DaC V5 - Gondor 12: Silver Meets Gold

This is Divide and Conquer Version 5. This brings the Lord of the Rings setting into a Total War game. This was livestreamed on www.twitch.tv/epmdota
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[@Zimrathon]

"One does not simply walk into Mordor" -Boromir The Hypocrite

[@peterhe6699]

We shouldn't of been concerned about the dark lord of Mordor we should've been more worried about the dark fisherlords of Endwaith.

[@epmtotalwar]

@peterhe6699 They are good guys too. Everyone is so nervous of them. Don't mind who they have been going after, that is their land.

[@peterhe6699]

@@epmtotalwar yes they are simply trying to efficiently manage the lands of the incompetent elves, dunedian, and breelanders.

[@ezrahendog5837]

Elves in the Movie- "men are weak and easily corrupted." Gondor in this campaign- "We held Mordor off while smoking Isengaurd, threw Sauron's ring into Mt.Doom, retook Umbar, And we have all the seeing stones now. We did it without a King because Gondor needs no King. How's your war with the primative fishermen "high" elves? How's your war with the snow orcs Wood Elves? ...... Yeah keep calling us weak.

[@Flynnskin]

Great moment with the Mordor trait. Just bought a t shirt for my friend which is Mordor fun run. Obviously one cannot simply walk into Mordor.

[@epmtotalwar]

@@Flynnskin One simply doesn't take it easy in a fun run

[@Aldonoth]

27:22 Can confirm 😅, I was one of the guys needing that explanation and now I understand that shield wall is just a lost cause in this game; looks good, doesn't work.

[@epmtotalwar]

Yeah, one purpose is to push a hole through a chokepoint but if you use for that, that unit will take huge losses.

[@Burkiej321]

I am formally motioning that the campaign be continued till the extinction of both Gundad and Angmar. As the shield of the west, it is your duty.

[@nikolajelikic7040]

Gondor campaign was peak CINEMA! Now im waiting for HE and utter finanacial misery😮

[@epmtotalwar]

WAS! This campaign has a few tricks in it yet! Also 😆

[@benjikwon7938]

There is still one Ar Ardunaim settlement in the South I believe! Where Mumakil comes from.

[@epmtotalwar]

Good thing AA cannot recruit them. I'll have to thank them for taking it right before I take it from them.

[@patttrick]

Denethor the Great. Your battles smell too much of the lamp , we soldiers like a good bloody battle with plenty of medals and promotions afterwards. Robert Graves.

[@sercenbatuhanodabas1760]

AI mordor struggling to conquer cair andros and eastern osgiliath at turn 30 while clans of enedwaith is laying siege to whole eriador, elven lands and rohan while making a push into gondor at the same time xD

[@solinvictus2197]

If you haven't already it's worth getting the Fiefdom Barracks in Umbar - then at least Dol Amroth units can do some work against Harad even if the faction itself is doing nothing! Also if you can spare a stack - taking Dol Guldur would be funny - completely hobble pseudo-Mordor.

[@epmtotalwar]

I think I'll have enough recruitment from my core military settlements to take Harad. I think I'm sending all the troops in that direction towards Rhun to have some fun over there. The havens might still fall to Gondor as a far flung target.

[@solinvictus2197]

@@epmtotalwar If the fishermen don't handle the AA for you first! That alliance was a political masterstroke, secured a safe border and removed the king and the High Elves, paving the way for the dominion of the Steward!

[@mszalans4817]

Ardunaim Armsmen have similar problem with shieldwall. Dunno why, but they droplike flies when in this formation. It's like it's bugged and when you turn it on they lose defence stats instead of gaining them.

[@epmtotalwar]

@@mszalans4817 I have consistently found that shieldwall does not improve combat prowess and should only be used to push through a small opening to allow more troops to flood in.

[@BeregondFirstCaptain]

You can cheat, move armies up to those generals, and that mordor settlement. You can't hold it, though. I didn't try that hard, though.

[@epmtotalwar]

@BeregondFirstCaptain I only cheat move to do something really thematic at the very end of a campaign. Suspense is lost in the events of a campaign if I start cheat moving.

[@BeregondFirstCaptain]

@epmtotalwar no I agree. I'm just saying you can lol for any campaine it's not worth it because they have no value for what they already do anyway.

[@sizzlebang3810]

I'm hyper triggered to believe Enedwaith are going to end up coming after you once you rid them of the Dunland scourge.....is it possible to get a diplomat to see if you can negotiate them in to attacking AA? Might require giving them a territory...which you can actually afford to do since you are nearly at your territory req.

[@epmtotalwar]

I can get troops to that border very fast and I have garrisons ready if they go for it. Both Isengard and Derwath are troop producers and the entire western end of Gondor can get fiefdom units to fight. Towers on the borders so no surprises.

[@sizzlebang3810]

@@epmtotalwar that's true you've been preparing for it, I guess my worry would be that if Enedwaith starts sending 50 stacks against you, progress in the campaign will grind to a halt and you'll just end what has been a deeply entertaining camp with unfinished business in the south. I know you don't enjoy the late game as much as I do.

[@zachbova9935]

so you may have already recorded the next episode but why not ask endedwaith to join in your war with the ar-ardunaim, with their enthusiasm for taking northern settlements they could wipe those 2 out in a couple turns and then you will just have the southern one to take. OR you could sail an army up there, take the settlements and then trade/sell them to enedwaith for closer settlements to your border giving you 2 of their better finanicial settlements since they do not need the money.

[@epmtotalwar]

I'm gunna go and try to take them myself, unless EW beats me to it.

[@sercenbatuhanodabas1760]

I get it that the creator team tried to implement their touch into the story by giving a lore to khand and making enedwaith important but both of this countries are overpowered and kill the immersion. At least black numenorians are cool, it is realy not cool after acquiring the ring as saruman and killing whole rohan my biggest problem is not the big eye and gondor but some fisher folks who are sending 3k stacks at my western borders every 3 turns

[@epmtotalwar]

EW is getting nerfed in next version, the modding team recognise their current implementation as a problem. Khand is often wiped out by Mordor, it's only because I'm playing Gondor that they are spared. If Khand go evil they are landlocked by other nations and often do nothing else. They are actually quite weak, no armour units and cav are not favoured in autoresolve, something khand has plenty of both.

[@sercenbatuhanodabas1760]

@@epmtotalwar bro english aint my first language so I meants something different. Khand has so much Spice, even more than mordor and in my opinion. I think next patch should focus on evil orcish factions >Moria,Gundabad and Dol Guldur and Mordor needs some scripted events. But the Mode is awesome and your videos are very cool

[@sercenbatuhanodabas1760]

@@epmtotalwar blue wizard script is cool BUT it would be better if we had script on lore important places not just places that are mentioned 2 3 times in the books

[@gkuhn2589]

turn 106 Hirluin's army leaving Dorthalu it is to soon the army must wait until Varfest is taken by Gondor and the 2nd tear armoury in Dorthalu build the town gard must be build in Dorthalu You have time to prepare against Rhun more monney than them I have a gold rule when i conquer a settlement the army cannot leave the settlement until the tear 1 barracks are build