Post screenshots of your weirdest/greatest/most awful/most pitifull generals!

[Jollefjoll]

Hello gents!


Please share your weirdest or craziest generals, or perhaps you have a really good one - or a terrible one? Please post screenshots we all may enjoy it!

[SinerAthin]

Tempting.

During my High Elven playthrough, I was expanding rapidly through the Middle Earth.

The Elves had purged the mountains to the west of the dwarves. They had marched through the free lands of Eriador and slaughtered all the hobbits, humans and any other silly thing they could find there, butchered Sauroman, and when they were about to besiege the Orcs of the Misty Mountains, we suddenly realized that the dwarves had conquered all the lands past it, and the orcs were just a remnant.

And that was the dawn of Elrond, with two of the worst generals possible at his side.

One was an alcoholic, to the point he had become paralyzed. The other one was a degenerated sexual beast with a tongue so coarse and spiteful it mad Sauron's own sound like a silver melody of mercy.

They were both at 0 command, incompetent commanders, and they usually had a LOT of fear, though. And the worst thing is, they wouldn't die!

At the battle of the dwarven capital, my two stacks versus the six stacks of the dwarves and dale, Elrond got an axe through his skull and most of the elves in his army were butchered and routed. But oh no, those two general sidekicks of his persisted.

They basically mowed through all of remaining dale and dwarven forces, even reached and KILLED the dwarven faction heir, and even when all of their bodyguards were dead, they still fought on and I managed to route the rest of the remaining dwarves.

Why God would have those two misfits save my day, but let the noble Elrond die is beyond my comprehension!

With 0 command, they won my campaign...

[Jollefjoll]

Tempting.

During my High Elven playthrough, I was expanding rapidly through the Middle Earth.

The Elves had purged the mountains to the west of the dwarves. They had marched through the free lands of Eriador and slaughtered all the hobbits, humans and any other silly thing they could find there, butchered Sauroman, and when they were about to besiege the Orcs of the Misty Mountains, we suddenly realized that the dwarves had conquered all the lands past it, and the orcs were just a remnant.

And that was the dawn of Elrond, with two of the worst generals possible at his side.

One was an alcoholic, to the point he had become paralyzed. The other one was a degenerated sexual beast with a tongue so coarse and spiteful it mad Sauron's own sound like a silver melody of mercy.

They were both at 0 command, incompetent commanders, and they usually had a LOT of fear, though. And the worst thing is, they wouldn't die!

At the battle of the dwarven capital, my two stacks versus the six stacks of the dwarves and dale, Elrond got an axe through his skull and most of the elves in his army were butchered and routed. But oh no, those two general sidekicks of his persisted.

They basically mowed through all of remaining dale and dwarven forces, even reached and KILLED the dwarven faction heir, and even when all of their bodyguards were dead, they still fought on and I managed to route the rest of the remaining dwarves.

Why God would have those two misfits save my day, but let the noble Elrond die is beyond my comprehension!

With 0 command, they won my campaign...

Haha, great story! +rep

[Domino]

yea nice story
Somehow I believe 'fearful' generals get more hitpoint-traits then 'respected' ones, of course the biggest reason why Elrond dies fast is because he is on foot and generals on foot usually die REALLY fast, even with extra hitpoint 'biography'.

[JorisofHolland]

yea nice story
Somehow I believe 'fearful' generals get more hitpoint-traits then 'respected' ones,

Not true, dread doesn't affect hitpoints at all, and doesn't make it easier to gain HP traits.

of course the biggest reason why Elrond dies fast is because he is on foot and generals on foot usually die REALLY fast, even with extra hitpoint 'biography'.

That's more likely to be the reason.

[aurther]

heres some of my elven generals before the battle of the blackgate and invasion of mordor.

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also here is my mordor campaign generals including an impressive king theoden on the opposing side. (he died shortly later)

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not all the most impressive by themselves but i think its pretty cool that i had all those armies and generals at same time.

[KingLeonidas300]

heres some of my elven generals before the battle of the blackgate and invasion of mordor.

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also here is my mordor campaign generals including an impressive king theoden on the opposing side. (he died shortly later)

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not all the most impressive by themselves but i think its pretty cool that i had all those armies and generals at same time.

money cheat!!!!! haha no way you can afford to keep those many units

[penquin11]

This here is my best general in my Gondor campaign, so far it is turn 28.
He was involved in the taking of E. Ogliath, W. Ogliath; 4 defenses of W. Ogliath, as well as 3 field battles!

I find it amazing how strong generals can be in this game, I had this one douche named Aragorn (not the actual don't worry) who was essentially an extravagant and alcoholic as well as ignorant rapist (perverted)..... I took him into an impossible battle in which it would be his 12 men (I had tried to kill him with auto-resolve twice XD) vs. 1415, he managed to kill 218 people before finally dieing.... I was actually worried for a second...

[Zigama]

I had this one douche named Aragorn...

haha my mind went for a moment before I read the next few words

But whenever I start a Silvan Elves campaign Legolas always becomes either a pervert, an alcoholic, or just a plain jerk ("Legolas the Mean")

Usually sometime or another he gets one bad trait which starts a chain reaction ending with a 10-dread elf running around massacring orcs with his half stack of archers

And then he becomes king because he's the heir

[Mikail Mengsk]

You all should avoid building inns, characters are very likely to get drunk-related bad traits.

[Nero Wulf]

You all should avoid building inns, characters are very likely to get drunk-related bad traits.

True. But if you still want the inns, you can move your character out and inn of the settlement every turn. Then he will not get the bad traits.

[Zigama]

True. But if you still want the inns, you can move your character out and inn of the settlement every turn. Then he will not get the bad traits.

I found the hidden pun!

Strange though, because when I play Silvan Elves, I build no breweries (sort of a house rule) and try to release as much as possible, unless the ransom is really good. And I don't even think of exterminating.

Yet somehow Legolas always finds the dread deep inside of him...

[Muffer Nl]

I found the hidden pun!

Strange though, because when I play Silvan Elves, I build no breweries (sort of a house rule) and try to release as much as possible, unless the ransom is really good. And I don't even think of exterminating.

Yet somehow Legolas always finds the dread deep inside of him...

Well acording to some (not me!) gay people are evil just because they exist so it doesn't really surprise me

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ANTI ELVEN SQUAD!!!

[JorisofHolland]

Well acording to some (not me!) gay people are evil just because they exist so it doesn't really surprise me

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ANTI ELVEN SQUAD!!!

Mentioning it may cause a discussion which will have this thread closed.

[hazdude222]

I just love rounding up all my excess, useless and unimportant generals and sending the off to anywhere in the heart of the enemy

[eugenioso]

its been a while since i last played TATW, but i still remember Faramir as one of my most glorious, yet impossible-for-him-to-ing-die douche generals. it was like yin and yang went on a drunken binge and pooped out this lil freak of nature.

10 command, but negative command to both defense and attack (so on map 10, but on battles always 9), exotic tastes (like my taxes were somehow able to pay for that fatty's need to eat dragon eggs and hobbit fetuses), sanguinary (so awesome at war that he actually makes his men more prone to retreat) and a drunkard (he still tried to find answers at the bottom of a glass, and i still tried to get him killed)

he was also my faction leader, so that means i lost one tenth of my income due to his horrible trade and tax income. he was dready as well so no bonus to city growth, and he wouldnt die to chuck norris roundhouse kicks (or equivalent. e.g: catapult fire)

i had him for 50 turns as i went medieval on mordor, then harad and finally Isengard. finally, absolutely sick of my income stinking hard, i got him onto a wooden boat and sent him on a mission to find the undying lands, as well as 50 bottles of the best malt beer the dwarves could send. he never made it that far, and i have to thank the nice pirates of middle earth for freeing me from him.

[Moneybags14]

Here is my harad general. After fighting many many battles, he retired to Umbar to live with the faction heir after losing his son. Not bad for a guy who lives in the desert.

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[Railin]

Yea I agree, I dont think you could afford to keep three ELITE elf stacks...... And I find it funny that Harad holds Bree...

[aurther]

heh i hold a very large portion of the map in that campaign. i actually had other partial stacks on the way to nearest huge settlement to be retrained also. this also was version 1.4 i think so not sure if the money was easier or harder to come by then. i do know my eldar campaign now im rocking 2 full stacks of eldar and i dont have as many territories as i did then.

[Elensul]

Well, that'll be a half offtopic post... caus you'll see no stats. Just the most impressive victory i've seen in my TATW games.
He did my day ^^' Elrond Halfelf powa!