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[Lauri]

I.... might thing that.... depending on their strength really... if their like berserker, sure, if their like BFME2 half trolls... horde...

of course, the BFME2 ones are spearmen, which I don't want the Half Trolls of Far Harad to be

[Canterbury]

Halfs trolls from BFME 2 are orc/trolls, while tolkien half trolls are troll/men just in mind. I am guessing that they will be single units between the line of a troll and a berserker.

[Alsch]

The half-trolls are going to be awesome. I do want to know, will they wield clubs, swords, something else, or a random mix?

[Canterbury]

Heres a lovely picture of a half troll from the lotr trading card game. They seem to be wielding jagged blades
http://lotrtcg.fanhq...amp;cardID=6079
http://lotrtcg.fanhq...amp;cardID=6080

[hdh7]

Thats cool, but I was imagining them more dark skinned, less armored, and a bit more personlike.

Edited by hdh7, 02 March 2007 - 02:26 AM.

[Alsch]

Yeah. Those pictures were a bit too orc-like.

[Olorin]

Riders of Suladan, champions of Harad

Nope! It's got nothing to do with Harad, Evil Men, or Tolkien's work for that matter.

Anyway, who thinks the half trolls should be 1 per unit.

If they're gonna be like a biggish berserker unit, definately. If they look like those pictures Canterbury showed us, probably a horde, but like a straight line, like the Gondor units.

I.... might thing that.... depending on their strength really... if their like berserker, sure, if their like BFME2 half trolls... horde...

of course, the BFME2 ones are spearmen, which I don't want the Half Trolls of Far Harad to be

I hated those spear-men with a vengeance. I hope they'll be as far from them as possible!

Yeah. Those pictures were a bit too orc-like.

Nah, I can see the resemblance between man and troll, however they do look a bit orc-like, probably because of all their piercings and their armour. They should have like a leathery type armour instead, since they come from Far Harad where it's stinking hot.

[Uruk King]

Yeah I would have picured the half-trolls of harad to be more gorrilla-like but still we could take one of Canterbury's pics and equip it with Harad armor and gear.

[hdh7]

I'd expect them to be more wild seeming than like any kind of soldier, like the cave trolls..

[Olorin]

Since their a cross-breed of Men and Trolls, I reckon they'd have some form of speech, therefore they'd have some intellegence. But they'd still be as thick as bricks.

[zimoo]

Cross-breed?

I personally never thought that, I thought they merely resembled the trolls in experience, and were giants compared to the Haradrim.

[hdh7]

Well, they were at least supposed to be trollish.

[Mathijs]

No, not at all.

Tolkien describes them as ''Big like half-trolls'' or something along those lines, he doesn't say they áre half-trolls, nor does he say they look like them in any other way then their height and strength.

I worked on an early version of the Trollmen of Far Harad for RA, and they are very much like half-trolls in their physique. That's all. They don't have scales like a troll, and certainly don't look like those cards.

[hdh7]

Are you willing to give more detail on what they did look like?

[Olorin]

Cross-breed?

I personally never thought that, I thought they merely resembled the trolls in experience, and were giants compared to the Haradrim.

No, not at all.

Tolkien describes them as ''Big like half-trolls'' or something along those lines, he doesn't say they áre half-trolls, nor does he say they look like them in any other way then their height and strength.

I worked on an early version of the Trollmen of Far Harad for RA, and they are very much like half-trolls in their physique. That's all. They don't have scales like a troll, and certainly don't look like those cards.

So they weren't cross-breeds? Oh, my mistake.

[zimoo]

Well, like Matias said, it just stated that they were like half-trolls, it didn't say they were.

[Olorin]

I often misread/misinterpret things like these. Anywho...

[Canterbury]

Hmmm i always though of them being half troll, half man. I dont even think its possilbe, damn chromosomes

[Uruk King]

Just a thought here, about the Khand minifaction, do you think it would sound better as an elite cavalry faction? Even though Harad has powerfull chariots. Or do you think they could be a shocktroop based minifaction?

[hdh7]

seeing that umbar and Far Harad are already likley to have shoctroops, I think elite cavalty would be the wat to go, or possibly cav-archers.