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The Hobbit

THE HOBBIT
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This scenario is based on the story from J.R.R. Tolkien in the book of the same name and the trilogy films of Peter Jackson.

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This scenario uses these two mods :
« The Lord of The Rings mod » and « The Lord of the Rings language(English and Chinese) » by TheDukeofHabsburg
links in Steam:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1272363891&searchtext=the+lord+of+the+rings+mod
and
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1275067997&searchtext=the+lord+of+the+rings+mod

Subscribe them in community's Steam workshop and enable the second one in Steam workshop in the game, before playing it.
Don't forget to put English (or Chinese) language in options in AOE2 too, and restart the game.

THIS IS A SCENARIO FOR MULTIPLAYER IN AOE II « RISE OF THE RAJAS » EXPANSION.

GAME SETTINGS : 8 players  (7 human and 1 AI); Lock teams ; unexplored map.
NB: the team is automatic, don't select it (it will change in the game with some triggers and events).

CIVILIZATIONS AND AI SETTINGS:
Player 1 (blue): Human: Rivendell; Player 2 (red): Human: Dol Guldur; Player 3 (green): Human: Mirkwood; Player 4 (orange): Human: Misty Mountains; Player 5 (teal): Human: Dale; Player 6 (purple): Human: Gundabad; Player 7 (grey): Human: Iron Hills; Player 8 : AI (yellow): Erebor. 

NB: Considering the small time scale of the story, no building can be built (but you can still stock farms in mill and repair). No trade cart too.

MISSIONS :
NB : No mission garantees the victory on the strategical aspect, but can help a lot for it.
The player 1 is by far the player with the most of missions.

PLAYER 1 (Rivendell/Blue) :

MAIN MISSION 1 :
Send Gandalf (in Rivendell) and Thorin Oakenshield (In the Blue Mountains) in the Prancing Pony Inn (in Bree) for them to meet eachothers.

MAIN MISSION 2 :
Send Thorin back in the Blue Mountains to convince the other dwarves to join his quest (this will create all the other dwarves of the company).

MAIN MISSION 3 :
Send Gandalf to Bag-End in the Shire to meet Bilbo Baggins and convince him to join the company of Thorin as burglar.

MAIN MISSION  4 :
Send all the dwarves to Bag-End to gather the company.

MAIN MISSION 6:
Send in Front of Elrond's house (your wonder) in Rivendell, Elrond, Thorin and Gandalf for Elrond to decipher the map of Thorin given by Gandalf.

MAIN MISSION 7:
Find a way to cross the Misty Mountains safely to go East and to Erebor.

MAIN MISSION 8 :
Use Thorin to open the secret door of Erebor with the key given by Gandalf (Bilbo can help to find the door).

MAIN MISSION 9 :
Use Bilbo to steal the Arkenstone, in the treasure inside the Mountain.

MAIN MISSION 10 :
Use Bilbo to convince Thranduil and Bard to make peace with the dwarves.

See the other missions in « Hints » section.

December, 12 , 2021

PS: if you want me to play as blue with all the missions (even secrets) in my head (even not easy for me, I forgot sometimes some (about 200 triggers here)!) ask me for friend, I will invite you if you are in the aoe2 game when I host one. You can also join my group created in that purpose too and the host of my other Tolkien inspired scenario : « The Lord Of The Rings » (showing all events of those books: see the workshop page: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1318231947 )  : https://steamcommunity.com/groups/LOTRmarcknop
I will make an anouncement every time I host this scenario or the other.
I add that this work is a very professional work: I got a professional degree of space design and made a lot of researches on LOTR. No detail here is random. I want to thank particularly John Howe and Alan Lee for their awesome work on The Lord Of The Rings films by Peter Jackson, who inspired a lot my design here, not only the graphic mod.
For the story part, all events in The Hobbit book are almost depicted, and even some not in the book but added by Peter Jackson in his films Trilogy (essentially because this time it was only from one book and not three) like the Smaug's trap, the Goblins trap and Sauron and the nazgûls trap with the help of Galadriel, Elrond and Saruman (which I found very acurate and fun to represent here by triggers, and it was quite complicated, you can believe me). All of this makes a strong coherence with the first scenario about the Lord of the Rings, which follow the events in a perfect logical continuation and show the other part of the Middle Earth (the south) except the Shire, Bree, Weathertop, the Trollshaws, Rivendell, etc (Eriador in fact) which are just copied and making thansition with the two stories and land (South (for The Lord Of The Rings) and North (for The Hobbit), Eriador being obviously in the north in the first scenario and the south, for the second (which is the prequel, in fact, like for the films)).

For all infos on this description page gathered with better presentation, see now my new guide:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2007535053