[madaboutgames]

The Earth Minbari War

Scenario - 2248

You have been a pilot in Earth Force for nearly 3 years, your combat experience since joining EA has been very limited but all that is about to change.  You are posted to an EA Fleet as they approach the Minbari borders to learn more about them and determine whether they are a threat to Earth.  As you jump into Minbari space you are soon to come into conact with the alien race known as the Minbari.  First contact goes horribly wrong and instigates a war with the Minbari that could lead to the extermination of mankind.

After your first mission "First Contact" you fight for your life as your are forced to retreat from the superior Minbari ships.  The first 6 missions will be based on forced retreats and holding actions as the Minbari Rampage across EA space.

Details

Missions - 16
Cut Scenes - 14
Bonus Missions - 2
Mission type - single player
Pilotable ships : Mk1 Starfury, EA Badger, Skylark, Nial
ETA May 2006


Check out the trailer : www.heatemup.stargame.co.uk/emwtrailer.avi

Watch this fred for more info regarding EMW

 

[Slasher]

Scenario - 2268

 

[madaboutgames]

Ah yes april fools was over, 2248 then

[RavenTS]

Some sort of prequel to the official EMW-demo?

[Trivial Psychic]

*cough* ITB *cough*

[PSI-KILLER]

It looks good, I think you just need a little Russian in it.

[Trivial Psychic]

 

[IPAndrews]

*cough* ITB *cough*

ITB doesn't work with newer versions of TBP .

[Col. Fishguts]

Triv's porting it, IIRC. No ?

[madaboutgames]

More Info :

This campaig is based upon ITB, it has a different storyline than the EMW demo.  Instead of being attached to an EA cruiser for the duration of the campaign, In EMW you start off with the fleet which is heading for Minbari space to learn more about them.  After your attack on the Minbari Fleet your fleet manage to jump out to saftey, you then retreat to the Jericho system where you are to iniate repairs.  The Minbari then jump in and wipe out the fleet and the Jericho base.  You then flee the battlefield and spend the rest of the campiagn attached to other fleets until they are taken out.  This approach is more realistic as many EA ships where lost during the war.  In a war like this you would expect to be displaced frequently with many EA ships being destroyed daily.  You then continue through the campaign on a variety of missions as your pilot tries to survive the war.  Halfway through the war you are attached to an EA fleet (as in ITB) which comes face to face with the blackstar, after defeating the blackstar you are then attached to an elite EA fleet which has been outfitted with some Centauri weapons bought from the Narns.  You then progress through the campiagn onto the last mission which is the battle of the line.  All in all the campiagn plays very well and is very atmospheric.  I have put much variety, action, surprise and pilot storyline into this campiagn making it an excellent campaign to play which is not too hard in the begining and will boast 16 action packed ITB missions.

[madaboutgames]

WIP Update

14 missions are now complete, they just require the voice acting and cut scenes.  Missions 15-18 are in progress and will be finished at weekend.   Instead of 16 missions I have made it into an 18 mission campiagn.  Ill post some screen shots tomorrow

[Col. Fishguts]

Are we talking rendered cut scenes or ingame footage ? Because if it's the latter, think about using the cutscene-SEXPs instead. Downloading 200-300 MB of recorded ingame stuff isn't exactly efficient

[madaboutgames]

SOme cut scenes will be rendered mixed with ingame footage, some cutscenes will be in game using sexp.  Theres going to be a lot of Voice acting and b5 ITB samples used in this one as well as some wav cutscenes, so dont expect a small donwload

[madaboutgames]

WIP report

Work has now started on the cut scenes as the voice samples are starting to take form.  Herer is a shot of part of the intro cut scene, this scene is one from Mars.



 

[Fury]

I hope you won't be using too much B5 DVD material, as it can draw unwanted attention from Warner Bros, who are still making nice bucks out of the DVD's.

[madaboutgames]

This isnt dvd material, its my modeling and texturing.  I know there might be complications with using actual b5 footage so Im making my own

[karajorma]

That it was mistaken for the real thing is probably about as nice a comment you could have hoped to have recieved about your render

I tend to agree though. Well done

[Fury]

Oh boy, I knew it looked a bit odd but I assumed it was because of the amount of dust that has gathered on my notebook's display. But yeah, at first glance it looks quite a bit like it was from the show. Then again, outdoor renders in B5 weren't very detailed at the time.

Good work mag.

[madaboutgames]

Cheers   It looks a lot better animated though    

[aldo_14]

It looks good to me.  Only caveat is that maybe the bump-mapping is a bit high on the landscape, but it's hard (and unfair) to judge from a still of an animation.