LOTR - Third Age: Total War

[Syt]

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=253976

(For M2TW:Kingdoms)

Anyone tried this yet? It sure looks yummy.

1. The Middle-earth Map



Play on an extensive historically accurate map of Middle-earth as it was in the Third Age, including 114 settlements taken straight from Middle-earth lore and completed with several fictional locations.
Visit the wonders of Middle-earth, like the Three Towers, the Argonath or Durin's tower and see all the unique locations of Middle-earth like Minas Tirith, the Black Gate or Isengard. See the hills of Rohan, the huge forest of the Mirkwood and the dark ash of Mordor.



2. The Factions




Play with all important factions of the Third Age, including Gondor, Rohan, High and Silvan Elves, Dwarves, Eriador, Dale, Isengard, Mordor, Rhun, Harad and the Orcs of the Misty Mountains.
Every faction has its own strengths and weaknesses, benefits and disadvantages on the battle as well as the campaign map. Decide if you want to face your enemy with a small, but trained and heavily armored army or if you count on masses of units to overrun your foes.
The unit design is based on visual references of the Lord of the rings movie trilogy, completed with fictional units and artwork, all based on the lore of Middle-earth.



3. The Gameplay

The end of the Third Age is a time where good and evil wage a decisive war for the final domination of Middle-earth.
Both ways, freeing the good people of Middle earth as well as bringing the world under the shadow will not be an easy task for the player.
A new campaign and battle AI will make the player's life much harder and a unit recruitment based on a cultural level and a regional recruitment requires strategically decisions and will slow down your expansion if not properly planned.
The AI will also receive certain bonuses like extra money or additional armies if they get in serious trouble to compensate the lack of human intelligence and the lack of income through missions.



4. The Design

In order to reflect the world of Middle-earth as good as possible, there is an almost complete rework of the 2D and 3D design, including the menu, the interface, the symbols and pictures and much more.
To create an even deeper atmosphere, all cultures have a unique set of music and unit sounds and voices were completely changed for many factions.
Lastly there is a huge amount of new videos, including the intro, the faction intros and many in-game events.

[I Killed Kenny]

It's time to install Kingdoms...

[Caliga]

Magic?

[Syt]

Magic?

RTF - read their forums. No time for play during the week.

[DisturbedPervert]

They have Hobbit Archers   

[frunk]

historically accurate map of Middle-earth as it was in the Third Age

Right.

[Syt]

historically accurate map of Middle-earth as it was in the Third Age

Right.

Well, there was a Forth Age mod with what you could claim was an Alt Hist map.

[MadImmortalMan]

Oh wow. 

[Alcibiades]

Downloaded...forums make it sound like it needs balancing work though in regards to archers...

[grumbler]

I'm a sucker for these kinds of mods.  Bought Kingdoms just for this mod (though I had kinda wanted it for the New World scenarios anyway).

[Berkut]

Is Kingdoms an expansion for MTW2, or MTW?

[Syt]

Is Kingdoms an expansion for MTW2, or MTW?

2. MTW's add on was "Viking Invasion" or something.

[Alcibiades]

Mod is very well done, pretty impressed.  And I don't think arrows are as overpowered as everyone cries about.

[grumbler]

Mod is very well done, pretty impressed.  And I don't think arrows are as overpowered as everyone cries about.

I think this game will be my weekend project, since it is supposed to rain.  If the arrows are, indeed, overpowered, then I will just play as an archer-heavy power! 

[Alcibiades]

Mod is very well done, pretty impressed.  And I don't think arrows are as overpowered as everyone cries about.

I think this game will be my weekend project, since it is supposed to rain.  If the arrows are, indeed, overpowered, then I will just play as an archer-heavy power! 

Yeah I tried a game as the Elves, the arrows are strong, but not crazy strong.