Elves?

[Basil 11]

Just a question - why is this faction unplayable on the campaign map?

[Aradan]

Q. When will the mod be released?

A. Short answer: when it is done. Long answer: the people on the Mod Team all have real lives, with families, girlfriends, work, and school/university. As much as we'd like to work full time on the mod, that is just not possible. Remember that we want to play the mod just as much as you do, so we are working as hard and fast as we can, but we will not release it until it reaches our expectations. We have many months of hard work before us.
The Team follows a "modular expansion" policy, where we release the mod in independent modules, each one expanding on the previous one, improving and adding things, while itself being fully playable and of top quality. We do this so that fans can enjoy the parts of the mod that are ready, at the same time we work on the yet unfinished parts, and also to be able to keep in every module the same standards of quality that our fans expect from us.

Q. What are the major factions?

A. Reunited Kingdom, Rohan, Harad, Adunabar, Dunland,Easterlings are the campaign factions of the latest release, but we're aiming for 3 more factions for the full map: Elves, Dwarves and Dale.

Q. How big is the map and how many regions will there be?

A. The latest release of the map has 72 regions and takes in the area from the western borders of Dunland to the east-most expanses of Far Harad. The full Middle-earth campaign map we're aiming for has around 120 regions and takes in the whole of the area of western Middle-earth as illustrated in the official maps in the back of the books.

Cheers

[Basil 11]

hehe - sorry about that lol

[GreatOne]

You are aiming for a full map made of 120 regions?

Is that for the next release, or the final release?Because the max number of regions that RTW can support is 199, it can be good if the map was more detailed....

[Elennsar]

I can't speak for the teams' views, but as a LotR fan and a TW fan...

Using every possible region would make things drag on and on and on and on and on as it would require taking and managing far more regions.

Nor would it add to being a good representation of Middle-Earth. Judging by the map so far, 120 should be plenty.

[Aradan]

We don't want this to become Fourth Age: Total Siege, nor were there that many settlements in that part of ME to justify maxing out the region limit - and we don't like inventing stuff just for pushing the limits and announce big numbers. I think you'll find the regions plenty, and there's always the chance of some tweak if we feel sth needs tweaking.

[GreatOne]

Ok thanks for answering

[GreatOne]

Ah yes, another question, there is Isengard faction playable in Historical battles part, how can I make it playable in the custom battles.I mean which file do I need to edit, I'll manage if I know which one.

[Aradan]

data/descr_sm_factions.txt, the internal name is lombardi. Simply set their custom_battle_availability to "yes". The faction is not fully implemented of course, so don't expect things to be perfect.

[GreatOne]

Ok thanks Aradan

[campesino]

i agree, as far as i know about tolkiens works, i think there is no enough info to make 199 provinces, maybe tou are gonna surprise us with a bigger map?

[IVIarkI2I]

Bigger map will be you can see it in the TNS files



And here you can see teritories of the new factions

Dale:

Dwarves:

Moria goblins or something like this I think

Elves


I find this in my TNS folder and I think that is interesting and I hope that team is in the best way to add this factions and we make them harder to make it with the same questions like when will be elfs,goblins and other.... be patient I think that we are near to see them