Easterling Sub-faction in Age of the Ring? blog - Emperor-of-the-East

Yes, there will be one

Hello there! I am working on an Easterling Sub-faction that was initially going to be for the Dol Guldur faction in Age of the Ring. But then a supporter of this project convinced me to make it a Sub-faction for AotR's Mordor. Here is a gallery of what I have created up until the time that MBG convinced me to change which AotR faction I make the Easterlings the alternate side of:

Even though I am redoing the Easterling Fortress Citadel to fit in with the Mordor expansion pad arrangement, what I won't be redoing is my current concept of the Easterling Sub-faction Builder. You'll notice that the Easterling side of Mordor won't have Human Builders, it'll have Elf Engineers from the Avari Elf Kingdom whose people are the Hwenti (here are links to what "Avari" and "Hwenti" are). The ideas behind it are in the lore string, at the very bottom of the tooltip.

This is the tooltip I am going with for the Fortress. Also, you'll notice that the Hwenti Engineer menu to the far right of this image... only has four buildings because I am only just beginning the menu, it is heavily WIP. Let's look at what else is on the menu besides the fortress...

This is the Livestock Pasture or just Pasture for short. It provides dairy, eggs, meat, poultry, and seafood as resources based on terrain, adds 50 to your command limit, and can be upgraded to specialize in just one of the above resources, and each specialization leads to a different special bonus.

Before I wrap up this post, I will show you this: the Guardhouse of Khand, which is meant to train Variag of Khand units as the sort of Early-game units of my Easterling Sub-faction for AotR's Mordor. They'll come as swordsmen, axe throwers, spearmen, and mounted archers.

Closure

Thank you for reading this, and thank you to the guy who convinced me to make the Easterlings a Sub-faction of Mordor instead of Dol Guldur! That's all for today,

~Kyle Perkino~