Official 'Third Age 1.0 - 3.2 Question & Answer' Thread

[Falcon123]

Hi All

I my Playing MOS 1.6.2, High Elves
Now in Turn 80 or something i realized that i cant upgrade some villages (they reached the pop cap of 1500 ..)
Both of these Villages have 1700+ pop and when i hover over the population it just stopped displaying "Can be Upgraded when population Reaches 1500"
and theres no building to buy ..

Anyone noticed that? did they implement villages which will stay forever villages?

thx for any answer.

[Withwnar]

Hi Falcon. That would be a question for the MOS thread.

[Falcon123]

Lol sry i had both threads open and did post in the wrong one..

[chriskourou]

Does anybody know how can I get my diplomats not getting their path blocked? It's really annoying and rather pointless

[RInger]

If you don't mind cheating a little, you could just do toggle_fow, and then they'll be able to take a path around obstacles.

[chriskourou]

Hehe, yeah this is a way to do it.. I was wondering if this is a scirpt thing so I won't have to worry about this anymore. Who blocks diplomats for God's sake?

[Bladvak]

Who blocks diplomats for God's sake?

I do it. I don't want Grima (oh that infamous wreck!), Dunland's or OotMM's diplomats bribing my armies. So yeah, I block their paths whenever I get the chance.

[Calypze]

It says that the recommended campaign difficulty is very hard. Does that apply to the battle difficulty as well?

I wonder, is the mod designed so that it will only work properly if the campaign is played on very hard difficulty? I know the recommended difficulty for Europa Barbarorum is also very hard, but then the AI goes absolutely crazy to kill you no matter what, in a way that doesn't feel particularly plausible. But admittedly the RTW AI is more feral than the one in M2TW. And EB functions perfectly well on other difficulty levels as well.

And what's up with the recommendation not to auto-resolve battles?

[lolIsuck]

It says that the recommended campaign difficulty is very hard. Does that apply to the battle difficulty as well?

I wonder, is the mod designed so that it will only work properly if the campaign is played on very hard difficulty? I know the recommended difficulty for Europa Barbarorum is also very hard, but then the AI goes absolutely crazy to kill you no matter what, in a way that doesn't feel particularly plausible. But admittedly the RTW AI is more feral than the one in M2TW. And EB functions perfectly well on other difficulty levels as well.

And what's up with the recommendation not to auto-resolve battles?

As withwnar said, factions relying on heavy melee infantry are favoured by autoresolve, whereas cavalry-based or missile-based factions as Rohan or the Silvan Elves perform less. In a way this is weird as it's bloody easy for a player to win with a cavalry or missile army, a melee army performs the least in played battles. The factors calculating autoresolve favour the melee army though.

And the game works fine on lower difficulties, I almost only play VH/Vh but the few campaigns I played on lower difficulties had no problems really.

[Withwnar]

As I understand it the mod's balancing was designed with VH in mind. Battles too I expect but I'm not sure.

Auto-resolve can be heavily unbalanced due to some factions (Orcs, Dwarves) having many units with large numbers of class "heavy infantry": a major factor in auto-resolve calculations, therefore those factions tend to do unfairly well in AR.

[HighElves]

I play N/VH and,well,in battle I didn't see difference of easy and Very Hard,in campaign,at Very Hard,enemies get heavy Infantry even at Villages....

[Bladvak]

I play N/VH and,well,in battle I didn't see difference of easy and Very Hard,in campaign,at Very Hard,enemies get heavy Infantry even at Villages....

that's probably the garrison script, it's not the same thing as recruiting heavy infantry from villages.

[Infidel144]

Why does the Noretirno Cavalry not have shields?

[Ngugi]

I play N/VH and,well,in battle I didn't see difference of easy and Very Hard,in campaign,at Very Hard,enemies get heavy Infantry even at Villages....

The AI as a rule rout much easier and is less aggresive in battle on easier levels.
That must been a misunderstanding, that heavy units were spawned nearby or something, because unit recrutment is locked to certain buildings [high level barracks for high level infantry, and high level barracks are locked to big settlements] and that is not affected by difficulty level.

Why does the Noretirno Cavalry not have shields?

Unknown AFAIK, even if there's IRL historical examples on that kind of arms; though if he drop in you might get an answer from the creator LouiseLux

[Calypze]

The AI as a rule rout much easier and is less aggresive in battle on easier levels.

In RTW the AI gets stats bonuses in battle on the harder difficulties (on easy the player gets stat bonuses, and on medium nobody gets stat bonuses). Is this not the case with the M2TW engine?

[Ngugi]

Hmm, might be, though that's nothing I can recall to ever heard

[Dude with the Food]

I know that the player suffers morale (and possibly fatigue) hits on higher difficulties - after playing so much medium, I couldn't move to hard because everyone routed so fast.

[Funeh]

Whats the history guild good for?

Also, is there somewhere a list of the guilds for TATW (if they are not the same as in vanilla)?

[Barbarossah]

Hi guys, I recently started playing my first Third Age campaign(tatw 3.2)playing as the Sylvan Elves H/H, with Withnars Submod Collection installed. I didnt want to mod the game too heavily for my first playthrough but the changeable bodyguard and secret paths won me over

I took over fangorn at around turn 15 and granted them autonomy a few turns later. Im at turn 45 now, got the barracks event, and I was wondering if they would ever offer me some Ents? Treebeards woodland friends could really help me strike at Moria and/or Isengard..

[Withwnar]

According to that script - which was not changed by my submods - there is a 20 turn countdown after autonomy and then a 20% chance that it will happen this turn. I'd say your dice rolling has been unlucky for 10 turns ... keep waiting.