Hello edain team (sorry posted this on the mod DB site, forgot my password to this site..
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But just an idea, or a wish..
I see you are implementing more and more material from the movie, and you are doing more fiction, which is rather satisfying for everyone:) For example the dwarven rams etc. they arent cannon but they are definitely awesome!
But here comes the wish, since MM faction hasnt been released yet, could the Dol Guldur orcs be transfered to Gundabad as battle orcs instead.
I have never really been a fan of the faction Mordor but i only play them because of the Dol Guldur orcs and its rather frutrating that you can only get them in late game or at all and they dont fit in the faction at all, the trolls of the faction belong with the minas morgul army and it doesnt fit to have both a minas morgul and a dol guldur army at the same time, timewise its wrong, just like Azog in the hobbit, timewise Easterlings attacked Erebor the same time as Saurons orcs attacked Minas tirith. But i will get to this later on.
And you cant have their correct leader or their epic battle trolls..
the only non fiction about this transfer is their armor, the Gundabad orcs didnt have this good armor, but who knows if Bolg would have won the war maybe he would have expanded and started arming up his army and all the other factions have gotten their movie armor. Plus i dont think they mentioned armor that much in the lore so for all we know they could have wore armor as they went to war.
And in the movie they were actually Moria orcs, which makes a lot more sense, Azog was king of Moria and later on Bolg but they were actually from Gundabad.
I think this would add alot more to the gameplay. First the faction is kinda weak when its wild and undisciplined with only goblins and cave trolls, but then as the game moves on and you plunder you enemies with goblintown you get enough resources to build up Gundabad to get your heavy battle orcs and trolls to turn around the battle field
And im okay with Bolg being the leader, but i totally get why they put Azog as leader in the movie (better name, has a greater story, plus it added more character for the orc race to see the relationship between the father and son, but yes it didnt timewise make any sense..) But instead of having Azog as a hunter he could be a leader of Gundabad orcs, maybe named as the General of Gundabad or something, just to have him named as the defiler dont really make sense, since there was only one orc with that title and we all know who that was..
And for Mordor, Dol Guldur could still be a settlement, just a little different, in the books saurons armies in Dol Guldur consisted from time to time of easterlings, orcs, spiders and trolls, so there could maybe be a mix of these, but trolls you could get from your camp as it is now.
I think this wold add a lot, the evil men would get a bigger part of the faction, easterlings as a standard unit in Dol Guldur with different orcs and haradrim as an epic summon.
The Dol Guldur orcs are my favourite unit in the game by far, and mostly i cant even get the time to use them, and the Minas Morgul units are stronger plus call the horde only works on Minas Morgul which makes the Dol Guldur orcs less efficient.
Also i dont get the point of having 2 fortresses with the exact same use,
Dol Guldur could be a mid game fortress with easterlings spiders and orcs to support the battlefield as you build up your Minas Morgul army for your final assult. I think Mordor would get a better gameplay this way and Misty Moutains would get a lot more intresting and for those who really liked the evils of the hobbit this would bring a much better use of the Gundabad orcs.
This is all! sorry for the massive text but hope you consider this:) And sorry if it sounds like im complainging on the mod, im not, the mod is friggin epic, its just this little detail, most players like the good factions more so it doesnt really matter for them, but for me who loved the hobbit evil army, and probably for everyone else who loved the evil hobbit army, this would make them all very happy:D
Also, if they were transfered maybe add a little fur here and there to their armor and make them more pale, this way they would look more like orcs from Gundabad:)
