Divide and Conquer v6/5.2 Beta: Gondor [1] The Trebuchet 

Shaders from where, Reshade or your editing software ?

link to download shader pls?

just an opinion. i don't like the shader effects. :) too bright also

@@IceniTotalWar I used a reshade preset. I'm thinking I'll return to vanilla

Always worth trying out something new, i only saw your post after watching the video and then went back and looked for differences like the UI being dimmed, for me once i noticed it wasn't too bad, maybe just needs tweaking a little.@@Augimund

I've found on some situations the AI does wait a couple of turns and doesn't auto attack, so you do lose men to attrition, and they have a full stack each turn, not always viable. Depends on your self rules really, you can rush minas ithil and hold there, the black gate doubtful but not impossible, at that point its a matter of what you want the experience to be as.

@aonirsplayground6224 it's about finding the balance with your garrison. Once you get the right balance the AI will always attack thinking it will win, but you easily crush the trash spam

Just make sure to keep tabs on the South. You can lose Pelargir if you don't make sure to keep an adequate garrison there, and that's a big blow to your economy.

I prefer a different tactic. hold everything at once with minimal garrison. Minas Tirith, West, East, fort south of pelennor, two forts in ithilien, fort north of minas tirith. get a ship close by so you can ferry units across anduin. Because your defences are all small, ai thinks you're weak and attacks frequently with smaller stacks than it would use otherwise. But you can reinforce each siege from 5 different spots, after battle shifting units around so the ones without movement get into sieged province while those who stayed there go to forts. It means you are not under any risk of prolonged siege, any location is immediately reinforced by full stack, and you maintain 30+ units basically for free. It holds easily for first 30 turns and by that time all money saved from your army being dirt cheap kickstarts your economy so you can easily double the forces and push out.

Yes, but Harad and Umbar will also attack very soon from the South. I managed to hold off Mordor at Osgiliath and Cair Andros, but the Haradrim and Umbarans invaded me with dozens of full-strength armies while all my forces were in the Northeast lol.

was so pissed and relieved when I found that out, saved me so much time and money a couple years ago

its pretty obvious, it's medieval 2 thats just the limitation also queues are unprofessional. dont do them

​@@krekk2751Imagine someone going "I'm a professional medieval 2 player 😎 I don't do ******"

@@mort2034 no one asked you for your opinion, whatever stuff you're saying causes a headache to everyone around you. Don't ever talk, for the love of god.

​@@krekk2751elaborate?

Jondor*

Also the shaders look bad IMO.

What's an EOP?

One thing i like to do is to add population to for example Annúminas, let's say 1000. And then remove from regions like the shire or Bree since they are overpopulated. Doesn't break immersion for me atleast, it's like you leader forceably resetteling your subjects.

@@HelpMePleaseOhGodHelpMe Soldiers costing population, and being able to repopulate other cities, will always be something I will dearly miss in this game.

I recall that being basically impossible since v4. Besides, the place has been nerfed so much, it's not worth the extra border

@@jeromejerome9395 well it’s not additional Border it’s moving your frontline forward. It has gold mines, and it’s a castle.

@@thefifthhobbit2092very true. If anything you can sell it for an alliance and some money from Enedwaith. I like to gift it to Rohan and then cheat in a peasant unit to hold it while they get forces over there. Just to add some buffer and time, I tend to leave a few units nearby as well for RP and help defend the buffer while the culture changes. Playing either lothlorien or Gondor I like to help Rohan out as best I can. Mostly infantry helping their mostly cavalry compositions is extremely satisfying.

@@naturalbornpatriot6369 mate this is post V5 Rohan is a top tier faction, Isengard rushes through Enedwaith early. Typically Rohan takes 2 settlements from Isengard early and box then in slowly grabbing more Enedwaith struggles and then thrives, besides it’s ancient Gondorian land why give it to Rohan

@@thefifthhobbit2092flavor, buffer, and RP that’s why. Numenorean colonies but yeah. I just enjoy fighting battles with allied armies

Oh I had no problem with that haha 🤣

Make sense for the gameplay prospective, but if you play with houserules and lore oriented i think it's better to not change the capital. But good suggestion, I will use it ahahhah

Pretty sure he does this relatively early in the video haha

For my knowledge, they removed the slowing campaign movement range for artillery

Very much, i played a lot of DaC.6 campaigns Long objective ( 3 dwarven factions, ar adunaim, high elves, rohan) the dwarven faction are very underwhelming, smaller populations, and their lack of cav, just makes long campaign grinds, genuinely not fun ( not being able to silence the most basic of archers with cavalry from time to time, or being able to chase routing units. i think the solution would be to rework the merc pools, more variability and replensihment,more mercenary units like in the MoS submod.. As for artillary, you don't get that feeling "powerful" that you got in med 2, where seeing a ballista or a catapult in the army made you reconsider attacking, in its current state i feel artillary is just there to trigger AI script to get down the hill and attack, otherwise, even basic archers get on average twice as many kills as my catapults or ballistas. if the dwarves going to be that limited, i think their artillary should be better than other artillary in the game i.e ( special types of ammunition, better accuracy ? or perhaps unique artillary specific to the dwarves ( i think that'd be very lore friendly)

I believe artillery have normal infantry campaign movement speed now (unless they reverted it). Also ballistas are fantastic for defending bridges and settlements. Have infantry on either side of the gate/bridge, giving your ballistas an unobstructed line of sight and they will decimate the clumped up enemies. Try the flaming shot too, it might work better.

I see the point of certain faction eg dwarves having better artillery, but for everyone else, it really should be limited to ease a siege, not used as "field artillery" as that's pretty much a movie trope until the age of gunpowder

Artillery can have a lot of utility in dictating the terms of engagement. Enemy refuses to move off their hill? Shoot at them with arty for a while. It's also incredibly useful when the battle is over a choke point. Just find the largest blob and have at it.

I literally just came from his last Noldor video !

@@IceniTotalWar i'm loving that campaign

​@@thatdacguy3282 same

he's using some new shaders, let him know in the pinned comment if you like/dislike them .

That's the AGO Sub mod campaign map, in the DAC launcher choose 1st option Alternate strategy textures.

@@IceniTotalWar I chose to start game without launcher to show up, is there a way to open it through game files?

Try launching the game and then ticking the box next to where if says Use strategy alternative strategy map and see if that works with a save game. Also just mousing over the boxes in DAC launcher should tell you what it does. @@boopcorn8747

​@@boopcorn8747edit the launcher config file

Maby when all old dwarf holds are restored to a certain level with a specifik building requirement or something. Gundabad and moria factions dead. Idk really but something to make the map pretty when you've already kinda won

Yes, the textures I am using are from AGO and they are an optional install included in the files.

he was trying out some new shaders. Check his pinned comment.

@@IceniTotalWar i wrote after 5 min

They are very limited in number though. Its just to mark progression so they feel more like a growing faction as normal empires would growing in technology as they incorporate the ideas of others that they have conquered

​@@bigthoughts2644 The AI dosnt have such restrictions. So maybe he is complaining about that.

He isnt part of the modding team