[UPD 20 AUG 16] Preview: Dwarves of Erebor

[Ryga]

"However Tolkien described them like I said the best amonst them" the Iron Hillish dwarves I meant.

[RandomSarmartian]

Dont go forgeting the Orocarni Dwarves!

[Mr.Jox]

We have so many concepts from Weta so we can make many units pper each clan. We will try to create around 4-5 dwarven factions(without moria)

[Privatecamping]

Will there be an option to reclaim Khazad-dûm like in Divide and Conquer?

[Clenvey]

Will there be an option to reclaim Khazad-dûm like in Divide and Conquer?

Of course. That's why Moria isn't a dwarven faction in the first place. The conquest of Moria gives the dwarves access to Mithril to upgrade their armor. This will be a long-term goal for all dwarven factions, because they are the only ones who can handle this material.

[Privatecamping]

Very good keep up the good work!

[thepeterjoy]

This is brilliant please keep it up!

[Picchioviola]

And guess what? The game is based on the books XD

Maybe it's based on the books (I've not played it), but nowhere in "The Lord of the Rings", "The Silmarillion", "The Hobbit" nor in every other book written by Tolkien is stated that dwarves ride anything but ponies, which obviously are not battle mounts.
By the way, love the idea and your work, it's really amazing. May I give you a humble suggestion: I think that dwaven weapons are way too similar to the ones seen in "The Hobbit" trilogy. I didn't like them in the films because they are too WoW-ish. Maybe it could make a little more sense to portray them in a more medieval-like fashion. Just a constructive suggestion.
Sorry if something is uclear, I'm not english native.

[Privatecamping]

You are right about the battle mounts and ponies.. But i understand why are the moders made weapons like that.. Its cos the mod is based on the movies and you see that "WoW-ish" armor and weapons in the Hobbit and I think that it is harder if they make the armors and weapons from zero
Cheers

[Privatecamping]

Yea that would be so cool! But I think that they will be too isolated from the other good factions cos the Red Mountains where on the far east and beyond Run..The houses in that region where not so strong and numerous in numbers like the Longbeards. The houses where:Ironfists,Stiffbeards and Blacklocks...
I would like to see in them a certain Eastern influance in their look and armor and weapons.. I think that it would be a hard work but it would pay off to make this faction.
Good Idea btw

[Picchioviola]

You are right about the battle mounts and ponies.. But i understand why are the moders made weapons like that.. Its cos the mod is based on the movies and you see that "WoW-ish" armor and weapons in the Hobbit and I think that it is harder if they make the armors and weapons from zero
Cheers

I was referring only to weapons, which are totally unrealistic, I think armors are fine (those plates would be good for elite units). Sorry, I'm a sort of Tolkien lore nazi. But I see why would they chose to use weapons from the films and I respect that.

[Privatecamping]

Ima fanatic for Tolkien too but I enjoy the movies although they arent so good as the books

[Grimnir]

As you might have seen in the other threads we are making a few newer previews. We are still working on getting the dwarves in the game. We have to scale them down using the db, and not the armature, because then we'd have to create custom animations, which is kinda difficult. It would involve motion capturing and a lot of time.
To still get the dwarf proptions, we have to scale various body parts, make them wider/broader in general and still make them work with the normal armature. This is not so simple but we are on a very good way.

However, because of this not so simple developping process you'll have to wait for some previews of the dwarves of erebor. Hope you can bare it

[Captain-Fracas]

I think that the Lonely Mountain is already in Total War Attila

You are doing a great job ! I'm wainting for next news

[Grimnir]

Images don't work^^

[Captain-Fracas]

And now ?

[Mr.Jox]

upload yoour images in web not throw them from ur pc, it wont work that way.

[Captain-Fracas]

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[Grimnir]

That's already pretty good, but we plan to make something quite a bit bigger, if the engine allows us to.

[Mr.Jox]

I'd say on 1/3 bigger than this one.
But looks good so far. We only have to cut front of the mountain and pastle front gates in it