The Dawnless Days is a total overhaul mod for Total War: Attila based on the Tolkien Legendarium. The project brings to life the peoples, places and events of Tolkien's world loved and cherished by fans all around the world, set in the time of the great wars of the final years of the epic.
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The Dawnless Days: Total War is being created by a collective of motivated individuals that are willing to learn, are loyal to the mod's development and share a passion for Tolkien’s inspiring franchise with the final goal of creating a custom "Lord of the Rings" campaign, set in the immense world of Middle Earth. While it was more difficult than ever to take up this long quest, we are growing stronger with every release. Besides units, which are the hearts and souls of Total War, we are also actively designing custom battlefield and settlement maps (land and siege battles); Gondorian settlement development - using custom Gondorian architecture - has already made an exceptionally promising start, and we continue to produce Gondorian settlement maps to compliment the completed Gondorian faction. As well as the basic necessities of the Total War overhaul, we also plan to include custom creatures such as trolls, wargs and mûmakil - and all will have custom animations made by us.
Currently, due to the early stage of development, The Dawnless Days focuses on the multiplayer aspects of Total War; with a campaign being a work in progress, we look forward to offering you more. Although a campaign is very possible, we are unable to do it with the provided modding tools. A custom tool is being designed by a small team of individuals that will allow us to construct an accurate map of Middle Earth, and we hope to have a functional campaign very soon. In light of this, much of the team's time is dedicated to 3D design and level design - examples of which you can see in our media above.
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We hope you enjoy The Dawnless Days and what it has to offer both now and in the future. If you have any issues, feel free to enquire on this website or our Discord server! Typically, you will receive an instant response on Discord, unlike here - where it could take a couple of days for your post to be seen.
We also welcome feedback, so please - feed back! We look forward to hearing what you have to say.
P.S. Due to the nature of file descriptions on NexusMods, all change-logs and installation instructions will come within articles, following the release of the file. The most recent version is 0.5.5 - the change-log and installation instructions for which can be found in an article on this page.