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Here is how I usually play it: Get Tol Rhun right away. Then, and this is important: get Iaur Helcar and gift it to North Rhun. If you do not, Rhun will take it, and you do *not* want Rhun as a...

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Ugh, I didnt even see that. But you are definitely correct. Now where is that edit button...

edit: Found it.

editedit: Done.

Man, this takes me back.

Financial policy would not affect your OoL directly, but would lower the authority of a money-focused faction's leader by increasing the realm's average tax level (see...

Wambat, can you give us a short summary of how things got that bleak for Harad? Why is Harondor owned by independent people? Why did Tulkas think it might me a good idea to invade Gondor without...

Your endurance really is something else. As is your experience with this game. Now that the mod's weakest faction wasn't enough of a challenge, you need to nerf your factions before you can play as...

Personally, I was thinking about increasing the secondary hitpoints of cultic units, which improves their performance in auto battles.

I proudly present my very first submod ever. It is small, since it only affects a couple text files, and neatly fits into the ZIP file attached to this post. Unzip it and copy it into your FATW...

Alright. Real life has taken over again, so I only managed to finalize my ideas recently.

I'm now able to put together the files for Sloth's Dwindling Firstborn. I have never done anything like...

Nah, that must be Tharbad.



As do I, but it just wasn't practical in my situation. Money was too tight to build up Rathwin (since I had noone to trade with), and the hallbardiers I recuited in...

It was an unexpected opportunity, as my spy just happened to open the gates that turn, so it was do it or leave it. As for the dwarves, their armies are huge, I believe my dorwinion watch is no...

I have started playing around with the files a little, and I think there might be enough by now for a mini-submod of my own. The biggest feature would be what I call the "Dwindling First-Born". I...

It took a few attempts, but the AI ended up handing the battle to me. I marched my army through an unguarded gate, to which the defenders responded by sending their units one by one, causing them to...

I was a bit surprised to see that archer ranges had changed so little despite their nerf. Now, after looking at the files, it seems you forgot to change the range value displayed in their unit...

I'm starting to watch this only now. You are a very good player, and I'm learning a lot, although I don't think I have the patience for all of these tricks, and some of them seem a bit power-gamish...

I didn't know you could actually make a real city out of Orodengrin. I thought it was just your ordinary orc hold. Looks like I have something new to try out, then.
And here's the next one: ...

After commenting about AI progression in 3.3, I thought I might share some campaigns I've been playing to illustrate my point. And since I'm at it, we might just as well turn it into a round of "find...

I like the new version so far, but there is one thing that annoys me. Adunabar seems to be completely powerless. In every campaign so far, they lost the south to the RK, and in most of them, they...

It's a good idea, actually. The previous Dwarf campaign was the easiest of them all.

But I think the Dwarf intro wasn't updated, and still says they reclaimed Moria.

Chiefdom of Rhûn for me. I've always felt frustrated because my FATW default faction becomes nigh-impossible to play from the mid-game onward. I would love to see someone else try to take on those...

Just when I finally, finally, managed to get RTW to work again, this happens. Now to download everything one more time...

You're correct, it only concerns RK/Rohan/Shire and Dale/Dwarves. I have updated the guide to point this out.


I figured that was the case. Although there seem to be traits that I do not remember...

There, it's done. Aradan is beginning to scare me. It takes a special kind of insanity to come up with that monster of a file. There are traits in there to check that other traits work properly, and...

Why on earth is my table not showing?

edit: Phew, much better. But what a pain in the ***!

FATW's Opinion of Liege (OoL) is a trait that affects all family members of a faction and gives significant bonuses or penalties that can boost or cripple your economy and greatly affect your...

I can't say anything about Adunabar, as I haven't played a meaningfull campaing with them. So I'll instead use this opportunity to rant about the Opinion of Liege thing, which is probably the one...

Beornings, 383 FO.

I always had planned to play this campaign, and always had a soft spot for this faction, with their cosy little corner in the Anduin vale and their miniature unit roster that...

Well, yes. But isn't that how it's supposed to work in the first place?

Thanks, count, but I already managed to find a trick that allows me to play the mod again. I have the disc version that works just fine, I only got the error message from the FATW starting...

After a long time, I'm having a bout of nostalgia for RTW, and am currently trying to migrate FATW from my dying laptop to my newer one. Sadly, the install exe gives me the "not a valid win 32...

Thanks, Wambat. Makes me want to try another Rhun campaign to get my hands on some vassal macemen. I think they would combine nicely with some berserkers, absorbing arrows for them. But I still...

For real? I don't recall vanilla walls shooting down siege towers, although that might be because I usually use sapping. And vanilla units will not usually walk right up to the walls only to get shot...

Elvellyn retainers are now recruitable, have appropriate stats and their own description.



Next up will be the household knights. I really think they fit cultic Rhun best, although I have...

I have played:

Elves, who tend to be firmly loyal.

Dale, where about half of my FMs are supportive, so it's at least bearable.

Harondor, Harad, Rhun, Dunland, where everyone is dubious or...

Auto-resolve. Like you, I just can't bear to watch as the walls shoot my army to tiny red chunks of meat. DOM's walls are just way too strong in my opinion, ain't no way I'm putting up with that. The...

1) Accept the fact that you're not going to upgrade your buildings anytime soon.

2) Use your starting funds to build up the barracks in Annuminas and Bree, because you'll really, really need them....

Now I'm starting to wonder if we're playing the same mod. Every time I play a mannish faction, I restart the campaign many times until my king isn't a complete political loser. I try to make the...

Ah, so it wasn't my imagination after all. Every time I want to gather some data on the bug, the tax bonus suddenly works without a hitch, and leaves me wondering if I'm just seeing things. Too bad....

Why don't you just have hoards increase taxable income by x% and call it a day?

If the Dunedaic pride of the Grey Company and their rangers did not stop them from accepting elven sponsorship and shelter for most of the third age, I don't see why it would in the fourth. Besides,...