Shield Bearer Posted October 10, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 10, 2011 That would be quite inaccurate:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Angbandalthough it doesn't specify any siege units, it would be hard to hold a siege without them. In any case, without siege units the elves would be at a disadvantage. It may work, but it'll require more thinking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aldandil Posted October 10, 2011 Report Share Posted October 10, 2011 (edited) The Siege of Angband wasn't a bunch of elves camping outside the gates 24/7 for hundreds of years. It was a wall of territories Morgoth couldn't cross... except he could, because his forces repeatedly left Angand and found ways around the Noldorin territories.Anyway, I have The Silmarillion, Children of Hurin, Morgoth's Ring, War of the Jewels, and Peoples of Middle-Earth. Anyone here have Unfinished Tales?Oh, and I have the first two volumes of Lord of the Rings, but not Return of the King. The used bookstore didn't have that one... As for heroes, I think the standard is 3 per civ. The Noldor had way too many princes to include all of them. Edited October 10, 2011 by Aldandil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mythos_Ruler Posted October 10, 2011 Report Share Posted October 10, 2011 As for heroes, I think the standard is 3 per civ. The Noldor had way too many princes to include all of them.Keep in mind that this isn't a hard limit. We only chose 3 heroes per faction as a way to limit the work needed to finish the game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeta1127 Posted October 10, 2011 Report Share Posted October 10, 2011 I have the Unfinished Tales and the two parts of the Book of Lost Tales, among other things Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, Children of Hurin, and The Hobbit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oshron Posted October 11, 2011 Report Share Posted October 11, 2011 (edited) Ewwww no thanks. I like Middle-Earth accurately depicted, please. That's why I don't want to see anything based on the movies. If it's just "Tolkien-clone generic fantasy" then I have 0% interest in it.they WOULD be accurately depicted, just alongside civs based on a few other works of fantasy, for example, Hyruleans from The Legend of Zelda. the only civ i can see being a mix of tolkien and a few others would be dwarves since tolkien didnt go into as much detail with his dwarves as he did with men or elves Edited October 11, 2011 by oshron Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aldandil Posted October 11, 2011 Report Share Posted October 11, 2011 (edited) But how is it an accurate depiction of the setting, Arda, if it doesn't take place in Arda itself, and has a bunch of random guys from Warcraft/Warhammer/Wheel of Time/Star Wars/D&D/Harry Potter/Zelda/Conan/DBZ thrown in?Personally I love Arda only as a whole, including the entire setting with all of its history, cosmology, and philosophy. I can't get excited at all about the individual bits and pieces in isolation, divorced from their entire context that made them who and what they are.Even if you have some story explaining it, like "transdimensional portals that abducted people and dumped them into XYZ universe," I still wouldn't enjoy it in the least. It wouldn't be Arda.And Tolkien did write enough detail about his dwarves to distinguish them from generic fantasy/D&D dwarves. Edited October 11, 2011 by Aldandil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shield Bearer Posted October 11, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2011 Yes, Tolkien's world is a complete world. It would be unrealistic, so to speak, to have all those bull looking orcs and trollocs and stuff. I have many of Tolkien's works, excluding Christopher Tolkien's History...I need to get my hands on that somehow. Bookshops in India have no love for Tolkien, I had to hunt for most of them and finally order some. I've got the Millennium edition of LOTR, Unfinished Tales, Children of Hurin, the Hobbit and some non-LOTR related works, like Roverandom and Tales from the Perilous Realm For Elven architecture, I was thinking a cross between Gothic, Norse and Chinese architectural styles:Especially the curved roofs of the Chinese: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oshron Posted October 12, 2011 Report Share Posted October 12, 2011 But how is it an accurate depiction of the setting, Arda, if it doesn't take place in Arda itself, and has a bunch of random guys from Warcraft/Warhammer/Wheel of Time/Star Wars/D&D/Harry Potter/Zelda/Conan/DBZ thrown in?Personally I love Arda only as a whole, including the entire setting with all of its history, cosmology, and philosophy. I can't get excited at all about the individual bits and pieces in isolation, divorced from their entire context that made them who and what they are.Even if you have some story explaining it, like "transdimensional portals that abducted people and dumped them into XYZ universe," I still wouldn't enjoy it in the least. It wouldn't be Arda.And Tolkien did write enough detail about his dwarves to distinguish them from generic fantasy/D&D dwarves.well, i had personally been imagining it as just having civs based on groups and works of fiction presented in a fantasy crossover rpg that i imagine. no bull-looking orks in that! the general idea would be for the random-map mode to be set in the crossover itself while separate scenarios and whatnot could take place JUST in tolkien's legendarium (for example, a noldor campaign in which the war of wrath is final climactic scenario)thanks for correcting me on the thing with the dwarves Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoMolester Posted December 4, 2012 Report Share Posted December 4, 2012 Coupla elven shipsEärendil!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darklorder Posted December 28, 2012 Report Share Posted December 28, 2012 Wow Great! I think the 2 Versions of the "House" are fantastic how about 2 houses that have the same model but only a different colour would be new in this Game haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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