VALE OF ANDUIN FACTION: COMPATIBLE WITH TATW 2.1! Not compatible with FROME!

[A1_Unit]

Eagles would make great assassins! Swoop!

[Beorn]

Lol, 3ple post... Eagles as spies was Elphir's decision, all the rep goes to him. And most of the rep for the unit roster goes to him aswell

Eagles wouldn't do well as spies due to their vulnerability to missiles, and mainly because they didn't do anything like this in the books...

[miniwally]

It's not as though the eagles are going to enter the settlements they'll just swoop around above i'd guess

[Beorn]

That's almost the same...

Elphir of Dol Amroth has to make an important announcement I think...

[Beorn]

We have finally found a modeller. Raiken joins the team!

[Beorn]

Nice! But that's no good for the balance vs evil: Poor Orcs (and Isengard).

If there will be a Dunleding faction included, everything will be fine...

[A1_Unit]

lol, 3ple post

[Elphir of Dol Amroth]

About the Eagles as spies, I thought that it was a cool addition, but if lots of people are against it, I will think about it.

If there will be a Dunleding faction included

Will there be a Dunlending faction? I myself think that they should stay with Isengard, but if the development team has other plans...

Anyways, the size of our team has increased a lot the last few days, I can now welcome Eol_Nauglamir, Jaguar6, Skeleton Of The West, miniwally and Raiken to the team!

[evinmulligan]

I like the eagle spies, and see no downside.

[A1_Unit]

@evinmulligan
As long as the Eagles stay outside the settlement they're okay. But imagine an Eagle trying to sneak into the settlement. I don't think he'll get past the guard!

[Skeleton Of The West]

I think eagles as spies are a very good idea. It will be awesome just to see it .

Eol_Naugladur?????

That is like saying to Boromir: 'Hello Barad-dur'

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[Hross]

I'm against this really, it detracts from the Dale faction as a good deal of the elements stated in the OP are or are planned to be part of Dale.

[Elphir of Dol Amroth]

I don't really see how a Beorning faction would distract that much attention from the Dalians. They lived on the other side of Mirkwood forest, had other lords who ruled them, had other allies and other enemies. In my opinion the unit roster is also quite different and the only real connection I can see between the Vale of Anduin faction and the faction of Dale is that they where both Northmen. Anyway, this is still a submod, so it won't have impact on the official TATW mod.

[A1_Unit]

Beornings aren't going to interfere with Dale.

[JorisofHolland]

Eagles are great spies, and they were used as such during the WotR. Legolas saw them several times during the searching for the hobbits. And Gwaihir was used as messenger/spy at least one time by Galadriel

[A1_Unit]

For the spying part, yes they're perfect. For the infiltrate part, you could call it something else so it doesn't sound impossible for an Eagle to do (sneak into a settlement).

[evinmulligan]

They fly above.

[A1_Unit]

They fly above.

Could this be the tooltip instead of infiltrate?

[evinmulligan]

I don't know.

[eskrogh]

well from the skies... with eagle eyes it can look down upon enemy buildings and count soldiers...
like the eagles from the hobbit seeing Trolls and Wargs from Mount Gundabad