Is it still possible to download the new horizons_13.04Z English v1.5? Google Disk gives me an error when I try to dl the file.

It works fine for me. Is this the link that you used: https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0Bxj0giN5lqYhSEtGaWc3R0tPSnM&export=download . It's the one that I used.

Yes, I dl'ed it. I don't know why I was getting this error.

Yes! Amazing! Thanks for sharing the latest release...

Maybe there is not much going on in this forum but there are still lots of Eador players around waiting for the newest Horizon mod to be translated into English...

I wish I would speak Russian so I could help translating :(.

Thanks to the Horizon development team and the translators... you have given me so many fun Eador skirmishes :-).

Something went wrong with the translations: texts that didn't need translating since they exist in English, were translated from Russian in this mod, and the result is that now all the texts are sort of broken, in English.

I used one of the previous versions of New Horizons, and this issue wasn't there. The non-mod (original) texts were not translated from Russian, so they were understandable.

Satshanti, a professional translator from Scotland, has reworked all text in the game. All text should be high quality now

Release thread http://eador.com/B2/viewtopic.php?t=3349 including download links to the translated New Horizons v14.0920 ENG and the most recent patch.

Very nice!

Thanks to Satshani and to you for linking his work here.

Man what a great mod. New Horizons is taking up all my free time. One of the best games ever made and my favorite mod of all time. Has even beaten out Fall from Heaven which I did not think would be possible. Thanks for keeping us updated.

Yeah, it's definitely good. The added graphics are quite impressive, because they mesh almost seamlessly with the original stuff. I also like all the new spells.

EDIT: Make sure you're using the latest patch for New Horizons. It's being updated very quickly. I just checked and it's up to 2.07 now.

I had wanted to wait for the mod to "mature" a bit, ironing out more of the inevitable bugs and errors, but I see bavarian kid beat me to it, announcing it here, which is fine. At this point, it's in fact good enough to share. There should no longer be any major bugs in it, just the occasional bit of text going out of bounds in its frame, I'm sure still some spelling and grammatical errors here and there, but all in all, it's indeed great to be able to play this excellent game with the latest version of the amazing New Horizons mod in English. That's why I put in a month of my life (well, not full time, at least not on all days :-)) to translate it. And as I explained on the mod forum, I've created a TM, a Translation Memory, which means every next New Horizons release can be translated much faster than in the past, within a few hours or days of the Russian release, depending on the amount of new textual content. Enjoy!

I couldn't agree more!

And to give you all some more background information:

I've been a gamer since... well, for ever, starting with Pong on my uncle's brand new game console. :-)
Skip a few years, and there's Ant Attack and The Hobbit on good old Sinclair Spectrum.
Then there's Ultima Underworld, Wizardy and Might and Magic on PC Windows 3.1.
I've always loved RPG's, and then branched out to turn-based strategy, and I've played many: HOMM, AOW, King's Bounty, Civilization, SMAC, you name it...

But ever since I discovered Eador a few years ago, I regularly got back to it. And that was just plain vanilla!
I think it's one of the best 4X games ever made. With New Horizons it's not just one of the best, it's THE BEST !!!

I only found out about the New Horizons mod myself a few months ago. I played Drakon's English 1.5 release, based on mod version 13.0421 (April 2013) for a few weeks and knowing that the latest Russian release was in fact already at 14.0920, so 18 months of development later, I was really eager to get my hands on that. By that time Boon had already started his version based on Google Translate, so I eagerly awaited his release. But the English texts were inevitably poor, as can be expected of course with something translated automatically. So I decided to jump in, even though I don't know a word of Russian. I do know my way around translation though, so I used professional software to import all existing previous translations, both the original vanilla one done by the game studio and the efforts of Drakon's team on version 1.5. Once imported, I only needed to edit and improve the remaining content, which was still quite a bit. I could use Google Translate and improve those texts myself for about 95%, and with the remaining bits that were just too confusing for me, I got help from Kettarienne, a native Russian speaker. The end result is not 100% perfect (yet), but after the first few patches, it's definitely good enough to play and enjoy the hell out of. :-)

While I've still not played Eador (through Steam), I give my thanks to satshanti, Kettarienne, and of course the creators of New Horizons.

Have the campaign crash bugs been fixed?

Thanks for all your hard work. I played New Horizons for about a year and playing this new version is like playing a new expansion pack. Though my strategy with that lvl 1 spell astral energy? has changed because it does not let a unit attack again. It was overpowered but what a great lvl 1 spell :)

Chrome seems to thing that the main zip file of the newest translation is malicious. I scanned it with Avast! before I opened it and found no threats, but I thought you might want to know.