One of surely many mysteries lurking within Orthanc

@CondeDeBarca funny you mention that, I discovered this about 3 hours ago. It happens if a country that doesn't own the state clicks it once Isengard has build their facility there. I cannot figure out how to resolve it yet

Hey just heads up (This is with beeta branch submod activated btw) trying to click on orthanc state makes game crash. (Has happened every time I tried.) Excellent mod all the best

@Salsa H-R ok thank you :)

@mortondafy the Rohirric civil war is very out of date and broken. It (along with the rest of Rohan's content) has been completely replaced on the Beta Branch submod

i know your doing a fantastic job but with the rohan revolt the moment i start the civil war the rohirric revolt cant get the troops raised in time, it takes less than 2 weeks for wormtongues troops to take all the capitulation points, is there somethinmg im missing?

amazing Mod

Epic mod!

@Salsa H-R thanks man <3

appreciate you still working on this and look forward to 2.0

@Yappucino I'm currently in the process of totally reworking Rohan. I'm hoping to get the first stage out on the beta branch mod in ~a month; join the discord for updates

i have a question, when will be the rohan revolt finally fixed?

@Der Tobi I don't disagree, which is why I'm introducing a Fellowship focus tree into the upcoming 2.0 to completely rework the ring

It i good, but Ring mechanic sucks

Thanks a lot Salsa. I always knew the eastern landmass was not defined in Tolkiens work, and even the things we knew about the Rhovanion and east of the sea of Rhun was shrouded in rumors and the likes. It's good to know what the east looks like.

@Ronald Reagan The general shape is consistent with drawings Tolkien made of Middle Earth in the second age that I found though The Atlas of Middle Earth. The countries & flags east of Rhunear are based on a couple different fan-made sources, including the LotR mod for Imperator:Rome

I dont know if this was answered but... Where did you get the lore for the east of the continent?

Amazing mod, I would love to see a Lothlorien focus tree!

ok

@prosadax Rohan is incredibly out of date both design & programming wise; it is riddled with bugs that I don't feel like fixing because I'm gonna completely redo the whole country anyway

Is it normal that when i start the rohan civil war i instantly crash?

This is awesome, been playing this for six months now. I get that life gets in the way and that modding at this level is a lot of work, but I and many other people will be waiting for your next update. Good luck!

@Cute Ratboi genuinely no idea. I'm in a very intense job for the next few weeks, and when I get out I'm not sure if I'll finish Dorwinion or continue work on another important project.

whens the next road map update

@ragnarÖk Rohan is super buggy & in need of a complete rework. The historical path is to side with Grima, prevent the civil war, and then wait for Gandalf to cure Theoden

I wanted to play rohan and said with Eomer but when it comes to last focus and civil war game crashes (when i click event)

@Baumholder Rohan was the first thing I designed & implemented, so it's all kinds of fucked & desperately in need of a complete rework now that I know what I'm doing; the civil war, in particular, has a ton of bugs. The historical path is to side with Wormtongue, imprison Eomer, and then wait for Gandalf to arrive and cure Theoden.

Want to say, really love the mod idea. Yall really went all out. But when I try and play as Rohan the good route seems kind of impossible. I can't think of a way to not get the civil war as Wormtongue will always go down the path to lower war support. When I start the war I start with no troops and the system that is suppose to spawn troops does not do anything. Is rohan incomplete or am I just messing up somewhere? I hope this path wasn't broken by a update or anything

@The Caruso Diplomat they are entirely different mods, so everything except the source material.
-RfR has a more lore accurate map & FAR more detailed map
-RfR has fewer focus trees, but the ones it does have are larger & more dynamic
-RfR starts several years before the war rather than the year it lorefully breaks out
-RfR is generally less memey, including getting rid of airforce & using completely custom ideologies rather than re-skinned vanilla ones
-Both mods have completely separate reworks of technology
-Both mods have completely separate ring systems
-The other mod has a custom advisor/council system

Really the only way to get a sense of the total differences is to play both. I obviously believe that RfR is better, but you're free to make your own decision.

what are the main differences between this and the other lotr mod?

@David_Dabo1 That would require a lot of time, which I have in very short supply; I would much rather focus on adding more content to the mod. If any of the vanilla toolpacks ever get updated, they should work for RfR

something like this https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2773320748

@David_Dabo1 I'm afraid I don't know what a toolpack is, would you care to enlighten me?

hello, i have a suggestion, can you make a toolpack for the mod?

@c_moreau_76 I have considered many times dividing the manpower requirements & population of the mod by 10. It would be a large task, but it might happen for update 1.3

Good morning,

Thanks for this MOD.

For the immersion of the game would it be possible to do as for the MOD "Old World Blue" (Fallout) which reduced the number of battalions?

The army of Gondor starts at the beginning with 131 battalions therefore 131.000 soldiers which must represent 6 times its strength at the time of the war.

If it is not complicated, I recommend dividing the number of soldiers per battalion and therefore the manpower by 10.

@William Marshal I'm not happy with the major's trees and will rework them at some point; check Dorwinion to see where I'm at as a developer, keeping in mind theres 2 more branches still to come. I want to replace the unit models, I just haven't had a chance to prioritize it.

Great work on this mod so far, the focus trees need a lot more expansion, especially the big powers like Mordor. Also, do you plan on changing all the unit models? Trying to Play as Dwarves or Mordor with WWII tanks and infantry is not it.

Congrats for the update I'll test it soon

@Venemous In 1.2, Rhun is composed of 4 Khanates paying tribute to the Khagan. I don't intend to break it further than you can see in the Beta branch, though it might have some releasables. Eriador will receive a complete map rework when it gets updated

In the future do you have plans to turn rhun and arnor into more than just a couple nations.

@Positive Fox yes! I'm actually working on the finishing touches for update 1.2, which I expect will release at the beginning of May depending on when I receive some final assets from other developers. Check out the discord server for updates on when that drops

Is this mod still seeing some developement?

:)

@Bane this is most likely because of some of the MIO related changes introduced by 1.13 & Arms Against Tyranny. It might be fixed if you disabled AAT; I know I've fixed it on the Beta Branch submod. I don't have the time RN to invest in fixing main mod issue because I'm trying to get the Beta Branch to a state where I can port it all over to the main mod

So idk if other people have run into this issue, but I'm having a problem where a good portion of the research tree is blocked because there is no research button. idk if this is just an early development issue but i thought it was worth mentioning. beyond that th mod is awesome.

@Helion139 thanks for catching that; it'll be fixed in the next beta branch patch. If you use Discord, I'd appreciate you joining the server. It'd be much easier for us to communicate, since you clearly have a lot of thoughts

Oh nice thx would be nice if you added things outside of that one prestige thingy that actually lets you earn politcal power at decent rate...
Still a good step for the future.
And since we are talking about beta branch are pikes I suppose to cost like 0.09 prod and have 80% reliability as the only stat?
If yes then I'm using them as a garrison unit since well.. it's pretty cheap.

@Helio139 based on this conversation, today's Beta Branch submod update lowed the annexation cost for puppets from 300 to 150

@Helion139 prestige from characters affects other country's willingness to swear blood oaths, but cannot be spent on decisions.
I could probably do what you want with subject annexation costs through a scripted GUI. I'll add it to the list of things I want to do but it's very low priority.