Divide and Conquer v5Mordor Faction Overview 

man his intro always put a smile on my face, it's magical

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They don't play mordor because everything is in your favor and with any skill you will bulldoze any faction. Your allies are strong. You are strong and your enemies are weakened. You have only two stumbling blocks. Isengard loses or khand recants evil.

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@trianqren127 they have quality troops from the gate what you on about.

@bigthoughts2644 then that settles it any faction except wild men are not worth playing.

The infighting is used because the place where that special ability stems from is the byzantine emperor in the kingdoms crusades campaign. So just a limitation amongst the game mechanics.

Only to an extent, 30 armor before Blacksmith upgrades still means like 17 armor after armor piercing comes into play and there are very few units with 17+ armor piercing damage, melee or missile so even when hit from the back, thus negating both defense skill and shield, it's still pretty hard to damage him, let alone kill him. Artillery can indeed make short work of his bodyguard units if it lands a direct hit, but artillery killing Sauron himself? Sauron has so many hit points that it will require so many artillery hits to actually hit Sauron in order to kill him, which considering artillery's very low accuracy, is basically never going to happen. I mean yes, those are by far the best ways of actually killing Sauron but to say Sauron is vulnerable to these things is a bit of a stretch... There's only 1 thing Sauron is truly vulnerable to and that's the King of the Dead because he simply can't die, literally can't, do eventually(if battle timer is turned off) he will kill Sauron and his entire bodyguard, though it will probably take hours running at x6 speed for such a battle to end... I mean I guess he's also technically vulnerable to like Ice Troll/Mumakil charges and stuff but he and his bodyguard are 1 of the very few units who aren't guaranteed to instantly die to those things, so yeah...

@@Owlr4iderartillery will kill anything no matter the hitpoints in one hit. Its a game mechanic that is hardcoded.

Gothmog has that tier 3 spear unit

Totally agree! Mordor needs some more flavor and whatnot, being the primary evil faction and all that... Merging with Dol Guldur is perfect as it's fully lore accurate and Sauron should have control over all the Nazgul... The only gripe I have is that in DaC when other factions have a similar decision like the 2 you mentioned there's a choice involved, so the question is what should be the alternative to annexing Dol Guldur, or should Mordor's case be unique in that there is no choice. I don't think a choice is needed but considering Dunedain can divert off of its lore friendly path and resurrect Anor instead of the Reunited Kingdom than Mordor probably deserves the same treatment with an alternative off lore scenario. Maybe merging with Harad and/or Rhun instead as a way of basically removing their autonomy and merge them into his(Sauron's) own armies. Probably not Khand as they have their own script relating to Mordor so it makes no sense for Mordor to have a conflicting script with Khand. Either way this script will actually make a Mordor campaign more fun in that you have an easy avenue to focus on something other than Gondor(which gets old after you do it a few times) and actually allow for a more challenging playthrough of ignoring Gondor outright at the start in order to let them build up to their full potential while you focus on the areas around Dol Guldur/Harad/Rhun(based on the above script) and fight the good factions around those areas. This would be perfect for a full Total War playthrough which is so thematic for Sauron considering that was his ultimate goal, which he would have succeeded in had Frodo not destroyed the One Ring.

It should work automatically now

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You can enable that setting through the launcher options. It was added alongside the installer when the mod was released on Moddb.

Not certain but in case no one else responds I have a vague memory somewhere telling me that Khamul does keep the shadowknights and they kick ass

@@Wubbs64 I am currently playing a Dol Guldur-campaign and I feel like Khamûl and his bodyguard killed as many enemies as all of my other units combined. He conquered 4 settlements all on his own and I'm still only in the early stages.

No, Khamul will have temple knights and other two will have wardens and marksmen

In the Elven Union script it specifically mentions the generals will not retain their unique bodyguards, so I assume it's the same for the Nazgul.

You get ancantar and khand will likely send one of the blue Wizard stacks your way. Can bei pretty Dangerous, id recommend having a füll Stack in your eastern Most settlements. After the two Wizard are defeated khand is usually pretty easy.

@@marlonheiss5704 cheers

Sauron should've thought of that smh

Wish modders took the note out of tabletop as some players have really vivid color schemes for their armies. Instead of all that brown/red/black nitty gritty >.>.

Apologies, the Mordor landscape is quite dark and the units blend in. I thought it was fitting to show them on their home turf but I can see that it inhibits the viewing experience.

@@Sanvone I think that the basis for modders and their units are the Jackson's movies, which have this "nitty gritty" aesthetic. I can't say I dislike it, I just can't imagine some tabletop/warhammeresque color schemes represented in the LoTR universe.

He's your starting diplomat. Spawns next to the Black Gate at turn 1

@@AngeloEngilis shame, as a fan of bfme 2, I was hoping to play with him doesnt he duel Aragorn in the books.

@@dnaseb9214 if he doesn't, he should've. RotK is the one book I haven't read yet so I'm unsure lol Also, bfme easily one of my favorite games of all time, you sir have class lol

​@@dnaseb9214He doesn't duel Aragorn, Aragorn looks at him sternly and he gets scared and runs back into Mordor

@@sukitron5415 they do duel in the games, that's the cannon version for me

That's true of it's industry, but Mordor was still a Medieval civilisation and the foundation of it's might was it's agriculture. Immense, slave-toiled farms stretching right across eastern half of Sauron's realm without which his entire operation would starve. I'm not against the wealth of Nurn being better represented. Cirith Ungol is a strongpoint, but not a money-maker.