[Mod] The Last Days (TLD)

[The White Knight]

So this last days mod, I'm wondering it is based off of the PJ movies or the books? And just how polished is it?

The mod is based on the books, but it's possible to download add-ons with armours and weapons from the movies I believe. It's very polished, imho one of the most polished mods for the game.

[Kleos]

and since all I can afford beyone pay day on day 1 at the start is like 4-5 gondor youth...
oh well, I'll try again tomorrow...

I'm making the assumption you are starting as Gondor here. I'd reccomend starting as a Squire of Gondor for the horse you being with. At minas Tirith castle speak to Malbung, he will serve you for "free" as you are a Gondorian. And at Edoras castle there is a horsmen -Ulfas- who will serve you for just 10 influence points.

Like others said, especially at the start when you have a small number of low-end troops, it's you who makes the battles. The first thing I would do if you are having trouble at the start is to go to the Brigand fort and complete the training course there. That will increase you by one level. Carry on developing your charachter at the Brigand Fort's arena - here you can gain both valuable experiance and money without the risk of an actual battle as well as save time that you would use exploring the map looking for a fight. Stop whenever you feel more confident; you can use the money from the arena for better weapons and armour for both yourself and your N.C.P's and more men. To upgrade your men without severe casualties, pick on easy targets - such as battles that are already being fought.

Now if only there were crossbows around... At least those don't fire 5° to the left/right of where you're aiming...

You can buy crossbows and bolts at the Corsair camp, but -obviously- you have to be playing as the "bad guys". I have yet to find them anywhere else.

If you are one of the good factions the only way I can think you could get one would be by defeating some Corsair armies which have crossbow units in them and hope that one turns up from the loot at the end of the battle. Those crossbow units can be pretty annoying in battle though, so it wont be easy; and you would have to be lucky to get both the crossbow and bolts at the end of the battle.

Concerning the "5° to the left/right of where you're aiming" my only reccomendation is to stick at it - Archer, especially Horse Archer charachters, are difficult to master at the start; but once you get your proficiency and power draw up your aim will become far more accurate and you will be deadly. And try not to always upgrade to a more powerful bow as soon as you are possible, try sticking to a bow you have +2 powerdraw over the miminimum necessary, it does make a difference.

[Sidus Preclarum]

thanks for the tips !
*edit* Ok, now, what the **** ?
I train, get the NPC, recruit bandits for all my money's worth, spot a party of Goblins, cleverly lure them away till I find a Rohirrim patrol... To find out that apparently those guys have a negative spotting score! I mean, I even got the Goblins to go right through the Rohirrim, neither seemed to notice the other ?! And of course, as I am trying circling the Rohirrim to make the the Goblins fight with them, and cursing at my screen even louder and louder, the bastard Goblins end up catching me, with the Rohirrims like 1 tile away having not even noticed that two parties, one of them ****ing goblins, have been circling around them for the past 3 hours, game time... How ****ing stupid...
Result, 9 dead thugs and a lame horse for 3 dead goblins...
1 hour of gaming wasted, sigh, let's try this again...

[Gelgoog]

once you get past the first couple of fights, its not bad. if you have a horse, you can just make sweeping attacks, as long as you dont stop you usually fine.

[Sidus Preclarum]

once you get past the first couple of fights, its not bad. if you have a horse, you can just make sweeping attacks, as long as you dont stop you usually fine.

well, yeah but even successful couched lance attacks seem to have the uncanny ability to stop me drop dead sometimes...
But this attempt (like the 6th) seems to be the good one...
Onward for Gondor!

[Kleos]

For the White City!



Taken after one hell of a battle with a Legion of Mordor, just scraped through. He's holding a great Axe incase anyone was wondering - my weapon of choice.

[Gelgoog]

well, yeah but even successful couched lance attacks seem to have the uncanny ability to stop me drop dead sometimes...
But this attempt (like the 6th) seems to be the good one...
Onward for Gondor!

i believe this has to do with horse charge damage. the less you charge damage the less ability you have to plow through infantry, oh and alot of times you'll stop dead taking on enemy cavalry, which is why swords and such work better for that.

on another subject, how the heck do you get your heros healed, i mean Ulfas in my party got so badly gimped, and even when i went to a healer they did very little. and why do they get injured when you go unconscious in a skirmish, especially when they arent even in the battle yet.

[Kamos]

Ulfas just seems to suck at an abnormal level it doesn't matter how I equip and train him he's the first to die, I've only had him get one kill on all my files.

[Gelgoog]

Ulfas just seems to suck at an abnormal level it doesn't matter how I equip and train him he's the first to die, I've only had him get one kill on all my files.

wow thats weird, yea, im a bit annoyed at this hero wound bug ( at least thats what i think it is).

on another note, im loving javelins and throwing axes, i mean i got my skill up on throwing weapons and couple that with high athletics, and i can take out a dozen infantry on foot. i usually load up my three slots with throwing weapons, so when i run out of ammo im much lighter and can run away faster if need be. still havent gotten the boy to not suck.

[Sidus Preclarum]

a quick question: are the formations supposed to do anything ? Apart from making everbody appear lost and disorientated ?

[Kamos]

Yes with the right infantry it can make a box of ownage.

[Gelgoog]

does your tactics skill have to be up to do that?

btw- wth does tactics do.

[Sidus Preclarum]

does your tactics skill have to be up to do that?

btw- wth does tactics do.

from a website:
Normally, a mission is split down the middle between friendly and hostile forces if the parties involved are roughly equal in number. If your maximum battle size is 20, then there will be a maximum of 10 friendlies and 10 hostiles in the mission. Tactical advantage modifies this division in a good or bad manner. A positive modifier means that the balance of power will be shifted in your favor: you will be able to deploy more troops into the mission than your opponent. Negative modifiers mean you will be outnumbered during the mission. Your tactical advantage is modified by the party skill Tactics, and by the total number of troops that are in the parties of the combatants.

as my own battle size is set to 200, I don't really bother with this skill...

[Kamos]

Nope no tactics required but I did notice it only applies to certain infantry.

[Gelgoog]

from a website:
Normally, a mission is split down the middle between friendly and hostile forces if the parties involved are roughly equal in number. If your maximum battle size is 20, then there will be a maximum of 10 friendlies and 10 hostiles in the mission. Tactical advantage modifies this division in a good or bad manner. A positive modifier means that the balance of power will be shifted in your favor: you will be able to deploy more troops into the mission than your opponent. Negative modifiers mean you will be outnumbered during the mission. Your tactical advantage is modified by the party skill Tactics, and by the total number of troops that are in the parties of the combatants.

as my own battle size is set to 200, I don't really bother with this skill...

correct, i use a higher count as well. but that does bring light to why one mish i only had 2 troops as backup ( out of 15) against the greater host of mordor. i was thinking it was a bug, but that hero must of had really high tactics or something.

[Denny Crane!]

Turn hero death off, its just ridiculous otherwise.

[Gelgoog]

Turn hero death off, its just ridiculous otherwise.

via the old man?

[Sidus Preclarum]

Turn hero death off, its just ridiculous otherwise.

Oh come on... What's cooler than swearing oath of vengence on your fallen friend's burial mound ?

[Gelgoog]

Oh come on... What's cooler than swearing oath of vengence on your fallen friend's burial mound ?

i agree, but when they all die before i can enlist them, then its not so fun.

[Kleos]

via the old man?

Yep. You can also lower the chaces of wounding to basically non-existant, improve the chaces that you heroes will recover and reduce the risk of capture by enemy forces - as well as many other options (like Legions of Mordor)

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Sidus Preclarum, you mentioned crossbows in passing - I just thought I'd point out that the benefits of Power Draw (which increases bow damage by 8%) does not apply to crossbows (I know this sounds obvious, but I didn't make the realisation untill I actually decided to creat a Crossbow wielding charachter). The signifigance of this is that if you are aiming for a primarily range-based charachter you would be better of with a bow; because once you have gained a high proficiency and power draw with a bow the difference in terms of damage infilicted, range and accuracy will be very minor; and also the rate of fire with the bow is much higher. Also the bow can be used on a horse (Though you can use "Light" crossbows while moving from horse back, their power is low and in the time required to reload you could have sent several shafts at the enemy with a bow.)

However, if you intended the ranged weapon as simply a secondary weapon for your charachter, then the crossbow would be better; because you won't have to spend any skill points (i.e. like you would powerdraw for the bow) to be effective; you will be effective and deadly from the start.

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And on an un-related note - does anyone use the battlesize changer to have battles of up to a 1000 men?

If anyone does, and their computer can handle it without any lag & with all the video options enabled; would you mind sharing your computer specs? I will need a new computer soon and I feel that without really large battles I'm not getting the most of M&B.