Gameplay plan so far; Each Great Battle in the books will be waves of stacks, some of which will have awesome generals (Glaurung, Gothmog, Balrogs, Sauron, Battle Trolls maybe, etc.) but most will be crappy Orcs and such that are easy enough to mop up if there are still enough ally factions around to help out. Helping allies survive these waves, and surviving yourself, as best as possible and rebuilding inbetween these waves to survive the next will be a major point in gameplay in Beleriand, or obviously allying with Morgoth. In the expanded map/restricted map campaigns running away and hiding in Middle-Earth may be wiser unless you ally with Morgoth. The Host of Feanor is always at war with Morgoth and whomever owns a Silmaril (one will be floating around after Beren dies). I will need gameplay testers soon so I am posting here.
The Early Second Age campaign setup so far. The Entpire goes up in flames pretty quick. Mordor gets bigger, other factions get smaller, Numenor saves the day and takes all the land as payment:P.
Second Numenor faction (Aldarion) starts with NW Numenor and a small region on the south coast of Eriador.
Ideas/suggestions are welcomed.
good luck guy :)
Is Aldarion basically faithful numenorians?
They become the Faithful in the Early and start as the Faithful in the Late, so yes. In the Early campaign Aldarion gets control of Numenor eventually though, for a time, while the other Numenor (the Kings-men basically) conquer Umbar and all around it. As long as they don't fight each other (that will not happen for the first few hundred turns) they will not have too much trouble with Sauron once they get enough influence in Middle-earth.
In the Late the two Numenors never work together, and must eventually fight. And Sauron will still be a pain in the ***, and in more ways than before.
Are you planning to make your own units for the second age?
Numenorean/Black Numenorean units will be made specifically for the Second Age, but they will be used in all the Ages most likely.
How are you going to do the downfalling? How are you going to destroy the Numenor?
A script will make it not able to be used or even looked at. I haven't decided if that will be added or something that can be avoided in the Early, in the Late it happens no matter what.
When will the second age campaign be available?
When I feel like doing it, unless someone else does it first. That is what we are all waiting for, I don't like it anymore than you guys do and I don't have someone else to do what I want like you guys do:P.
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Can you make the second age available, someone is making a mod for it but it doesn't seem as in depth as yours.