Total War: WARHAMMER III

Total War: WARHAMMER III

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Shields of Bretonnia update 29/05/2023
   
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Shields of Bretonnia update 29/05/2023

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Update Added Errant Shields Knight Heraldy

Replaces the shields used by the knights of the realm, royal and normal pegasus knights and hippogriff knights with a set of 72 thematic shields divided into groups of 9 with each group assigned to one of the main duchies in the game, specifically Aquitaine, Artois, Bastonne, Bordeleaux, Carcassone, Couronne, Lyonesse and Parravon.

Characteristics of the shields

Each shield is made by making the most of the features of the game and trying to stay as faithful as possible to the role-playing game

  • heraldry, each set of 9 shields reflects the heraldry of the associated duchy, then reproduces the original heraldry of warhammer, then adding heraldic elements inspired by / taken from the English / French heraldry to which the game is inspired;
  • Shields, it is not a question of simple copy and paste but of remakes of the same. This was made necessary by the implementation of the file mask in the same. These files allow them to "adapt" to the colors of the mount and the rider, so there will no longer be a fixed set of colors for the shields but in whole or in part they will change adapting to the knight and caparison;
  • In addition to the implementation of the red / green masks, the mod changes for the units of knights available, the combinations of colors available, using the original Cittadel shades and bases and the colors of each faction, each knight and caparison has about 150 possible color variations which of course, in addition to affecting the knight and the caparison, are also reflected on the shields. Of course the colors are not random but at least one of the two is related to the colors of the faction, so each of the 8 ducats will have its own unique combination of colors;
  • Each shield is also made using in addition to the base and the mask and the material map. This addition compared to the original shields and those usually made, allows you to add lighting effects to the shields. In particular, the light hitting the shields will generate a reflection effect that can manifest itself with a change in color of the shield itself or a reflection. This addition and a particular "mania" of mine, the shields are too static, they do not have that "metallic" effect that was often used by knights and foot soldiers to "blind" the enemy so that they can be hit easily. I didn't want to add this "feature" as a class skill, but as a simple graphical rendering.

I hope that the mod is to your liking for requests or other post here thanks

Special thanks to Driblex / Phil for the great screenshots and who helped me by testing and criticizing during the making of the mod
And special hanks to Karnak for let me include his mod https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2959661848 so can fix Recolor of shields
compatibility patch
41 Comments
Dominus 2 Jun, 2023 @ 3:56pm 
I think Questing knights too are still using vanilla shields, so hopefully you put your shields on them too over time.
FortheEmperor  [author] 2 Jun, 2023 @ 3:36pm 
yes for now in one of next update i add them too
GoatScream 1 Jun, 2023 @ 1:41pm 
Hello, this mod doesn't seems to change the shields of tge grail knights and grail guardians, is that by choice?
FortheEmperor  [author] 31 May, 2023 @ 5:04pm 
Ok tu i Will check and replace with a new One (all PSP files are gone with the PC explosion).
Dominus 31 May, 2023 @ 1:03pm 
Great addition with that Karnak original faction recolor on horse barding mod. Now it is perfect in tandem with your latest update with it. I found one bugged version though, of one shield on Couronne errant knight, it shows white bacground with black shape decal on it, at least I suppose it is a bugged version of shield since it should be blue/red, and not white/black for Couronne.

Thanks for awesome mod. Now Bretonnian faction knights look and feel unique depending on faction, like it shouild have been from start. Favourited and thumbed up your mod.
Suckston 29 May, 2023 @ 7:12am 
thanks for the update, love the mod!
FortheEmperor  [author] 1 May, 2023 @ 4:13pm 
Find a great small mod theat fix ca bretonnia knights, so they come back to vanilla and we can edit/fix a range of colors for barding instead to be limited to tehe 32 combo of colors of ca
FortheEmperor  [author] 1 May, 2023 @ 9:12am 
Mod is complete now. just need some people for test it and tell if there are some shields to ramake/replace
FortheEmperor  [author] 20 Apr, 2023 @ 12:07am 
Tell me what for what mod/unit you want a compatibility patch.
MattXnB 18 Apr, 2023 @ 2:17pm 
Sounds good, thank you!