DaC V5 - Remnants of Angmar 3: Rivendell Rave 

plus angmar's finicail pwoer comes from a lot of dunedain settlements having great roads already and your enemies have a lot of wealthy settlements to take

@@zachbova9935 Having more settlements always trumps having a few extra buildings in fewer settlements since you have to actually have the time and money to build them. Obviously, if the whole map is taken then certain factions are going to have huge advantages but by that point it doesn't really matter.

@@epmtotalwar I was thinking more or less annuminas once it has the house built and its mines, Deadmans dike with its roads and mines, ost sul with them starting odd great roads and bree with it's trade going to give you a fat stack of cash in a small cluster. that 4 settlement zone once built up will be fat stacks of money

@@epmtotalwar also side note, I am watching the Ered Luin campaign and you just read off the Carn Dum lost notification after taking it

I feel like angmar was the test child for the dev that just got forgotten about

Agreed, it works as an AI faction though because they have the money and bankruptcy protection to spam troops. As the player, if you try to play like that you'll end up in significant trouble. Saying that I think it is fine. There are many loose ends it appears with the coding, seems like a test faction that got abandoned.

Appreciate it mate, glad you are enjoying the campaign. If you're new to the channel there are plenty of other campaigns to get stuck into... and many more to come!

Elrond resorted to his last great weapon to sway Angmar... music!

In the really old days ME2 basic game had a feature that generals with a low loyalty factor had a chance to go rebel and take the army or settlement with him. I once had an heir with a full stack turn rebel at exactly the wrong time and set me back twenty turns. But after the upgrade to Gold version no full stacks turned; usually tiny stacks like a lone ballista might turn once or twice. The feature seemed to disappear in the mods. Maybe it’s back with the increased focus on rebellion of newly conquered settlements.

@@krichardj Blarint explained in the video. Its a bug where the authority doesn't transfer to the heir if they aren't of age when the faction leader dies. So Aragorn died and his son is not yet of age so the faction is no longer operating with rebellion protection. What is unknown is whether that 10 authority will kick in when the son comes of age or whether ND will have to deal with it the entire campaign. Also, damn, back in the day that was rough. Just casually losing an entire army 😮‍💨

I understand this. My point is certain units should have another upgrade. When advanced blacksmith was removed which gave an additional 3 tiers at the price of 1 those units lost the ability to upgrade to even a standard amount. I'm saying that those units who should by rights be able to have a third tier of upgrade (gold) since they have very low armour stats should be able to get it. I get how it works, I just disagree with some of the decisions made after the advanced blacksmith removal.

@@epmtotalwar i gotcha, yeah makes lower tier units less viable. Which was the whole idea to limit doom stacking and keep lower tier units aplenty

I'll have to have a listen, it hasn't clicked with me and I have played my fair share of EL.

@@epmtotalwar I used to always listen to the soundtrack back in the day (like 2016 something) as background music while gaming. That sounds heavily like one of their tracks. Which is neat. They're really good.

Is there any way to prevent the AI from going passive

I'm ok with there not being a choice. Maybe a Rhudaur rebellion that sides with the Dunedain? It's a stretch.

@@thatoneawkwardfriend919 go back to V4.6

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