Best Bug Ever!

[brymht]

OK, I ended up trading the Dwarves for Fangorn for 35k gold. I'm in the latter stages of the game so the money wasn't a huge deal.

However, when they sold it it came equipped with 6 units of ents! And I'm the high elves!!!

While this is a bit much, high elves should be able to recruit ents as mercs.

[Chyeaaaa111]

Haha, nice

[Hero of the West]

6? i only got three as the silvan elves..

[philipjd]

6? i only got three as the silvan elves..

Ahh, the difference between being High v's low

[Hero of the West]

life's unfair

[carth]

sounds like a instand win..

[Muffer Nl]

The Elves CAN recruit Ents as mercenaries in Fangorn.

[Michael X]

If you want my opinion, no faction should be able to recruit Ents in any way...

[MasterBigAb]

If you want my opinion, no faction should be able to recruit Ents in any way...

No we don't...
But it would be a shame to have such nice models without being able to use them in battle
much more people would complain about not being able to use them, then there are which want them not to be recruitable...

[Hero of the West]

No we don't...
But it would be a shame to have such nice models without being able to use them in battle
much more people would complain about not being able to use them, then there are which want them not to be recruitable...

ents are great but they really need some upkeep.. i destroyed isengard 2.. each time with 3 free ent units and a crappy 5/8 stack army.. It wouldn't be so simple i've they had costed me money each turn because i then could not supplement my 5/8 stack army and i wouldn't had any money for my other fronts..

[Hero of the West]

I think the 3 units silvan elves get en claiming fangorn is sufficient.. it's a dying breed after all.. but instead of 3 units i would make it 2 and a general bodyguard unit with treebeard.. and i would give them upkeep, these don't have any

[cormagus77]

and i would give them upkeep, these don't have any

Now, what would an ent do with shiny little coins, I wonder???

I think ents surely wouldn't fight for gold, but only to clear the woods of orcs! (edit: so fighting alongside the elves in some way makes absolutely sense - even more than a balrog doing, what some tiny goblin maggots want )
Although the missing upkeep for the ents seems a bit unfair, it makes perfect sense from a lore point of view!

On the other hand are ents enormously rare, and quite expensive to hire; so I guess this makes it even...

[Lordinquisitor]

You`ll have to think a bit abstract in this mod. Upkeep is most often simply a way of balancing things- And if something costs money in this mod it doesn`t necessary mean that you pay them.

[philipjd]

even more than a balrog doing, what some tiny goblin maggots want )

Before I played the OotMM's I had wondered whether the Balrog would be the faction leader... but can understand why not...

Likewise with Ents, I wonder whether it is possibel to limit a units movement area, so that the Balrog/Ents could only move within the adjacent areas? It would make Fangorn/Moria, sort of, regions of last resort for the elves/Orcs.

[JorisofHolland]

No. Not possible.

[Baron Samedi]

Wow six units of ents, that will save you 6*2300=13800. Not to mention you can only recruit them every 25 turns if you hire them yourself as mercenaries.

[old_dude]

Though not as beneficial as brymht's, I had a rather interesting "bug" a while back too. Glorfindel led an army and besieged an Isengard city. I wanted to starve them out so I did not attack. Halfway to surrender I saved and quit for the night. Immediately upon reload the next day, Glorfindel got a man of the hour event and I don't know why. I couldn't get it to reappear by loading the save game again and again.

[athanaric]

Though not as beneficial as brymht's, I had a rather interesting "bug" a while back too. Glorfindel led an army and besieged an Isengard city. I wanted to starve them out so I did not attack. Halfway to surrender I saved and quit for the night. Immediately upon reload the next day, Glorfindel got a man of the hour event and I don't know why. I couldn't get it to reappear by loading the save game again and again.

Perhaps a M2TW Vanilla bug. I've had a similar situation with BC.

[hazdude222]

yup - I had the same thing - :O

[Maxamus]

I wonder if buying fangorn then selling and rebuying would give 12 ents