The Hobbit: A Not So Warm Welcome
Greetings Companions of Edain,
today we want to present you a second mission of our campaign. This mission will be included in Edain 4.5 and we already released a trailer for it:
A Not So Warm Welcome
The mission takes place at the events in Lake-town after the arriving of the dwarves. The mission name indicates, that this is not an enthusiastic reception as in the book. Instead, the starting point is similar to the one in the movie where the dwarves are not welcome, and Bard must try to smuggle them to his house. This would not be hard if the city watch did not have their sentries everywhere, making this venture quite difficult without the dwarfs being discovered.
The player has to distract the city watch in one way or another and claim favour as well as fulfill them.
Lake-town: a city full of contradictions
While some are doing well thanks to Lake-town’s status as an important trading center they have become rich through trade,
others do not even have the bare essentials to live and trade their goods on hidden black markets.
And above all, there is the mayor of Lake-town. Thanks to the high taxes, he lives a rich and easy life, while the city guard ensures law and order and punishes every little disobedience.
Thanks to Bard's help, the dwarfs managed to get unnoticed into Lake-town, but this does not solve their problems by far. Since they are stuck in their fish barrels until Bard has given them a safe route to his house.
Speak and Act
Like the first presented mission, this mission will use the same responsive system that allows the player to interact with the characters. However the difference is that it's not just about talking to them, but about solving their quests.
Bard has to make some difficult decisions that may well affect the rest of the campaign in the final version of the campaign. So how is Bard going to behave? Will he help the people and rebel against the mayor or will he exploit the corruption to gain an advantage for himself? Or maybe he finds a completely different way?
We are looking forward to your feedback and hope that you will enjoy this different kind of mission.
Your Edain Team
Your campaign is something very promising! The amount of work that you made must be impressive.
I'm look forward to play it!
Good job! I wouldn't have said that Lake-town was a rich city at that time though but that's just nitpicking^^
I'm pretty sure the major and his councilmen were quite rich.
Which still doesn't make Lake-town rich^^
Lake-town is at that time not an important place at any trade route, only a between station between Mirkwood and Dorwinion.
Gorgeous work my friends!
Is this still an RTS style campaign?
According to Wikipedia: "In an RTS, the participants position and maneuver units and structures under their control to secure areas of the map and/or destroy their opponents' assets."
If we use this definition, all except one campaign mission will be RTS maps. And both missions included in 4.5 are RTS, as Gandalf has to control important positions in the shire by giving Hobbits Pipe-weed and Bard has to control a secure way through lake-town. Though those too maps are much more similar to RPGs.
"In a typical RTS, it is possible to create additional units and structures during the course of a game."
Only 3 or 4 missions in total will be typical RTS missions according to this definition, but all of them won't be that typical either. Because, if the player wants to play a more or less typical RTS, there are the normal skirmish maps, or the Horde maps, but a campaign should offer something completly unique and different from other maps.
Anyone may give me sources for installing BFME II and ROTWK? Windows 10. I want them so i can play Edain but I can't find them
If you have any problems you might try to find help in the inoffical Edain discord group. Discord.gg
Here's a video about the installation: Youtube.com. You'll find all the required links with the files in the description box below the video and they should be fully working.
Furthermore, be noticed, that the program offered in the video does not work anymore on Windows 10 (Daemon Tools). You'll need to install a program called WinCDEmu (works similar to DT).
hey! I have all the main games in English but there is still missing a lot of texts
?????08/08/2019...
I can't tell if you did dd/mm/yyyy or mm/dd/yyyy