Undead Hordes?

[Ellin Athinaios]

In the books, lotr and the hobbit, werewolves were mentioned.

Where? I only remember werewolves mentioned in the Silmarillion.

[el Cid]

AFAIK werewolves were in Sauron's armies in Mirkwood. Would be great to have them really.

[Ellin Athinaios]

AFAIK werewolves were in Sauron's armies in Mirkwood. Would be great to have them really.

They would be useful for the first age mod too. If only someone could make a proper model... Maybe they could be based on the skeleton of the troll-men of Harad?

A unit of riderless wargs would be great too (preferably looking like wolves though, not overgrown hyenas). For now it's easy to have the current wargs with invisible riders.

[old_dude]

They would be useful for the first age mod too.

Yet another submod that I look forward too. Didn't Huan fight Sauron while he was in werewolf form?
*begins wishful thinking out loud..
Now that I think of it Huan would be a very fun unique general. But good luck modeling.

[Formann]

They (werewolves) would be useful for the first age mod too. If only someone could make a proper model... Maybe they could be based on the skeleton of the troll-men of Harad?

As much as I love werewolves walking on two legs thrashing people with their clawed hands, but in tolkiens writings I believe werewolves were giant wolves posessed with evil spirits.

Of course, if someone makes a First Age submod/mod and "forgets" that werewolves didnt walk on two in the silmarillion, I wont complain

[Master Necromancer]

And yet it doesn't, say, slip over, despite having almost no grip, and it holds itself together against gravity, since bones on their own would fall apart. That surely involves quite a bit of magic in and of itself, especially since it's happening permanently and often on numerous different skeletons. Besides, how could you knock bones out of place if they're being held in place by magic (without, say, magic of your own)? Does that mean that if a skeleton falls a couple of metres or if it gets hit by a sudden gust of wind it will fall apart? Are skeletons completely useless on mountains because a) it's cold and b) it's too windy for them?

You have poor imagination my friend. Ok let me elaborate further.

1. No the magic to raise a skeleton is not strong, it is a minor weak spell that animates the bones and makes them move like a marionette. Now because the magic is weak and as you said often many skeletons are raised at once it just takes a strong blow with a weapon, maul, sword, mace ect... to knock or break bones out if place. Why is that so complicated to understand? Now strong magic is reincarnation, or vampire creation, those creatures are really hard to kill because they have strong necromantic magic in them.

2. The skeletons do not fall as I said they are like marionettes, and it would have to be a tornado like gust of wind to make them fall apart. Try to glue two pieces of wood together and watch if the wind separates them, same thing.

3. a) Why the does it matter if its cold??? b) I already explained above.

[Mega Tortas de Bodemloze]

Wondering - will skeletons and such ever be added to TATW? As a separate faction or a part?

Would be really awesome! What do you think peeps?

I found your skeletons and totally got your back bra...

Call of Warhammer http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=1377

I havent played it myself but the reviews are great... This guy ain't a skeleton, but he totaly does it for me...

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[TheXand]

The Barrow Wights are evil spirits that defiled the ancient tombs. They are bounded to them, i don't think they could "live" outside the Barrow Den's. Otherwise they should have been mentioned as spirits who haunt a much larger area, instead of only the tombs. Stories about them would have spread and then mentioned at Bree or even the Shire. IMHO.

In LotR the Barrow Wight that got the Hobbits had quite a large catchment area and could clearly leave his barrow. The Barrow Downs were considered a very dangerous place and to be avoided because the Barrow Wights could leave their tombs, though they did not leave the area, presumably because they did not want to leave their cushty barrows. I'm sure that stories about them were mentioned in Bree and maybe the Shire too.

[kaiser1993]

skeletons are a bit 'elder scrolls' but i think the closest to skeletons been in tatw is by someone making the army of the dead

[Jean=A=Luc]

Fascinating stuff.

Closed.