So eeh, Gondor beacons suck. Upgrading them - going down the wrong path of the power tree - is totally not viable - especially since the right path is waaaaay too strong to pass up on. The powers to the left: Gandalf the White upgrade and extra unit from beacons SUCK since you DO NOT get Gandalf EVER because he is 3k and playing against another player as Gondor, that is too much. And the beacon power is also not viable since it's TOO expensive for a Tower that is TOO expensive and does TOO little. I tried the strat, and couldn't even spawn the units wherever I wanted, even though it showed I could, so no flanking either. Literally no way beacons are ever viable in meta. Also another balance problem is Houses. You never get Houses, ever. No, You need an armouries for EXPENSIVE upgrades.
There is a serious bug that needs addressing. Of all bugs this is perhaps the most salient in all games. This has existed before the major update with Lothlorien and now exists with other factions as well. I am speaking of the instant destruction of your faction once your citadel has been destroyed. Lothlorien has suffered this for a long time, and dying by having 1 building destroyed in a matter of seconds is nonsensical. Now it applies to other factions as well, and it has ruined many games in multiplayer. Losing the game because your giant army was someplace else and losing your citadel to dwarven earthquake and the other level 10 has to change. No, not by nerfing dwarves, but by fixing this bug. If this isn't a bug, but a feature, I would like to see it changed or apply to Rohan as well, since they don't insta-die after losing their citadel.
Go to youtube and search for "Rexos Edain". The first video is the one you need, with all the information needed in the description.
Here is a youtube video explaining everything you need to do. Just search on youtube "Rexos edain". It should be the top video. Or just click this link: Youtube.com
Now let's look at the Spellbook changes with a critical eye. I am not sure about the changed level 10 ability of Imladris (the on with the barracks and upgraded units), but we'll see I guess. But the Dwarves need change. Gandalf is OP. Period. Earthquake is not fun. Period. The Citadel level 10 is boring. Period. It's just an Undermine with loads of catapults. Beorn is more expensive than Gandalf?? Wtf. AND RUNES TOO? AND THEY BUFFED HIM TOO WITH A STUN BAHAHAHAHA!
Rohan got even more heroes now.
Isengard is still a fricking joke. Isengard was arguably in the most need of positive change, which they did not recieve. They are still very much the same in the grand scheme of things.
Mordor looks very good, I am very content with it, altough I don't really think the orc oversiers power will have a lot of influance on the game, but we'll see.
Okay, okay, let's now address the elephant in the room..: Gondor!
Poor oh poor fiefdoms. You had such prominence, but alas. You were nerfed a year ago, and now you are nerfed even more. I loved you, and I love your memory, but your dead now. Moved to the third row, out of the way, GOING TOWARDS ROHAN (whilst every player will rush AotD) I will totally ignore you. You were a viably strat, but now you are just weak, like you have been the past year.
Say you build the darn tower. Your playing on 1000 gold start, everyone is starting with a barracks and outside farms, and you smack down 500 of your 1000 into a tower that gives a random unit every 3 minutes. If you do this, you cant get a farm there with pantries or money upgrades, so now you have a tower, which spawns units. Whilst you get no income, and you got no commandpoints to field the spawned units. This is the definition of a conundrum. I suggest some change. Make it so that either the building makes money or gives you a flat pantry upgrade or something of the sort (or money for every unit that spawns, because they bring gold to fund the war). Also instead of getting 1 unit randomly, maybe make it so that I can choose which one will show up first.
AotD (army of the dead) is OP. You get it, you use it, you kill your enemy, you get another 10 points. And potentially win the game, and if you do not, you now have the Rohan spawn, and will win the next battle because of it, and then you win the game. This is how it goes. There is zero strategy in it. It is just click-to-spawn-to-win. Change it. Please change it. It is not balanced. I get that it is iconic, but make it less unfair.
and they are dumb enough not to accept any money
Hi,
A friend of mine can't seem to go online in Gameranger. It says he cannot connect to the gameranger servers, which is bogus, because he has an internet connection and his firewall and antivirus permit Gameranger. Reinstalling didn't work, restarting his internetrouter and PC also had zero effect. Even trying to login to gameranger with my account on fresh gameranger files extracted via Winrar didn't help. We frankly tried everything we could think of, and I was wondering if any people here knows how to fix this issue. Thank you in advance
How can I play multiplayer? Gameranger doesnt seem to work
Why don't you guys have some sort of patreon? I am 100% sure you'd get massive monetary support as a team. And if you do have a patreon, you should advertise it! And we're talking a lot of money you guys could make with your hobby project.
The game works now! I had to do everything over again, but it works! Thanks for the feedback!
Im now in turn 43, constructed the Hall of the Seven in both Moria's and I have diplomat standing near Thorins halls, no script has fired yet... How do I activate it?
I appear to have found a bug of some sort. I was trying out KD and went the anduin way. After having arrived at seleburg and accepting their call for aid, I lost all my men except for balin... And yes this is the patch.
Edit: I tried again, this time not accepting the call to arms, took moria and discovered I had 200 income from the king purse... 200! That is practically nothing! I was making losing money! Is this supposed to be like this?
So I just started installing divide and conquer as you recommended, however, I did not get any pop-up/error which allegedly you're supposed to get. (folder already exists) Does the game still work without this pop-up?
Also, thanks for your support!
Edit: I got the "folder already existed pop-up" so let's square that away. The error on the otherhand did not occur.
edit #2: I have now installed everything and renamed the file accordingly. However, when I tried to start my game, an error occured. (an unspecific error)
I need help with the installation. I tried following the instructions, but since my steamfile is on the F-disk (which is not the C-disk, because this one is full), therefore my Medieval total war 2 is here:
F:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Medieval II Total War
Here comes my first problem; Where do I install my (regular) Third age totalwar files?
My second problem lies has ofcourse the same roots; where do I install my divide and conquer files?
Thank you in advance
Very simple, the northern dunedain are scattered after the breaking of Arnor and don't live in big communities anymore. Therefore, it is hard to find men for your army, hence why it takes so long to recruit. It doesnt really have to do a lot with their quality.
Saying it is for balances purposes would have sufficed as an adequate answer as well :))
How about dunland eh? They are kinda evil.
Is version 1 public yet? If so, how can I update to it?
Thank you in advance.
Could they perhaps copy and paste every map with the Arnor file? (so 2 versions of every map)
Dear ET, I've recently played against my friend which played as Angmar. And here I realised the almost "overpoweredness" of the Angmar werewolves, which are I believe in their place, unrealistic. However, the problem is their cheap but effective role against enemy heroes. For instance, my heroes died in mere seconds. Whilst their costs was in the thousands (my heroes), his werewolves only costs 900 a piece. Therefore I feel as though the need that these werewolves need a higher purchase price. Also, now that we're on the topic of Angmar, their elite spear units, whatever they're called, I can't recall, are plainly BS. I'll elaborate, my ithillien rangers we're shooting at his spearmen, they were taking damage of of it! It doesn't even make any sense! I'm fine with them doing dmg against other melee units, but not against archers, lol. Also, why is Helegwen able to stun ENTIRE armies?! I'd suggest nerfing her AoE radius, that way you need to aim tactically at specific troops instead of shooting willy nilly at the entire army. Thanks for reading. I hope you consider any changes.
I've been having a lot of internet issues lately, my internet keeps losing connection for 1 second, and therefore the game and my gameranger also lose connection. All of this would be just fine if I could join back into the game, but alas, I cannot. Is it possible for you to fix this? Or has is it the base game's fault?
Isn't that really unimmersive? The blue wizards are unknown, 1 is presumably dead and the other one is missing. We don't even know to whom they are aligned. Please explain to me why they will be included.
The amon sul map is bugged, you won't get arnor. I'd suggest checking the arnor files or something like that to see if other arnor maps also don't work.
Here are the corrections I promised to give tonight, I hope you consider them!
[Quick little disclaimer: Don't take personal offense in my corrections, (because some people get antsy when being corrected.) I do this for fun and I'd like to help]
PS. I exceeded the character limit so there are two parts :/
"This version will take you to the elvish realm of Elrond, which lies hidden in the gorge of the river Bruinen. Protected by the Lord of Rivendell, who commands the Bruinen, knowledge of middle-earth is collected and guarded in the great library. The sword Narsil was remade in the forge of Rivendell and the Council of Elrond marked the start of the Fellowship of the Ring. Rivendell is very different form the other factions of the game: the goal of the faction is to reach perfection. The elves of Rivendell are few in numbers, though having much more combat strength and skill than their opponents. Their collected knowledge about combat is passed on in the barracks, so new tactical possibilities emerge to fight the enemy. As a result the gameplay of this faction differs a lot from the others. While normal units collect experience in battle, the elves of Imladris already have a perfected fighting style and collect their gained knowledge in different places."
"though having much more combat strength and skill than their opponents."
Although I think this is correct English, I would still write it like this:"but have a lot* more combat strength and skill than their opponents."
"Their collected knowledge about combat is passed on in the barracks, so new tactical possibilities emerge to fight the enemy."
I'd write it like this:"Their collected knowledge about combat is passed on in the barracks, *where* new tactical possibilities emerge to fight the enemy."
Instead of:"While normal units collect experience in battle,"
you should write it like this: Whilst normal units collect experience in battle,
"the elves of Imladris already have a perfected fighting style and collect their gained knowledge in different places."
Better would be:"...and collect their gained knowledge in other places."
Rivendell is protected by a imposing fortress, that can be armed with healing fountains, towers and side gates at various building slots. The gate can on each side be upgraded with floodgates to blow nearby enemies away. The whole game principle of the faction is focused on the buildable library, which collects knowledge during the game. By doing so it is provided with new fields of study and Lore-Master. As the game progresses and more knowledge is collected the variety of the faction grows. Units can use new skills or formations and improve already upgraded blades and arrows even further.
"Rivendell is protected by a imposing fortress"
You'll probably see the small grammar mistake: "Rivendell is protected by an imposing fortress"
"that can be armed with healing fountains,"
I'd write it like: "which can be armed with healing fountains,"
"The gate can on each side be upgraded with floodgates to blow nearby enemies away."
Big grammar mistake: "The gate can be upgraded on each side with floodgates to blow nearbt enemies away."
"The whole game principle of the faction is focused on the buildable library,"
I'd leave out "game", or say something like: "The whole strategy of the faction is focused on the buildable library,"
"By doing so it is provided with new fields of study and Lore-Master."
Perhaps say "studies" instead of "study", but that's totally up to you.
"As the game progresses and more knowledge is collected the variety of the faction grows."
Punctuation fault: "As the game progresses and more knowledge is collected, the variety of the faction grows."
"blades and arrows even further."
Perhaps say: "weapons" instead of "blades and arrows"
The hero line-up of Rivendell also quite differs from the other factions, since they also do not collect experience. As the units of Imladris, the heroes gain their rank - and thus their knowledge of new skills and combat strength - through the library. So Rivendell is in comparision to other factions at the beginning of the game weaker, but grows more and more powerfull as the game progresses.
"As the units of Imladris, the heroes gain their rank - and thus their knowledge of new skills and combat strength - through the library."
I'd write something like this:"Just like the normal units of Imladris, their heroes level up through the library - and thus increases their knowledge of new skills and combat strenght as you research in the library." I don't know, it's up to you. :)
"So Rivendell is in comparision to other factions at the beginning of the game weaker"
I'd write it like this: "Because of this, Rivendell is weaker in comparison to the other factions at the beginning of the game"
"but grows more and more powerfull as the game progresses."
You're never FULL of power :)
you write powerful with 1 L, just like most other similar words. ;)
On settlements and outposts Rivendell can make use of various allies. So it is possible to build a Tower of Lindon, a Hobbit Farm or a Dúnedain outpost, which can grow to a mighty ally once various extensions are build. Here you will also find Halbarad and his Dúnedain, whose gameplay fundamentally differs from those of the elves.
"So it is possible to build a Tower of Lindon, a Hobbit Farm or a Dúnedain outpost, which can grow to a mighty ally once various extensions are build."
I'd write it like: For example, it is possible to build a Tower of Lindon, a Hobbit Farm or a Dúnedain outpost, which can grow to a mighty ally once various extensions are build.
Regarding the lightbringers a few things have changed: they are now called Lore-masters and are single units. They can be appointed as Lore-master of the sea, stones, the wind or the light and so influence their sourroundings in diffrent ways and form new combinations. The entire system is a little bit more subtle to integrate the aspekt of magic meaningful. To compensate the siege weapon aspect, Rivendell is now able to bulid siege works and can recruit a unique siege weapon that can be upraded with special ammunition:
Punctuation mistake:"Regarding the lightbringers, a few things have changed:" or "A few things have changed, regarding the lightbringers" Whichever you like the most :)
"they are now called Lore-masters and are single units."
I know what you mean, and you are likely not in the wrong here, but I'd still write it differently: "they are now called Lore-masters, and are a single unit." With or without the comma may be correct.
"the wind or the light and so influence their sourroundings in diffrent ways and form new combinations."
A few typos here and there:
"the wind or the light and therefore influence their surroundings in different ways and form multiple combinations."
"The entire system is a little bit more subtle to integrate the aspekt of magic meaningful."
Might just be me, but the sentence in its entirety is difficult to understand.
However, I'd still write it like this: "Their entire system is more subtle to integrate the aspect of meaningful magic." But then again, I don't know what you mean. ;)
"To compensate the siege weapon aspect, Rivendell is now able to bulid siege works and can recruit a unique siege weapon that can be upraded with special ammunition"
I'd write it like: "To compensate for the lack of siege weapons, Rivendell is now able to bulid siege works and can recruit a unique siege weapon that can be upraded with special ammunition"
I might have missed some mistakes or have made some of my own.
However, I do look forward for Imladris ET!
There are a lot of grammar, punctuation and spelling mistakes, ET. I'll try to correct them for you tonight. :)
where exacly can I find this so called "optional launcher"?
It is now three days in a row that the update servers are under a heavy load... Amazing
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