Comments - Eärendil_the_mariner

What's so special about sylvanas besides the amount of fan service she has been receiving recently on modern wow ?

iron from ice*

Dude honestly this looks so good

Morgulord! When is your new version coming?

Oh man! Gotta try it!

It worked, dude. Thanks :)

Hey gents can you tell me which version is this for? Appreciated!

True but there were some troops with the blue cloaks, maybe because not all elves fighting in that war were Noldor. Others who aswell had the blue cloaks were the commanders, like Elrond and Gil-Galad. But this doesn't bother me to be honest. I just hope it won't be easily mistaken with the normal imladris troops with the upgraded armor (golden)

Awesome, morgulord! Congratz

Really awesome, morgulord! Do you have an idea of when the new update is coming?

Ancalagon?? We'll have a ******* dragon ? :O

But will the portraits be like these or will they have that specific art style like the previously shown? I think the other ones looked better in their own way.

Morgulord, just wanted to say that, despite some problems that you can not fix yet (like the dual elven faction bug - maybe you should re-work that mechanic) I love what you did with the game and the new mirkwood unit models. Thumbs up for you, bro :D

There is a mod with new features (alliance and horde) and that to me falls short because it's not easy to balance an rts, add many features and feel fun. You can try that one and maybe you'll have loads of fun, but I'd rather play this one for the authentic warcraft 3 experience in a better engine.

Part 5 and final part finally xD

One thing that I did not quite understand is to why at 30 minutes of gameplay, my and his (AI bot) workers disappeared and our income declined to null. This makes sense in games where you can fight for another base locations, but not in this where the tournament map doesn't offer even economic victory points for you to squeeze until it's last drop. Not sure if this is a bug or if it is intended but it seems quite off to me.

Overall I think this is a great well polished mod and it's going in a good direction but needs some more features to get the player's grip.

Part 4

If you fail to do that and you get all game on a 50/50 conflict, you'll at some point not be able to do anything about those towers. Now victory points. You have some books that spawn in the middle of the map and you'll have to fight with your opponent to get control over them. I think the mod devs explained how those worked in some news here so you should go read (as I should aswell) because I have no idea what they do xD Two hours are not enough to quite get it on. You have to fight aswell for some zones on the map that you are able to build your camp there and get boosts of supply/defenses/ more buildings to build troops.

Part 3

Well this is taking longer than I thought so I let's wrap it up with gollum, towers and victory points as quickly as I can. Well, just like in the normal game you'll find gollum roaming around the map but if you (almost) kill him, he doesn't drop the One. Instead, he joins you and his role is to steal economy from your enemy's victory points. I still have to look deeper into this to see how much it affects a match.Yes, this means there are no ring heroes, no Sauron and no galadriel, for Balancing sakes I'd guess. It's a game design that I won't question but it doesn't feel sweet in my mouth as I'd like it to. Now we have towers. Towers are extremly bulky and overpowered. I think they should be toned down a bit. The only way you can defeat and enemy that has 3+ towers in his base is by being extremely ahead of him (Which I doubt. If so you'd have won way before he managed to get the towers up.) and overwhelming his base with your troops and then with pikes/siege units you get those towers down, or by exploiting the fact that he invested economy on towers and not on units for map control purposes

PART 2

- Now, I can't go really deep but I will try to describe how much I felt about it with only 2 hours of gameplay. This mod is not as ambitious with units as, for example Edain. It doesn't have many heroes. (As far as I know you only have 1 hero per faction excluding gollum which I will come to that later)nor some epic varied systems. Mordor and Gondor are different factions, with different playstyles but one can't ignore the fact that they do seem similar in unit structure. It seems like the units are planned in a way to allow for an easier game balance, with "mirror roles" and obvious counters all across the board. The heroes only function as supports units, so you should not just throw them at the enemy and expect them to survive more than 5 seconds in the middle of their army. I don't see any problem with this, but it surely seems like there is some lack of varity in gameplay. Warcraft 3, for example, has many variety in units and builds to play. Besides you had your different heroes that changed the way you would approach your strategy for that match. Starcraft 2 doesn't have heroes but has really unique units, from alien tech user to mechanized armor. In this case we only have bland melee units or trolls/werewolves with their own role and attack type, but sadly don't qualify them to be extremely "exotic" in the playstyle. You'll have to build them at some point if the game drags on. It's not a choice, it's a necessity.

Hmm I'll give my quick insight on what the mod has, its strong points and weak points.

PART 1

- First of all I wanted to underline that easy mode seems broken. Not sure if intended but the AI starts with double your resources(I played with 1000 on start and so the AI had 2000) and therefore it's impossible, or "quite a challenge" to even contest the victory points for more supply - bigger army.

Now straight to the mod:

Visuals and presentation.
- I find the launcher really polished and well presented. That itself gives right away the impression the mod had attention and care while being developed. Truth to be told, the mod is marvellous and well optimized as far as I know. Visually looks impressive, specially for a game that is getting its first white hairs. The textures are great and the unit/building models are detailed and pretty.

Guys just wanted to say that I LOVE what you did with the mod. Honestly it is something I would like to do myself if I had the skills and the time. The approach of making it more warcraft/starcraft alike in which you can pretty easily rush an undefended enemy base is awesome and I approve such thing. Still trying to get used to it but may I ask a question? Do Mordor farms increase your resources rate or only affect the supply points?I won't ask more related to economy macro management because I want to find it for myself :D Great work, from what I can say so far!

Oh damn! Gotta download!

This is awesome. Great initiative. We might be able to organize some tournaments when 4.0 comes out :D

Oh man, this made me incredibly happy. Although it makes sense elves to travel west in the forth age mod, I'd be so sad if they couldn't be immortal in this one.

Guys, the forth age total war team said the leaders' age was hardcoded in the rome's engine so they couldn't make elf lords immortal. Does this mean it will happen the same with silmarillion mod?

Dude this ******* looks SUBERB!

They look exactly like their concept in "war in the north"! Great models!

*nazgul fan screech*

Damn the details look awesome!

I look great :')

Can someone upload the stream on youtube? I'd be appreciated