Divide & Conquer (V4): Faction Overview - Dale 

*3 AM* Ok, I SHOULD sleep. *Dale faction overview: Dale* Ok I will do that later

"You won't be taking Erebor or Thranduil's halls on turn 1." Sounds like something a challenge seeker would try to do.

I have a lot of respect for the early Dale units. The Dalesmen (now northern militia) have protected my flanks with timely charges time and time again. The javelin unit has the very nice perk of attracting enemy fire away from your archers. The Gadrauths are so good at holding the line against Rhûn's trash that it's overkill, Dalian Swordsmen, especially with a few armour upgrades, are all you really need. The Longbowmen far outrange any other archer you will encounter for atleast 100 turns. Last but not least, the Dale Cavalry has won me maaaaany battles with their charges, upgrading their armour is absolutely worth it.

John Rhys-Davies has quite the rising carreer under his belt. From the villain in Robot in the Family to Gimli to faction leader in DaC.

From the two campaigns I've played in 4.5 (one before, one after the hotfix), Dale is definitely not a 1 in difficulty. You have no money, getting anywhere takes forever, and all settlements around you are tiny. Erebor and Dorwinion do sod all against Rhûn, same goes for the Woodland Realm against Dol Guldur. The lack of money means you can't invest in both monetary and military buildings in you little villages, so you get overrun. The start is indeed very easy, but once you have two of the most powerful factions attacking you on a huge front, it's over.

For some time, I've been debating the worth of commissioning an artwork of Smaug with Hank Hills face saying "Dale, you went too far this time! I'm gonna kick your ass!"

Probably my favourite faction. In my games as Dale, Erebor never did anything against Rhun, and you had to rush south to help Dorwinion before it collapsed. Always a good idea to prioritise Burh Gram (the castle) over the villages, since if Erebor takes Gram you have to rely entirely on Dale and Lake-town for quality reinforcements.

I quite like the readings, you have a great voice for it

Men of dale it is time! :)

I saw that the lake town pikemen didn't have the "Requires Esgaroth" text anymore. I really, really hope that that isn't a misprint, because they really feel essential for post barracks event Dalian armies, and the limited number really hampers your ability to deal with Rhuns heavy infantry. Barding Hird are nice, but Laketown pikemen have always felt like THE Dale infantry to me at least.

I also really liked the last Nazgule story it was quite enjoyable. I like how you have given Lagoren so much character and how you have made it realistic for the world of middle earth. I all ways feel bad for the people who end up as the Nazgule and now I don't see them as difficult mindless henchmen as I play dac. Can't wait for the next story. :)

Love the Dale! Also loving the intros, you do them very well. It's one of the reasons I adore the Laketown Guard video you did with Invicta.

Ah yes, one of my favorite factions. The Barding Hird are one of my all-time favorite units: defensive enough to hold the line, but all the offensive punch of a strike infantry. One time I was going up a Mordor army led by a Nazgul, the Nazgul got hung up a bit on terrain and I just walked a Barding Hird unit into them and watched them start swinging those axes - it was a glorious massacre! I also love the unique flavor of the elite armor-piercing archers, since even the elves don't really have that.

You'll be getting me playing this again in time, Galu. Good video, good reading, really like the changes to Dale.

The AA roster looks absolutely amazing. Hyped for next week's episode. I think they'll be the first faction I will play as once V4 is available.

Heck yeah, one of my favorite factions

Good video as always, Galu. I'm liking the selected quotes at the start of each video, and, suppose I should be nice and not spoil this part at the end. The revamped Ar-Adunaim are looking utterly beautiful!

You have done a very good job. I really like the units and the info.

Can't wait for v4! Your mod has added a few hundred extra hours of gameplay to my M2TW steam play time, amazing work

Thanks so much Galu, been looking for an easy starter faction for your mod because I seriously wanna get good and start playing well, gonna give Dale a go tomorrow

Nice video! I had never been interested in Dale as a faction before but now I really want to try them!

I'm glad to see this video is up now. 😊

Thank you, again. Excellent work by all.

Finally, Dale.

How about for classifying unit tiers you could use: Militia Main line/Main stream Professional Elite Uber/Special

Wow those New AA units look so amazing i might have to start with them right away!

Will V4 have more music? The songs you guys have dug up are amazing!

I think Dale is pretty badass with all these archer units that double as melee units! I love it.

Love the armor/uniforms of the units! They look a little bit rag-tag, which is suitable for a middle-men/northmen-nation, but they still have some coat of arms and uniformity which give them a sort of men-at-arms look

I really like Dale, so I'm thankfull for a good oerview. At a point I hope that Enedwaith soon gets a overview!

I like Dale´s units quite a lot.

I really enjoyed that:)

i love me some heavy inf i cant wait the armors look amazing

I quite like that Bain and Gimli are both John Rhys Davies!

Biarn always looked like Legolas. With Bain and Biarn looking like Gimili and Legolas, kinda appropriate summary for Dale. Men with elvish and dwarvish influenced military

I have a tip for the new faction. Reunited Rhovanion. Like a Harad Black Serpent Clan from Faenobel, there in Rhovanion can be some city where is some old Rhovanion clan who dream about old realm. Nice about it, is that this faction can be like Ar Adunaim or Khand. Somewhere about turn 60. there can be choice between good and evil. Dark influence of Sauron and Dol Guldurs whitchery from the forrest can impact their leathers dreaming only about new Rhovanion empire and revenge of easterlings! I see them like barbaric faction from the start and the choice impact their roster. Evil takes some Guldur/Mordor/Easterling units. Good some Dalian/Dorwinion or Gondor (old alliance) units. - In evil option, this can make all good faction campaigns around much harder - in good option, this slows Rhun expansion like always do. PS: When you can ressurect Ar Adunaim, Angmar and so, you can ressurect Rhovanion, or something like New Rhovanion. You have new nice feature and it is lorewise a bit.

One my favourites, nice ;) Also its Variags at the end Edit : well i was wrong, dangit

Excellent. Strange Dale never got a anti-dragon unit ? fire proof armour and black harpoon ballista ?

Thank you for another entertaining FO. I have a suggestion: please add an information to certain green book info text - river crossings. There are few crossing over the big rivers (the Anduin, Celduin, Harnen and Greyflood i think) that are actually see. It's impossible to tell where those fords are unless you have a unit/agent standing near. It would be nice to at least state how many crossings there are and where they are (at least approximately). Looking forward to V4! :D

I love the Aihwothiuda design

Galu, you could have mentioned you have voiced video on Invicta channel (about Lake town Guard), it is great :)

One of my favorite nations to play as. I wouldn't say it is a 1 difficulty, if you compare them with evil Khand or good Ered Luin, but I don't know what changes in Mirkwood in the new version, since Dol Guldur usually attacks you pretty early. Also I'm very happy that the core units are not restricted to regions and I can't wait to play again with them in version four.

Hey Arachir when is V4 coming out? and will you make a written chanelog type of thing with the new things added compared to V3?

Palace of Groin , wonder what is going on in there...

This has my hopes up that Dale will be worth playing again, and hopefully Dorwinion does for a change hold against rhun. Their units are for the most part barely above snaga or goblin quality but they make for fun fodder style mass battles and the grinds can be so satisfying. lol

Papa galu pls releaseeee

Will Bree be able to train boats in V4? Love ur vids! Greetings from the Netherlands

Out of curiosity can you guys script in some stack spawns for when the actual war of the ring begins when sauron starts assaulting the West after gathering all his forces? Basically, a kind of crusade event

The thing with the general abilities is that in the base game general's bodyguards are not supposed to have any abilities as a unit. The devs did not expect to have custon bodyguards.

I really love design of Lake town Pikemen (upgraded), too bad only one unit has it (And Swordmasters are actually unchanged from the base TATW)

Are there any plans to add a new faction to replace the slot left by Lindon? I must admit I do not have many ideas as to what can be added. I guess you can take the LOTRO route and add a dourhands faction in like southern ered luin, or a clansmen or minhiriath faction, or a rhovanion faction to slow down rhuns inevitable late game stampede, or even a separate goblin faction hailing from goblin town (though that may congest the misty mountains). It is also perfectly fine leaving the number of factions as is. I am just curious! :)

It does puzzle me why the Gadraughts have kite shields but the Dale cavalry don't, considering the kite shield was primarily designed for horseback.

Will the rhun attack be added in v.5? That would definitely be a nice touch to have

Dale units may be middling stats wise, but they've got OP style.

Can't wait for v4. Any plans to include submods "Heirs of Elendil and Heirs of Fingolfin" ? I know you are against scripts but a lot of these story submods are sooo good.

do the pikemen bodyguard keep losing men until below 77 then replenish only to that amount?

19:26 In vanilla Third Age, they were Dalemen.

I understand that it would be tiresome and take a long time, but a reading of the lord of the rings with your own twist would make for a great audiobook.

Hope for ND

I kind of like the Ar adunaim heavy archer to have their shields on their backs instead of strapped.

I believe it's the Ar Adunaim

Why does the special building in dale give experience when i thought they were being removed.

Gotta give this faction a try. I barely use them. I am sort of turned off by the conquistador style helmets they wear. A slavic helmet might be more fitting

What are the primary and secondary attacks for cav? What do they represent?

What was wrong with the previous version's family portraits of Dale???

Sleep can wait

THe Aihwothiuda Horseguard doesn't have the typical cavalry acher formation in circle, is it intended? will it be changed before the release of version 4? Because it makes them way less weak to missile fire, and a bit less effective on the charge, it's to know if it will be a fully dedicated cav archer or really a mix between archer cav and shock cav, doing both correctly but not perfectly

17:10 , that was soooo slick, however, it would be nice if royal guardsmen were blue, rather out of place

RIP Chocolate bar shield

I feel like Dale should be more reliant on mercenaries, maybe give them a similar mechanic to Bree’s merc decision.

Could the turns per year be longer to make it more realistic in more areas?

Grasgard needs to be directly between Erebor and the Iron Hills protecting the trade route. Otherwise what’s is doing there to the South?

Is the newest version of D&C out yet?

I'm facing a freeze of the game with every faction on the end of turn 1. Sbdy already experienced it ?

I love the units voices from BFME in D&C but man... check out this mod for BFME and their new voices. They added the Immersion a new level! you should consider asking them if you can use them as well because man they are Movie-class good! /watch?v=fFMtoOAMd8Q BTW keep up your hard work, I will play D&C for the rest of my life until my last breath ! Its like my virtual room where I can remake relive revrite my favourite battles from Sillmarillion. Thank you!

I didn’t know where else to ask but what software do you use for your video editing? Thanks :)

I like that the militia have gotten that slavic twist but the regular roster is still so plain. Dont get me wrong, i love this mod. But would have love to have seen more diversity in appearance between northmen factions. Example "The Men of Dale" represent the Novgorod republic, the great north-eastern trade hub. Or even the later stage kievan rus. Possibly even giving the dorwinions a byzantine look to them. Great work you guys are doing though.

likely a silly question, but when cavalry has "attack 5, charge 5" and in the text it says "secondary attack 4" what is the difference between attack and secondary attack?

I don't think I've ever seen the Dwarves and Rhun actually fight.

Why is Bard not included in the family tree/not the faction leader? Did he not used to be the faction leader in previous versions?

How does "inspires nearby troops work"? Does it give them morale boost or combat bonus?

Will there be a new mumakill model in DaC v4?

Is it me or does King Bain look like a young John Rhys-Davies?

What are the differences between the campaign difficulty settings?

Oh man looks like my boi's at the end their traded in their chocolate bar shields for roman-esque shields?

Do the Dalian Longbowmen have an above average range, as the name seems to suggest?

waiting 4 ver 4 ;_; xoxo

all this does is make me want to play D&C again. it's a cycle watch a galu vid and want to play again however many hours i've put in.

MODDING: Can forts being modified to give income like a settlement?

Galu was saying that the armour of the lake town pikemen was from the films, and while the chest piece certainly is I can't get past that helmet. The helm worn in "the hobbit" a pointed design modeled after eastern Europe, while the one they wear in this mod is a conquistador design. Quite out of place and a personal eyesore... aside from that I love the roster (just need something to winge about you know)

Has anyone played passive campaign? What i mean is to make you faction strong in economy occupy plus minus 5 settlements and all the rest game play would be to support "allied factions" around you so you dont have any borders with enemies for easy play and money making. All you do its just one army run in to enemies occupy their settlements and give them to allies to expand and progress faster for your own protection and for enemy defeat. After you safe and your neighbours big enough to handle their territories so enemies not coming even close to you, you can jump in to boat and land anywhere on opposite map for some nasty ambushes and support other factions this way. Also maybe you can support them with money?! It would be like with "no CPU movements shown" and opened map to see how allies progressing. If you play for good you can see how they crush Mordor or stuff like that. In fact you will see if they capable of doing it at all. Probably best factions for such style play would be lindon, ered luin, bree, kazadum, erebor, but in fact literally every fation could do that. would love to see someones video on youtube of such play, standard play becoming boring after while.

Maybe someone in the comments can help me, I'm currently playing a Lindon campaign and I'm stuck at level 63. Once I load into the game the cursor is stuck in a permanent loading animation disallowing me to click anything, can't even end turn. Any way to fix this problem without completely restarting the campaign? (already restarted the game/pc)

Yeet

5:33 burgh cowpiss? :P

"Halbeards"😂

It wouyld be really interesting to see a TOP Human Rangers comparison video. Just like you did with elf archers some time ago.

Someone will tell me how to play medieval and rome 1 on high-end pc and win 10? I just got 20 fps in both games and thats all.. :(

Hey, so Bard does not appear in DaC?

Is it a.a or a dwarf faction I honestly cant tell I mean I wanna say haraad but you already did them

How long until we get to play v4 ?