[Khazâd-dûm] Iron Hills Veterans (AoR) image - DCI: Last Alliance mod for Medieval II: Total War: Kingdoms
DCI: Last Alliance is a submod for Third Age: Total War, focused on the War of the Last Alliance in the Second Age of Middle-earth.
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The Iron Hills are an ancient homeland for the Longbeards. Rich on iron ore as it is they trade across Middle-earth along the Dwarf-road and beyond. Positioned on the border to wild lands the need has always been great for well-armed people, in no other land the Longbeard nowdays hold the Khazâd are more used to battle. This dreadful experience provides the region with grim veterans, forming an irregular force equal to many professional soldiers.
When summoned they come clad in hauberks of steel mail that hang to their knees, caps of iron and a round shield slung at their backs. Dwarves are exceedingly strong for their height, but most of these warriors are strong even for for their kind, and their stamina has impressed those who met them. The loud cries of "Khazâd-dûm" and "Durin!" are heard when the Dwarves of the Iron Hills plunge into the fray, wielding their heavy two-handed mattocks.
Unit by Curufin.
Credit: KK, Taro_M
Durin's Beard! My proud kin! Masterful craftsmenship, indeed. Long has it been since my very eyes have seen these truly mighty members of Durin's Folk.
The only thing that seems to miss is lastly the most important.
The characteristic, forked beard, which they use to tuck into their belts.
While studying the writings of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins, I found these notes on my kin and this is how my memory recalls their sight:
"Each one of his folk was clad in a hauberk of steel mail that hung to his knees, and his legs were covered with hose of a fine and flexible metal mesh, the secret of whose making was possessed by Dain's people.
The dwarves are exceedingly strong for their height, but most of these were strong even for dwarves. In battle they wielded heavy two- handed mattocks; but each of them had also a short broad sword at his side and a round shield slung at his back. *Their beards were forked and plaited and thrust into their belts.* Their caps were of iron and they were shod with iron, and their faces were grim."