other playable races ?

MAXDDARK · Post by **MAXDDARK** » January 20th, 2007, 9:34 pm

I've tried several campaigns and there are only 2 playbe races available : the humans and the elves.

is there campaigns that you can play us other race ?
what are they ?

joshudson · Post by **joshudson** » January 20th, 2007, 9:40 pm

"Get add ons?"

MAXDDARK · Post by **MAXDDARK** » January 20th, 2007, 9:48 pm

I did it
and downloaded several maps
but it's all the same story
in which maps you can play as other races ? (yes, in the add-ons).

ILikeProgramming · Post by **ILikeProgramming** » January 20th, 2007, 9:51 pm

For multiplayer:
Download "Extended Era" It has a large number of factions

Single-Player:
"The Dark Hordes" lets you play undead
"Flight to Freedom" is Drakes

and of course there are many others

Inigo Montoya · Post by **Inigo Montoya** » January 20th, 2007, 9:55 pm

"Son of the Black Eye" is a campaign where you play orcs.

For MP play, Era of Myths includes various new factions, none of which are human or elven. Some time soon (I hope), my Talamh era will be on the server too. To start with, there'll only be two factions included, but I plan to keep adding as many as I can in new updates, until it becomes too big to be practical.

Post by **Iris** » January 20th, 2007, 10:48 pm

"Sceptre of Fire", you play as a Dwarvish Fighter->Dwarvish Steelclad->Dwarvish Lord.

Post by **turin** » January 23rd, 2007, 2:12 am

If you download the Imperial Era, you can play as Lavinians (=Roman Empire), Marauders (=1/2 viking, 1/2 germanic tribes), Sidhe Elves, and several more... there are only two IE campaigns written so far, but more are on the way.

Basically - there are a bunch of campaigns out there.

player1 · Post by **player1** » January 23rd, 2007, 2:18 am

The vikings were germanic tribes.... Son of the Black Eye is great try that one(only campaign I completed).

Post by **MSchmahl** » January 23rd, 2007, 2:34 am

I think that each of the default MP factions should have an associated campaign in mainline. I'm sure I'm not the first to say this.

Post by **turin** » January 23rd, 2007, 3:12 am

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player1 wrote:The vikings were germanic tribes

Not really. They were Nordic. Those aren't really the same things.

Temuchin Khan · Post by **Temuchin Khan** » January 23rd, 2007, 10:04 am

turin wrote:[OT]
player1 wrote:The vikings were germanic tribes
:? Not really. They were Nordic. Those aren't really the same things.

Yes and no. They were (and are) of the same bloodline, and had many common myths and cultural traits, and spoke languages that were (and to some degree still are) fairly similar. The difference is that we usually associate the term "Germanic Tribes" with the tribes that invaded the Roman Empire and not with the seafarers/traders/pirates who terrorized Europe and the North Atlantic several centuries after the Western Roman Empire fell.

Post by **Blarumyrran** » January 23rd, 2007, 3:39 pm

not to mention, all nordic languages (unless you count sami and finnish as nordic too) are of the germanic branch of indo-european languages.

Konrad II · Post by **Konrad II** » January 23rd, 2007, 4:20 pm

MSchmahl wrote:I think that each of the default MP factions should have an associated campaign in mainline. I'm sure I'm not the first to say this.

I think that there used to be Son of the Black eye, and that undead campaign(unfinished) where you're a dark adept, seeking power... But they were taken away for a reason, prolly because they're unfinished - so we have to wait for a campaign that deserves being put in mainline, and is done, I guess.

Post by **Iris** » January 23rd, 2007, 9:46 pm

Konrad II wrote:[...]But they were taken away for a reason, prolly because they're unfinished[...]

I wonder then why did the developers put them in mainline in the first place. Perhaps they were expecting to have those campaigns finished for BfW 1.0?

ILikeProgramming · January 24th, 2007, 12:42 am

I believe that they were some of the first campaigns ever written and their quality was relatively good for the time.