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[MorleyDev]

Decay spreads over the lands of men, and the dark lord Sauron has risen once again and is extending his hand out to dominate the free peoples of Middle Earth. Saruman the Wise has become Saruman of Many Colours, and is breeding an army of vile Uruk-hai in the depths of Isengard. The Orcs of the Misty Mountains and Gundabad have heard the calls and risen up to swarm out of their mountains in conquest. The Sauron-worshipping peoples of Harad and Rhûn are marching on their ancient enemies in the east.

The days of the Last Alliance are forgotten by all but a few, and the third age draws to an end. Dwarves hide in their mountains, greedy for gold and uncaring of the troubles of others. Men are weak, scattered, divided, leaderless, all pride and dignity forgotten. As for the elves? The time of the elves is over, they are leaving these lands for the undying shores. Do they leave middle earth to it’s fate? The other races stand on the precipice of doom, do they stand alone?

YouTube Playlist
Episode 1 (55:30)
Episode 2 (22:29)
Episode 3 (28:37)
Episode 4 (39:37)
Episode 5 (20:29)
Episode 6 (48:56)
Episode 7 (33:50)
Episode 8 (23:17)
Episode 9 (20:40)
Episode 10 (30:48)

Base game:
Medieval 2: Total War Kingdoms

Mods used:
Third Age: Total War
Baron Samedi's Gameplay Enhancing Submods 5.0
Archer Accuracy Submod 2.11
Expanded Map Mod 3.1

Sorry about the ads that occasionally appear. They are not my own monetisation. They are a result of Third Age: Total War using music from the Lord of the Rings soundtrack, which is detected by YouTube.

[Zrk2]

And here I almost started a LP, now we have five or six on the way.

[Delta Foxtrot]

Good voice for a youtube LP. I remember trying this mod when it first came out. Agh, too many placeholders and could have certainly used a few submods. I'm pretty sure it's much better these days. I'm up to second video now. But tell me, are there much placeholders left?

Maybe I'm just spoiled by Fourth Age and EB, but I've come to expect (decent) original voice acting from the bigger mods. Getting the vanilla MIGHTY SULTAN! shout in the middle of my LOTR fantasies tends to break the immersion a bit.

MORE BANDITS THAN TREES, 'TIS HORRIBLE!

haha. I'm generally not a fan of video LP's, but you're pretty fun.

[Zrk2]

I like the accent. It's almost as fun as Stworca's.

[MorleyDev]

I think the Dwarves still make occasionally reference to Scotland, Harad and Rhun still use the Muslim faction voices but I'm pretty sure all the direct references got cut out. I'd say the most annoying sound in it nowadays is the Rohirrim shouting "RIDERS OF ROHAN!" every time you click on them or order them to do anything, which is why I never play as Rohan.

The first few videos have a problem (well, I think of it as a problem) where the background sounds get too loud. I use kdenlive and it has a glitch with gain I didn't realise until I'd uploaded the first two episodes and rendered the third. I figured out how to fix it by creating a custom effect from the gain one with a different name.

My accent is a Nottingham accent, so it's this weird mix of northern and southern pronunciations for words...was kinda worried my accent and voice would be annoying actually ^^

[Ahra]

did... did you horribly exploit the AI all the time? PREPOSTEROUS

[MorleyDev]

New Episode: Episode 7

did... did you horribly exploit the AI all the time? PREPOSTEROUS

......maybe. It's just so difficult not to xD

[Shadowgandor]

Kiting with the elves is so much fun. I've had 200 vs 1300 fights where the enemy's army consisted mostly of heavy goblin infantry. End of the fight: +/-1100 losses vs my 36 losses XD It just starts to sting when the enemy has cavalry

[Delta Foxtrot]

Seems like you're starting to get more troops to wage war with. You have any plans to do some serious invading? The orcs could use a little beating.

[MorleyDev]

The orcs are an annoyance to me, a threat to the free peoples though. I'm planning on basically making a sweep and taking back some of the land Isengard took off of Rohan and some of the land the orcs took from Eriador. Then I'll give that land back to Rohan and Eriador except for those needed to reforge the elven kingdom (Mithlond, Harlindon, Forlindon, Imladris, Elostirion, Ost-in-Edhil, Lond Daer, Eryn Vorn).

Hopefully the profits from sacking those camps and getting the extra cities will be enough to boost the economy and start the perpetual war machine moving

[MorleyDev]

New Episode: Episode 8 (23:17)

[MorleyDev]

New episode: Episode 9 (20:40)

[MorleyDev]

New Episode: Episode 10 (30:48)

Triple Post C-C-C-Combo!

[Delta Foxtrot]

How goes the campaign?

[MorleyDev]

Possibly burned to the ground with my hard disk Won't know until at least Friday when I have access to the tools to open up my Laptop and test the hard disks to see which one is bust.