Divide and Conquer v5.2 Beta: Gondor [2] Lôke-Innas Rim

[@Augimund]

I've updated the title to reflect the proper version number now that it has been assigned by Wicked. I'll update the thumbnail later to reflect this as well. V6 will include much more significant changes, but it's completion is a ways off. For now we are considering this build as V5.2!

[@pythax1567]

Great episode Augimund :). The graphical glitches around the minimap is an issue we're aware of and have a fix in the works for. The new reshade settings are alot better!

[@Augimund]

Great thanks to hear Pythax! Some of the loading screens also went black and I think they are related. Cheers!

[@markjoslin4684]

You should bring Iorthon over to help against Mordor. If you give him the retinue ancillary from Boromir, his bodyguard goes up to 18 I think. He’s a monster against Mordor armies

[@thefifthhobbit2092]

It also makes him the heir contrary to what it should be

[@jigram7563]

Doing great work guys - I love 5.0. FYI pikes are still a bit glitchy. If they get charged in the middle the sides weirdly move forward, destroying the integrity of the wall.

[@florianschulz4850]

Fountain Guard is a phalanx unit. If they are not properly deployed and in formation with phalanx down, then they will just drop like flies.

[@valentinheim7428]

I'm really excited how you will pull this campaign off with the restrictions you have placed on yourself! I've always found it really hard to get anywhere with gondor if I dont go cheesy with gondor. have fun and good luck or skill i guess ^^

[@mechanismprototype]

If you just bring all the t1 units except the very furthest, you can take minis morgul, if you take the fort and dont garrison it then mordor can only go through morannon, or for the less cheese but kinda easier way is to garrison that fort and then you can beat mordor easily. Taking morrannon can be hard though if they garrison it with temple wards. Otherwise early aggression into mordor = easy win, you dont even need to move a single general unit other than faramir and boromir

[@mechanismprototype]

Oh and the most important thing is to stop your generals joyously suiciding themselves to save their bodyguard by dragging their formations out with the longest side facing the wall and only barely covering the length of the gate with the rest and then sticking them on guard mode

[@thswinther]

Great episode 🙂. And huge visual improvement without the shading. Also the Trebuche is kind of fun and fits the idea of Gondor being a developed and battletested nation. But please don't forget the artillery firing and actually get a General flattened..! The idea of the only attacting army with proffessionel warriors too - did't think it was possible though, since Mordor has such numbers? Won't you simply get swamped soon? The battle with the Rhunic forces was quite well managed and exiting! Perhaps a few watctowers to extend the warning around Cair Andros and at the crossing to Harondor and Khand/Haradrim? And wont't the UmbarFaction not make naval invasion, since you have emtied your coastal defences?

[@aquilax5896]

Liking the series so far, keep it up :D

[@Emanon...]

Keep up the great work!

[@texastate6296]

Really sacrificing all the archers in melee 🥲😅

[@Augimund]

They have big swords for a reason haha

[@zaaxi7424]

Image quality looks a lot better now

[@thehumanity3324]

You prob need to use shield wall somehow to make sure that mass push does not slowly kill all of your melee troops

[@HenT8991]

Just started watching this series and I love the handicap you put on yourself to make it more fun. I'd love to see where it goes be it victory or ruin! It's been a long time since I played any third age but are you able to reunite armor and Gondor in this mod and get Dol Amroth under your control? It'd be fun to see those beautiful elite units mixed in with Gondor's forces

[@lordoblivion8038]

I heavily disagreed the whole Brithel being useless. Every settlements are useful. All it needs is to boost its populations if you wanted to make it useful

[@Owlr4ider]

I agree that all settlements are useful, because even the tiniest villages will still never actually lose you money(unless you garrison the village that is when it doesn't have any free upkeep) and they indeed do grow over time. However the overall population numbers are so small that it takes forever for even a large town to grow to a city, let alone a village to grow into a town than large town than city than large city if your faction can get those. So some towns are certainly not worth investing into early on, especially with large factions like Gondor who you really have to pick and choose which cities to invest in.

[@darkrai1986]

Since ther will be new cultures will that creat new garrison/defense units for Easterlings (not Southrons)

[@Augimund]

With EOP, custom garrisons can be created for each culture that don't require a unique "defender" unit. Most likely this will be implemented eventually.

[@gkuhn2589]

You had not send the second Fountain guard unit in the first battle of this episode I think that was a mistake you have only 2 melee unit to hold the line and protect 5 range unit and one artillery that is to few

[@Owlr4ider]

'All men, elves and dwarves are my friends', really? Easterlings, Harad, Khand, Dunland and even Angmar in DAC are all men too, also Eredweith which you don't plan on attacking but still...

[@darkpenguin7277]

new version looking decent, would you consider doing a fresh dale faction overview when that gets released?

[@Augimund]

Yes absolutely. It may be some time but they will be getting a new overview later.

[@gkuhn2589]

Another mistake in the bridge battle the bad deployment of the Ithilen ranger with no protection of the melee troop wich let them exposed to the charge of the rhunnic cav

[@southparker69]

Is it possible to add a building line that adds at least one extra construction slot?!? Maybe only to specific settlements such as large towns or something like that.... so it enhances construction speed in developed settlements. Or is that too overpowered lol🤔

[@sebastianpfau1174]

Since there is nothing similiar to this (that I am aware of) in the original game, I assume it is impossible, or at least very difficult. Also I don't see a need for this, because that is what building-time-reduction is for.

[@XDeltaXCZ]

just curious, what is your position on the DAC team? always wondered

[@XDeltaXCZ]

Also can you put militia between settlementa, if so you could put some in east osgilioth

[@kakkarotozrakiem7873]

what a version of Dac is this is so smuff . i play on 5.1 version on DaC .

[@Augimund]

This is an in development build for the next update. It is not currently publicly available as of this time. Once we have a proper version number I will update the title

[@thomaswild4102]

I play on 5.0 from Juli 2023. Is there a 5.1 available?

[@romendakil4768]

Are you using camera mod ?

[@Augimund]

Yeah I am using freecam.

[@Trident121]

What is EOP exactly?

[@reav3rtm]

Medieval 2 Engine Overhaul Project. It's a wrapper over Medieval2 executable that in a way injects own code into a game in order to provide some improvements over base game (lifts some in engine limits).

[@mylanvoskamp474]

Must admit I prefer the old V2/V3 version of the gondorian infantry/archer armour and it's upgrades. The new ones looks a bit big and clunky

[@alpharius7009]

These new helmets look too small given the size of the breast plate

[@rickiemittag4326]

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