LOTR fans rejoice!

**The Holy Pilgrim** · October 08, 2010, 04:18 PM

A mod, new to the TWC, is here! Some of you may have heard of it, most may have not. It is christened Lord of the Rings: Total War. It could be considered the precursor to this mod as it is the TATW of Rome Total War. After 4 1/2 years of development, they have decided to move past their own little forum and host their glorious mod here. Now, before you bash me about being a troll or a spammer, hear me out. This mod has had a lot of time and effort put into it. Not only did this mod make many break-throughs in R:TW (such as custom cities and somewhat workable flying and hero units), it is also one of the best mods you can find. Not only are there custom cities in the campaign, but you can play them in custom battles as well! You can even have Sauron lead your armies into Orthanc and crush all in your path.

It is centered around the movies and they have a campaign with the fellowship implemented into the main campaign and you can choose whether or not to play along with it. And the Fellowship is an actual Fellowship with single-man units in the campaign, no matter what unit size your game is set to. I am not bashing the Fellowship campaign in TATW, as I think it's magnificent, I'm just saying that if you like the Fellowship campaign in TATW, you'll like it in LOTR:TW. It also contains an immortal Sauron and all nine (also immortal) Nazguls. They don't die by age and they respawn with all of their traits and ancillaries when they die in battle. But if the Ring reaches Mount Doom, Mordor will fall and all of the other nations will continue life without them.

Again, I am most defenitely not bashing this mod in any shape or form, but I am hoping that the two mods, despite being on different platforms, can work together and bring the glory that is Lord of the Rings to the TWC. This mod is one of my favorites and I hope it contiunes all of it's wonderful and glorious work.

You can find a link here.

And before I get your hopes up, it is for Alexander Total War, not vanilla Rome or BI. However, if you have $10 to spare, you should defenitely pick up a copy.

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**mattgoby** · October 08, 2010, 04:32 PM

Gonna have to copy my backup of rtw me thinks to somewhere on the original harddrive so i can plays this

**alreadyded** · October 08, 2010, 04:33 PM

Congrats to whomever helped make this mod. I simply can't stand the piss poor graphics, otherwise I would definitely give it a try. They must have accomplished a lot in four and a half years, I don't think I could ever spend that much time on a mod.

**Baywatch** · October 08, 2010, 04:34 PM

Surprised it didn't happen sooner but, I'm glad it finally got a place here.

I love your sig btw.

**The Holy Pilgrim** · October 08, 2010, 04:35 PM

Btw, this mod is modfoldered.

@Baywatch: Thanks. This would've happend earlier if Wlesmana and Bardo allowed me to host this mod on the TWC as I requested a year ago, but they said that they had issues with the TWC administration before (I'm not sure what though). The admins said they could host, but then they would say that they couldn't. It was really confusing for them, and plus Wlesmana wanted a more localized and small-time feel for the modding community, but appearently that changed. I'm really glad they decided to host it here. Now they will recieve the attention they so rightly deserve.

**saxdude** · October 08, 2010, 04:50 PM

Finally they got a thread, visually its not the same as TA, but its content definitly makes it worth the download.

**Spitfire -WONDERBOLT!** · October 08, 2010, 04:55 PM

Oh boy, I'm gonna run out of room.

**.:Zack Fair:.** · October 09, 2010, 02:37 PM

One of the best mod available! Worthy the small download!

**paradamed** · October 09, 2010, 10:14 PM

I suggest you guys try this mod, it is very good. It is a good choice for people who cant play TATW.

**delra** · October 10, 2010, 12:21 AM

After 10000th cheat-fixing stupid diplomatic AI two or so years ago I promised myself I won't install RTW ever again in my life. :-) Is it worth breaking a promise?

**The Holy Pilgrim** · October 10, 2010, 12:27 AM

In this case, most defenitely.

**Varjon** · October 10, 2010, 01:05 AM

Congrats to wlesmana and rest of the team for joining TWC. I've been following that mod's progress for years but it's great to have them in the same place as rest of us. Really, really good mod, if you haven't tried it yet you should already be downloading!