News
Halved Marines Mod finally released for Dark Crusade!
It took a while and there have been a few delays in testing and release, but the Halved Marines Mod for Dark Crusade has finally been released!
For those who don't know, the Halved Marine Mod adds a second Space Marine race that are identical to the original, except that they use the Halved Space Marine texture. This allows you to field a standard Space Marine set (such as Hangar-8's Golden Eagles) along side some halved schemes.
The mod includes full AI and win conditions, as well as text for all languages and a translation for the French language. Other translation contributions are always welcomed.
Hopefully, with the Halved Marines out of the door, a matching Quartered Marines mod should follow fairly soon!
Chapter-specific Land Raiders!
Newly released from Fleshp0int are four Chapter-specific Land Raiders out of a planned set of eight. Each of the new textures adds additional iconography taken from Forgeworld's collection of extras, and the textures are available for the Black Templars, Dark Angels, Space Wolves and the Ultramarines.
Added last night were an updated Kasrkin Elite banner texture from Reaper_3_Delta, to improve the banner found on the Imperial Guard Infantry Command, and a set of Space Marine teamcolours and Space Marine army schemes from Briarus.
Also included in today's update have been a number of screenshots for recent additions. There is still a large backlog of screenshots, though, but hopefully I'll be able to get through a reasonable number of them fairly soon
Four new textures
A quick news update with some minor changes to follow later.
Now available are Adonis' Chaos Sorcerer retexture, Blu3Kn1Gh7's Kasrkin Thunder Camo, Diviator's Alternative Heavy Weapon Team and Prism's Space Marine Chaplain. Screenshots (where available) will hopefully be added in the next day or two.
Also in the pipeline to be added soon are Prism's 'evil Librarian' and three submissions that are still pending contact from the authors.
New Perma-gold Librarian
Another one of the pending downloads has now been cleared out of the list with the release of the Perma-gold Librarian from Reaper_3_Delta, based on a combination of Isador and Hangar-8's Golden Eagle Librarian.
New army scheme and updated submission rules
Following quite a long delay due to real-life commitments I have finally got round to performing some updates and approving submissions.
Newly added today is the Khorne Worshipper's army scheme, which contains a badge, banner and .teamcolour with a Khornate/Bloodthirster scheme. Three other downloads were also pending, but all require contact from the author (none of whom included contact information).
As well as the new additions, the submission rules are now being tightened up. From now on, all submissions must include a readme file containing a minimum of the creator's name, contact details (email address and, optionally, websites) and a brief title and description of what the download is.
This new submission rule will help not only the submissions process, but also any user who downloads a file for later and then can't remember what the description was and where they got it from.
Death Marines and team colourable Avatars
Following a slight delay due to the Easter weekend break, I've now added two new downloads: the Death Marines teamcolour and an alternate team colourable avatar. One download has also been declined for not complying with our submission guidelines (due to re-use of copyrighted material not owned by Games Workshop within a Dawn of War badge and banner set) and one download is awaiting contact from the author.
The Death Marines is a .teamcolour file from woody that uses a red and yellow colour scheme to match his table-top army.
The Alternate team colourable Avatar from Slayer can be used as an alternative for Soliel_Rouge's Team Colourable Avatar. Slayer's submission is more extensively team colourable than Soleil_Rouge's texture, but still keeps the colouring of the skin as a hint of colour.
War Skinner Issue 02 now available
spectre716 has now released issue two of his War Skinner texture series.
For those who didn't see the original, War Skinner is a normal set of textures with a comic book-style cover picture in place of standard screenshots. Issue 02 adds additional textures (Terminators, Scouts and the Servitor) and updates the Force Commander.
Texture Tool 1.8.1 - Minor fix
The Texture Tool v1.8.1 for Dawn of War has now been released. The latest version includes a minor fix to return the "click any TGA in the set and the WTP will be correctly compiled" functionality. Seemingly, v1.8 lost the functionality and forced you to select the _default.tga file, which makes mass-compilation of WTPs a bit more time consuming.
The latest version of the Dawn of War Texture Tool is always available at skins.hiveworldterra.co.uk/Downloads/detail_DawnOfWarTextureTool.html.
Red Crosses Space Marines set
A new badge and banner maker, Slayer, has recently added his Red Crosses Space Marine badge and banner set to the site. The set isn't based on a codex scheme, or on the "Red Cross" aid/charity organisation, but does contain a red cross.
Legio Victrix and new skins from spectre716
Newly added today is another badge, banner and .teamcolour set (also called an "army scheme") from Sgt.Roadkill for a custom chapter with a Roman feel: The Legio Victrix.
Also added are three new skins from spectre716, one of which has been released for a while elsewhere but has only just made it to Skins@HWT. First up is a Mortificators/White-Panthers style skin that can also be used for 'standard' schemes. The War Skinner skin changes the standard Space Marine and Dark Crusade Force Commander, and comes with a comic book-style cover. Finally, the modified Cleaned Space Marines was released a while ago on another site, but has now also been mirrored here.
