About Eriador

**cedric37** · December 14, 2009, 10:07 AM

Well the more i play TATW the more this faction seems to me less entertaining compared to others:
- no unit diversity really (militia and more militia - no good looking units except the very latest units).
- not accurate lore-wise (no Kingdom of Eriador existed during late third age, and Aragorn never was their faction leader...)
- their starting position give them an easy start and they can extend easily and rapidly, thus creating a huge empire quite too easily compared to other factions.

Why not creating 1 or several "neutral" additional factions which can choose between good and evil (Tharbad, Bree and Fornost for example) with interesting units (mailed units wielding maces, axes and swords) ?

What do you think ? Am i the only one to feel like this ?

PS: i know DAC propose something like this but what i suggest is to make it standard in vanilla TATW 1.4 or 1.5.

**~~TheXand~~** · December 14, 2009, 10:11 AM

Disgruntled Goat is reworking Eriador at the moment, check out this thread to see what he's doing, he will be trying to implement some interesting new ideas to fix the problems that you highlighted.

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=300390

**cedric37** · December 14, 2009, 10:16 AM

Oh fantastic!! I just reade the 1st post and it is very very good. Thanks for letting me know. +rep to you.

**Myshkin** · December 14, 2009, 10:18 AM

Indeed Eriador is a problem at the moment, but they are being reworked.

At least I gave them a good boost at my mini-mod, together Harad, these two are the weakest military races in my opinion.

**TachChef** · December 14, 2009, 10:23 AM

I evenly liked playing Eriador until I reached Rohan and the Silvan Elves and had nowhere else to advance. I hope they incude some" heir- of Arnor units" with right armour.