My first campaign with this mod...

[OfficerJohn]

is a hotseat.
I'm not sure this is the right place to put it, but:

I'm not able to play this modification, but a friend of mine is.
I went over to him to play, and he already had another friend of him there.

We decided to play hotseat all three.

Me:
Mordor
Isengard
Rhûn
Harad

Friend 1:
Dwarves
Silvian Elves

Friend 2:
Rohan
High Elves


The first thing I noticed when we started the game, was how awesome the intro video was. I was amazed, really.

Then we started the campaign. I was allowed to watch a little on the first turn with Rohan, but then I had to leave the room, and the good guys did their turns.

Then it was my turn.
I started off as Mordor, and I loved it! I had already seen the campaign map thing you posted here, and many screenshots, but it was nothing compared to the feeling I got while playing!
I did the usual stuff, recruiting and building, but I also gave myself time to look at the Black Gate, Minas Morgul and Barad Dûr on the campaign map. I simply love them!
In Mirkwood I sent a spy to the north to spy on the Silvian Elves, and it discovered a bandit settlement. I started recruiting, I was going to take it!
When I was done, another friend (of all three of us) arrived randomly. We decided he could have Isengard, since that wasn't so directly under Mordor's rule as Harad and Rhûn, and I was going to keep Mordor!

Some peaceful turns went by. Only one thing happened. The Dwarves sent me a message offering their loyalty. We had agreed to play by the book, but both the friend of mine playing Dwarves and I knew that Sauron did several attempts to get the Dwarves on his side. Tempting them with Rings and such. So I accepted. The guy playing Rohan and High Elves doesn't know yet. He's even allied to the Dwarves (with High Elves)... And Isengard doesn't know either. Why should they?

Now, I called an invasion on Hornburg to help Isengard out a little. Isengard and Rohan were about equal, come on! And in about one turn all my three factions had joined the invasion. Mordor still had huge armies left at home, which I gathered at Minas Morgul, and Harad had enough to defend themselves. Rhûn didn't have much, but they were the richest, and started to recruit a lot.

I also sent a fleet from Umbar to attack Gondor, and the Minas Morgul army marched onto Eastern Osgiliath, I took the settlement in Mirkwood (I don't remember the name), which is closest to the north.

Now, Rohan did a desperat attempt to attack Isengard, and left almost all of his cities and castles ungarrisoned. Stupid, because my army of Mordor entered Rohan on it's eastern borders the turn before (I got that lovely Rauros video...)

And that's about it. We're going to play more today. Rhûn is soon passing by the Black Gate, and moving into Rohan with their army, and Harad's army is in Northern Ithilien. More I don't know, I can see far, but I cannot yet see Eriador and Arnor.

I can just say: This is a really interesting campaign.

We're only at turn 7, it takes some time
>.>

Gonna get way more turns done today

[Haerski]

Sounds fun. And you are only on turn 7.

I wish I also had few friends who would share my interest in Total War games. Playing with friends is always so much funnier than playing over the internet with guys you have never even met.

[hospik m]

Hotseats are always really fun

[Confederate Jeb]

My brother and I play hotseats all the time. The only thing we dislike about them is the fact that you can't fight the sally battles when your enemy is the one sallying forth.

We're thinking about doing a good vs evil campaign ourselves.

[Skeleton Of The West]

Sounds like a really fun campaign you and your friend have. I would love to play a hotseat with my friends, but none of them have the mod..

Who is playing as Gondor, Dale, Eriador and OOtMM? Is it the AI?

[OfficerJohn]

Sounds like a really fun campaign you and your friend have. I would love to play a hotseat with my friends, but none of them have the mod..

Who is playing as Gondor, Dale, Eriador and OOtMM? Is it the AI?

Yeah, it's the AI.

No one wanted Gondor... >.>
So my main enemy with Mordor and Harad is going to be a little easier

Rohan is as good as dead, now. I think we're at turn 11 or something, don't remember, maybe some more.


Now my invasion army from Mordor have besieged Edoras, my army from Rhûn is about to siege another settlement in Rohan and the same with Harad. Isengard is about to take yet another settlement from them.
Poor, poor Rohan
I think I'll launch an attack on the Silvian Elves soon, they're quite weak at the moment (spies FTW).
lol, I'll take Lorien or something.

I just hope that my other friends in the hotseat go to this forum and read this thread.
(At least not the guy being betrayed by the dwarves...)

btw, when do I get mumaks?

This campaign is so much fun that you got no idea!

[Skeleton Of The West]

Yeah, it's the AI.

No one wanted Gondor... >.>
So my main enemy with Mordor and Harad is going to be a little easier

Why no one took Gondor as one of his factions? It is one of the most important factions in the game. If Gondor is controlled by the AI, it will be very unbalanced, and it is, by what I read you have done to Rohan .

[OfficerJohn]

Why no one took Gondor as one of his factions? It is one of the most important factions in the game. If Gondor is controlled by the AI, it will be very unbalanced, and it is, by what I read you have done to Rohan .

Yeah, it is.

Now, Rohan surrendered, though the player playing Dwarves and Silvian Elves doesn't know yet.


I've forced Rohan to sign a deal with me. They give me almost all of their current land, and move east across the Anduin, for me to have more control over them.

So I surround them on all sides with one of my factions, Mordor to the south, Rhun to the east (and soon to the north along with) Mordor to the North in Mirkwood, and to the west a mixture of Harad, Mordor and Rhun.


This campaign is gonna end with evil victrory, because both the Dwarves and Rohan have joined the Evil, and Gondor is next to fall. Afterwards, it's Silvian Elves and Dale, and then I got no threat against my growing Empire except High Elves.

I'll let the Dwarves deal with the High Elves.

[Punisher1024]

My brother and I play hotseats all the time. The only thing we dislike about them is the fact that you can't fight the sally battles when your enemy is the one sallying forth.

We're thinking about doing a good vs evil campaign ourselves.

Same here bro that's why I dont play hotseats all that much. Im more defensive at first until I can get an army then I am good. But they can still attack then im dead you know? lol But that hotseat sounds really fun. I might have to try that now. I wont play as that many factions maybe three each at most between me and one of my buddies.

[jiblyboop]

why sint anyone playing gondor i wonder..........

[hospik m]

If you're running 1.1 then I think it's at turn 41, or 82 haven't played them yet. Or if you're playing 1.0 it's 49 and 98

[OfficerJohn]

If you're running 1.1 then I think it's at turn 41, or 82 haven't played them yet. Or if you're playing 1.0 it's 49 and 98

Well, it's 1.0

It's going to take ages to get there ^^

Rohan will already be crushed! And Gondor struggle for survival, or maybe be dead too.


I'm concidering to take all of Rohan except one region, and then force them to be my vassal, and have them attacking other good nations. Making them a part of the Evil, always keeping them under control.

As they are a human nation he may accept to avoid being eliminated.
I can't give him any insight in my plans, though, he also rules High Elves, which are one of my worst enemies in the entire campaign.

He attacked Eriador
>.>

[Muffer Nl]

Oooooh you evil...
I like it

[hospik m]

Messing with Good and Evil.. shame on you

[Skeleton Of The West]

You are really abusing the good factions. Make them turn on each other .

[OfficerJohn]

The funniest thing is that they don't even know.

On another note I got a few financial problems, but I think, with my new capture of Edoras and Osgiliath, they will be svolved eventually. When I got Gondor on their knees I think I'll get back up.

Now we're at turn 14, and Rohan have abandoned their homelands at my order, moving to the other side of the Anduin.

[Skeleton Of The West]

You are only in turn 14 and have done all of this? Thats impressive .
You better hope your friends dont read this thread, because if they do, you are in big trouble .

[OfficerJohn]

You are only in turn 14 and have done all of this? Thats impressive .
You better hope your friends dont read this thread, because if they do, you are in big trouble .

Uhm, I'm livin' in the hope...

The downside is that they all know about this forum, the upside is that they don't really visit it.

I linked the player playing Isengard, as he knows about all my plans anyways, and are heavily involved.


One thing is bothering me: everyone is so selfish and wants so much land for their own factions. Hell, I don't like that. I should rightfully get almost the entire Middle-earth. Like... what good have Rohan done to me making them diserve the entire land between Mirkwood, Rhun, Anduin and Mordor? Heck, that's a lot of land, but the Rohan player didn't agree to the deal unless I gave him all that. Selfish bastard.
And Isengard, the entire area between Rohan (which is mine), the Misty Mountains, the Great Sea and High Elves? Well, it's okay, but they want the High Elves too. Isengard is the least ambitious, and I half way control them.
The player playing the Dwarves is okay, but he wants Moria! What's the point in that? I want that income! I need that income! Mordor wants it! Give the Dark Lord what he wants or die!
But meh, I'll steal away a little of what I've promised them, threatening them all with a war against all the other factions. None of them wants to fight alone, and none knows that other factions are going to feel the same.

I promised the Dwarves Moria, but I'll take it myself, I promised Rohan Lorien, but I'll take that too, I promised Isengard a vast land to the west, and heck, they can have it as long as they crush the High Elves along with the Dwarves.

I have to rush on Gondor, seriously, the threat away, the income I'll get, and the power I get is worth it, really.
I'm sieging Erech and I've taken Osgiliath. I have to crush a full stack of Gondorians before moving onwards into their lands. They also have Northern Ithilien and Cair Andros, so I got some work to do.

[A_Dane]

just give rohan the plains, they originate from there anyway if they don't agree then just kill him? he got other nations to play by the sound of it, you're truly their overlord, and hence they can't make demands

[OfficerJohn]

just give rohan the plains, they originate from there anyway if they don't agree then just kill him? he got other nations to play by the sound of it, you're truly their overlord, and hence they can't make demands

Truth is his other nation is High Elves, and I want to crush all Elves, hence why I let Rohan survive.
I wanted Rohan to switch side of the Anduin to easier be able to control them, because now I surround them with my factions, and I also wanted all the cool settlements in Rohan, like Hornburg and Edoras. I snapped them before Isengard got their act together, so Isengard is left with two previous Rohan regions, while Rhun got one, Harad got one and Mordor got three. The two last are still Rohan's, because they're the ones closest to Anduin, and if Rohan is completely out of settlements they lose, you know. So they're allowed to keep it.

Now my attack on Gondor from Rohan have already begun, I sent an Haradrim army through the paths of the dead.