Heroes question

[caralampio]

Haven't played TATW for a while, I am currently downloading 1.2. Could someone explain what are heroes? I don't remember any heroes in my previous TATW games.

[Legolose]

Legolas is in the Silvan Elf Fraction.
Gimli is in the Dwarven Fraction.
Dont know about the others, havent played any other fraction other than those two...

[faramir....]

they are generals that have the portraits of the best characters in lotr. they have special abilities in battle and traits. not to mention alot of hitpoints so they can slughter quite a few of the enemy!!! they are useful!! especially aragorn...just a shame that he is king for eriador!!!

[Mhydrian]

they are generals that have the portraits of the best characters in lotr. they have special abilities in battle and traits. not to mention alot of hitpoints so they can slughter quite a few of the enemy!!! they are useful!! especially aragorn...just a shame that he is king for eriador!!!

I hope they rework Eriador, and make it awesome looking. I like Dale too, I really want to play these two factions the most. I have played dale some, they are nice..need reworked models and texures though.

[caralampio]

they are generals that have the portraits of the best characters in lotr. they have special abilities in battle and traits. not to mention alot of hitpoints so they can slughter quite a few of the enemy!!! they are useful!! especially aragorn...just a shame that he is king for eriador!!!

But they are a 1.2 addition, or were they there all the time? I mean as heroes, I know they were there as generals.

[koultouras]

And may i ask if anybody knows how 2 make these abilities last longer...(via txt modification)... What file are they into?
Ive been looking since morning but in the descr_hero_abilities .txt only evil abilites are included...
15 secs is way too short!!!

[axnsan]

And may i ask if anybody knows how 2 make these abilities last longer...(via txt modification)... What file are they into?
Ive been looking since morning but in the descr_hero_abilities .txt only evil abilites are included...
15 secs is way too short!!!

Nope. All are there.

[koultouras]

Nope. All are there.

Which is the name of Aragorn's ability (i mean the coded one) ...cuse iam getting only these ones:

The_Heart_of_the_Lion
Righteousness_of_Faith
Light_of_the_Faith
The_Flower_of_Chivalry
Terror_of_the_Witch_King
Terror_of_the_Nazgul
Super_Banana_Bomb

Aragorn"s and Gandalf's abilities are the ones (first) without a name , aren't they? Are the ones included in the spoiler?

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

- <hero_ability_effects>
- <hero_ability_effect>
- <!-- lock_morale: target units' morale will not change (does not affect routing units, units with higher morale will lock at that level instead) -->
<name>lock_morale</name>

- <!-- Armies that will be affected by the effect -->
- <!-- Possible Values: enemy_armies, own_army, allied_armies -->
<target>own_army</target>

- <!-- Level that the morale will be locked at -->
- <!-- Possible Values: impetuous, high, firm, shaken, wavering -->
<morale_level>high</morale_level>

</hero_ability_effect>


- <hero_ability_effect>
- <!-- rally_units: rallies all routing units at the specified level of morale -->
<name>rally_units</name>

<target>own_army</target>

- <!-- Level to which the morale will be set after rallying -->
- <!-- Possible Values: impetuous, high, firm, shaken, wavering -->
<morale_level>firm</morale_level>

- <!-- Minimum time before the unit will rout again -->
<min_time_before_rout>20</min_time_before_rout>

</hero_ability_effect>


- <hero_ability_effect>
- <!-- army_morale: increases/decreases the morale of target units -->
<name>army_morale</name>

<target>enemy_armies</target>

- <!-- positive values increase morale -->
<morale_modifier>-5</morale_modifier>

</hero_ability_effect>


- <hero_ability_effect>
- <!-- army_fatigue: increases/decreases the fatigue of target units -->
<name>army_fatigue</name>

<target>own_army</target>

- <!-- negative values decrease fatigue -->
<fatigue_modifier>-2000</fatigue_modifier>

- <!-- Whether the fatigue boost is permanent, or will revert to what it was once the effect finishes -->
- <!-- Possible Values: true, false -->
<permanent>false</permanent>

</hero_ability_effect>


- <hero_ability_effect>
- <!-- soldier_combat_effectiveness: increases/decreases the combat effectiveness of target units -->
<name>soldier_combat_effectiveness</name>

<target>own_army</target>

- <!-- 0 = no chance to kill, < 1 = decreased chance, 1 = normal chance, > 1 = increased chance -->
<kill_chance_modifier>2</kill_chance_modifier>

</hero_ability_effect>


- <hero_ability_effect>
- <!-- unit_infighting: has a percentage chance to cause the target units to become inactive for a time -->
<name>unit_infighting</name>

<target>enemy_armies</target>

- <!-- Percentage chance per unit -->
<percentage_chance>50</percentage_chance>

- <!-- Minimum time effected units will remain inactive for -->
<min_effect_time>10</min_effect_time>

- <!-- Maximum time effected units will remain inactive for -->
<max_effect_time>20</max_effect_time>

</hero_ability_effect>


</hero_ability_effects>


</hero_ability>


- <hero_ability>

[faramir....]

i think dale are awsome!! their double swordsmen look awsome!!! its just a shame that you cant move aragorn and gandalf to gondor because that would be perfect!!! eriador arent too bad after you can get the better units...

[Black_ice_Spain]

One question... does gondor get any hero? T_T.

[Finlander]

I hope that they will make somekind event to Gondor that they can get Gandalf and Aragorn.

Can you even Imagine how great it would be?! Ahh...

edit.

One question... does gondor get any hero? T_T.

Nope.

[axnsan]

No those are example abilities.

Just look at the bottom of expanded.txt.

[*Ranger*]

Does Gimli have a special ablility?

[Muffer Nl]

Yes he has that ability from BFME where he jumps and kills a whole army by himself

[Danny_K_1]

Yes he has that ability from BFME where he jumps and kills a whole army by himself

I loved that!

[axnsan]

And my granma is Queen Elizbeth II.

[koultouras]

heroes will be reworked in future as far as i can tell , considering that in the edu.txt there is a section in the bottom
that includes all heroes units that will appear in latter stages of mod's development (the section has a warning "Not playable yet")
... And i suppose that everyone included will eventually get a special ability...