As the topic says.
Well there a 3 Lord of the Ring mods, 1 based on the films done by Wselma LOTR:TW, and 2 based on the books: Middle Earth Total War set in the Third Age, and Fourth Age: Total War set in the fourth age.
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Here are the links of the mods mentioned by Lusted:
Fourth Age - Total War
Lord of the Rings - Total War
Middle-Earth - Total War
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Its Wlesmana, website= www.lotrtw.com. Based on the movies.
FATW, website= www.thefourthage.net Based on the unfinished works of Tolkien
Whats the best mod for the three mentioned above
I dont judge them as being better overall than others, just better in different ways. But I have only played a bit of LOTR:TW, never heard of ME:TW, and FA:TW looks really good.
I wouldn´t judge any of them better as another. Wles´ mod uses the designs of the movies and makes a very good job at that, while the other two mods are based on the books (though, in my opinion the movies did have an influence on their designs, especially where the campaign map buildings of METW are concerned).
So far, FATW is the only of these three mods that work with RTW 1.5, and the demo the FATW team has released has four playable factions, Gondor, Dunland, Rohan and Harad.
METW is the only mod that has an "official" campaign map released (two, actually, though the second version requires a seperate download), but so far it suffers from the problem that it´s animations were done for RTW1.1, so while it does sort of work with 1.2, the units on the battle map behave absolutely erratically.
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