Great battle?

[wuschlkopp]

At first, I have to say that I´m from Germany and I don´t speak (or write :wink: ) english very well.

I´ve been looking for a mod that includes some kind of huge battle or war but I couldn´t find any mod matching to what I imagined.

 

I had different ideas for such a battle/war mod:

 

1: The player is asked by a general/soldier to join the army of cyrodiil. Many dozen of Dremora have met at a secret place and plan to destroy all life in cyrodiil. The army finally finds that secret place (probably an ancient ayleid ruin?) and the battle begins. I was thinking of an "epic" battle; the battlefield would have to be placed in a very big room so there can be at least 50 of each party in it.

2: My second idea was a battle in a town, that would work best with the "open cities"-mod. So, the player is in e.g. Cheydinal and suddenly, many ("friendly") soldiers come through the town gates and tell that there is an invasion of dremora (or another sort of enemy) and that they´re on the way to Cheydinal. So the soldiers go to the gates and wait for them. It would be great to put some marksmen on the townwalls, so they can shoot the enemy when he´s coming. Of course, such a mod would be lame with an army of 5 or 6. So, both enemy and the army should have 30-80 soldiers.

 

To make it more explicite: I request a mod with a great battle, such as in the LOTR movies or any other movie with "epic wars".

I actually don´t know if a mod with >50 NPC´s fighting would run smoothly, but I hope I´ll get some answers.

[exanimis]

It would be great to participate in epic wars in Cyrodill, unfortunately there are certain things hard coded into the game. One is the amount of NPC's that can be on the screen at the same time. In the battle for Bruma, for instance, there are only about 15 NPC's and that is probably the limit. I could be wrong and if I am, I'm sure someone will correct me.

[FallenSword]

You can have many NPCs fighting but you don't really want your PC turning into a fireball.

[titipoko]

A huge battle would be great. But I think the Oblivion engine was not created for purposes like that. If it was possible there would have been some mods of that type already.

 

The only possibility is to create a setting with the feel of an actual war. So, there would be skirmishes all over, small groups fighting against each other, maybe some scripted events like raids with spawning soldiers (those fight until one dies, then he get's replaced by a new spawned soldier - this lasts until the player stops the event by script).

 

So, I don't think an epic battle as you described is possible. As said above, a battle like that would bring any machine to it's knees - it's a technical issue in the end.

[bielecki]

great idea, but like the others said, it wont be possible.

what you can do is have a small area, say in a city with lots of rubble around. and you could have lots of noise of a battle going on. this could be really effective and it could give the illusion of a epic war.