Hello,
Was brainstorming Isengard and came up with 3 ideas:
1. have standard orcish stats but interchange names and graphics betweeen men and orcs. Either some lines are mannish and some orcish or some parts of some lines are varaied. Confusing and difficult.
2. Have both mannish and orcish units available. IMHO too much.
3. Have mannish units come through buildings. Give them a wonder in the 4th age (Treaty with Dunlendings) that puts an otherwise unattainable building in every city on the continent. This building gives a dunlending every 7 (or so) turns.
I personally like 3. it helps with balancing out the lack of settlers (Only through buildings) and relatively small empire and production. throughout the 1st to 3rd eras Isengard should concentrate solely on research, and then when it gets to the 4th era can bloom. will require significany balancing, but might be workable.
Re: barbarians. we have barbarian horsemen in civ3 that pop up nowhere near a horse resource. don't be too worried about having barbarian wolves.
RRnut
Was brainstorming Isengard and came up with 3 ideas:
1. have standard orcish stats but interchange names and graphics betweeen men and orcs. Either some lines are mannish and some orcish or some parts of some lines are varaied. Confusing and difficult.
2. Have both mannish and orcish units available. IMHO too much.
3. Have mannish units come through buildings. Give them a wonder in the 4th age (Treaty with Dunlendings) that puts an otherwise unattainable building in every city on the continent. This building gives a dunlending every 7 (or so) turns.
I personally like 3. it helps with balancing out the lack of settlers (Only through buildings) and relatively small empire and production. throughout the 1st to 3rd eras Isengard should concentrate solely on research, and then when it gets to the 4th era can bloom. will require significany balancing, but might be workable.
Re: barbarians. we have barbarian horsemen in civ3 that pop up nowhere near a horse resource. don't be too worried about having barbarian wolves.
RRnut