Hello again!
Just wanted to say that I´ve downloaded this new mod (I played the old alot) and am playing it right now.
So far I must say its great!
Its week 16 and the fellowship is outside Moria trying to get pass the balrog.
It took some time forming the group when they met up outside Rivendell and then wandered south. The three nazgul that were searching the Shire were killed by a combined force of rangers from Arnor and Aragorn.
Legolas and Sam killed some spiders and orcs on the way south and also Gimli was involved in combat. He was badly injured and slowed down the whole party when he needed to rest.
Things look grim in Gondor. The first turns I defended Osgilath and managed to kill 1 or 2 more nazguls.
Raiding cave trolls in the west also had to be dealt with.
The following weeks alot of Mordor forces gathered outside Minas Tirith and I had to leave Osgillath with all forces except a token defender of 1 pikemen.
We repelled hordes of trolls and ologhai storming the mighty walls of Minas Tirith but Osgiliath fell to a surprise attack of 2 units of uruk-hais from Mordor.
The pikemen killed the first uruk but was slain by the next.
Now Osgiliath belongs to the dark forces just as in the books.
These are some suggestions or thoughts that I have come up with so far:
1) At one occasion Faramir was togather with a unit of archers in a forest south of Minas Tirith when a unit of uruks attacked. Faramir has the best def value of 9 compared to 3 of the archers. Still the archers were selected for defense by the AI and were killed by the uruks. How come? Is it because Faramir is considered a king unit?
2) The watcher was too easy to kill by bombardment from Gandalf and Legolas. I suggest that you give the watcher a defense of 15 to 20 wich means it cant be killed too easy and the fellowship will probably choose just to pass it as in the books. Still keep it immobile and let it harass the party with bombardment (its arms)
3) What is it with the balrog in Moria? It seems that the bombardment from both Gandalf and Legolas have no effect at all. Was this intended?
Is it because of a building inside Moria?
4) I like how you diminished the power and spawn rate of the siege machines in Minas Tirith. Now lets just see if I manage to hold the city until help arrive