Divide & Conquer (V4): Faction Overview - Harad

[@Trevorbid]

It's the simple things like good quality thumbnails that make this channel so good. I feel like not enough people appreciate or notice them so I wanted to specifically point them out.

Thank you. That means so much more than you know. :-D

[@lithpylarry2019]

Same profile pic gang

[@JTB_1020]

They are truly delightfully simple. So crisp and clean. Beautiful, really.

[@crepley8335]

I've always really enjoyed the faction overviews. And you're absolutely right, each 'series' of overviews have great thumbnails. They seem to get better each time too.

[@Trevorbid]

​@@lithpylarry2019 4 years later & still holding strong, eh?

[@andrewgilchrist1816]

“The Alcoholics Anonymous” that was funny

[@andreumuntaner5600]

They are a new power in Middle Earth....

[@Wolfeson28]

I guess they love their rum.

[@forickgrimaldus8301]

Black Numinorians, Deep Soulth, Checkmate Linconites!!

[@forickgrimaldus8301]

"The South would rise again and win the war of Gondorian aggression" - Harad

[@asddsagogoolpower]

Man i can't wait to struggle with installing version 4 for hours, failing, blaming galu, realising it was my fault, then reading the instructions properly and succeeding!

[@trollwayy5981]

Honestly though.. same

[@Fungus8mycrab]

And that is why I wait for the tutorial videos to be released so that I know if I fuck it then it is my fault.

This one will be the easiest to install of every version. There is always room for error though!

[@trollwayy5981]

Arachîr Galudirithon cannot wait to play the high eleves

[@asddsagogoolpower]

@ yeah, I will be the example of error!

[@feelingpine9123]

Little known fact, Muhad Beastmasters and Muhad Tribesmen are both AP in melee. They use maces.

[@brassmoth7463]

Noice!

[@karrackhalcyon8826]

You guys get it all the time, and frankly deserve it, but you guys have done such an amazing job bringing this game to life, and to the public. Thank you so much. It was genuinely one the best days ive ever had when i discovered there is in fact a LOTR total war. And to have such a dedicated and talented crew on it is legitimately beyond any hope i had in my time

Thank you. :-)

[@jayipayi3884]

Same from me! Equal credit to the unnamed legends who made original Third Age Total War

[@shepardcommander6811]

I think one thing LOTR has better than any other series is the fan art

[@LordWarious]

look up "40k fan art" it blows lotr out of the water. that said 40k doesn't have any mods (or games in my opinion) as good as divide and conquer.

[@davyfromthenavy4248]

@@LordWarious The Ultimate Apocalypse mod for Dawn of War is quite good imo, but not as good as DaC. I do agree that 40k is lacking in quality games, & the few that do exist dont tend to get much attention. Not many channels actually even play DoW even tho its probably the best 40k fame we're likely to get.

[@LordWarious]

@@davyfromthenavy4248 well for better or worse, Netflix is apparently making tv show base on an inquisitior.

[@mattaffenit9898]

LotR and 40k both have amazing fanart. In my humble and completely 100% totally unbiased utterly-devoid-of-chapter-loyalty opinion, the Ninth needs more love, though, in terms of artwork. The First and Thirteenth always get all the attention. For Baal and Sanguinius!

[@davyfromthenavy4248]

@@mattaffenit9898 Blood Angels also get a fair amount of love from what I've seen, not as much as the 1st or 13th, tis true, but more than others I could name. Like the Raven Guard. I know how you feel though, My personal favorite Chapter/Legion (The Imperial Fists) don't get as much love as I'd like

[@jonathanz.9675]

hey I grew up watching your videos seeing you play the noble elves and imitating your gentlemanly style. Thanks for the model and relaxing videos!

[@TheLordFedme]

Exelent video as always. 27:56 In the overviews for V3, you used to say that one should multiply the pikemens attack stat by 3 to get a more accurate picture of how they might perform.

[@ramsaysnow9196]

cah he confir that? so how good are arnor pikemen?

[@Dsonsee]

This has already been said, but this channel has always had the prettiest thumbnails and they only get better with time

[@Catstecc]

I think this must be the 4th or 5th rotation of these faction overviews but I still watch and enjoy all of them! Keep up the good work Galu

[@ilari90]

Much love to you, Galu, so much love!

And to you! May I also say what a fascinating name you have. Is that a moniker or your real name?

[@kajtekii4666]

Add a "brewery" type building for AA, so they would live up to their lore! /s

[@Wolfeson28]

Yo ho ho, and a bottle of Middle Earth rum!

[@directrulefromgamerchair3947]

Or the ability to build the special dorwinion wine buildings in dorwinion lol

[@jobgerards588]

Glorious. The mod, the units, the campaign map, the custom maps, the music, the guides...just Glorious

[@warhammerscience4997]

i love that other mod projects are helping with models. the modding community is my favorite thing about video games in general. amazing.

[@t4w4c4]

Looking forward to v4! Having a blast with my 3.2 Isengard campaign

[@gamerz1172]

Honsetly I feel like Harad--whether through an event or they start with it--Should get a general whos on a mumakill, Since lets be real that unit is one of the main reasons you start a harad campaign when you first play third age

[@KathyMort]

Lovely to have these Sunday morning videos.

[@HoneyBadger1779]

Thank you guys so much for doing all this work. CA really should hire your community to make an official Lord of the rings Total War which I'm sure you guys would be able to do on the equivalent of a shoestring budget. I really don't like how all these major companies are stuck in the dark ages of how things used to be done. Not only do they flush vast amounts of currency down the toilet with bloated projects and bloated staff (like middle management) and the inevitable corruption and inefficiency that follows , but they turn out an inferior product. does anyone else remember the Golden age of when you bought a game it was a complete and functional game and if it had any major bugs they typically released a patch in a timely fashion? do you remember how about 6 months to a year after the full and complete game came out they would offer a expansion pack that significantly increase the amount of content in the game and could almost be a second game and of itself at a reasonable price? Pepperidge farm remembers. Seriously three groups , two companies, that need to get their heads out of their asses about their hiring and IP: Games Workshop, the Tolkien Family, and CA. The sad thing is how many major companies most notably Disney studios hard lobbied and spent billions of dollars to get these added on protections and an extension of IP rights. Dozens of famous works would already be in the 'public domain' If not for these companies. In the old days an artist or an inventor got somewhere around 50-70 years of protections on his intellectual property or his invention patent to profit off of it which is almost an entire lifetime assuming you started in your late teens or somewhere in your twenties. Not anymore, it's been extended so much because Mickey mouse was about to enter the public domain and Disney was panicking. The really sad thing is is that many of these companies and individuals drew inspiration from earlier intellectual properties, IE DISNEY STUDIOS ENTIRE GOLDEN AGE OF FILMS.

[@bigthoughts2644]

You speaketh the true true

[@nicolasq.8309]

Galu, I'm noting everything you say in Faction Overviews in a little notebook of mine, to get better at the game, basically. THANK YOU for being so organized and clear in your videos. It really really helps ! Being so clear helps me a lot to understand the game mechanics as a non native speaker. Thanks a lot.

[@nicklasaskerod738]

Hi Galu I'm really happy that Faction overwiew is back, if it's not to much to ask for I would like to see a Clanes of Enedwaith overwiew. Can't wait for V4, have a good weekend.

[@astilla9]

I dont think Enedwaith will come up early, they had some changes (at least map changes and a new unit), so they may still be subject to testing/changing)

[@nicklasaskerod738]

@@astilla9 Enedwaith is my favourite faction, so I can wait if they a getting a major update. I'm happy to know they are getting a new unit, thank you very much for updating me. Have a good day.

[@sal7567]

I hate it when my car breaks down and when I ring the AA instead of car mechanics I get raided.

[@Rachub]

God I love faction overviews, hungover and eating pasta

[@bamblaster5865]

was quite confident it was the ND

[@gawinthegrey7667]

Me too, but trebuchet was missing :D

[@jeffhreid]

Southron lancers looks very sharp. Nice job hummingbird

[@feelingpine9123]

Both the rider and horse are from vanilla TATW. I haven't touched them.

[@BernddasBrotB7]

Might I suggest giving the troll-men champions a shield stat of 1? In reality a skilled fighter with a shield on their back can make some use of it, coming from re-enactment experience. It's nowhere near as good as having it in your hand, but it is there and they're supposed to be elite. Also: Bree

[@numenoreantemplar4871]

Any Reunited Kingdom updates?

[@ericmeyer5474]

They are looking to put it into the next version after 4 but they need time to write it and programm it from the ground up because they want to have their own script and all. It could take even longer than I stated.

[@qx0ni]

Hey Galu! Great work like always! Om stoked about playing this when it comes out!! Small question, I do you have a change log? I think many of the more veterans would like to read the Changelog with associated faction. Again, thanks for your dedication!

[@mikedi7850]

My question is are you actually going to put the reforged skin of the oliphaunt in V4 or was that just something you guys wanted to do but changed your mind?

It wont be in V4. It might be in the future. Not sure yet.

[@SRX33]

Thanks a lot for your videos! I managed to get all rebel provinces around me and even khand capital (blue wizard attack) and am still ally with AA and Khand.

[@miroshan6560]

The best faction ever 💪💪💪

[@sarooku]

Does movement speed differ between infantry and cavalry? I.e. is a cavalry with 100% speed as fast as an infantry with 100% speed, or do they have their own classes? Might be odd with cavalry such as Swan Knights being 90-95% speed while Hasharii are 110% speed.

[@feelingpine9123]

It's relative to the default speed of cavalry or infantry. Yes cavalry is by default faster than infantry, a 110% speed Hasharii is way, way, way slower than 95% Swan Knights.

[@sarooku]

@@feelingpine9123 Ok, thanks for clearing that up :) keep up the good work, Hummingbird!

[@Dsonsee]

Btw, I get the feel that wicker shields could pair well with the Haradrim Spearmen. What do you guys think?

[@MR-ux2vu]

Galu for president !

[@PaulJohn01]

So best resource to put your 1 merchant on ? there's lots of gold resources but i think pipe leaf might be better 😀

[@thetalon100]

This is looking really nice! One question though: will Dunedain factions (Gondor/Northern Dunedain/ Ard-Adunaim) be able to repair Annuminas? I feel like it could be accomplished if Annuminas was knocked down to a large city, then allowed to upgrade to a Huge City like Tharbad can in V3, or if the House of Kings was able to be rebuilt there like it is supposed to be in the lore. Also, is there anything in the works to handle the stability of the mod? I can barely go 30 minutes to an hour without the mod running into an unspecified error and crashing. Stability and Annuminas aside, I absolutely love this mod and can't wait for the V4 release. Keep up the good work! :D

[@bigthoughts2644]

In V5 both AA and ND can

[@casey8153]

"I think you are fighting X, Y, or Zed." did I win Arachir?

[@Sebas-pc7pr]

I think the Harad bodyguard is one of the best bodyguard units in the game now, since they are still cavalry and have quite high numbers in comparison to DA and Rohan's cav bodyguard

[@ineednochannelyoutube5384]

To balance it out you have to start your sxpansion from a single province, so you will need that early game boost a cavalry bodyguard gives you.

[@jonathanvongunten6058]

You used to say to take the base attack and times 3 for the pike and 2 for the halberds.

Yes! Aha, well remembered indeed. :-)

[@davyfromthenavy4248]

It was taking the attack stat & multiplying it by 3 to get an idea of how good the pikes really are, was it not?

[@Peteriscoolz]

Havent played M2TW in years, does this submod include the fellowship campaign that was in the original TATW? Always thought that was epic.

[@feelingpine9123]

It does not.

[@MadsBoldingMusic]

Hi Galu - first of all, I'm really enjoying the development of the new version! Holistically, it seems that all the efforts of the team are coming together in a wonderful world that looks more polished and complete than ever. Colour me excited! I have a question though: Is the release form of V.4 decided? I.e, are we talking an expansion-type of a deal to V.3 - or a stand-alone version in its own right? May you have a splendid day, All the best from Copenhagen!

It will be standalone. It will be totally standalone as we will include TATW in the download.

[@MadsBoldingMusic]

@ Awesome!

[@gregordaine7944]

Has the BUG at the logarth Bridge been fixed in 4 ? I'm currently using 2.2, a tad old so probably has. Bug is that there are High banks on the river meaning there are cliff face (impassable) all around the bridge entrance and road is impassable (battle map).

[@ethanbrown7198]

What do the "inspire friendly troops" actually do as far as stats go? Same question but for the terrain, like what does getting a bonus in barren mean?

[@directrulefromgamerchair3947]

I believe it gives the same buff as being around a general. Of course, that too is equally ambiguous when it comes to stats lol

[@ethanbrown7198]

@@directrulefromgamerchair3947 thanks for the reply! Lol I'm glad the game keeps some aspects of the game a mystery. Keeps things interesting!

[@darklordsauron3415]

Hodag Brownie logically It should just increase morale or keep morale from falling as quickly

[@ethanbrown7198]

@@darklordsauron3415 thanks for the response. I never understood why game creators keep things vague

[@willnaks4804]

Is it possible to change the cost of experience upgrade in custom battles in med 2 and TA

[@tokemhigh]

This may be obvious but you can put the 2 ships at the cross way near the capital and completely block off the north’s ability to cross

[@simospk8469]

I swear I had a playmobile that looked exactly like haradrim spearmen

[@gawinthegrey7667]

Arachir mate, you can make in this faction overviews some INTRO. Like thematic music a maybe read some tolkiens text or yours... PS: you didnt show family trees

Oh bugger, I'll have to make a note of that so i dknt forget next time.

[@artolan_illusive]

Did you manage to deal with two handed weapons glitch? In MED2 there is a glitch which makes two handed units really weak because they tend to more block attacks than attack.

We haven't made any changes to the two handdd weapons.

[@Tar-Elenion]

There is no glitch/it is fixed in the base mod (TATW) which uses Kingdoms expansion rather than base Med 2.

[@bigcat5348]

Why is Harad not a desert in this mod?

[@paswolven4834]

I think in the past Galu said that for pike units you only need to multiply the attack number by a certain amount to get their real attack number but I'm not sure.

[@Shenaldrac]

Pardon the stupid question, but how do I remove the fog of war? I'd like to be able to familiarize myself with where settlements are located on this middle earth map, as a new player of the mod. edit: Second dumb question, are mumakils considered cavalry for the purpose of horse breeder guild? Because I'd sure like to be able to recruit them more than once every 40 turns.

[@alexhg127]

Hey I’m assuming you got an answer already, but in the console command screen (the ‘ key for me) type “ toggle_fow “ to turn it off and on. For the second question, I’m not 100%, but I think that they’re just considered elephants (as they would be in base M2TW), or “great beasts” (such as those big rhino things Mordor get). Either way, though, they are not cavalry as far as I know.

[@Shenaldrac]

@@alexhg127 Thank you very much.

[@wowrdj]

Is there a chance you wold consider having the basic Armoury built in (nearly) all capital cities? Since it never made sense to me that no one figured it would be a good idea before you take control to have the capital protected.

[@justsometimber1nthelake873]

Can i please ask what are you currently working on in V4?

[@joejevyak8147]

My divide and conquer v3 keeps crashes on end turns. Is there anything i can do to fix it?

[@steel58836]

Turn on the 4 gb patch

[@LipzHaha]

4GB patch or reinstall.

[@joejevyak8147]

@@steel58836 How do I do that?

[@steel58836]

@@joejevyak8147 there should be a file in your Third_Age_3 folder/data folder

[@joejevyak8147]

SteelHawk58,836 I got it thanks

[@szlachta4763]

i love the artwork for the blue palace were did you find it

[@PattyOflan88]

AG's sum up of Harad campaign..... Spread the caliphate. Melkor is the one true Eru, and Black Serpent (pbuh) is his messenger

[@kittogashi8561]

Múmak! May the Valar turn him aside!

[@katsufriedsushi]

I got question galu and the modding team for the troll-men champions, can you put a shield defense but only effects their backs?

[@feelingpine9123]

No it doesn't work that way. Any unit that has a shield defense value will get it's full defense from the front, half from the sides and none from behind. The shield on the unit model doesn't matter at all; a unit will still get shield defense even if there's no actual shield on the unit model.

[@legerarts]

Are there any changes with version 4.5/4.6?

[@willnaks4804]

Tried to make custom bg for faramir but I doesn't work, why?

[@thacheetoguy1843]

Do we know if Mordor is getting any new units? Or dol guldar?

[@beastmodeonz5492]

I have a question is there a way to start a DaC campaign where you can start without being allied with any other faction ?

[@jonathanvongunten6058]

Hello, there is the Total War submod that resets diplomacy entirely for dac, so no alliance and no ennemies at the beginning of the campaign. I think Galu talked about it in his DaC V3 - Submod Installation. GLHF

Mr Von Gunten is correct. There is a submod for V3 that turns all the alliances and wars off so you can play totally how you want. In V4 this will be included as an alternative campaign at the main menu.

[@trollwayy5981]

So you can get the bodyguard unit faster if you have the horse breeders Guild?

No. The bodyguard is unaffected as it only trains from a few locations anyway.

[@trollwayy5981]

Arachîr Galudirithon ok thank you ;)

[@chrisamon4551]

Why isn’t more of Harad a desert? Even Harondor on my map in the LotR is described in parenthesis (Now a debatable and desert land). So shouldn’t the land between the Poros and Harnen be like a African Savannah, and the land idk just south of the hill line below Faen’obel be actual desert?

I would agree if I am honest and, post V4, I will stretch the desert up to central Harondor.

[@chrisamon4551]

Arachîr Galudirithon Excellent, except for the river valleys. Those should still be green. I imagine the Haren to be a lot like the Nile.

[@billbaraka2879]

Would it not make far more sense if the unlocking of units was related to Battles Won? By showing your military might and power and the plunder you gain due to it, more tribes join you. So 5 battles won, 10 battles won etc. You say they are all nomadic and therefore possessing land does not matter to them (Ever heard of grazing lands?) and in pretty much the next sentence say that *possessing all that land* is what brings those tribes to join you.

Clearly I haven't heard of grazing lands. The reasoning often comes after the mechanic as it did here. Battles were considered. Towns were settled upon.

[@Sharky_Splitz]

Hey Galu,what is your favorite ranger unit in Dac?

[@tarmairon431]

Is this "unite the tribes" script also restricting the AI, when it plays Harad or is it just for the player?

[@feelingpine9123]

Player only, the AI gets everything triggered at game start and only requires the building needed to train the unit.

[@rasmus7748]

the AI wouldn't be able to handle it otherwise

[@ericmeyer5474]

Only at Turn 1 when auto-expansion hasn't taken place yet.This is the same for all factions.

[@kylesimpson2844]

When can we expect the Gondor overview?

[@benfromthesewers1688]

Do You plan rework Dorwinion in future? , It looks bare for now. Worst part are units . So i am just asking if you have any plans for them.

Nope they are finished.

[@BenSinclair04]

What that a Love Actually reference ?

Close. It was a "love is all around" reference. The song that love actually parodies.

[@jimmyjoyce3554]

Are you fighting the anduin vale ?

[@Francisco19031994]

Theres a version 4? Dang we just started a multiplayer in version 3...

[@swiniver5839]

Love these Galu. Question for anyone my launcher wouldn't work said error I needed to download the definitive edition now it launches but after I start a campaign at a high resolution the game eventually crashes when it never crashed before this. Then when I go back into the game it comes back in a low resolution it also turns on show computer moves when it wasnt on when I started. This game worked perfectly before I had to download this definitive edition...if anyone could please help me out. Thanks

[@Thouse_Muchachos]

Did anybody else noticed that little voice crack when he said TWO ? 2:23

[@jeffhreid]

I guess up next is woodland realm

[@spinspir1741]

Breeland is Next

[@spinspir1741]

My guess was legit hahaha 😂

[@trollwayy5981]

Fighting N.D?? This is just a shot in the dark lmao

[@Bigdogloko]

Hey do u ever plan on making a version of the second age? Its has the greatest battle battles , like the last alliance

No plans I am afraid.

[@Gentleman_Dan]

I think you are fighting the Dwarfs of Erebor and the Iron Hills. Firsrt of, t he individual soldiers per batallion looks kind of small. And seconded, they have catapults!

[@Gentleman_Dan]

And it was Bree, because they are green. *Sigh

You gave it a go and that is what matters. :) I also liked that you provided reasoning. :D This has been my favourite comment sir.

[@evilsorosfundedgovernments433]

I think you're fighting Bree

[@Midironica]

Hold up... base game elephants can break down gates?

[@Gniew2]

I don't think that Harad should be using longships. They're obviously northern european-middlemen/northmen class of ships.

Yeah I'll change the name for them.

[@MrTreefoz]

Perhaps Lothlorien?

[@MrTreefoz]

Nope. Breeland. Awesome.

[@-reichler-3386]

Give them some swords infantry with shields god damn enough with the spears and tribal stuff they aint that boring

Make them yourself.

[@thebaconpig8680]

Couldn't the reason they called merchants princesses be, so they could have some of the women from the lore present in the game? Like Arwen and Galadriel and so on?

[@lordoblivion8038]

That could be. Or maybe they want the merchant to princess cause you know the men/husband are generals and always on battle so in their mind why not put it the daughters/princess into a merchant to even the role I guess?

[@Grunk111]

It is Isengard!

[@claytonis1]

I'm curious... Did Stephen Colbert get this right? I trust your opinion. It's a short clip. kzbin.info/www/bejne/o4W6hJljZ5eqm5Y

He did yes. Some of the pronunciation is technically off but reginal accents shouldn't be derided I don't think. :)

[@claytonis1]

@ Thanks!

[@bigthoughts2644]

Who else recruited troll men from tharbad?

[@plaguebearerbob8882]

Bree?

[@Badzarely]

How come the Troll-men have 2 armor? They are clearly only in their underwear.

[@feelingpine9123]

They just have *that* much muscle.

[@AM-iz5cs]

Thick hide-like skin.

[@Bigboii7]

Dunedin or breeland

[@stankgangsta4105]

You really screwed over this faction from base game. You took a lot of their territory and gave it to your fanfiction faction. And gave them no economy bonus to compensate

The addition of Umbar was a decision taken over 8 years ago by a modding team whose names history has forgotten. 8 years later, you lodge your disagreement without any semblance of a suggestion. Do you think that is likely to inspire me to change them now? I'll spare you the guesswork - no it doesn't.

[@pauldodds9646]

First

[@PaulJohn01]

@Colin Dallaba First Gay ? 🤔

[@PaulJohn01]

@@ArthursGardener 😂 You mean John Paul 2nd

[@Hobgoblin1975]

The anti cheat stuff on TATW made me not want to play it. Single player game what business of anyone elses is it if someone cheats. Thats arrogant and entitled in the extreme.

[@TheIIDarkshadowII]

@Leugimimi No it isn't. TATW base mod gives your generals negative traits if you used cheats - insinuating that they would make your characters go insane since you were imitating the powers of the ring and the palantiri etc. DAC does not have this, cheat as much as you like, no one cares.