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[Burnsaber]

Originally Posted by vfb

But but but ... how can you omit Glam Metal? Singers should have glamour (obviously) and maybe air magic with a confusion-causing song attack.

Plus hordes of Maenad groupie fans!

Yeah, like I said my metal-fu ain't perfect. Do not really know glam metal, can't even really name any bands.

And yeah, there will definately be maenad groupies. I was also thinking of this summon for "Yoko Ono" with seduction. :P

[Leonnn]

Don't forget about Eddie (Iron Maiden).

He should be an undead lich-like hero, or maybe a summonnable.

[vfb]

Originally Posted by Burnsaber

Yeah, like I said my metal-fu ain't perfect. Do not really know glam metal, can't even really name any bands.

(snip)

Lucky you!

Examples: Poison, Ratt, Whitesnake :P, I'm not exactly a fan, it was just pretty much unavoidable in the 80's. If it wasn't for the lovely potential for some Maenads, I wouldn't have brought it up.

Hey, how about a Rob Zombie hero that freespawns soulless?

[BandarLover]

I stumbled upon a page that might help you with the different genres of metal and what bands are considered the pioneers of said genres and what notable bands followed.

http://www.metalcrypt.com/genres.php

Hopefully the link works

[Burnsaber]

Originally Posted by BandarLover

I stumbled upon a page that might help you with the different genres of metal and what bands are considered the pioneers of said genres and what notable bands followed.

http://www.metalcrypt.com/genres.php

Hopefully the link works

It works and is awesome. Thanks. This will help with those gatgories I'm not familiar with. I like the list of Grindcore bands, I need the hear if they're really as disgusting as their notorious reputation.

I was thinking of making a skeleton mod for this next-week, not really playable (only 1 Singer and the troops by Elmokki). But it'd work as base if people really want to add their own ideas (I'm not really expecting anything like that to happen, but I'm positively suprised by the intrest in this project).

Rock on.

[Burnsaber]

Ok, I made the skeletal version I promised before I go to update my other projects. It's not that playable really, only having 4 troops and 2 commanders, but it works as a sort of sign how the nation is going to look like. Here's a pic of the Death Metal Star



And in case someone is inkling to dip their toes into modding and has an idea for the nation, they can just add it to the mod below and then post the altered version back to this thread. Not that I practically expect anything, but getting 3 free sprites upon announcing this thing kind of suprised me. Just some simple rules on adding your own stuff

1) If the unit is monstreous (like Eddie the Lich, which I will make in due time, it's just too awesome of an idea) please make it either an pretender, hero or summon. The national recruits will mostly be humans.

2) Please follow the numering on the .dm file. All numbers start from a certain number and go down. So if you want to add a new monster, just find the lowest monster id on the .dm file and go from that.

3) Please try to make the stuff at least somewhat balanced. This nation is only half-serious, but balance is always nice.

4) Not really anything else to add, but that all contributions are greatly appreciated! Thanks to Elmokki for the sprites, got me started. Rock On!

[elmokki]

Here's a KISS, Knight in Satan's Service. I planned to make more of them, but I really cba making slightly different sprites to represent all band members of a band I really don't care much about, so it's just a generic knight. You could use him as a Gene Simmons hero too I reckon.

I'm lazy and didn't bother to add it to the mod.

[Burnsaber]

Originally Posted by elmokki

I'm lazy and didn't bother to add it to the mod.

It's okay, I can add it once I've done the needed things to my other mods.

I don't care much for KISS either, but they're a legend, so what can you do?

[BandarLover]

I have no graphics or data to add but since my work has been slow of late I have had some time to brainstorm a few ideas for this oh-so-awesome mod idea.

Is it possible to mod some of the greater demon summons as pretender choices? I'm sure it is, but balancing them might be an issue. But I feel like they MUST be available as pretender options, what with metal being the 'Devil's music' and all.

A few other pretender options-

Prince of Darkness- I believe there is something already similar in game, don't play with the dead nations all that often so I don't recall. But this PoD should be a human sized chassis, similar to a crone but male. He is an ancient rock star who has become so powerful that he seeks to don the mantle of godhood! Though his speech is muttered and often unintelligible, his message of metal in song form is unmistakable! Maybe make him start with Death and Astral magic, strong dominion though methinks.

The Led Zeppelin- A great iron dirigible that has been afloat since time immemorial. I honestly don't know what one could do to make this a viable pretender, I just know that a giant burning Zeppelin MUST be in here somewhere!!

A 20 inch replica of Stonehenge- What else is there to say.

I'm not familiar with some of the other genres of metal to offer any pretenders that could be based off them. I like my metal music, but once it becomes a shrill, double drum bass growl fest I generally lose interest. I'm more knowledgeable - if you wanna call it that - with 'Classic Rock' and late 80's early 90's 'grunge metal' than anything else. Speaking of, a Curt Cobain hero unit would be sweet. He should be a heretic though, since the advent of grunge killed 80's style metal as we know it, and he should freespawn grunge fans who could use the same mechanic as Pan revelers but they should increase sloth in a province as opposed to turmoil.

I'm still in love with the idea of this mod, and if I actually get any time to sit and make some graphics I'll add them, since I know Burn has his hands full with other, more pressing mods at the moment. And of course, I'll post any other unit/ pretender ideas I can come up with.

Is it possible to add sound into a mod? Cause this is definitely one mod that SCREAMS for custom sound files.

EDIT- oh yes, almost forgot. A nation name, as Burn has already pointed out, can be a bit tricky to figure out. So here is my suggestion: Metallonia (pro.: "metal-OWN-ya")
A hero unit or 2 for each genre of music would be cool too. A flute playing Jethro Tull for Folk, a Ronnie James Dio hero (complete with leather armour and broadsword!!) for Hero (?) Metal.

One more thing, for one of the genres, progressive I think, you say the fans should be size 6 for their egos. I know this is a silly mod but we want it balanced so I thik instead of making prog fans literal giants, the unit pic should be a reg sized human unit, with an ethereal outline of a much larger representation of them around the reg size unit, the large ethereal part being the manifestation of their ego.

[Sombre]

You can modify sounds for the entire game,... but do so only with obscure sounds, then reference them from this mod. So yes, in that sense you can pack sounds in a mod.