NEW: Ambush in Lothlorien - Red_Devil's Custom Battle Maps - Minas Tirith; Cair Andros, Isen Fords; Fields of Celebrant...

[Wesserd]

Nope im not doing it, i was about to begin, but i saw your post so i cancelled it.
Do you have some ideas, i really want to make an battle but i dont have ideas.
i cant find pictures of Arnor citys so that one wouldnt succes.

[ELB27]

well, what about "the burning of the westfold"?

[Wesserd]

Hmm yes, you mean the scene in the two towers, when the dunlanders attack the rohan peasants?

it can be nice, but there arent any peasant units.

[Red_Devil]

oops, sorry.
some other ideas with arnor would be to make the disaster of the gladden fields. or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_...tle_of_Fornost

and yes, you control every units: men dwarves, elves... that's what makes the battle epic

[Wesserd]

Why sorry? :O.

hmm, allrigth lets read.

[ELB27]

Hmm yes, you mean the scene in the two towers, when the dunlanders attack the rohan peasants?

it can be nice, but there arent any peasant units.

you dont need peasants you can do an epic battle without them, use rohan soldiers and some uruks and make a great battle

[Wesserd]

Allrigth i will try to make them both! , Red devil, Do you have some suggestions for the battle map, i have now a plain map, with dirt and grass, an settlement, and some trees.

[Red_Devil]

ah well, i don't know if te battle of fornost really needs a settlement, because i think the witch king got out of fornost with all his forces, totally overconfident.
what i would propose you is to take a normal map, add some hills, a bigger mountain on one flank behind which the reinforcement cavalry arrives to flank the angmarian force.
perhaps add some farms, small forests with some dunedain rangers. I don't exactly remember the battle in itself, but i think arnor forces were very small, the bulk of the good force is elvish.
for the evil side, give them some black numenoreans (mounted and foot) and some snow trolls if that's possible.
that's what i propose you. you're free to do as you wish of course

[Grimbold']

great screens Red_devil +rep
-but will you please consider changing the eldar spearmen to swordsmen, or just replace a spearunit with a swordunit?
just more identical to the movie IMO

[Red_Devil]

great screens Red_devil +rep
-but will you please consider changing the eldar spearmen to swordsmen, or just replace a spearunit with a swordunit?
just more identical to the movie IMO

i can't, the arnor faction in the editor only has for elve units : eldar spearmen, eldar archers and heavy archers. that's a shame because i love the heavy swordsmen
before putting every alliance units in one army, i tried with one dwarf+ arnor and another exclusively with elves, but the army controllled by the AI just fooled around the map... so i only had this choice.

[Red_Devil]

voila, so yet another double post, but another new battle:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

it's a 1 vs 4 battle (2 huge armies from mordor, and 1 small easterling reinforcement cavalry and later on sauron with some bodyguards)

the alliance has one army and controls arnorian troops, dwarven troops and elven troops.

I need some feedback, because the battle is very hard for the alliance. i think it might still need some balancing because sauron slaughters every units that remains at the end
i edited a bit the armies (more experience) but it might not be enough.

enjoy

[ELB27]

great work! downloading now, cant wait to try it
EDIT: i tried it, had fun and came to a conclusion: sauron is unstoppable!
i crushed every orc or rhunic soldier on the field with nearly full army left(i am doing a good job slaughtering those orcs) and then attacked sauron with full force and in the end i got only the general left when the time limit ended and it was drew...
i think sauron needs a re-balancing,he already crashed my whole army twice! I HATE SAURON!!!
anyway good work

[Wesserd]

Well it is realistic. haha! im gonna try it now, looks intresting devil!

[ELB27]

i think i maybe got an idea how to balance it out! if you replace some of the spearmen and place some cavalry instead (like black numanoriens) it will be better

[Red_Devil]

i think i maybe got an idea how to balance it out! if you replace some of the spearmen and place some cavalry instead (like black numanoriens) it will be better

you mean to balance it for whom? black numenoreans are some of the best evil units... if i replace some spearman with those, sauron is going to have less work to do. I played the battle again, I had many losses, but most of my units were still there (something like 57% killed) but then sauron arrived with the easterlings and ed my army

[ELB27]

i have tested sauron in some battles: full stack of arnor's best units VS Sauron alone, and guess what? i won 89%-100%! so i came to a conclusion that he is WAY overpowered and decreased his hit points and armor a bit. as for the battle, i noticed that the elven spearmen are always get attacked by both black numenoriens and spearmen so the black numenoriens get rapped but the spearmen kills my elves. maybe not black numenoriens but something else but im sure that replacing spearmen will balance it out
EDIT: i found a little mistake: when you click to play it it says: TA instead of SA

[Wesserd]

Nice battle, +rep!

damn, devil you are really talented.

Edit: , i must spread around first.

[ELB27]

finally,after re-balancing Sauron i won the battle (nearly lost but i was lucky)

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

EDIT: nooooooooooo i forgot to +rep Red_Devil!
+rep

[Wesserd]

Damn, i cant win wih the fellowship campaign, and i cant restore arnor, i hate it when something doesnt succeed. :l i think im gonna play an other game for a time, but i will stay on the forum.

[ELB27]

really? i done the fellowship campaign in a day (ye im officially addict) but i cant restore arnor in a clean game too, i just cant wait so i use cheats and restored arnor in less then 10 turns
anyway, are you still working on your osgiliath map?