Hello again! I have slowly started work on the scenario and have good things to report. I modified Hagbart's map a bit (replaced starting locations, added deserts, changed some mountain areas slightly for Mordor/Isengard, removed the wrap around effect from going east to the sea...) and fixed the player starting locations. I renamed the barbarian tribes (wildmen, woses, dunlendings, etc.) and there are 16 players in the game. Unfortunately with fixed positions and my lack of editing experience this means you always begin play as the Player1 position (Gondor) but I am certain with a nudge by friendly suggestion that will be remedied to allowing the choice of any starting location. I have changed the names of the Leaders but the civ names are all the same (Gondor = Romans, leader Aragorn as an example). I have not edited the city names lists for each player nor have I edited the famus unit names, but those are on my list! I tried passingly to link an appropriate civ to the middle earth counterpart for test purposes and I ran a game to see how the balance works out. Other than seeing I'll have to add some startegic resources around (only mordor and harad with access to oil... YIKES) for balance, tha games went very well. It is a great map overall to start with! Again I ask for any suggestion on how to edit certain things (add the new PTW civs to the scenario, allow player to choose starting race while keeping fixed start locations, how to edit new units to load properly) and everyone who gives useful advice will be credited. I'll post as soon as I have something of substance!
