(Edits on edits on edits have been made - Status update at the bottom of the list)
I have been working on for quite some time now, my own edition of Viking Conquest. I call it Jutland (Jylland)
Now let me tell you a bit about of what i have changed, and what i am planning to do.
First thing first, i have translated the game quite a bit. So in my mod, troops, factions, towns etc. will no longer have names in English, they have all had their names changed into what they would have been called in their own language. So no more Danish Elite Vikings or Norwegian Vikings, they are now named Dansk Viking and Norske Viking. No more Ribe by south, it is now, Varde. and no more Kingdom of Northymbre. It is now Danelagen (Danelaw). Etc.
Now let us talk a bit about history and the faction changes i have made. In the viking age, vikings were not united under one banner, who attacked settlements and other kingdoms in the name of one king. There were dozens of dozens of kings all fighting eachother to expand their territories. So no more is there a King Harald Hårfager ruling all of Norway. Now we got 6 different kings and their relatives ruling in norway.
Kingdom of Laithlind, is no more. Instead it is four different viking kingdoms. Danmark is still Danmark, as Danes were the only people in the viking age who were smart enough to stop fighting in between eachother over small pieces of land.
Storyline. I have changed the storyline a bit, so instead it is about Asturias and Cantabria aiding West Seaxe. It is now the Franks, and Normans from Normandy
troop changes - I have changed every troop-tree in game. changed their names. For example the norse tree line, Are now the ''Skandinavisk'' (Scandinavian) troop-tree. Etc
Instead of the basic game were there are only 4 different kind of viking troops to pick from (Vikingr, Danish Elite Vikingr, Northmenn, Svea elite Vikingr)
I have created 14 types of different vikings! all coming from different regions of Skandinavia and beyond. They all have their own shields, so you can identify where they hail from.
On top of that. i have put time into putting all of these vikings into raiding factions. So now each type of viking will be raiding countries which would make sense. So we have Svenske Vikinger (Swedish Vikings) raiding Danmark and Norge (norway). And Normans (Norman Vikings) raiding Frisia and West Seaxe. Etc.
I have also translated the basic NPC's names. So when you see a child, (which both a girl and boy was categoried as ''Child'') they will now be called
either Pige (means Girl) or Dreng (means Boy) also for npc's like Happy Widow, which is now ''Glædespige'' (meaning, you guess it, Happy Widow) and so on for the rest of the NPC's.
Now you might wonder why i have translated the game into Danish, instead of English. It is not because i am bad at English. But i am from Danmark, and i was thinking that it might help people who are not Danish, into learning a new words and expand their brains, beside their own language.
I have still kept the base game in English. So menus, and howering over parties will still be in English, but all towns, factions, and npc's are now either in the Danish language (or what ever language their country hails from)
About the Skandinavian languages in the game. I have decided to move a few years ahead of the time. and giving the norwegians the old Norse language (nørrent), while i have giving the Danes their ''stød'' which seperates the two languages. (Stød, it is called that internationally, it is a breathing method that only Danes use in the world when they speak. Ever heard the meme that Danes sounds like they have a potato stuck in their throat? Yep, that is stød, and it is unique. now basically Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian language is the same, we all understand each other. we all called a king for Konung, and our word for kingdom was Konungdómur. that all changed when the Danes began to speak differently, using the stød. Now it was no longer called a Konung, but it was ''Konge'', and Konungdómur would now be ''Kongedømmet''.
(example, When swedes says ''hey you'' in their own language, it would sound like ''hey dy'' and when Danes says it, it would sound like ''Hej du'' Danes sound more rough, while Swedes sounds like they sing when they speak ) so i have giving the Danes their stød and kept the rest of the scandinavian people with Old norse.
(Edited below)
I have changed some of the towns in ireland ruled by the irish kingdoms, into Skandinavian city names, so it gives space for the vikings to expand in Ireland and build multiple viking kingdoms with Skandinavian culture (teaser: including Vedrafjordr, and four other castles and two towns.)
many towns in Englaland, frisland, and ireland, i have giving the same names as Danelag and Dane hus to show the population that Danes are in charge. so in towns near Jorvík i have called them Dena lagu and Dena hûs which is saxon (meaning: Danelaw and Dane house) and in frisland near Dorestad the towns are called Denewet (meaning, Danelaw) and Dane hus (meaning Dane house) in their own languages.
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I have giving towns / villages / Hof's a makeover. Some towns like Ribe looked a bit ''flat'' to me. so i have spent time into giving the city the love it needed, all the way down to the smallest of details.
I have decided not to change the siege scenes. for performance sake. There is a ton more items added in towns now, and i don't know how well it would handle with additionally 700 npc's fighting in them. But that aside, Ribe now looks like a trading town that every king would want to have as their own.
Link to Pictures (steam) (work in progress, Ribe): https://steamcommunity.com/id/Hrurik/screenshots
(Edited below)
Ever wanted to play the conquest of Harald Hårfager in overtake all of norway into one kingdom under a single ruler? Well i am currently trying to build that, and polishing the questline, historical battles, with Harald Hårfager against Konung Kjotvi hinn audgi. Now i can not promise any special cutscenes, but it would be badass if i manage to pull it of.
My future plans would be;
to split up and make more viking factions, battling eachother.
Build in a language mechanic, so when you are danish and travels to Norway, you would see the difference in the Danish and old norse language. And when you go as a viking to Saxon countries, and speak to a saxon lord, then they would speak saxon, and you would understand nada of what they are saying, because you do not understand saxon, and then you have to go to school and teach the language, which would then translate the languages into basic english.
create cutscenes for the conquest of Harald Hårfager.
create Iceland. Including; slavetrading, several viking families including the family of ketill flatnose trying to win the domain of iceland, and give the rights to the winners in naming the country, so maybe iceland will be the new greenland, or something else entirely?
But that is way ahead of now, and i wont promise it. But i will do my best, so wish me luck.
I will upload the mod as soon i have polished it, and are satisfied with the product myself, Constant changes are being made to make it the best Viking conquest experience.
I have been working on for quite some time now, my own edition of Viking Conquest. I call it Jutland (Jylland)
Now let me tell you a bit about of what i have changed, and what i am planning to do.
First thing first, i have translated the game quite a bit. So in my mod, troops, factions, towns etc. will no longer have names in English, they have all had their names changed into what they would have been called in their own language. So no more Danish Elite Vikings or Norwegian Vikings, they are now named Dansk Viking and Norske Viking. No more Ribe by south, it is now, Varde. and no more Kingdom of Northymbre. It is now Danelagen (Danelaw). Etc.
Now let us talk a bit about history and the faction changes i have made. In the viking age, vikings were not united under one banner, who attacked settlements and other kingdoms in the name of one king. There were dozens of dozens of kings all fighting eachother to expand their territories. So no more is there a King Harald Hårfager ruling all of Norway. Now we got 6 different kings and their relatives ruling in norway.
Kingdom of Laithlind, is no more. Instead it is four different viking kingdoms. Danmark is still Danmark, as Danes were the only people in the viking age who were smart enough to stop fighting in between eachother over small pieces of land.
Storyline. I have changed the storyline a bit, so instead it is about Asturias and Cantabria aiding West Seaxe. It is now the Franks, and Normans from Normandy
troop changes - I have changed every troop-tree in game. changed their names. For example the norse tree line, Are now the ''Skandinavisk'' (Scandinavian) troop-tree. Etc
Instead of the basic game were there are only 4 different kind of viking troops to pick from (Vikingr, Danish Elite Vikingr, Northmenn, Svea elite Vikingr)
I have created 14 types of different vikings! all coming from different regions of Skandinavia and beyond. They all have their own shields, so you can identify where they hail from.
On top of that. i have put time into putting all of these vikings into raiding factions. So now each type of viking will be raiding countries which would make sense. So we have Svenske Vikinger (Swedish Vikings) raiding Danmark and Norge (norway). And Normans (Norman Vikings) raiding Frisia and West Seaxe. Etc.
I have also translated the basic NPC's names. So when you see a child, (which both a girl and boy was categoried as ''Child'') they will now be called
either Pige (means Girl) or Dreng (means Boy) also for npc's like Happy Widow, which is now ''Glædespige'' (meaning, you guess it, Happy Widow) and so on for the rest of the NPC's.
Now you might wonder why i have translated the game into Danish, instead of English. It is not because i am bad at English. But i am from Danmark, and i was thinking that it might help people who are not Danish, into learning a new words and expand their brains, beside their own language.
I have still kept the base game in English. So menus, and howering over parties will still be in English, but all towns, factions, and npc's are now either in the Danish language (or what ever language their country hails from)
About the Skandinavian languages in the game. I have decided to move a few years ahead of the time. and giving the norwegians the old Norse language (nørrent), while i have giving the Danes their ''stød'' which seperates the two languages. (Stød, it is called that internationally, it is a breathing method that only Danes use in the world when they speak. Ever heard the meme that Danes sounds like they have a potato stuck in their throat? Yep, that is stød, and it is unique. now basically Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian language is the same, we all understand each other. we all called a king for Konung, and our word for kingdom was Konungdómur. that all changed when the Danes began to speak differently, using the stød. Now it was no longer called a Konung, but it was ''Konge'', and Konungdómur would now be ''Kongedømmet''.
(example, When swedes says ''hey you'' in their own language, it would sound like ''hey dy'' and when Danes says it, it would sound like ''Hej du'' Danes sound more rough, while Swedes sounds like they sing when they speak ) so i have giving the Danes their stød and kept the rest of the scandinavian people with Old norse.
(Edited below)
I have changed some of the towns in ireland ruled by the irish kingdoms, into Skandinavian city names, so it gives space for the vikings to expand in Ireland and build multiple viking kingdoms with Skandinavian culture (teaser: including Vedrafjordr, and four other castles and two towns.)
many towns in Englaland, frisland, and ireland, i have giving the same names as Danelag and Dane hus to show the population that Danes are in charge. so in towns near Jorvík i have called them Dena lagu and Dena hûs which is saxon (meaning: Danelaw and Dane house) and in frisland near Dorestad the towns are called Denewet (meaning, Danelaw) and Dane hus (meaning Dane house) in their own languages.
(edited below)
I have giving towns / villages / Hof's a makeover. Some towns like Ribe looked a bit ''flat'' to me. so i have spent time into giving the city the love it needed, all the way down to the smallest of details.
I have decided not to change the siege scenes. for performance sake. There is a ton more items added in towns now, and i don't know how well it would handle with additionally 700 npc's fighting in them. But that aside, Ribe now looks like a trading town that every king would want to have as their own.
Link to Pictures (steam) (work in progress, Ribe): https://steamcommunity.com/id/Hrurik/screenshots
(Edited below)
Ever wanted to play the conquest of Harald Hårfager in overtake all of norway into one kingdom under a single ruler? Well i am currently trying to build that, and polishing the questline, historical battles, with Harald Hårfager against Konung Kjotvi hinn audgi. Now i can not promise any special cutscenes, but it would be badass if i manage to pull it of.
My future plans would be;
to split up and make more viking factions, battling eachother.
Build in a language mechanic, so when you are danish and travels to Norway, you would see the difference in the Danish and old norse language. And when you go as a viking to Saxon countries, and speak to a saxon lord, then they would speak saxon, and you would understand nada of what they are saying, because you do not understand saxon, and then you have to go to school and teach the language, which would then translate the languages into basic english.
create cutscenes for the conquest of Harald Hårfager.
create Iceland. Including; slavetrading, several viking families including the family of ketill flatnose trying to win the domain of iceland, and give the rights to the winners in naming the country, so maybe iceland will be the new greenland, or something else entirely?
But that is way ahead of now, and i wont promise it. But i will do my best, so wish me luck.
I will upload the mod as soon i have polished it, and are satisfied with the product myself, Constant changes are being made to make it the best Viking conquest experience.
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