Lord of Middle Earth mod

@belilakonja, sure, no problem. I will ask Aleksei Antonov to help us second the countries.

I have an idea,
'instead of using the costum map I will edit the the existing Europe map to look like the middle earth(in hex to define the shape)
this would make adding countries a lot easier since you don't have to define 01 02 for countries,
'I will post a confirmation if this succeeds 

CountVonNumenor Thanks for that list of generals. It's indeed pretty helpful.

Aleksandr Vasilevsky, first campaign I was thinking on:



Last of the Dunadein


 Battle of Dagorlad (3434 Second Age) - player controls Arnor against Mordor. Allieds of the player: Lindon, Rivendell

 Liberation of Minas Ithil (3434 Second Age) - player controls Arnor against Mordor

 Siege of Barad-Dur (3435 Second Age) - player controls Arnor against Mordor. Allieds: Lindon, Rivendell

 Disaster in the Gladden Fields (year 2 of the Third Age) - player controls Arnor against a huge orc band (this a king of a last stand battle)

 Evil in the North (1300 Third Age) - player controls Arnor against Angmar

 Defence of Amon Sul (1409 Third Age) - player controls Arnor against Angmar

 The Kin-strife (1447 Third Age) - player controls Gondor against Castamir's rebellion (newly formed Umbar)

 Battle of the Camp (1945 Third Age) - player controls Gondor against the Easterlings of Rhun, Harad and Khand

 Last stand of Arnor (1974 Third Age) - player controls Arnor against Angmar. Allieds of the player: Rivendell

 Battle of Fornost (1975 Third Age) - player controls Gondor against Angmar. Allieds of the player: Rivendell

 Rise of Rohan / Battle of the Field of Celebrant (2510 Third Age) - player controls Gondor against a huge army of Easterlings from Rhun. Allieds: Rohan

 Defence of Osgiliath (3018 Third Age) - player needs to defend Osgiliath as Gondor against Gothmog amd Witch-King's legions from Mordor

 Siege of Minas Thirith + Battle of the Pellenor Fields (3019 Third Age) - player need Minas Tirith against the armies of Mordor, Rhun and Harad. Allieds: Rohan and Dol Amroth reinforcements

 Battle of the Black Gate (3019 Third Age) - player controls Gondor against the ginal hosts of Mordor and Rhun. Allieds of the player: Rohan, Dol Amroth

 Securing peace (after year 1 of the Fourth Age) - the Reunited Kingdom seeks to find peace in Middle Earth, so they are securing their realm against the last Haradrim, Khandish and Misty Mountains enemies
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Aleksandr Vasilevsky , second campaign planned:



Sons of Durin

Enemy at the gates (fall of Khazad-Dum in 1980 Third Age due to the Balrog) - player controls Khazad-Dum Dwarves against the Orcs of Misty Mountains (the orcs will have a Balrog as a general, unless I can create a custom model of superheavy cavalry, placed on the map in the same way as the unique units in Men of War mod of World Conqueror 3)



Foundation of Erebor (1981 Third Age) - after the fall of Khazad-Dum, the dwarves are looking for a new home. And it looks like they found one in the Lonely Mountain. But, to ensure their dominance, they need to defeat the orc resistance in the area. Player controls Erebor against the orcs of the Misty Mountains



The War of the Dwarves and Orcs (2791 Third Age) - "Our king Thror has been slained by an orc chieftain called Azog in front of our ancient home of Khazad-Dum. We can not accept something like that! Dwarves of Middle Earth, rally! Baruk Khazâd! Khazâd ai-mênu!" 

Player controls Erebor dwarves against Gundabad and Misty Mountains. His allieds are Ered Luin dwarves and Khazad-Dum Dwarves (representing the dwarven 7 Houses). Battles take place in Gundabad and Misty Mountains territory.



Battle of Azanulbizar (2791 Third Age) - "After years of struggle, our revange is close. The mountains have almost been cleaned by orcs. We are on the door of our ancient home of Khazad-Dum. Dwarves, forward! Our victory is close!"

Final battle takes place in front of Khazad-Dum/Moria. Player controls Erebor dwarves against a combined host of orcs from Misty Mountains and Gundabad, commanded by Azog and Bolg. For Dwarven generals, we can have Thorin, Dain, Nain and Thrain.



The Battle of the Five Armies (2941 Third Age) - "Thorin and his company liberated the Lonely Mountain from the tirany of Smaug the Dragon. Now, he needs our help to keep it free. It's heard that everybidy wants a piece from our treasure, so we need to protect it. For the King under the Mountain and the old home of Erebor, it's time give a lesson to these invaders!"


Player controls Erebor dwarves (Thorin's unit, represented by a guards unit in Erebor and Dain Ironfoot's reinforcements from the Iron Hills), against the orcs of Misty Mountains, Gundabad and Dol Goldur, uder the command of Bolg. Player's allieds are Dale, Mirkwood and Vake of Anduin (last one represented by Beorn - I think I will change Anduin's superheavy cavalry to a kind of bear, representing the Beornings - aka "Skin-Changers")



Balin's Expedition (2989 Third Age) - "After the Battle of the Five Armies, the number of orcs in the Misty Mountains has dramaticly reduced. Now, it's time to take back our ancient home of Khazad-Dum!"

Player controls Khazad-Dum Dwarves (Balin's expeditionary army). Their journey begins near Erebor and it ends in Moria. The objective is to take back the city from the orcs.


Battle of Dale (3019 Third Age) - "King Dain has refused to obey to the Dark Lord, so we expecting to be attacked. The enemies are gathering from everywhere, only Dale being close to us. We must hold our ground! The fate of Middle Earth depends on that. With the realms of Men and Elves under attack, we don't afford to lose!"

Player controls Erebor dwarves, and has Dale as allied. His enemies are the hosts of Mordor and Rhun.



The final struggle (Fourth Age) - "Something went wrong during Balin's expedition. Moria, considered cleaned, was not like that, so the dwarven colony was quickly outrunned and destroyed. But now, after the War of the Ring and the death of Durin's Bane, the Balrog, under the rule of Durin VII, the time has come. There is nobody to stop us!"

What do you think until now about these campaigns?

@belilakonja , I found a little problem: do we have enaugh towns? I fiund a map of Middle Earth containing every town from Third Age Total War, and we are missing...a lot. Should we made-up a few more names in the style of that cultures? Or is it right with the number we already have (I also used The One Wiki to Rule Them All for finding that information).

Also, there is the priblem that Tolkien didn't offer much information about the Easterlings and Haradrim, so we don't have very much about their towns and commanders, so we need afain to made-up a few more to complete the gaps.



But I also have good news: I found the model for the wargs; now, it's just the work of Aleksei to create the rider for it.