Great episode mate, love to see the armies gather for pushes, A few things you might want to do in this campaign: buy Undertowers and Ost Gelon. These settlements are Arthedain so Royal guard and Royal Knights in those regions. Dont worry too much about the crypts, killing Barrow wight gives 50 extra population so killing them will help you upgrade the town. The sooner you kill them after they spawn the faster they will spawn in. So you could basically speed run growing Mengalen. Zach Kala is a nice region but at the same time I dont think you can really benefit from it being a fortress so you may want to just sell it so you can get crucial infrastructure.
Hello, friend. Hurray the King of the North! Now the big expedition to impose the order to the North begins... Nice episode, despite the unlucky battles. Good that you saved Bilbo, though I feel Andy could have retreated sooner, as this Council Guard unit would have been precious when you should need AP ability (they had, thanks to their maces). From now on, you shall have some good administrative issues in the ex-Breeland, so you'd better look which buildings do not give you anything and destroy them to get money back, while you should keep the others. We both want the best proper vision, so you are doing well to have vision everywhere, like south of Michel Delving - which is where you send Alf. Good move for Buzra-dum, watch what the Elfs will do and intervene if you find the situation favourable, though I am not that against if you don't get it. I agree with Bolger about Zagh Kala, Ost Gelon and Undertowers. Mengalen is already upgraded, so that only the Restored Crypts need to stop the Barrow Wights, as soon as you can, do it. For the expansion, I think that you also need to buy Caras Nurneled from Enedwaith, as it is Cardolan and it plays the same role as Undertowers and Ost Gelon. In the expansion, now you have only Angmar - for now - and you are free to expand in the North freely. Barketta is your first target in the west and Mount Gram is your target in the east, as it seems Agandaur is in Fornost Erain and awaits to die. You need a two-prongued attack to hit Angmar, so as to close them to Carn Dum and kill them there. Don't worry about the advanced units, they will come by time. I think that the most useful Breeland units are the Watchmen Axeguard, perhaps the Greenway cavalry as an early tier one and every crossbow unit, as the Sworn units and the archers of your current roster and the Arthedain/ Cardolan/ Rhudaur units are better than the Breeland ones. PS: I think you need to renew your alliances with everyone you had previously, as not that your faction is changed, the old diplomatic relations are changed, so you need to check on them. And you should really need the alliance and trade rights with Gondor, Dol Amroth, Enedwaith and the High Elfs. And now, let's get on our history: The message finally got Aragorn in Morva Tarth. After a fierce but quick battle, where the Rangers and the archers showed their abilities against the Hillmen and the Orcs, the town of Rhudaur fell to the hands of the Dunedain. The next day, however, three representatives showed up along with the messenger of Hirvegil to deliver the message that the House of Kings was rebuilt. After the announcement - along with the message that Annuminas stayed firm against the Angmarim armies once again - the three representatives walked in front. "My King", the first one, who was also the older in age, started his formal speech. "We come from Breeland and we bring word from the Council. After the rebuild of the House of Kings, your word that the Kingdom of Arnor is restored came true. Despite that Angmar is a very strong foe, it is shown many times that our armies together can keep them back and batter their units to dust. The Council remembers the days of the Kingdom, when the land had a King, and we are willing to ask if the new King Aragorn wishes to leave the Council to organise the Breeland region and the Shire according to its wishes, but under his protection and following the laws of Arnor. We wish to join the Kingdom that just is restored, though the Council offers its help and economic power, on condition that the social situation will not change under the rule of the King". Aragorn thought of it a bit. That meant that Breelanders wanted to keep their autonomy, or at least most of their commerce priviledges, so as to join him. His councellors were of the same opinion with him and everyone gave his opinion after the King's request. Then, Aragorn turned to the representatives. "My firends and companions", he answered in the same formal tone. "Arnor is a united Kingdom and everyone in its territory is under the protection of the law and the King's favour. I will not step back from my ancenstors' ways. Though the Kingdom is not a united territory, but has its regions, Arthedain, Cardolan, Rhudaur, Breeland and the Shire. I cannot govern everything alone and it won't be wise. As soon as we are united and we march together against the threat of the Iron Crown, the King's will is to restore, not to destroy and subdue. What Breeland asks is the exact way that the King has in his mind as the proper governance way, according to the laws of Arnor". "Then", the Breelander representative bowed as he spoke, "Breeland shall be a part of the Kingdom of Arnor. Hurray the High King of the Dunedain!". His last words were actually a cry, that everyone in the room repeated. His generals and soldiers, even Halbarad and Miriel, took off their swords to show them off to the King. "You did the right thing, my King", Miriel said after many of the voices and greetings ended. "As I come from the South, I can see many things that are hidden to many, even the Elfs. Despite that Gondor and Arnor were two parts of the same Kingdom, under Eledil's rule, many years have passed since then. For many centuries, Gondor and Arnor had separate routes in the time of Middle Earth and the peoples of the two Kingdoms were separate for long and their lives are different, so are their societies. The effort of restoring the image of a Reunited Kingdom is fair, but it cannot bring back what we lost in Numenor. And time has passed and we cannot have it back. So, my King did what is right and being the King of Arnor only doesn't mean that his glory and his past is written off Middle Earth". Aragorn nodded deeply, showing his gratitude to these words. Then he turned on his councellors, even the representatives from Bree. "I think that we need to inform the Kingdom of Gondor and the Prince of Dol Amroth and renew the alliance with them", he said. "What is your opinion?". "Definitely", said one of them, with nods of agreement from everyone else. "I feel that Gondor and Dol Amroth need to know that Arnor is restored, but nothing changes in our diplomatic stance with them". "Then, it shall be done", Aragorn said. The next morning, Aragorn left Halbarad in Morva Tarth as the head of the attack in the East against Mount Gram in order to go to Annuminas and get his sceptre. Hirvegil's messenger had brought a message from Elrond that should the kingdom be restored, then the Sceptre of Annuminas, previously under the protection of Elrond, shall be given back to the King - but it could be done only in Annuminas. Without further ado, Aragorn took his bodyguard and marched to Annuminas. But in order to avoid any possible Angmarim patrols, he went towards Cameth Brinn. And for good, as Dinemen told him that Drangu the Bloody was seen with a small army in the region, heading to Morva Tarth. "Tell me", Aragorn asked Miriel during a stop, "where is your husband? Shadowing Agandaur?". "Surely", Miriel said. "I suppose that by now he has made contact with Araphor. Bree tried to send Andy north to support your cousin, however Agandaur and the armies nearby caught them and hit the army hardly. Andy gave his life, but Barliman and his Gatekeepers managed to evade the battle and retreat. However, Araphor reports that Agandaur's army is broken and he is about to sally out and destroy him once and for all". "I wish him good luck", Aragorn said. "You said that Barliman's Gatekeepers are with him?". "Yes", Miriel answered. "And Bilbo tried to break the blockade around Annuminas. Despite that he had casualties, he managed to get in with Hirvegil". "Bilbo has tried the most", Aragorn said. "He's the most experienced of the Breelanders in war, following his expedition to Erebor alongside Thorin Oakenshield". "Surely", Miriel said. "But we need to be careful, as Agandaur now knows who is confronting him. The fight will still be tough". Aragorn simply nodded.
I wish I knew about this channel sooner. I would have suggested switching Palladin with another general with better acumen in Michel Delving. Would have made more of a profit:
You are still green on the map because the game devs decided not to make people run batch files and stuff in the game. So you will be called the ND for the game and will have green on the map.
Same with the Reunited Kingdom. I recall it turning to a purple-blue hue, as the banner colors change but not the map or faction name. It’s a small price to pay for the hard work they put into scripting the two kingdom options for ND
Unfortunately no batch file, the team for DaC is adamant in having everything ingame options only and thus no color change possible (afaik). Can be relatively easily made I suppose. Also revisit your settlements you got low taxrate on annuminas for no reason and risk getting bad admin traits from it (afaik)
You should have done a long withdraw two times I think. I think you need to make your archer lines longer. I don't know for sure, but if they are too deep they do the arching shot????
AI sallying out when you shot them with arrows is not new, mordor and isengard did it all the time with old settlements. Thats why you allways guard your archers
How can I modify the Arnor logo? I already conquered Fornost and Annumidas, I already restored the last one, now I don't know what to do, great series, thank you and I await your response ;) min 22:41
When you defend at Annuminas, I would recommend making a kill box with your infantry at the entrance to the town square and put your archers behind your infantry on the ground. I've noticed that archers on the wall don't shoot correctly and tend to arc shot at enemies on the bridge.
I gotta be honest...This is sort of dumb to me lol So in V5 you're Arnor but you don't even have Arnor's colors and you're not called Arnor...I'l take running a batch file anytime over this...
@@Ligizd I guess because of no batch file thing they really had no choice which kinda sucks- I think the ultimate change would be a version that looks like AGO and added to that unit cards that look like armored Arnorian infantry. This would truly be the cream of the crop. It always slightly annoyed me that even armored etc and even when on battle map they will look amazing…unit cards still look like rangers. If they were made to look like Arnor’s infantry in the roaster and UI that would absolutely be the best- that was always my one suggest anyway but again I don’t know what is and isn’t possible 🤷♂️
