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[Mathijs]

Mordor v.2.00
Age of the Ring
Rough write-up

 

Heroes

 

Witch-king of Angmar - 5000

Rank 1: Mount Fellbeast

Rank 3: Chill of Angmar

As more Nazgûl gather, their strength grows. +10% Damage and +10% Armor per every Nazgûl nearby.

Nearby enemy units suffer -33% Damage and -25% Armor and nullifies enemy Leadership

At Rank 8 target enemies' special ability timers are reset to just used. Units near the Witch-king suffer uncontrollable fear

Rank 4: Morgul Blade

Rank 6: Screech

Rank 10: This Is My Hour!

Blasts back and damages units in a wide radius surrounding the Witch-King.Can only use when dismounted

 

Mollok, Troll-king - 3000

Rank 3: Reaping Slash

Mollok temporarily regains health when attacking.

Rank 4: Leap

Leaps into a group of enemies, causing damage and knockback.

Rank 5: Lord of the Olog-Hai

Trolls near Mollok gain +33% attack, +33% armor, and gain experience 50% faster.

Rank 8: Will of Sauron

Mollok gains +20% pierce resistance.

 

Mouth of Sauron - 2000

Rank 1: Mount

Rank 3:  Dark Sorcery

Castable debuff/spell Targeted enemy units take slight damage and suffer -20% Speed and -20% Armor. Nearby friendly units gain +33% Damage and +33% Armor.

Rank 5: Ambassador

The Mouth of Sauron temporarily becomes immune to all damage.

Rank 8: Lieutenant of Barad-dûr

Finishes power cooldowns for all nearby heroes. 

Rank 10: Faithless and Accursed

Units in the radius become hostile to all other units.

 

Akhorahil - 1200

Rank 1: Mount Horse 

Rank 1: The Nine are Abroad

As more Nazgûl gather, their strength grows. +10% Damage and +10% Armor per every Nazgûl nearby.

Rank 1: Screech

Stuns enemy units in terror 

Rank 2: Black Breath

Nearby enemy units suffer -33% Damage and -25% Armor and nullifies enemy Leadership

Rank 6: Relentless Pursuit

Movement speed increase by 20%, and Damage increase by 25%. Only available while mounted.

 

Uvatha - 1200

Rank 1: Mount Horse 

Rank 1: The Nine are Abroad

As more Nazgûl gather, their strength grows. +10% Damage and +10% Armor per every Nazgûl nearby.

Rank 1: Screech

Stuns enemy units in terror 

Rank 2: Black Breath 

Nearby enemy units suffer -33% Damage and -25% Armor and nullifies enemy Leadership

Rank 6: Relentless Pursuit

Movement speed increase by 20%, and Damage increase by 25%. Only available while mounted.

 

Gorbag - 1000

Starts out very weak but is able to snowball into a minor powerhouse.

Rank 1: Fierce Rivalry

When near Shagrat, Gorbag slowly takes damage over time. (Coding Note: See if we can get Troll brawling code to work for these two when near each other)

Rank 1: Morgul Cunning

Grows in power as Gorbag levels

At Rank 1 Gorbag's ranged avoidance is increased

At Rank 3 Gorbag is able to stealth for a short time

At Rank 5 Gorbag's damage increases for a short time plus prior effects

At Rank 7 Gorbag's armor increases for a short time plus prior effects

At Rank 10 Gorbag's armor and damage are passively increased

Rank 3: Dropkick

Stuns and knocks down nearby units and heroes. Can be used with Morgul Cunning.

Rank 5: I'll Bleed You

Targeted enemy hero takes heavy damage over time.

Rank 7: Loyalty to the Red Eye

Gorbag passively gains increased speed. Targeted enemy hero loses armor for a short time and Gorbag gains armor for the duration.

 

Shagrat - 1000

Defensive hero with low attack damage but high armor.

Rank 1: Fierce Rivalry

When near Gorbag, Shagrat slowly takes damage over time. Also unlocks Brawl ability for Black Uruk Marauders.

Rank 1: Captain of the Tower

Mordor towers and Orc Archers near Shagrat have increased vision, range, and damage.

At Rank 3 when used on a friendly building it spawns a temporary horde of Black Uruk Marauders. 

Rank 5: Captain of Lugburz

Leadership. Grants armor to nearby Black Uruk Marauders. Can be activated to temporarily grant bonus damage to nearby Orc Warriors and Black Uruk Marauders as well as knockback damage to Shagrat.

Rank 7: Covetous Uruk

Shagrat and the boys (Black Uruk Marauders) temporarily steal resources from slain foes.

 

Gothmog - 1500 - also unlocks Grond

Unlocked from Morgul Sorcery upgrade
Rank 1: Time of the Orc

Nearby Orcs gain increased armor, damage, experience gain and fear resistance. Passive. At rank 5, can be activated to call down a barrage of severed heads into a targeted area, dealing poison damage.

Rank 3: Form Ranks, Maggots!

Summons a horde of Morgul Orc Pikemen around Gothmog. Morgul Orc Pikemen grant a small damage boost to nearby archers. At rank 7, summons an additional horde of Morgul Orc Pikemen.

Rank 6: Master of Siege

Grants a targeted Catapult a permanent increase in damage and reload speed. 

Rank 10: Into the Fray
Nearby allied units (including Easterlings) gain +15% movement speed as well as +20% damage versus structures. 

 

Structures

 

Orcish Garrison - 300
Rank 1: Orc Warriors - 75

Weak, basic infantry. May receive Banner Carrier upgrade.

At rank 2 gain Mark of the Red Eye, which passively increases damage by +25%.

Rank 1: Orc Archers - 225

Weak, basic archers. May receive Fire Arrows and Banner Carrier upgrades.

At rank 2 gain Mark of the Red Eye, which passively increases damage by +25%.

Rank 1: Orc Pikes - 200 

Weak, basic pikemen. Can enter Porcupine formation. May receive Banner Carrier upgrade. 

At rank 2 gain Mark of the Red Eye, which passively increases damage by +25%.

Rank 2: Recruit Black Uruk Marauders – 400

Medium infantry. May receive Forged Blades and Banner Carrier upgrades.

At rank 3 gain Despoiler ability, which temporarily increases damage vs. structures by 25% and causes attacks vs. structures to leech resources.

 

Gorgoroth Armory - 400

Rank 1: Research Banner Carriers
Rank 2: Research Forged Blades

Rank 2: Research Flaming Arrows

Rank 3: Research Heavy Armor

Slaughterhouse - 300

Basic resource structure

 

Lumbermill - 350
Secondary resource structure

 

Easterling Encampment - 600

Rank 1: Recruit Variags of Khand – 550 ; Slightly above regular infantry stats.

Medium infantry with high attack potential. May receive Forged Blades, Heavy Armor and Banner Carrier upgrades.

At rank 3, gain Fury of Khand, which temporarily increases damage by 50% but reduces armor by 20%.

Rank 2: Recruit Easterling Phalanx – 600

Heavily armored elite infantry. May receive Forged Blades, Heavy Armor and Banner Carrier upgrades.

At rank 3, gain Serrated Armor, which temporarily causes a percentage of inflicted melee damage to be redirected to the attacker.

Rank 2: Recruit Easterling Archers – 650

Heavily armored elite archers. May receive Barbed Arrows, Heavy Armor and Banner Carrier upgrades.

At rank 3, gain Serrated Armor, which temporarily causes a percentage of inflicted melee damage to be redirected to the attacker.

Rank 3: Barbed Arrows Upgrade - 1000

Arrow upgrade that increases damage and adds slash damage. Can only be used by Easterling Archers.

Rank 3: Recruit Easterling Kataphracts – 650 - Requires He is Gathering All Evil to Him to have been used

Elite heavy cavalry. May receive Forged Blades, Heavy Armor and Banner Carrier upgrades.

At rank 3, gain Serrated Armor, which temporarily causes a percentage of inflicted damage to be redirected to the attacker.

Rank 3: Recruit Easterling Swordsmen – 750 -  Requires He is Gathering All Evil to Him to have been used

Elite heavy infantry. May receive Forged Blades, Heavy Armor and Banner Carrier upgrades.

At rank 3, gain Serrated Armor, which temporarily causes a percentage of inflicted damage to be redirected to the attacker.

 

Troll Cage - 600
Rank 1: Recruit Mountain Troll - 500
Rank 2: Recruit Drummer Troll - 500

Rank 3: Recruit Olog-Hai - 1000

Mumak Pen - 800 Requires He is Gathering All Evil to Him to have been used

Rank 1: Haradrim Archers – 600 ; Specialist Low Armor High Attack, Special Attacks.
Rank 1: Recruit War Mumak - 1600

Rank 2: Poison Arrows Uprgrade - 1000

 

Tower of Mordor
Banners of Barad-dûr

Nearby friendly units gain +10% attack damage

 

Banners of Cirith Ungol

Increases tower vision by x% 

 

Banners of the Minas Morgul 

Nearby enemy units take minor damage over time

 

Banners of Rhûn 

Orc Archers are replaced by Easterling Archers that deal more damage

 

Siege Works - 600
Rank 1: Battering Ram

Rank 1: Siege Tower ; Special Maps only.

Rank 2: Great Beast of Nurn - 1200

Recruited from the Siege Works

Rank 1: Stampede 

The Great Beast stampedes across some distance, dealing strong damage to units in its path

Rank 2: Hop On, Boys!

Spawns a carriage with orcish archers on the Great Beast's back

Rank 3: Give 'Em Some Grog!

Allows the orcs to toss a barrel of highly volatile grog at a target

Rank 5: Beast of War

Causes enemy units to cower in fear

Rank 2: Catapult
Rank 3: Grond, Hammer of the Underworld
Limited to 1, requires Gothmog to be recruited.

 

Fortress

Doom Pyres - 500
Leadership to nearby units

Flows of Sammath Naur (Lava Moat) - 800
Reduce melee damage dealt to fortress

Lava Cauldrons - 1000

Morgul Sorcery - 1500

Increases fortress armor and unlocks Gothmog, Morgul Vanguard and Legions of Morgul.

Morgul Spire - 1000

His Deadliest Servants: Passively grants +33% Damage and 33% Armor to all Nazgul on the battlefield

Beacon of Morgul: All orcs on the battlefield gain 15% Speed and 25% Armor for a short time. During this time all friendly resource structures are disabled.

 

Legions of Morgul – 400
Recruited from the Fortress after Morgul Sorcery is unlocked.

Elite heavy infantry. May receive Forged Blades, Heavy Armor and Banner Carrier upgrades.

Have Sorcerous Steel passive, which causes each consecutive melee attack to decrease enemy armor by 5%. Stacks five times.

 

Morgul Vanguard - 1500

Hero Unit, recruited from the Fortress after Morgul Sorcery is unlocked.

Rank 2: Morgul Influence

Reduces the damage and armor of nearby enemy units.

Rank 4: Morgul Blade

Targeted enemy unit takes damage overtime and upon death becomes a tortured wraith.

Rank 7: Morgul Sorcery 

Nearby enemies flee in terror.

 

Spellbook

 

Crack of Doom - 5pp

Summons a patch of cracked, volcanic earth. All units inside of it take damage over time. 
Wraiths of Mordor - 5pp

Summons a small horde of wraiths. Wraiths are fast-moving units that reveal a lot of shroud and slow nearby enemy units.

Orc Horn - 5pp

Targeted allies temporarily gain +50% damage and armor.

Barricade - 10pp

Summons an orcish barricade manned by archers.
He Is Gathering All Evil To Him - 10pp

Summons Haradrim Raiders, passively unlocks Easterling Kataphrakts and Easterling Swordsmen
Call the Horde - 10pp

Temporarily increases Orc and Uruk production speed.
Slaves of Nurn - 10pp
Selected structure's resource output is temporarily increased by 300%. Only affects Slaughterhouses.
 

Terror of Cirith Ungol - 15pp

Summons Shelob and 3 hordes of Brood of Shelob (Giant Spiders).
Darkness - 15pp
Temporarily covers the entire map in darkness. Friendly units +33% damage and armor.

Wraiths on Wings! - 15pp
Summons two Wraiths on Wings to the battlefield.

 

The Eye of Sauron - 25pp

Sauron gazes upon the battlefield. Briefly stuns all enemy units on the map. Enemies caught within the Eye are stunned for longer. Friendly units caught within it are buffed. 
Fires of Orodruin  - 25pp

Burning rocks and ash pummel the battlefield.

 

Sauron – 10,000; Ring Hero for all evil factions except Misty Mountains and Dol Guldur

 

Rank 1: Gorthaur

Sauron inspires fear to nearby units whether friend or foe.

Rank 1: Conflagration

Destroys enemy hero with flames. (Will list hero exceptions later)

Rank 1: Annatar, Lord of Gifts

Converts enemy units temporarily to Sauron’s side. (Hero Units Exempted)

Rank 1: The Lord of the Rings

Sauron temporarily takes less Damage from all sources.

Rank 1: His Deadliest Servants 

Sauron temporarily summons 4 Ringwraiths

Edited by Mathijs, 10 April 2022 - 01:11 PM.

[thorin001]

Why not replacing the variags with easteling swordsmen? variags are from khand that lies south of mordor, so variags fit better in the mumak pen.

Edited by thorin001, 31 January 2017 - 11:38 AM.

[MattTheLegoman]

Khand is to the south-east of Mordor. I hope the Variags look like John Howe's art. I've always loved his design. http://www.john-howe...hp?image_id=524

[Rider of Rohan]

Why not replacing the variags with easteling swordsmen? variags are from khand that lies south of mordor, so variags fit better in the mumak pen.

The Variags generally fought alongside the easterlings, and even their first appearance on the field was alongside the Wainriders.
 

 

Khand is to the south-east of Mordor. I hope the Variags look like John Howe's art. I've always loved his design. http://www.john-howe...hp?image_id=524

We will probably be coming up with original designs but who knows.

[Morgul Orc]

I like the diversity of Mordor!

 

I have a few questions and suggestions if you don't mind

 

 

1: I have seen the recent pics of soldiers of rhun and easterling kataphrakt. According to this list they aren't recruited from the easterling camp, will they be there in the future or just summoned by Khamul or something?

 

2: Why not make a morgul barracks building that get unlocked when upgrading to morgul sorcery to recruit morgul orcs and vanguard instead of being recruited from the fortress?

 

 

3: I don't see the black riders horde on this list, are the rest of the nazguls summoned from the new power "wraiths on wings"?

If so, I have a suggestion. Why not make the 5 remaining nazguls recruited individually from the fortress after Morgul sorcery as a single heroic units that are limited to 5 in the game

And make the power "wraiths on wings" a passive ability which allows those 5 nazgul heroic units to ride a fellbeast? They can be weaker nazguls than the other 4 and have the same vanilla abilities

instead of having special ones like the other 4.

 

 

btw I like your idea of mordor increasing in power from the fortress and also love the shelob guard idea as Sauron use shelob to guard the path of cirith ungul and feeds her orcs and prisoners from time to time as a deal  

[Bashkuga]

About Rhun, the Phalanx of Rhun are the Easterlings you see on the render, and I guess those Black Wyrm Banners might be the Kataphrakt, else the faction has two banner carrier upgrades?

Edited by Bashkuga, 01 February 2017 - 12:59 AM.

[Morgul Orc]

yup I was also questioning the Black wyrm banners as well

[Rider of Rohan]

1: I have seen the recent pics of soldiers of rhun and easterling kataphrakt. According to this list they aren't recruited from the easterling camp, will they be there in the future or just summoned by Khamul or something?

 

2: Why not make a morgul barracks building that get unlocked when upgrading to morgul sorcery to recruit morgul orcs and vanguard instead of being recruited from the fortress?

 

 

3: I don't see the black riders horde on this list, are the rest of the nazguls summoned from the new power "wraiths on wings"?

If so, I have a suggestion. Why not make the 5 remaining nazguls recruited individually from the fortress after Morgul sorcery as a single heroic units that are limited to 5 in the game

And make the power "wraiths on wings" a passive ability which allows those 5 nazgul heroic units to ride a fellbeast? They can be weaker nazguls than the other 4 and have the same vanilla abilities

instead of having special ones like the other 4.

1.) As Bashkuga said the Easterling Phalanx and Easterling Archers use the same movie skin that was shown in the render. The Kataphrakt is a special unit that you can only use on Rhun and Rhovanian region maps accessible via an Easterling Inn type structure. Might be subject to change later but we'll see.
The Black Wyrm banner is an upgrade we are still figuring out.

2.) We prefer it coming from the fortress because it makes use of the already existing upgrade of Morgul sorcery from the fortress.

3.) The Nazgul are also still being developed concept wise but you won't have to wait for too long because it's the next faction we'll be looking at getting in game!

[Mathijs]

2.) We prefer it coming from the fortress because it makes use of the already existing upgrade of Morgul sorcery from the fortress.
 

 

And because it'll look like the scene in RotK where the orcs march out of Minas Morgul.

 

[Morgul Orc]

 

2.) We prefer it coming from the fortress because it makes use of the already existing upgrade of Morgul sorcery from the fortress.
 

 

And because it'll look like the scene in RotK where the orcs march out of Minas Morgul.

 

Good to know that Morgul orcs are so elite that they're recruited straight from the fortress

 

keep up the good work

[sTRiker34]

First of all hi people I'm Balrog_of_Morgoth

I have few suggestions for your already great Mordor

1) About Khamul: it will be logical to give him a leadership ability only effects Easterlings he is one of them after all and name it to something "commander of legions of the east" maybe?

2) Give Variags axes and scimitars thats fit to the eastern style weaponry and I left armor design to your master hands

3) And if you work on some buildings of Mordor as you did with Gondor I will be really happy

Thanks for reading and waiting for your reply

[Dúnedain76]

Hey Balrog, good to see you here!

1) Khamûl will definitely be getting an Easterling leadership, not to worry.

 

2) Mathijs does have a model in the works for the Variags. We'll take the weapons into consideration

 

3) You'll be happy to know that Mordor will be receiving the buildings we made for Shadow and Flame.

[sTRiker34]

Hey Balrog, good to see you here!
1) Khamûl will definitely be getting an Easterling leadership, not to worry.
 
2) Mathijs does have a model in the works for the Variags. We'll take the weapons into consideration
 
3) You'll be happy to know that Mordor will be receiving the buildings we made for Shadow and Flame.

Its good to know that

[sTRiker34]

And one more question: This one about siege equipment. Troll catapult is a replacement for regular catapult in visual? Or it is better than that?

[Mathijs]

Visual replacement.

[Er-Mûrazôr]

 

2.) We prefer it coming from the fortress because it makes use of the already existing upgrade of Morgul sorcery from the fortress.
 

 

And because it'll look like the scene in RotK where the orcs march out of Minas Morgul.

 

Will it also have the same visuals and sound effects as it does in the movie when the sorcery spirals round the fortress and shoots in the air and lets out a ghoulish cry?

[Dúnedain76]

I sure as hell want it to!

[saruman_the_wise]

For gothmog i was thinking to make him less "passive" ability oriented; make  Master of Siege gran a temporary boost for 35 seconds with a cool effect otherwise why would one pull gothmog and his good orc leaderships away from the front lines, where he would be much more effective? Also for a level 10 ability perhaps this:

 

Morgul Host - Rank 10

 

Summons a dreadful Morgul Host

containing 2 Olog-Hai Trolls, 3 catapults and 2 Hordes of fully upgraded Morgul Warrior/Vanguard

for 60 seconds.

[Mathijs]

Turning one of his passives into an activated ability is something I can get behind.

The Morgul Host power though, not so much.

[saruman_the_wise]

Turning one of his passives into an activated ability is something I can get behind.

The Morgul Host power though, not so much.

I'm good with one out of two.