Bottle-neck terrain

[sirfiggin]

The whole point of the War of the Ring was the terrible odds of those who stood up to Mordor, right? So how about the terrain having lots of big rocks, gorges and valleys that create bottle-necks and allow the player to have a heroic last-stand battle when horribly outnumbered?

[Code_Knight]

LIKE THERMOPYLAE!?!?!?!?!?!? :sparta: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Mithrandir]

LIKE THERMOPYLAE!?!?!?!?!?!? :sparta: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, in the regions with the type of terrain to allow that (east emnet for example).

[Glorfindel]

the terrains must be realistic

[Mithrandir]

the terrains must be realistic

That's what I said.

[The Count(er)]

It's very possible I believe

[Mithrandir]

East emnet is full of gullies and trenches, I'd love to fight there. (It's a must for custom battle maps!)

[sirfiggin]

excellent, you guys rock!

[Darth Ravenous]

Hey I had an Idea Minas Morgul was a gateway into mordor so could there be like two moutain regions around Minas Morgul but none in front or behind it, that would make Minas Morgul a strategic castle to take.

[Mithrandir]

Hey I had an Idea Minas Morgul was a gateway into mordor so could there be like two moutain regions around Minas Morgul but none in front or behind it, that would make Minas Morgul a strategic castle to take.

I like it. The Black Gate (or Morannon) should be the other way into Mordor.

[The Count(er)]

well then lets hope there is a way to make that work on the campaign map as well as in historical battles but so far I doubt we can make custom cities work on the campaign but we can have custom landscape still none the less so long as no settlement exists

[Mithrandir]

well then lets hope there is a way to make that work on the campaign map as well as in historical battles but so far I doubt we can make custom cities work on the campaign but we can have custom landscape still none the less so long as no settlement exists

What we mean is that Minas Morgul and The Black Gate should be so close to the mountains that you can't get into mordor without taking one of them. No custom cities needed.

[The Count(er)]

if that's what you ment then thats already done I'm sure(still haven't seen the map for proof though)

[Mithrandir]

if that's what you ment then thats already done I'm sure(still haven't seen the map for proof though)

Just saying I like the idea

[Fenix_120]

Bottle necks were historically most common in sieges, the part in the two towers where the Uruks blow up the wall on helms deep and the Elves just let the Uruks get in and form up is NOT what you should do in a siege, they should have charged the breach and made a bottle neck so that the Uruks would have to fight one at a time and therefore their advantage in numbers would be nullified.


Same goes for the Siege of Minas Tirith.


So far from what iv seen in the movies apparently bottle necks were avoided in middle earth...

[Colonel Cleg McLeg]

Definately. It would be essential for a Lord of the Rings game to work in Total War - you've got Moria, High Pass, the Morgul Vale, Udun, Tarlang's Neck, Minas Tirith - in all these places bottlenecks should be able to be created, and yes, cities should be used to defend some of them, as in the books.

[Mithrandir]

Fountain Guards defending a bottleneck, backed up by Rangers and Trebuchets...

[The Count(er)]

ooh Moria that's already giving me ideas :hmmm: I doubt I'm allowed to say any here though

[Mithrandir]

ooh Moria that's already giving me ideas :hmmm: I doubt I'm allowed to say any here though

Correction: You don't know anything about it, so you're trying to be sneaky like Code_Knight

[The Count(er)]

not sure where your getting the I don't know anything about it idea but I am being sneaky