Middle Earth 4 (Necro + Halfling DLC)
Next version of the old XL Middle Earth (2/3) map (originally by Nemesis13 and Shaithias) and merged with the halflings expanded version (by Roger the Dodger).
• Heavy script expansion, a huge amount of events are added (more than any map I know) to make the map more enjoyable, dynamically and balanced (e.g. undead army event, city and hero joins).
• A lot of new content, like heroes, items and secret underground caves.
• A lot of more lore map text (works only if map explore is activated).
• Team play default enabled (it seems the NPC are playing better together as with alliance only).
• Possible Seals play support (3 hidden seals with 100 target points).
I appreciate all feedback on things that can be improved. You can also comment on the official forum[forum.paradoxplaza.com].
Personally I loved to play the old map long time ago and made more and more changes. Since a lot of work has now been put into it, I took some more time to finish the work for publishing it finally on Steam. In the past I was a member of the AoW:SM Unofficial patch (1.4) team (2005).
If you play the Good faction, the Mordor faction has some advantages (default difficult should be hard, as normally 3/4 Good AI emperors lose against 4 Evil AI kings). So you can adjust the difficulty by changing the AI strength of the respective alliance members (default AI-King). On the other hand, if the Evil faction is played, the Alliance of the Free Peoples has advantages (multiplayer is not tested, but theoretically supported).
E.G.: So it should be near balanced and moderate if you play with 3 emperors against 4 Evil kings (few stray early AI city loses get odd compensated).
• Any mod in the LotR play style collection
• Good & Evil mods should fit well too
• Of course LotR music
• Nemesis13 (original) old map and description Middle Earth XL.
• Shaithias (main and necro extension) old map and description Middle Earth 3.
• Roger the Dodger (Halflings extension)
• Tolkien for the lore (R.I.P.)
A major change is not planned on my part anytime soon. Feel free to make suggestions.
• Make Saruman as playable faction (replace Goblins)⁉
• Custom quests⁉
• Translations
• Content mod conversion⁉
• All (larger) Lua scripts are as plain files in the mod folder (.zip).
• Even it was fun to mod AoW, I’m not very interested in making more content anymore… (due to the technical difficulties and restrictions and limited debugging features).
Required DLC:
These DLC should be installed in order to use this item.
Golden Realms Expansion
Eternal Lords Expansion
