[gladestrider]

Interesting discussion. A big thanks to whoever bumped it up.

For what it's worth, I did this:

(1) Took the ME map that was announced on this forum Last month.

(2) Modded the map to support two players: Gondor/Iron Hills/Rivendell and Mordor/Isengard/North Mirkwood. I had originally planned to do a 6-player mod with those 6 nations, but I play mostly SP so I haven't been motivated.

I have a handful (not all) of the characters assigned to various starting points. Shelob is in her spot, as is Treebeard. I also put in Smaug and the Balrog, just for fun. Hmm, The Watcher in the Lake (at the back door to Moria) is there, plus the Necromancers in Dol-Guldor (I think that's what it's called).

(3) I modded the nations of Man and Ermor to Gondor and Mordor (respectively), rebuilt their recruitable unit lists to include elves, dwarves, and men for Gondor and Uruk-hai, Orcs (and wargs), and Trolls for Mordor. All of the units are existing units that have been modded, as opposed to units with new graphics (I didn't want to bother with artwork yet.)

I intended to make Sauron the creature (Moloch? I can't remember) that looks like a big flame and mod it to make it immobile, but I haven't gotten around to it yet.

The Ringwraiths are all granted via the map file--they are not recruitable, but they are immortal. Frankly, they're turning out to be dirty bastards, so some tuning is in order there.

Note: Nothing is more refreshing that capturing a province with an army of hobbits.

The units need a lot of tuning, but it's moving along. If anyone ever does any artwork (even if it's just banners), I would appreciate it if they'd share.

Please keep the ideas flowing!

PS. JK or K, I would really like a way to override the #poptype recruiting lists for a province. In other words, I'd like to clear out the #poptype list and build my own, so I can put Ents in Fanghorn, Elves in Lorien, Rohirrim in Rohan, etc., like this:

#clearpoptype
#addreccom "Goblin Warg Chief"
#addrecunit "Goblin Warg Rider"
#addrecunit "Goblin Arrow Fodder"

As it is, the "fortress recruit list" for each nation is huge and I have to exercise discipline to not recruit them where they shouldn't be (Captains of Gondor in the Iron Hills, Elves in Gondor, Uruk-Hai in Mirkwood, etc.)

gs