Aragorn and Gandalf for human player (idea)

[Æsir]

I have played many campaigns and it's always annoying not to have Aragorn and Gandalf on my side when I'm playing as Gondor, Rohan or HE. Both of them are just sitting in Eriador and doing nothing as does the whole Eriador faction. So It would be nice to have them on player's side doing great deeds. There is my idea for submod:

If player is Gondor
When Minas Tirith is besieged, Gandalf is spawned in Minas Tirith, but Aragorn is spawned near Minas Tirith with half-stack of riders of Rohan (in remembrance of battle of Pelennor Fields).

If player is Rohan
When Edoras or Helms Deep are besieged, Aragorn is spawned in besieged settlement, but Gandalf is spawned near that settlement with half-stack of riders (in remembrance of battle of Hornburg).

If player is HE
Aragorn and Gandalf are spawned in Imladris.

If player is Eriador
The things stays as they are, only Aragorn isn't in family tree (and that's pretty lorewise).

What do you think?

PS I hope I roused interest of some experienced scripter (it's all that such mod require), because I'm not very confident of my scripting capabilities.

[desean]

i like

[Ellin Athinaios]

Nice idea! : )

[hazdude222]

i'm sure that could be done (i hope)

EDIT: what would you do the second time? or are Aragorn/Gandalf for 1 turn only

[Ozzmosis]

I can see this being easily abused by any player, by leaving minas tirith or hornburg almost undefended so that the enemy attacks and they can get the armies and heroes.

[Romaneck]

How would it work on hot-seat tough? first come first serve?

[Elessar789]

I have played many campaigns and it's always annoying not to have Aragorn and Gandalf on my side when I'm playing as Gondor, Rohan or HE. Both of them are just sitting in Eriador and doing nothing as does the whole Eriador faction. So It would be nice to have them on player's side doing great deeds. There is my idea for submod:

If player is Gondor
When Minas Tirith is besieged, Gandalf is spawned in Minas Tirith, but Aragorn is spawned near Minas Tirith with half-stack of riders of Rohan (in remembrance of battle of Pelennor Fields).

If player is Rohan
When Edoras or Helms Deep are besieged, Aragorn is spawned in besieged settlement, but Gandalf is spawned near that settlement with half-stack of riders (in remembrance of battle of Hornburg).

If player is HE
Aragorn and Gandalf are spawned in Imladris.

If player is Eriador
The things stays as they are, only Aragorn isn't in family tree (and that's pretty lorewise).

What do you think?

PS I hope I roused interest of some experienced scripter (it's all that such mod require), because I'm not very confident of my scripting capabilities.

Yes, I really like your idea ...
but maybe I would prefer that the heroes might appear in the faction only after a precise number of turns, rather than when a precise city is besieged (I say this thing because I think that would be difficult write a script like this, and then also because the player might seek to leave intentionally the city defenseless, leaving that the heroes can appear for that specific faction very early).

And, frankly, (but this is only my opinion), I don't like having Gandalf and Aragorn in the "High Elf" faction ... but only for Eriador , Rohan and Gondor ...

- Then I think it would be better if in Rohan and Gondor, Gandalf was "Gandalf the White", and not "Gandalf the Grey" ...

- and I think it would also be nice create a script so that when the hero appears, the player can choose whether to have the hero "on horse" or if "on foot" (like JuL14n has did for his "Faramir & Boromir" submod and for my "Remake of Aragorn's Model" submod) ...

What do you think about it??
Thanks