4 saurons!

**Dearg Doom** · January 02, 2012, 12:08 AM

I am currently nearly finished playing a long campaign as gondor, i had just wiped out Harad and was preparing for my final assault on mordor. Just as i took minas morgul with my gallant lord general Boromir the Dark lord got possesion of the one ring! I was then swiftly beseiged by a massive army of mordor led by the lord of the rings himself. Here's my problem, im playing on very large unit scale and on the battle map there are actually 4 saurons in the one unit!!!

This unit actually completely destroyed a full stack of reinforcements! Is there any way to reduce this unit down to one model? Its kind of ruining the game for me

**TheDarkKnight** · January 02, 2012, 12:17 AM

I think it's unavoidable in campaign...

**Gigan** · January 02, 2012, 12:34 AM

Use ballistas, catapults, trebuchets, and pelargrir marines to take him down, or auto resolve since Sauron is weak in it.

**marceror** · January 02, 2012, 12:37 AM

I'm not sure what's worse... 4 Saurons or 10 Balrogs!

Both send shivers....

**TheDarkKnight** · January 02, 2012, 01:39 AM

Originally Posted by marceror

I'm not sure what's worse... 4 Saurons or 10 Balrogs!

Both send shivers....

Having both coming after you would be heart-attack worthy.

**Vespasian92** · January 02, 2012, 02:00 AM

Originally Posted by Soul of Doom

Use ballistas, catapults, trebuchets...

Sure, if you want a CTD

Mine always CTDs when I kill Saurons with artillery, and I thought that it was a known issue/bug/thing.

**marceror** · January 02, 2012, 02:09 AM

According to the 3.1 changelog, Sauron and Balrogs being hit by flaming projectiles causing CTD was fixed. Was it only "flaming" artillery projectiles resulting in crashes?

**Förster44** · January 02, 2012, 09:14 AM

Originally Posted by Vespasian92

Sure, if you want a CTD

Mine always CTDs when I kill Saurons with artillery, and I thought that it was a known issue/bug/thing.

That could be explainable if you started your campaign in version 3.0 or earlier, new fixpatches unfortunately don't help in old campaigns.

**Gallus** · January 02, 2012, 10:02 AM

I thought Moneybags made a 1 man unit possible in campaign...

**~~TheXand~~** · January 02, 2012, 10:12 AM

Clearly you need 3 One Rings and a Mount Doom.

**StealthFox** · January 02, 2012, 11:58 AM

I'm pretty sure (99%) that you need to have unit size on small to have one Sauron. The same goes for the Balrog.

**Andor Vex** · January 02, 2012, 02:22 PM

Saurons are easy-peasy, just use Ents. They will utterly annihilate them.

**k/t** · January 02, 2012, 03:59 PM

Yeah, Gondor player, use the Ents.

**paradamed** · January 02, 2012, 07:51 PM

Originally Posted by Gallus

I thought Moneybags made a 1 man unit possible in campaign...

Originally Posted by StealthFox

I'm pretty sure (99%) that you need to have unit size on small to have one Sauron. The same goes for the Balrog.

I think he made it possible even on huge settings. Apparently there was a drawback that the single man unit was not possible for a general so Sauron wouldnt have a custom portrait and a cutom strategy map model. But to be honest I would rather have a single man Sauron without a custom portrait than 4 Saurons.

**Dago Red** · January 03, 2012, 12:29 AM

WHAT? I thought Sauron was only a single unit in the last release... what happened?

**Dearg Doom** · January 03, 2012, 09:25 PM

its ok i solved my 'little' problem by surrounding his full stack army+sauron with 4 full stacks of gondorians led by boromir, aragorn and faramir i then auto-resolved. Hehehe