New Clan Steading image - Age of the Ring mod for Battle for Middle-earth II: Rise of the Witch King
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New Clan Steading
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As we approach the next release, placeholder models are being replaced by the real deal.
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dayum... if this is for Isengard it certainly looks very advanced for the wild men... however it look amazing!
What's advanced about it though?
although I love the design, I think structurally it's more akin to say the rohirrim, i think the wildmen were a little too feral to build such structures, all that said don't change it because it still looks cool
So they should live in dirt huts?
no idea, my guess is yes as they're pretty damn primative, however with isengard engineering....
The only advancement would be the added metal work which they obviously had help with from Isengards forge works which shows their allegiance to Saruman who better equipped them to raid Rohan.
Well, lorewise, Dunlendings weren't exactly our concept of "cave men".They were mostly recluse and yes "wild" in the sense less developed than other countries but certainly they had some technological advancement even before the War of the Ring (they were kin to the Oathbreakers).
Under Saruman, they certainly improved (technologically) and, judging from the description of Orcs and Uruks in the books, it's logical to assume that the Dunlendings made up Isengard's most elite soldiers. Unlike in the movies, in the books, the Uruk-Hai are still physically inferior to humans (logical that Saruman's best soldiers would be either the Half-Orcs either the Dunlendings).
Furthermore, in the Books, Saruman isn't as much under the influence of Sauron as much as a renegade Maiar/wannabe Sauron with his own agenda. The Dunlendings(and Saruman aswell) had no real love of Orcs and, unlike the Orcs which ran away, at the battle of Helm's Deep they surrendered when Gandalf came.
As a side note Mathjis, I really like this depiction of the Clan Steading (very Celtic style and completely different from the Rohirric)
Properly and thoroughly explained. Wish we had more of that. Have my upvote.
Well I see some homage to the SaF on this model :)
Very nice! Does it mean we get a new uruk pit too? (I asked this on the stream but I didn't understand the answer if there was answer)
A new Uruk Pit is highly unlikely.
Ok, thank you!
well done!
Very nice