Divide and Conquer v5 Dol Guldur Overview 

Fun Fact: You can send Khamûl on his own to attack Rhosgobel on turn 1. During the End Turn the defenders sally out and this battle is quite winable. There are only three units and the only dangerous one is the generals bodyguard, but cycle-charging does the trick. I even managed to repeat this and take Duinburg on turn 2 and even Beorns Hall on turn 7, killing Beorn in the process. Khamûls Bodyguard is VERY powerful.

Dol Guldur is 1 of few orc factions that have some excitement in their roster. Takes a while to get to the good stuff, but fielding an army with trolls, spiders, upper tier infantry, Shadow knights, you can demolish an enemy army.

One fun thing to do with Mirkwood Goblins: in river battles put them to block the crossing -> they hide so enemy won't shoot them until they are able to see them, and usually then it's too late and you can let the missiles fly.

Goblin Stalkers have spears as their secondary and have pretty decent Attack for a spear unit, so they make a very good anti-cav unit despite their low-ish Defense if they can jump on cav that isn't charging at them.

Love these roster analysis! Keep it up!

A comment on the lack of spears. The forest is an inherent defense against cavalry. Just for a lore blurb. Fighting in the forest is similar to fighting on a ship. Short weapons, shock tactics from ambush/boarding actions, cavalry don't work well, and prior to cannons the distance at which you can engage the enemy is quite short.

Good job on the videos Vids my man. Keep ‘em coming, and thanks for keeping the tradition alive :)

Poor Orcs Maulers have been forgotten...

Dol Guldur need a script inspired by Shadow of War... With the option to rebel against Sauron. It might not be the most lore friendly idea but it would be pretty cool.

I find Dol Guldur to be an incredibly powerful faction for its campaign requirements, as in the faction is well suited to accomplish its stated campaign goals. As you said you have pretty quick access to all your top tier troops which makes dealing with all the doom stacks of the factions you're killing: Anduin Vale, Wood Elves and Lothlorien, much more manageable. However, it's a weak roster overall if you compare it to other factions, including other evil factions. Which means that you need to play very aggressively and take advantage of your very powerful early game and kill said 3 factions very early on before they get to build up to their best units, which yours won't really be able to compete with. I mean yes good players won't really have too many issues, I'm talking about the average player who isn't particularly skilled at the battles. Also why is Dol Guldur classified as a ranged focused faction? Other than having poisoned arrows their archers are nothing special and are actually the weakest part of their roster... In fact there's 1 archer unit that I have a lot of issues with, and that's Khamul's Shadow Rangers. It's supposed to be this late game elite archer unit, and your stake holder at that, yet its stats are awfully mediocre, around tier 2 strength of most factions. And this is your tier 3/4 unit in a faction that supposedly specializes in archery! It's also odd that its stats are so weak considering the other 2 elite units in the roster from the other arms of the army: Khamul's Shadowknights and the Castellans of Dol Guldur, both of which have very respectable stats and while still not top tier or anything(when compared to other factions' elites), not even in the top 10, their stats are still powerful enough to seem like proper elite units. Consider elite units from other factions like say Mordor and their Temple units, all 3: infantry, cavalry and archer, units have pretty similar stats and certainly the same level of quality. This is what I expected Khamul's Shadow Rangers to have but they simply fall short. So I'd change the description to a well rounded faction with some extras(trolls and spiders) rather than a ranged focus faction, as they really aren't such, not when compared to other proper ranged focus factions like Dale or the Wood Elves.

I'm still hoping for both more unique guilds for the evil factions and morgul sorcery plate units from the dev team. (see 1/2) (1)The first is mostly to help distinguish the different playstyles and make the evil factions feel like an actual genuine military within the umbrella of evil. Otherwise it just copy and paste Persian tactics and that can get quickly dull regardless of aesthetic. So maybe make a spy raven haven for Isengard, an overseer camp for Angmar, an "alchemy" poison guild for Dol Guldur, Goblin breeding pit/food guild for Moria, maybe an assassin's guild for Mordor (to keep order and fear you know...actually that might be more Angmar style), and finally maybe a merchant guild for the Easterlings. I believe this will at least spice things up thematically without going into overpowered territory. It is also very viable with the base code already having them. I hope the art direction doesn't leave me or anyone disappointed though. (2) I want to see some units "blessed" with morgul runes as a visual armor upgrade. I understand this may in the end be a waste of time as it is purely cosmetic, but i believe it will definitely be strong point in certain campaigns. For the problem we have with most orc armies is that they are far too similar since all they receive is a coat of chainmail and maybe a gauntlet or helm here and there. Meanwhile you have descriptions like black plate or morgul sorcery weapons and all you see are (slightly better)snaga that no longer wear furs as a tier 3 infantry or cavalry. While of course faction specific units are already amazing...how cool would it be (and terrifying for an opposing player) that your opponent would HAVE to choose his targets in your army rather than ignoring the garbage tide that 3 of his units will mop up in short order. On the other hand i can see the argument of making your glass cannon units more incognito....

Dol Guldur battle map had a issue with steep walls surrounding it that prevented reinforcements from entering and prevented attacking armies from retreating. Has that been fixed? Thanks!

Hi Augimond, do the trolls get a visual armour upgrade like the previous version? I recall Galu once said they would recycle the model from Isengard where the trolls would get an armour upgrade it was visually different on the field. If I remember they would get a large sword that the uruks use, a shield and armour?

Forget how many factions begin with the letter D

I played version 4.5, now i installed v5 and apllied the large adress aware, but when i open the the bat file alaways says LARGE ADRESS AWARE NOT BEEN APPLIED. i did exactly the same thing on 4.5 version and works fine, dont know how to solve the problem.

I think that Gimli bodyguard also throws axes.

The way this man pronounces Dol Guldur and Mordor really grinds my gears

I would love to see a Tier 3 Cav. Something like Orks on Spiders 😊

I think Dol Guldur is an underrated faction but this is coming from someone who thinks it’s fun to play Goblins so

My main problem is that the evil factions are in my eyes too strong. Playing as them feels too easy and playing against them often is a slog.

I'm happy that someone is doing the overviews again but please work on ur pronounciation it's tearing my ears apart :( Other than that nice video :>