Hello dear community of the Modding Union
with some delay I want to present you my suggestion for the outposts and ring-heroes of the upcoming Misty-Mountains-faction. I´ll start with the outposts:
Outposts:
Currently the last thing I heard was, that the Misty Mountains should get two outposts: The dragons lair, which gives them access to Smaug and dragon-hatchlings, and a giants-chasm, which gives access to the mountain-giants.
As I already explained a lot, I never was a fan of the implementation of giants as a regular unit, so in my suggestion this will be replaced by a troll-camp in the style of Bill, Tom and Berts camp.
A giant in the Tolkien-universe is a very mythical creature whith now real evidence of being Melkors creation. One must ask which creature he should have corrupted as trolls are already his perversion of the Ents. So giants in the rank of the orcs don´t make any sense in my eyes, correct me if I´m wrong.
Besides that if you believe the myths the Giants would have a tremendous size, as one story claims, they made the White Mountains and one, named Tarlang, died and became a mountain himself.
Taking this in account it doesn´t really make sense to implement them as a unit, if anything they could be a part of the spell-book.
The Troll-camp
The Troll-camp will be the cheaper alternative to the Dragon-lair giving access to the hero Bill, Tom and Bert (last thing I heard is they gonna be three stances of one hero and to Troll-units. Without an outpost the Misty Mountains only have access to the Cave-trolls, which are pretty much an allrounder-unit, which can switch between rock-throwing and close-atack with the bare hands.
They should be almost equally effective against buildings and units without being to strong. Their area-damage should mostly throw units down without dealing a lot of damage, while their building atack should be comparable to a ram. Their rock-throw should be much weaker against buildings and throw units in a smaller area down.
This outpost allows access to two other more specialised units, the Hill-troll and the Snow-troll, but in a totally different fashion, than the units we saw in the Angmar-faction:- The Hill-troll is a fast moving damage-dealer, which is a bit smaller, than the Cave-troll. His design is inspired by the BOTFA-movie.
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To be continued