Hallöchen, nochmal ein paar Antworten

Necro:
I do think a kingdom, which is under constant threat by angmar, would be dependent on trade to replenish its food reserves, raw materials etc. - an whilst i wouldnt describe the trade as flourishing it should provide a more stable income than farming, because Arthedain/Arnor has lost most of its lands in the end. Major trading partners would likely be the realms of the elves (like Lindon) and the hobbits, who were granted the shire because Arnor wasnt capable to use those fields anymore. Furthermore I would think it interesting to see the ingame retaking of settlements as resecuring trade routes to the east (Rivendell, Gondor, ...)

In my vision I imagine the fortified dunedain camp as Aranarths base of operation for waging war with his rangers - after seeing the many comments I already thought I might rethink it as a cheap outpost and modify it a bit. (I wasnt too happy with Tharbad aswell). The cardolan settlement builing was meant to reflect the "refugee" camps of people from cardolan, but because of recent history i definietly didnt want to name them that way.

Malbeth is in my opinion a tough case, i didnt see him as a hero in a traditional way, but a building with abilities.

Arnor was in control of at least two palantiri - which after the fall of Amon Sul were both stored in Fornost - the third was likely at that point controlled by Cirdan an also only used to glance into the west - so that one should be removed from the concept. The other two however are crucial to Arnors capability to wage war and should in my opinion both be featured.
 
I do also think there were to many units, but i would have to rethink a lot to reduce the number of available units - removing the Tharbad idea would however start that process.
Spellbook: I found it hard to remove summons and replace them with abilities that do other stuff, i think however the proposed land and weather spell would relieve the number of summons greatly.

Thank u for ur keen insights, i liked ur comment a lot and it gave me much to think about!

Keine Ahnung wo man Vorschläge für die Ringkrieg Kamapgne Sum2 Gut einfügen soll aber ich tue es mal hier, die Mission Celduin ist in der letzten Instanz beim überqueren der Furt eine ware mutmaßung.
Die Armee die man selber aufbauen kann darf nur mit Klingen-Upgrades ausgestattet werden und die gegnerirsche Armee übertrifft die eigenen Cp bei weiten.
Zudem haben die meisten Bogenschützen Orks Feuerpfeile und zerschießen die Frontline von einem selbst in sehr kurzer Zeit. Ich habe es jetzt 3x versucht mit einer vollen Cp Armee zu überstehen aber ich komme an meine Eigenen grenzen.

Zudem laggt es ungemein auf Hoher Grafik bei den Wasserübergang was dem ganze am Ende noch die gewisse Würze verpasst wobei mir dann endgültig der spielspaß flöten gegenange ist.

Der Vorschlag von mir: die Armee gegner drastisch reduzieren und die level der hingesetzten Einheiten verringern. Die Feuerpfeile könnnen bleiben, es soll ja nicht zu einfach sein.
gerne darf Dain auch mal schneller leveln damit man auch mal andere fähigkeiten sieht außer seinen Ansturm.
Die trollen können gerne auch weg gelassen werden.

Ich sehe einen Arnor Konzept und muss einfach sagen: Das brauch ich. Das brauchen wir. Tut es. Für uns alle.

So a lot of interesting ideas overall. If I understand the concept well it is meant to represent an Arnor that is isolated and forced to rely on its highly variable infantry.

Some individual thoughts:

Trading Post - This one seems problematic both in terms of gameplay and concept. An isolated Arnor doesn't seem like it should have flourishing trade relationships. Additionally, this building's discount provides little value and provides it on a very limited set of upgrades. Given you have the full discount and upgrade costs are the same you will have paid 1200 best case scenario in economy buildings and saved 720 resources.

Fortified Dunedain Camp and Barrow Camps are quite similar thematically. Especially with the fact that they both recruit ranger units and a ranger hero. There is also a concept conflict between the Barrow Guard Rangers and the Defenders of the Barrow-downs. Why are the Defenders of the Barrow-downs not recruitable from the Barrow Camps?

Tharbad Outpost - I don't find it in line with the theme that Gondor would be able to have a permanent presence within the faction while the other units of "Amon sul" units would use the messenger system. It seems like it should be at least the other way around considering the distance between Arnor and Gondor. However, it is also not clear to me what the benefit of the Gondor troops have over the Arnor troops.


Carthean - Moving him to the Barrow Camp is a very hard nerf for him as a scout. It exponentially slows down the speed at which early game Arnor will be able to get set up.

Malbeth - Moving Malbeth to the Citadel is technically problematic which is why it was made a standalone hero in the first place. This is more of a personal opinion but I don't necessarily see a hero being on the field as leading troops. A hero that "leads" troop usually has some sort of ability affecting those troops.

Guardian of Amon Sul - This seems to duplicate the palantir between Malbeth and this hero. Both in terms of the actual ability and the physical object.


Overall thoughts,

I like what this concept sells but I also think it feels a little unfocused, there's too many of everything.

For example, currently this new arnor has:
- 2 standard swordsmen
- 2 standard pikemen
- 2 standard archers
- 1 semi-elite swordsmen
- 1 semi-elite pikemen
- 1 semi-elite cavalry
- 1 elite cavalry
- 1 elite archer
- 1 elite swordsmen
- 1 heroic support
- 1 heroic archer

Additionally, they can permanently gain access to
- 1 standard archer
- 1 elite pikemen

That's a huge roster, additionally there's quite a bit of duplication between concepts that seem to have no interaction. For example the Tharbad Outpost and the Gondor summon have no connection. The Barrow Guards and the Barrow Defenders have no connections.  It's all slightly disjointed.

What I really like about this concept is the Embassy where the people of Arnor must basically beg for aid against their fight. I think the faction should be move heavily centered around this concept. A solid core of infantry from the main base, high concept units with strong niches from the Amon Sul outpost and units from the Embassy to make up for weaknesses.

The heroes seem fine in general. The spellbook seems a little summon heavy.

Overall I think this concept has promising stuff. I would love to eventually incorporate some of that into Arnor, although remains to be seen if it stays as a map feature or becomes a faction.

We're currently focused on other stuff at the moment but I've bookmarked this for the future:tm: