Sylmar Battlefield v 1.02

Aid a nation of elves with an invasion into their holy burial grounds. Fight in a war alongside the elven army, and test your battlefield acumen by combating against continually attacking hosts of orcs and even against deadly, nightmarish demons, while keeping the elven commander alive and their holy grounds sacred.

The Orcs and Elves, and some other CREs, scale according to your level and move in squads.

This mod is meant to be a small sample battlefield, as a precursor of what is to come in Silmarillion. It is NOT a Total Conversion and is totally compatible with all other WeiDU mods.

Related links:

• Download location
• Forum discussion
• Changelog

As part of her devious plot to take over Spellhold Studios, Ilmatar has become my co-administrator! I’d like everyone to give her a warm welcome - and don’t overload her with too many requests at once! ;)

She’ll be helping with all sorts of things across the board. :)

My second announcement is that SConrad, long-time administrator, then modder, then administrator again has decided to step down and become the Infinity Engine Coordinator! Strangely enough, he’ll be organising the Infinity Engine section of the board, and will be the person to talk to if you’d like your mod hosted here at Spellhold Studios, among other things.

Liam

Happy New Year to you all! Today I am the little beagle who will slurp up all the succulent mods that have raced ahead of, slipped through the cracks of, and lagged behind, the frenzied official Twelve Days of Christmas Announcements. Since there is much to reveal, I shall get straight into it.

8 does not go into 50, but it does go into Spell-50
Spell-50 is a derelict mod created by the eminent founder of WeiDU. This mod extrapolates priest, druid and mage spell effects up to level 50. kovarex has recently updated this mod to version 8, sporting description updates and modifying some spells not previously considered. Find out more and grab the mod here.

Oh yes I would, Homeward Bound
berelinde has released ‘a little mod for Throne of Bhaal party management’. The mod allows the player to send any canonical joinable NPCs from Baldur’s Gate II: Throne of Bhaal to their homes in Amn, in addition to the choice of summoning them to intern indefinitely at the gloomy claustrophobic Pocket Plane (unless the player wishes them in his or her entourage). Check out the release thread here.

Lasts but not leasts
Briefly, so I don’t plaster this post with too many words, Baldur’s Gate Trilogy-WeiDU got injured and requires a patch (here), Baldur’s Goth Expansion Project, a portrait mod, has utilised the bugspray into version beta 2 (here), and the Interaction Expansion Project: Extended Banters mod has been made BGT-friendly with version 1.1 (here).

Enjoy this splurge of new content. Till next time.

Over the past 12 days, we’ve seen quite a number of announcements, releases and interviews here at Spellhold Studios - here’s a quick list, in order of release!

Announcements:

• Day 7 of 12: Xulaye NPC for BGII: SoA - evil, malicious Underdark-only Drow NPC
• Day 10 of 12:  Faren NPC for BGII: SoA & ToB - laid back, friendly human fighter/thief NPC

• Day 1 of 12: Fading Promises v1 - quest mod by berelinde
• Day 2 of 12: Baldur’s Gate Trilogy-WeiDU v1.05b - by Ascension64
• Day 3 of 12: Nathaniel v4 - with added ToB content, by Feuille & Miss Sakaki
• Day 4 of 12: BGT-Tweaks v7 - tweakpack by Ascension64
• Day 5 of 12: Iylos v1 - NPC mod by K’aeloree
• Day 6 of 12: Lure of the Sirine’s Call BGT v7.2 - quest conversion by Ascension64
• Day 7 of 12: Indira NPC v10.3 - NPC conversion by Ascension64
• Day 7 of 12: Big Picture v177a - with French and Spanish translations, by Chevalier
• Day 9 of 12: IEP Extended Banters v1 - new Bioware banters for SoA!
• Day 11 of 12: The Luxley Family v1 - two new NPCs from Feuille & Miss Sakaki
• Day 12 of 12: Sylmar Battlefield v1 - tactical/combat mod by Zyraen
• Day 12 of 12: One Pixel Productions: Flaming Swords v1 - adds actual flaming swords, by Erephine
• Day 12 of 12: PC Soundsets v1 - adds 22 new PC soundsets to the game
• Day 12 of 12: Classic Adventures 0.45 - new, combined release by SirBillyBob, leahnkain and Celestine

• Day 3 of 12: Interview with SConrad
• Day 4 of 12: Interview with Bookwyrme
• Day 6 of 12: Interview with Azazello
• Day 8 of 12: Interview with Zyraen
• Day 10 of 12: Interview with Feuille & Miss Sakaki

For the last release of the 12 days, we’re proud to (belatedly) present Classic Adventures v.45!

Version 0.45 combines the three latest packages into one download, which is now almost 800 mb uncompressed - quite a feat! It includes some fixes as postedin the CA forum. Two areas have new maps (thanks Sir-Kill) and the Worldmap is much larger as well (thanks Yacomo!).

The story hasn’t continued past what you experience in 0.44, the A4 PnP mod, but the team is working to better Classic Adventures as they work!

You can download Classic Adventures v0.45 here, check out the CA forum here and read more about Classic Adventures on the Classic Adventures website!

- K’aeloree/Liam