Building/Recruiting in foreign lands?

**zorphon** · February 21, 2012, 03:51 PM

How do you build buildings and recruit units in 'foreign lands', of which you conquered? Like I just captured a ton of orc towns as High Elves, but I can't do ANYTHING in them because I guess I don't have Elf Culture there?

How do I spread it, or at least make it so I can utilize that with which I now own.

Thanks in advance. Am new to TATW so excuse my noobiness.

**Nemesis_GR** · February 21, 2012, 03:57 PM

You should check the FAQ and post your questions to the official questions thread.Anyway u have to build buildings tha increase culture.For high elves this is the art gallery line.

**zorphon** · February 21, 2012, 04:01 PM

Originally Posted by Nemesis_GR

You should check the FAQ and post your questions to the official questions thread.Anyway u have to build buildings tha increase culture.For high elves this is the art gallery line.

If you build them in your 'homeland', does it apply to foreign lands?

**knicolas2** · February 21, 2012, 04:03 PM

first you can destroy the orc buildings in the settlement so you can build equal elves buildings. e.g. destroy the orc garrison to build one of the elves .
and as said build cultural buildings.

**Hermes Trismegistos** · February 21, 2012, 04:09 PM

No, don't destroy orcish buildings, you can use them just fine and even upgrade them once your culture level is high enough!

You have to build culture buildings in every region where you want to increase your culture level, it doesn't affect other provinces.

**zorphon** · February 21, 2012, 04:13 PM

Originally Posted by Hermes Trismegistos

No, don't destroy orcish buildings, you can use them just fine and even upgrade them once your culture level is high enough!

You have to build culture buildings in every region where you want to increase your culture level, it doesn't affect other provinces.

I don't think anybody in this thread is understanding.

I conquered a bunch of Orc towns in regions that have no Elven settlements in them. You just said you can only increase cultural level in the region you build in. So how do I get Elven culture (i.e., allow me to build units/buildings) in places unconnected?

**knicolas2** · February 21, 2012, 04:15 PM

Originally Posted by Hermes Trismegistos

No, don't destroy orcish buildings, you can use them just fine and even upgrade them once your culture level is high enough!

You have to build culture buildings in every region where you want to increase your culture level, it doesn't affect other provinces.

really? i everytime destroyed them due to a lack of money

elvish culture you get if you destroy the orc culture building if there is one and build an elvish culture building. but when it takes a while. which settlement do you captured?

**Pinkie Pie** · February 21, 2012, 04:16 PM

It is possible the cities are too small to build anything yet and if so you will have to wait until they have enough population to be upgraded.
AFAIK having no elven culture will not stop you from building anything. It just stops you from training units.

**zorphon** · February 21, 2012, 04:17 PM

Originally Posted by martin616

It is possible the cities are too small to build anything yet and if so you will have to wait until they have enough population to be upgraded.
AFAIK having no elven culture will not stop you from building anything. It just stops you from training units.

Yea like I literally can't do ANYTHING in any of the towns I got. Weird.

**knicolas2** · February 21, 2012, 04:20 PM

do you mean those towns in the misty mountains or which?

**zorphon** · February 21, 2012, 04:50 PM

Originally Posted by knicolas2

do you mean those towns in the misty mountains or which?

Yes the villages in the mountains.

**Nemesis_GR** · February 21, 2012, 04:20 PM

You dont have to destroy anything.Stop misleading him...
But you cant build the culture building in villages/motte castles.You should be able to build it in any other settlement.(town/wooden castle and bigger).

**Pinkie Pie** · February 21, 2012, 04:20 PM

It is also possible that the goblins have built everything there already.
What size cities are they?

**Wizad** · February 21, 2012, 06:19 PM

A lot of people in this thread are spreading vague nonsense. You do NOT have to destroy any buildings in the settlement you have conquered.

To increase Elven culture you have to build an art gallery.

To build an art gallery, the city must be big enough. If you have not build an art gallery yet and it doesn't appear at the available buildings, then there is a large chance your city is not big enough. If you hold your mouse cursor above the current population, it will tell you the population needed to upgrade the city to the next level. Considering Orcs of the Misty Mountains (you captured Orcs of the Misty Mountains right? Not Orcs of Gundabad, right?) have low population settlements, there is a large chance that this is the reason why you cannot build the art gallery.

I am not sure about the following:
It is possible that the settlement you have conquered is a settlement with limited building capabilities. There are a couple of those, one to the north of Imladris and one to the south of Moria. The reason why I am not sure that this reason is correct, is because I am not sure which buildings are affected by the "limited building capabilities".
I am quite certain that, when you conquere a settlement from an enemy, any cultural building they had will automatically get destroyed. So when an Elf army conquers an Orc city, the Orc cultural building will automatically get destroyed. You can check whether this is correct or not by going to the list of buildings at the settlement and search for a building that is named:
Shrine of Melkor
Temple of Melkor
Dark Temple of Melkor
Shrine of Melkor
Temple of Melkor
If there is any building in your settlement that has that name, destroy it.

**Wizad** · February 21, 2012, 06:25 PM

How can I edit my post? Oh well, to make this message useful:

The line of buildings that we call the art gallery, actually starts with a building called "Artist's Studio". So the first building that you need to construct in a settlement to improve Elven culture is named "Artist's Studio". You will be able to upgrade the building if your city grows.