third age total war mod isengard campaign

[CM Gabriel Angelos]

hello i was just wondering when i am able to recruit urukhai pikemen and infantry in the grand campaign because i have already built everything in isengard and the other cities i have but i still cant get them

[Inardesco]

In order to build units you need the following;

* The right year; it takes a while before you can recruit the stronger units because of war preparations. You get a message around 4-6 turns in telling you it'll take approx 10 years for those to be complete. Once they're done, you can recruit elite units.
* You need the right buildings; You can see what units are recruitable from the buildings you own by right-clicking on the building.
* You need the required culture; Culture is a Britannia feature and influences which units you can recruit. Militia and weak units generally need 20-25% of your faction's culture. The core of the armies between 40-60% and the elite units 60-75% of the culture. You gain culture every turn based on your culture buildings. For Evil factions that's Shrine of Melkor tree.
* The unit has to be available; When you open the recruitment section of a settlement you can see which units you can recruit and if they're recruitable. Recruitable units can be clicked whereas those you can't are greyed out.

[CM Gabriel Angelos]

okay got it thanks

[CM Gabriel Angelos]

isengard campaign
how do i then promote a captain to a general what is the requirement for it

[Inardesco]

You can't promote a captain to a general.

* Either you get a candidate for adoption (random)
* After a captain has a heroic victory he might be worthy to become a general
* Your family gets boinky in the bedroom and creates offspring, which, at the age of 16, become generals.

[CM Gabriel Angelos]

Originally posted by Inardesco:

You can't promote a captain to a general.

* Either you get a candidate for adoption (random)
* After a captain has a heroic victory he might be worthy to become a general
* Your family gets boinky in the bedroom and creates offspring, which, at the age of 16, become generals.

how does ones family gets boinky when i saruman doenst even have a wife

[Inardesco]

Saruman might not have a wife, but other family members do. Since there are no princesses in TATW you can't marry them to your generals so the only thing you can do, is to accept whatever marriage proposals are brought to you.

[CM Gabriel Angelos]

the dunlendings in my game doenst have wifes so the cant have children even the chieftain doesnt

[Inardesco]

You most likely won't have to worry about them not getting children and die halfway through your campaign. Most generals, unless they're King Thengel of Rohan, won't die of old age.

So get used to adoption or get your captains to create glorious victories in the name of Saruman.

Keep in mind that most of the fighting in the LoTR happened quite late in the TATW campaign. So the 400 turns are plenty.

[CM Gabriel Angelos]

okay i just got the dark lord has returned event and send my entire army op to kill the bugger remember i was isengard

[!Post]

Originally posted by Alcatraz:

okay i just got the dark lord has returned event and send my entire army op to kill the bugger remember i was isengard

Wait, so it said kill Sauron but you are Isengard?

[Inardesco]

Isengard is an evil faction. Sure, Saruman would like to have the ring but he's no where near powerfull to attack Sauron directly, especially after he lost his Whiteness. Only Gandalf the White is a match to Sauron and even he doesn't challenge him directly.

[CM Gabriel Angelos]

no the event didnt say to send my army up to kill him i just decided to do so sending yazag with an entire army of berserkers and a spy to open the gate

[Inardesco]

You do realise that attacking Mordor puts you against both the evil and good factions and I'm fairly certain that you can't match the army output of either Rhun/Harad.

[CM Gabriel Angelos]

it wasnt mordor it was a faction in the far very far north-east

[Inardesco]

The Dark Lord, AKA Sauron, is a General in the service of Mordor. Yes, there's a small patch in the far north-east which can't be reached. Use ~ toggle_fow to see if there's something there, aside from a small village that can't do anything.