Brief History of Wars of Arda By Solid-
The Valarian mod studio, producer of Wars of Arda, was founded by the Doctor and Elrond Halfelven. However, no real coding started before our leader now, Argolis, joined. Before joining the Valarian mod studio, Argolis has been known for his mod, Extended Campaign. It was, like its name, made to extend the Battles for the Middle Earth II campaign, which only had the Northern Battles, to include those missions in Battles for the Middle Earth I. Argolis joined the Valarian Mod Studio as a campaign scripter, soon became the coder, because of his skills in coding.
Soon, the Valarian started on the first project: The Fall of Sauron mod. It featured the campaigns made by Argolis, faction of Last Alliance, separation of Rohan and Gondor, the addition of Galadhrim warriors, and such. But unfortunately, the site soon went inaccessible after the first Fall of Sauron mod beta tester recruit, and the Doctor, later regretfully left the BFME modding world, leaving Argolis, our present leader in charge.
Because of a serious computer crash, and the situation with the website, Argolis decided to combine the 2 projects that were in the plans: Fall of Sauron, the project that was being worked on, and Wars of Arda, which was merely an idea, of bringing in factions from other eras: First Age, Fourth Age, etc.
The mod was totally reworked, and the first private beta included modifications on the Elves. Even with only him being the active team member, Argolis has soon presented the private beta 4 before shelving of Rise of the Witch king Expansion. It had a very heavily modded Elves faction, including the mini faction system, lot more heroes, and some new skins that were left by Eldarion our co-leader and skinner. After private beta 5, the mod was changed to fit Rise of the Witch king expansion, and was running on a weekly beta schedule for a short while, each with great amount of things being accomplished: in that time, 1 new faction was worked on, for every 2 private betas.
Although the site experienced few more crashes, the mod and the determination of the team to finish the mod never died. The mod and Argolis soon walked out the hardest part, when Eldarion returned, and when several new team members joined: Eruo, the concept artist; MORTW, a colleague of Argolis who can model, along with JEV3, Alensis, Digital General, and others.
Current Status By Mordred -
We released an early demo version of the mod on Christmas day 2007. It contains all 7 factions of the War of the Ring era in various stages of completion, and the mirrors are in the downloads section.
Im after all the feedback I can get, as theres plenty yet to be done to bring the WotR up to scratch.
A new version is coming before too long in a much closer to completion state, along with a full campaign.