Knights)
• Unjoinable factions (no towns/castles/villages)
  • Orcs and goblins? (if I get them in you might be able to be one)
  • Beastmen? (same as above)
  • other
• Knights
  • Hopefully about 60+ different sets of heraldry (body armor, shield, helmet, horse, and with banners)
  • Will use the lance formation (75%)
• Eisenhouwer’s sound pack
• Hopefully a tweaked player wound system from EG2 but without death
• Siege towns (I’m not sure if this is in the current version or not, I need to play .903 more.  So if it’s not in native, I have it in)
• Music (not produced by me) about 60mb worth right now but I will try to bring it down to about 30 mb if I can….
• After first release I might try to get someone to help me implement limited magic
• After first release I might try to get someone to help me implement trebuchets and fire during sieges
• plot idea for Bretonnians and Bretonnian/Imperial/Tilean mercenary players (1% - idea only)

What I need?
Bretonnian looking helmets for KotR, QK, GK.
Unique armor (body, helmet, feet, gauntlets are nice) for vampires
New skin/armor for marauders
New zombie skins
Orc and goblin skins/skeletons (not possible yet)
Beastmen skins
New Grail Knight armor (cape, probably get from EGII)
New marauder helmets - cheeseOnToast said he would make more as well
New firearms
Any other Warhammer scene prop/item/skin that I might need
Tons of scenes
New scene props – new village hovels to be more in line with Bretonnia – no stone whatsoever on peasant buildings.
I need a new picture of a Grail if anyone knows of a good one, post the link and Ill check it out.

Note - this mod will not contain elves, dwarves, lizardmen, chaos warriors, ogres, tomb kings, flying vampires, Pegasi, Hippogriffs, griffons, dragons, and etc.
Skaven will be up for consideration after I complete everything else but they probably wont be seen much so I probably wont bother with them. 
I have nothing against the above, it's just some will be too hard to implement and others are extremely rare.

I may make it so that the player can play as an elf or dwarf later

What can you do?  I need a lot of scenes.  I will post later what kind I am looking for and certain specifications.  This will get your name added onto the list of credits.  This goes for all contributors.

Ok, this is what I am looking for in the villages.  Remember most villages in Bretonnia are extremely poor and the only thing that might represent wealth is the keep.  Hopefully the huts and palisade walls will look better when Zaro releases his upcoming texture pack.  If you make scenes for this mod, make the village, keep, fields, ai mesh, entry points, etc first and then once you get all that done look below at my second pic and build the palisade.  There needs to be TWO scenes for your village, one with just the village and keep and etc, the other needs the palisade added.    It is fine if you just give me the palisade scene, because I will copy it and delete the palisade out so the village has the two scenes required for how I am currently doing upgrades to the village.  The village should include hovels, granary, chapel, and fields (Ill try and find a mesh and texture for them).  Oh, and you need to add entry points 10(for the attacker) and 13 (for the villagers for when the village revolts and surprises the player as he enters his village.  Entry point 13 should go inside the village.  Entry point 10 should go on the edge of the village.  This guide shows what entry points you will need to add (it doesnt include the ones for my mod) http://z9.invisionfree.com/exilian/index.php?showtopic=12

Ignore the red and green AI barriers.  They were there for before I made the ai mesh, they will be taken out sometime.  I also don't have the fields in yet.  I plan to have wheat fields surrounding the country side of the village but I need to get a mesh and texture from someone first.  I am still not done with this village.


This is what my village looked like after I built the palisade.  The Palisade part needs to be worked on and I need to get the AI mesh for most of it still, but you get the idea.  In this pic the palisade only surrounds the keep on the hill, but you could have the palisade surround the village.


Here is one by Zaro that can serve as another model.  We won't be able to have the regular town houses though.


Hovels:  No stone because peasant's cannot use stone for their buidlings.  Here is a description from the Knights of the Grail:
Peasant huts are made from wattle and daub.  Wattle is a woven network of thin branches, neither strong nor water proof.  Daub is a mixture of mud, straw, and animal dung, smothered over the wattle to keep out the wind and rain.  The daub used in Bretonnia dries to a warm rich, orange, the color of sandstone, so even peasant houses look solid, but it's an illusion.
These are the kind of hovels I am looking for (pictures from King Arthur):




I desperately need to get some new village buildings in my mod, because I am unsatisfied with the way the current ones look in my village scene.

Here are some things I'm looking for:
http://store.us.games-workshop.com/storefront/store.us?do=List_Models&code=301380&orignav=13&GameNav=13
If someone sees something they want to make make it and I'll put it in.

Here's an example of a Grail Chapel
http://us.games-workshop.com/games/warhammer/bretonnians/terrain/bretchapel/chapel.htm

[grailknighthero]

Credits:  This list is currently outdated.

This mod is completely unofficial and in no way endorsed by Games Workshop Limited.
Chaos, the Chaos device, the Chaos logo, Citadel, Citadel Device, Darkblade, the Double-Headed/Imperial Eagle device, 'Eavy Metal, Forge World, Games Workshop, Games Workshop logo, Golden Demon, Great Unclean One, GW, the Hammer of Sigmar logo, Horned Rat logo, Keeper of Secrets, Khemri, Khorne, the Khorne device, Lord of Change, Nurgle, the Nurgle device, Skaven, the Skaven symbol devices, Slaanesh, the Slaanesh device, Tomb Kings, Trio of Warriors, Twin Tailed Comet Logo, Tzeentch, the Tzeentch device, Warhammer, Warhammer Online, Warhammer World logo, White Dwarf, the White Dwarf logo, and all associated marks, names, races, race insignia, characters, vehicles, locations, units, illustrations and images from the Warhammer world are either ®, TM and/or © Games Workshop Ltd 2000-2006, variably registered in the UK and other countries around the world. Used without permission. No challenge to their status intended. All Rights Reserved to their respective owners.

A special thanks to:
Armagan for the great game (and thanks to the rest of the developers).
A very special thanks to Chel for EGIII
A very special thanks to Hellequin for patience and teaching me how to script in Mount and Blade.
Helliquin, Winter, Fisheye, and many others for help when I ran into problems.
A very special thanks to Tostig and cheaseOnToast for textures and models
Cartread for his skeletons (and sounds for them)
italiano/zaro for his texture packs.
zed for his items.
Raz for his kettle helmets from THW
Septa Scarabae for his warhorse1 texture.   
Spong for the tutorial on how to do retextures.  Also for his caparisons.
yellowmosquito for the map standardization pack
Thorgrim for his map editor and BRFedit
Fisheye for the Band of Warriors companion wounds and death script
Njiekovic for models/textures
Mirathei for his formation codes.
Amarillo for for his companion spawn code.
Pagan for letting me use blessed track.  And Ursca for allowing me to use this track when it was specifically made for the Warhammer Mod.
Eisenhouwer for the Cries of War soundpack
Thanks to the Ultima V: Lazarus team for music from their sound track (www.u5lazarus.com , lazarus.thehawkonline.com/music.html)
   Warriors of Destiny - Lazarus Main Theme by Jared Ellsworth
   Ocean Travel by Jared Ellsworth
Most of my music comes from Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

freesound.iua.upf.edu for free sounds by:
Wolfsinger for weirdbreath.wav
corpsehere for zombieme.mp3 zombieme2.mp3
acclivity  for Monster2.wav

http://www.grsites.com, http://www.shockwave-sound.com, http://www.freesfx.co.uk for free horror sound effects.

The Bretonnian Army Book and the website www.games-workshop.com has proved to be invaluable resources.
Thanks to Black Industries for WFRP.  The books Knights of the Grail, the core rulebook, and the Chaos one that I got info for the Norse have also proven invaluable.

Thanks to all for suggestions/fluff help.

Also, a special thanks to Ursca and Archonsod for the Warhammer Mod forum topic.  Last summer I was searching for WFRP stuff and came across their mod, and it is how I found Mount & Blade.

[grailknighthero]

These are old

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http://s283.photobucket.com/albums/kk320/grailknighthero/The%20Peasants%20Rebellion/

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Montfort heraldry


Couronne Heraldry

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Some Marauder stuff








Ok, and now on to cheeseOnToast's new marauder faces (and my placeholding body textures).
Here are a couple of pics of my guy in a city:

Here is my guy in battle:

Here is a marauder in battle


I dont know about anybody else, but I definitely wouldnt want to mess with anyone that looked like one of these guys.


Battle


Interesting...I happened to stumble upon decapitation by self (animation error lol)

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I give you Lord Henry the Lion and his knights (the first two is the player with his stuff)

His men-at-arms (old pic now)

Lord Jacen (the first is the player again)

One of his men-at-arms

Grail Knight (WIP)

Top view of the lance formation (thanks Mirathei for the formation codes)

Here is the lance formation from the side.  I like the look of the knights with corresponding colors a lot better than random colors.  It looks 100x better than it used to.

Player and his knights in the lance formation

Peasant uprising and bringing justice to the rebels (I just found a mistake, it should read village, not town) (old pics now)

Looking out at my village after I put down the Peasant Uprising. (old pic now)

Knights in battle

This is Justicar Audric de Laigle, second command to Lord Jacen and the only non-faction leader kingdom hero that I have the heraldry done for (well I need to update the horse to use Tostig's awesome base warhorse texture, and then he will be done.


Here's the current map (it's upside down in the map editor).

Here's where the mod takes place.
The red outline is the Province of Lyonesse. 
The purple outline the the Province of Mousillon.
The yellow 10% simple hatch is Old Mousillon (Southern Lyonesse) where most of the mod takes place.
The black 10% simple hatch is the part of Mousillon that is on the map.
The part of the Great Ocean that is on the map is obvious.
The 10% crosshatches (red and green) are on the map but not accessible.

Original map taken from here: http://fr.games-workshop.com/warhammer/bretonniens/jeu/carte_bretonnie.asp

[Elenmmare]

Great. I love Bretonnia. Good luck on this.

[TRC]

Ugh. *Wall of text crits for 224489 damage.*

Please, and some empty lines so it's actually readable.

[grailknighthero]

Took out the intro, Ill figure out how to make it more readable later...3 pages is obviously too long...

[TRC]

A good read. It sounds interesting, so I'll be following progress.

[Kolba]

Well, sounds great! I'll be watching this thread .

[Naglefaar]

Me likee this mod idea very much
I wanna be a marauder with huge weapons !
Looking forward to release

[Markus II]

Sounds good GKH.

It'll be interesting to see what you can come up with in terms of meshes/textures. I can see the heraldry of the knights being easy enough (retexures of existing items) but the rest should prove a challange.

[pentagathus]

Are you going to include the wood elves in this?

[kyle6474]

this looks awsome and your a good writer i felt sorry for the knight until he was on a boat

[Odin Doomhammer]

Sounds great.  Two Warhammer mods - I assume there will be co-operative effort on the shared stuff? (like the Marauders!)

[Turioko]

Looks like it will be good when(if) it gets done. Hmm, I'm novice at Modeling, so I can only help with basic stuff.(Swords, basic Firearns, Helmets, maybe basic armours)  If you can post a picture (Bretonnian Helmets, New weapons) I'll give it my best shot. Good luck with the mod.

[mavericks]

sounds good. i wish you good luck with the mod