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[Rakonas]

One, you can't post nudity on this forum.

Two, that's not nudity.  That's a man's chest.

It appears that there is a joke about 3 feet above your head.

There is NOTHING funny about violating the rules of this forum with tasteless nudity

I lol'd. +1, best new forum user.

[Paul]

One, you can't post nudity on this forum.

Two, that's not nudity.  That's a man's chest.

She's just really masculine.

Fact: The Rhun joined Sauron as an excuse to get away from the women of their homeland.

[JamesCorella]

LMAO that was a funny ass pic.

[RedKing]

I believe I've found the route to developing an evil character: slave trading. Mannish/Elven/Dwarven prisoners are worth a buttload of resources points to The Enemy. And taking a horde of orc snagas (most of whom are equipped with clubs) out to ambush a scouting party is a great way to wind up with a handful of prisoners. The war hasn't even started yet and I've got 3k resources with Mordor. And orcs are so cheap that even if you lose ten snagas getting one prisoner, you'll still wind up with a profit.

[Digital Hellhound]

Prisoner trade is insanely lucrative for both sides. It's a great way of getting RPs in the beginning, and everywhere else, really. I just love slave trade.

[Paul]

The "free prisoners" quest is terrible when you're playing Isengard.

I can't find any prisoners to free. Orcs and uruks aren't taken prisoner, so that discounts most of the friendly factions (moria, gundabad, mordor, isengard, dol guldur). Then the few factions that ARE taken prisoner rarely seem to lose due to the massive support they get from Mordor and Isengard. Add to that, all the good guy parties don't keep prisoners around - they spawn prison trains, which run straight to the nearest town and dump the prisoners.

Playing the good guys, finding prisoners to free was a cake walk - every evil faction seems to run around with dozens of them, and even the neutral parties like orc stragglers and such are jumping good parties and taking prisoners. But on the bad side I've used cheat mode to check the map, and there is not a SINGLE friendly prisoner on the map. And the quest giver expects me to free 13.

[JamesCorella]

how much money do they sell for?

[RedKing]

how much money do they sell for?

Depends on their level. Your basic Gondor Watchman goes for 66, I think. Next tier up goes for a little over 100. If you get a fairly high tier captive like a veteran ranger of Ithilien, or a upper-tier Rohirrim, you're talking 350-500 resources each. And considering orc snagas are 2 a piece to hire, 1 per week for upkeep, and tend to upgrade to the next tier if they so much as breathe on an enemy in combat....hordes of snagas can provide a good ROI, even with significant losses. (which is kinda true to the setting...orcs were all about having numerical superiority, not individual prowess).

My goal is to raise my female Black Numenorean (Ak-Ziraphel) into a mighty general commanding hundreds of orcs, with a crack contingent of Haradrim or Variag cavalry and maybe a troll or two.

[varnish]

I find giving my orcs un-orcish names far more entertaining then I should.

All of Gondor shall learn to fear the name Wilberforce Agincourt Marie.

[Paul]

The warg riders have terrible equipment.

They have nothing but short crappy one handed melee weapons. Against cavalry they can't do anything - the wargs can't trample them and the super short weapons can't hit them. The Warg Riders of Isengard only have 2 weapons - Orc Machete's and Orc Scimitars, with reach of 55 and 56. Compared to the Native butcher knife's reach of 60. They hit for even less damage than butcher knives too (20 damage vs 24 on the butcher knife) and the machete can't be used to block. And their lighter armor is weaker than a peasant dress. Their only possible saving grace are the orc darts, but without any skill in horse archery they deal minimal damage and rarely hit their targets.
So basically we have orcs armed with weapons inferior to butcher knives and armor inferior to peasant dresses riding around trying to stab things. No wonder they're completely incompetent.

Isengard Orc snagas get spears and longer, more effective clubs and axes - including some isengard variants that are actually decent weapons. Wolf riders (next tier up) have nothing but clubs and the axe, which are still longer and far more effective than the machete and scimitar. Then warg riders, the third tier, get nothing but the crummy machetes and scimitars.

I've come to the hypothesis that riding wargs damages orc brains. They train with the wargs, fall off a few times, take some minor brain damage - and the other orcs take advantage and convince them to give away all their good weapons because they'd be more badass with nothing but clubs and the occasional axe. Then after a while of fighting on wargs they get some moderate to severe brain damage and decide that their eating utensils should make better weapons.

Considering even the top tier White Hand riders are effectively wearing tattered peasant dresses and waving around rusty butcher knives, I think my hypothesis has some merit.

[dogstile]

Man i'm having issues with this. So, as a question, are some of you running this off of steam? Would help me a bit if I knew, cheers

[Rince Wind]

I don't. But I am pretty sure I have seen an installation guide for people with the steam version on their forums.

[enigma74]

This game is finally out I've been waiting for this for years!

[dogstile]

Ah, must be different then normal then, thankee good sir

[JamesCorella]

This mod is sick wid it .