(UNOFFICIAL) New Faction Ideas

[Ceasar Gubius]

I've seen alot of different ideas and talk of new factions on other threads. So I figured it would be interesting to see what new factions people would have in mind to bring up the gameplay ... BTW, this is completely hypothetical and has no bearing on what the modders here do....

Primary idea I would have would to divide the Silvan Elves into Mirkwood and Lothlorien...

[lordyu]

change start date to 1050 to 1950TA

[Manoflooks]

change start date to 1050 to 1950TA

It doesnt start in 1050. My Mordor campaign is 30 turns in and in the 2000s...

[maxi90]

i can only think of one good candidate: The Galadrim.

anotherone that could work would be Dundland... but i think that they are better as Isengard early infantry (although i hope they will increase their roster in the future)

edit: the mod start in TA 2955 i think..

[cherryfunk]

Primary idea I would have would to divide the Silvan Elves into Mirkwood and Lothlorien...

That might make sense...

[Elphir of Dol Amroth]

From what I know the team is already considering to split the Silvan Elves, but they haven't decided about it yet.

[Ceasar Gubius]

Another idea would have been to divide the Dwaves into an Erebor faction, and then make the have protectrate, the Blue Mountain clans...

Another concept would be to divide Eriador into a few smaller (Playable and nonplayable) factions... Like Have a Shire faction (Nonplayable hobbits) and make them a protectrate of another faction, The Dunedain (Playable). And last (Seeing there is no enemy factions in the region), have a neutral
South-Farthing (Spelt right?), that makes quite a bit of money because of it's Tobacco, and may have ambition for the nearby regions... Now those are just a crazy idea

[MadTiest]

That might make sense...

I think the devs mentioned this might happen in a later version.
I think the current amount amount of playable factions is pretty good. Only thing that might be interesting is adding a few minor non-playable factions so the main factions don't start out as big. The reason I don't want new factions is because I'd rather have the devs spent the time improving the current factions (some factions already have a pretty sweet roster, but OoMM and Isengard for example really need more units before they start adding more factions). I'd rather have 12 perfect factions, each of which is very appealing and worth at least one playthrough, instead of say 16 factions of which I'd only be really interested in trying out a few (As is usually the case with a total war game for me).

[Jean=A=Luc]

The irony is that, except maybe the Dwarves, the elves are the least numerous (population-wise) of all the factions but will potentially be represented by 3 factions, 4 if you count the New Shores submod.

[JonSnow]

I think there's less dwarves unless I am mistaken...

[Ceasar Gubius]

The irony is that, except maybe the Dwarves, the elves are the least numerous (population-wise) of all the factions but will potentially be represented by 3 factions, 4 if you count the New Shores submod.

LOL, I know, isn't that funny ... Maybe all the "Pointy-Ears" leaving middle earth should be made into the game as a statistic that influences the population growth of Elven cities???

[Ketchup]

I don't think any extra factions are needed. What is needed is to flesh out some of the existing factions.

[MadTiest]

The irony is that, except maybe the Dwarves, the elves are the least numerous (population-wise) of all the factions but will potentially be represented by 3 factions, 4 if you count the New Shores submod.

Agreed.

Maybe all the "Pointy-Ears" leaving middle earth should be made into the game as a statistic that influences the population growth of Elven cities???

I'm not sure it's fun to be stuck with the same size (or even smaller) cities all game. (EDIT: well, you can also conquer bigger cities...but still)

[Garet Jax]

I'd rather have 12 perfect factions, each of which is very appealing and worth at least one playthrough, instead of say 16 factions of which I'd only be really interested in trying out a few (As is usually the case with a total war game for me).

Completely agree with you here, although splitting Silvan Elves would be cool.

[Ceasar Gubius]

I don't think any extra factions are needed. What is needed is to flesh out some of the existing factions.

I think it would be better to have more Nonplayable factions in-game. Otherwise these factions grow to fast...

[Ceasar Gubius]

What about a complete new alternative campaign for an earlier era, in wich you have Agmar and the three Arnorian Kingdoms (What are they again?). Now that would be really cool!


*Sorry for the double-post

[Garet Jax]

Just edit your existing post next time

[Elfhelm]

How about a Far SouthHarad/Khand/Nurn faction expanding the great Variag units and including the mysterious 'troll' men and their red tongues . The Galadrim should have their own faction like in LOTR-TW.
Fangorn with puklemen,Tree Ents huorns and wood pixies! Only jokin with that last one! Perhaps it already exists but they are still talkin it over! The puklemen and the Ents I mean.....

[Kabudhan]

What about a complete new alternative campaign for an earlier era, in wich you have Agmar and the three Arnorian Kingdoms (What are they again?). Now that would be really cool!


*Sorry for the double-post

This is a fantastic idea. It would take a while to mod though. But make it so it started after Cardolan became subjects of the Witch King, and you have a fantastic start position there! Heck, you'd only need a map covering Eriador, really!

I wish Tolkien wrote more about this period, as it's frankly more interesting than the War of the Ring. But perhaps that is because I am a history student.

On topic, the Silvan elves split is a great idea. Beyond that, I think the factions are fine.

[Punisher1024]

angmar game would be sweet to play