Different Racial Buildings

**warshark9386** · January 13, 2013, 07:03 PM

If you are playing as the dwarves per say and you take over a orc settlement, filled with orc buildings, can you still use those buildings? Or do you have to tear them down and start all over again? Another thing, if you can use those buildings can you upgrade them to get higher level units?

**Elven Warrior** · January 13, 2013, 07:11 PM

you can use those buildings and when you upgrade those building it will switch to your cultures buildings.

**Wizad** · January 13, 2013, 07:18 PM

The culture of buildings doesn't matter at all. You can use every barracks, whether it was made by Orcs, Elves or Men.

Recruitment requires that your religion is dominant in the settlement. You can raise your religion by building a certain line of buildings. For Elves it's the Art Gallery line, for Orcs the Shrines of Melkor. I'm not sure what the one for Dwarves is, but I'm guessing it's called the Tavern or something like that. If you go to a settlement and you look at all of the building descriptions, one will say "increases the culture by 2/3/4%", that's the one you need.

You can look at the current division of culture at the settlement details screen. The amount of culture/religion required to train units can be seen at the barracks.

Also since you mentioned you are playing as Dwarves, I advice you to attack Rhun. Rhun is located south of your eastern settlements. Taking Kugavod and Rhomen makes sure that your ally Dale won't get defeated. Good luck!

edit:
This is the building you need:
http://totalwar.honga.net/building.p...b=small_masjid

In the future it is best to post easy questions in this thread:
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...559189&page=51

**Beregond** · January 15, 2013, 09:01 AM

Originally Posted by Wizad

Also since you mentioned you are playing as Dwarves, I advice you to attack Rhun. Rhun is located south of your eastern settlements. Taking Kugavod and Rhomen makes sure that your ally Dale won't get defeated. Good luck!

Well, this is a risky strategy, cause it'd hamper your whole 'reclaim the mountains' campaign against Orcs. ALso mountain regions are much easier to upgrade to your culture and they give much better income.
Although Rhun would likely attack you anyway, at least this is how it was in my experience

**warshark9386** · January 15, 2013, 05:48 PM

Thanks for the answers guys, I will make sure to destroy only the useless buildings from now on. Also I've been leaving Rhun alone the whole campaign and been focusing on the mountains. Is it certain that Dale will be defeated if I don't help them? Also what do I do about my settlements to the west, I can't seem to find a use for them militarily.

**warshark9386** · January 15, 2013, 06:05 PM

[QUOTE=Wizad;12461438]The culture of buildings doesn't matter at all. You can use every barracks, whether it was made by Orcs, Elves or Men.

Recruitment requires that your religion is dominant in the settlement. You can raise your religion by building a certain line of buildings. For Elves it's the Art Gallery line, for Orcs the Shrines of Melkor. I'm not sure what the one for Dwarves is, but I'm guessing it's called the Tavern or something like that. If you go to a settlement and you look at all of the building descriptions, one will say "increases the culture by 2/3/4%", that's the one you need.

You can look at the current division of culture at the settlement details screen. The amount of culture/religion required to train units can be seen at the barracks.

Also since you mentioned you are playing as Dwarves, I advice you to attack Rhun. Rhun is located south of your eastern settlements. Taking Kugavod and Rhomen makes sure that your ally Dale won't get defeated. Good luck!

edit:
This is the building you need:
http://totalwar.honga.net/building.p...b=small_masjid

In the future it is best to post easy questions in this thread:
[url]http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=559189&page=51[/url
Lets say the orcs have a culture building in the settlement, does that work for them still or me?

**Wizad** · January 15, 2013, 06:09 PM

Originally Posted by warshark9386

Lets say the orcs have a culture building in the settlement, does that work for them still or me?

You mean a Shrine of Melkor?

I believe those automatically get demolished when a faction with a different religion conquers the settlement.

Originally Posted by warshark9386

Thanks for the answers guys, I will make sure to destroy only the useless buildings from now on. Also I've been leaving Rhun alone the whole campaign and been focusing on the mountains. Is it certain that Dale will be defeated if I don't help them? Also what do I do about my settlements to the west, I can't seem to find a use for them militarily.

It's not certain that Dale will lose vs Rhun, it's just highly likely. It is possible, though unlikely, that Dale defeats Rhun on its own and then continues to conquer Mordor! I never take that risk though. Rhun is way too powerful when winning.

The western settlements are quite useless unless you focused on upgrading the city from the very start.

**Jojobobo** · January 14, 2013, 07:13 AM

If you are playing as the Dwarves as you suggested, remember to destroy all stables/warg breeders and troll cages as they're all useless to you and usually give quite a bit of money.