Mordor Faction Thread

[Obliterate76]

Post any plus or negative things about Mordor here such as,
battles
battle AAR's
SCREENS
And any other things that you would like to discuss.

[Kjertesvein]

Ahhh.... my first faction. I love the small camp up north.
I, the general, and 5 other minions brigades marched west of the norther camp to the forest elves. We hated the smell of fancy-wind from the west...
After 3 years of packing and traveling... We came across a river-pass, just before our target. The hills on each side of the bridge were as high as the talles towers I have seen. On the other side, I could see our foe, the green elves... in their facy pants, cowardly waithing with their chicken bows.... So did we, and we rested some more..... waithing for more reinforcement from the northen camp.
After 6 long months, a huge army of elves dicided to cross the bridge... but they seem to forgotten our ambush... High up in the hill our scout army showerd the enemy oh so many times. It didn't take long before it all looked like a shiny golden porcupine. It was a bloody massacre. It was great massacre. Elven blood ran in rivers that day... MOHAHAhahahahhaha...

[Devils_Advocate]

Post any plus or negative things about Mordor here such as,
battles
battle AAR's
SCREENS
And any other things that you would like to discuss.

Firstly, are you a team member? - no. So you can´t make any official threads.
Secondly, there is AAR section, a screenshot section, preview section where you can discuss, a suggestion section etc.
I really don´t get why it is necessary to bump this froum up by sensless threads, is this a try to get attention, or whatever?
Please again try to keep a bit overview, nice non-sticky thread get lost due to such senseless attempts!

[Obliterate76]

Firstly, are you a team member? - no. So you can´t make any official threads.
Secondly, there is AAR section, a screenshot section, preview section where you can discuss, a suggestion section etc.
I really don´t get why it is necessary to bump this froum up by sensless threads, is this a try to get attention, or whatever?
Please again try to keep a bit overview, nice non-sticky thread get lost due to such senseless attempts!

LMFAO since I can see you are seriously disturbed by my thread, I think you take a nice long walk and calm down what is with these people all over the forum lately

[Kjertesvein]

Firstly, are you a team member? - no. So you can´t make any official threads.

This point I'm with you on. 100%.

Secondly, there is

• AAR section,
• a screenshot section,
• preview section where you can discuss,
• a suggestion section etc.

I see this thread as a faction guide. None of the other sections cover this global area. This is a new mod, so I strongly belive alot of people will ask alot of questions regarding tips, what is-, where to go, what to aim for, etc BUT since the thread opener has no real goal, I see your point.


@ the thread opener
It would be great ff the thread opener would dedicate this thread to gather all info on Mordor in the first post. The quality would be far better.

[djxput]

I think the trolls are too strong. I put 1 group of trolls vs 2 groups of spear men. 0 trolls killed and like 250 spearmen dead and also the trolls were 1 gold chevron experience afterward.

Although I did test them vs 2 dwarf axemen and the dwaves won.

[Pink Beard]

I think the trolls are too strong. I put 1 group of trolls vs 2 groups of spear men. 0 trolls killed and like 250 spearmen dead and also the trolls were 1 gold chevron experience afterward.

Although I did test them vs 2 dwarf axemen and the dwaves won.

My friend, the reason WHY your spearmen epicly failed is because trolls are classified as Heavy Infantry.
And we all know that Heavy Infantry eats spearmen for breakfast.
I assume you thought that trolls were classed as cavalry or elephants? Nope.

[Code_Knight]

Changed name, because this isn't an official thread.

[DoktorJ]

Once nice thing about Mordor is that you get an alliance and trade rights to several evil factions from the beginning.

[The Sweeper]

I think Faction Guide threads with info such as tactics, units, and campaign strategies is actually a pretty good idea, as long as the info is all condensed into the first post as well. It would be useful to have one for all the factions so people can get an idea of how each one functions before playing them.

[Xstar]

The trolls are MAD, crazy like unkillable. Tougher than elephants and they act like men, they can climb walls and everything. I find them almost impossible to take down, at least with my militia.

[Lordinquisitor]

Trolls are strong indeed, but not unkillable. I like them the way they are, but they should cost a *bit* more.

Ballistas should work well. And i would also send some cannon fodder, to surround them. (While shooting Arrows at them.)
Just keep them off from your expensive troops. Maybe, but i dont tried it yet, let them run into some spearwall?

[Kiljaden]

Trolls are strong indeed, but not unkillable. I like them the way they are, but they should cost a *bit* more.

Ballistas should work well. And i would also send some cannon fodder, to surround them. (While shooting Arrows at them.)
Just keep them off from your expensive troops. Maybe, but i dont tried it yet, let them run into some spearwall?

Spearwall doesn't work too well... they decimate the unit fairly nicely with their immense hp and defense. If their cost is kicked up a notch to make them more rare, I would be wholly satisfied. -- Btw, has anyone tried crossbowmen on trolls?

[Kthullu]

I've been wondering, and this thread seems like a good place to ask... Wasn't Nazgul supposed to be on foot? And could you have more than 3 as generals?

[Marlyk]

In my first game (I'm playing as Isengard) the Mordor AI is really kicking some serious ass, they have taken half of gondors land including osgiliath and minas tirith and are the faction with the most military

Edit: Mordor eradicated Gondor around 50th turn

[retep219]

Does anyone know how to build "troll cages?" My cities say that only castles can build them and my castles say that only cities can build them, so, needless to say, I am confused. Any advice?

[DoktorJ]

You have to wait until turn 50 before they become available. Similar to gun powder in vanilla M2.

[retep219]

Oh...stupid me....is it the same with all other "elite" units?

[The Sixth Wizard]

Yep.

[Grakl]

Anyone having any luck with Mordor?

I see a lot of discussions with the good races but after a night I seem to be getting stomped with the horde factions (Mordor, Misty Mountain). I started on very hard as that's what the intro suggested and I must say....yowzers. Within a few turns Gondor was rocking me with 2x number of much higher quality units than my poor orcs. I lost everything outside of Mordor and was broke by turn 15 I believe.

I started a new game as Misty Mountain and lowered the difficulty to hard. I pushed the Sylvan out of their western forest after a hard fight. But I wasn't able to sustain a 3 front defence and High Elves pushed into the mountains from the west, Sylvan and Dwarves from the east easily dismantled me in short order.

I'm getting the feeling that the mod suffers from the typical "give the AI boatsloads of cash" scripts to artificialy inflate the difficulty. I understand the reasoning, sucks that it comes to that, but dag the AI can match me unit for unit in production #s and on top of that their units are much higher quality. (Charging down elven bowman (aka, the entire sylvan army) with my Snaga Skirmishers is, well, exactly what you'd think ).

Trolls sound like the sweetest thing but you don't get them till turn 50, I don't even last remotely that long heh heh. I need all the evil players suggestions ya'll can muster. How do you y'all beat the good races while being outnumbered, outgunned, and out economied? Thanks for any help.