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I was just wondering if it would be possible to do a scenario where the Martians decide to try again and land somewhere remote (Iceland? Russia? A Pacific Island?) around the late 30's?

The animated sprites could be taken from the Jef Wayne PC game that came out a few years back.

Do you think it could be possible? I'm not a modder but I could help supply technical stats for technology and hardware.

Any thoughts?
 
Yes. Make the alien invaders the alien invaders. The actually provides this already. You could actually make it in about 10 seconds if you have doomsday. I just don't see why you would. It would be stupid.
 
TallyHall said:
Yes. Make the alien invaders the alien invaders. The actually provides this already. You could actually make it in about 10 seconds if you have doomsday. I just don't see why you would. It would be stupid.
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You would be very surprised to see how many people would welcome this mod!

And yes, it is 100% possible, "Alien" nation is alredy in the game, and with a couple of events, you can make their invasion work allright...

PS: My 100th post. :)

PS1: I see Gigalocus changed his opinion on the subject so quickly.
 
Although even cooler would be if someone could port the Alien Invasion over into the '1898' scenario that was included with the 1914 Mod.

( :D - And make some Tripod sprites of course! )
 
Thet aliens in WOTW dont have any boats or planes do they? A spawning site would have to come up on each continent...
 
I managed to create a leader file for the ALI tag, but that was the limit of my skills.

I wanted to create some events that put the aliens at war with the world once they spawn.

I also wanted to create a few extra invasion sites with landing parties.

The problem is that the alien attack event seems to create an endless horde, which is not that much fun to play against.

Also the aliens all start at one location, which leaves many countries out of the action. Though if you land them in France or switzerland it gives most European countries a chance to get in the action!

If somebody where to create a mod with the aliens invading I would be happy to test it. It could certainly liven up the multiplayer scene!
 
Antiochus V said:
I managed to create a leader file for the ALI tag, but that was the limit of my skills.

I wanted to create some events that put the aliens at war with the world once they spawn.

I also wanted to create a few extra invasion sites with landing parties.

The problem is that the alien attack event seems to create an endless horde, which is not that much fun to play against.

Also the aliens all start at one location, which leaves many countries out of the action. Though if you land them in France or switzerland it gives most European countries a chance to get in the action!

If somebody where to create a mod with the aliens invading I would be happy to test it. It could certainly liven up the multiplayer scene!
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You may be able to get around this by making an event to trigger that releases the aliens as a 'nation' (like an event that liberates vichy for example)

Then you could add units by event rather than them just getting loads of troops in 1 province. You could also then use events to secede other provinces on different continents.
 
HMS Enterprize said:
You may be able to get around this by making an event to trigger that releases the aliens as a 'nation' (like an event that liberates vichy for example)

Then you could add units by event rather than them just getting loads of troops in 1 province. You could also then use events to secede other provinces on different continents.
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Alas somewhat beyond my current skills, but I might try and alter another existing event and see if that would to the trick.
 
HMS Enterprize said:
Thet aliens in WOTW dont have any boats or planes do they? A spawning site would have to come up on each continent...
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Planes is like the only thing that they do have. I can't remember seeing any "infantry" divisions (or any other land troops for that matter) in the movie. It's kinda hard to make proper hoi2 combat with their plane thingies, as planes can't invade places in the game. Also, if their "plane" things were modeled as land divisions in hoi2, human cavalry could attack them which would just be a bit weird...

Maybe you could have hugeass triPods as in Scary Movie 4... :D
 
HJV said:
Planes is like the only thing that they do have. I can't remember seeing any "infantry" divisions (or any other land troops for that matter) in the movie. It's kinda hard to make proper hoi2 combat with their plane thingies, as planes can't invade places in the game. Also, if their "plane" things were modeled as land divisions in hoi2, human cavalry could attack them which would just be a bit weird...

Maybe you could have hugeass triPods as in Scary Movie 4... :D
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Both, actually.
 
Nah, in the original book by HG Wells, they had the tripods, and flying machines (completely unline the ones in the 1953 movie)

the ones in the 1953 movie, if youve seen it, actually are tripods, theres a scene where they legs are visible when they are hit with some weapon
 
The Jeff Wayne PC game is pretty insightful when it comes to the different types of machines the Martians had. Alsa I was thinking the same last night regarding Infantry and Navy. They didn't have any. The Tripods would be the Armour equivalent and the flying machines the Aircraft.

In the book they did feed off humans and have humanoid creatures in the cylinders for food on the route to earth.

What's not stopping them having human slaves to act as infantry?

They could design a ship or something later.
 
Juste type "F12" then "alienattack 19" at the 30th of october 1938 :D
 
ok, nevermind, i tried it on HOI2 and it worked. has anyone tried to give them more land than just london, or made them more aggressive?
 
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