Mathijs

Thanks Jewel, this gallery is pretty inspirational.

Thanks. Feel free to make a new thread for these scans!

That's really cool. Thanks.

They'll be Men.

@Vidstige: Sadly the portrait will likely need changing to fit the new model he'll receive.

They are, although the lore is different here. In AotR, Amroth's Knights are the remnant of King Amroth's (the last king of Lothlórien who drowned off the coast of Edhellond) household guard. They're mounted Sindarin nobles, a reference to the mounted Athenian nobles (hippeis) of Ancient Greece.

He's recruited from the fortress and cannot attack, hence why he has his own leveling system. It's very similar to what The Dwarf Holds did, if you want to take a look.

You can - the button is just in the builder's commandset (Palantir) rather than on the right-hand side of the screen. It's because we ran out of button space on the right.

General
- Upgrades now mention that they effect patrols.
- Gundabad Berserker CaH now uses Uruk CaH voiceset
- Various map improvements and fixes
- Fixed Inn Dúnedain Ranger Banner carrier model

Gondor
- Stoneworker and Battle Tower now have a different shortcut (O) (T)
- Fixed bug with Gandalf causing a bug that made Command Points disappear for Gondor
- Removed Aragorn lines from Berethor's recruit and respawn
- Anorien Knights should no longer show old model in lower quality settings
- Pippin's Trollbane does not play Aragorn's shout anymore
- Gondor Battle tower now has better geometry
- Gondor Farm now has better geometry
- Gondor Battle Tower archer gets Fire Arrow when tech is purchased
- Gondor's Rallying Call power now uses appropriate decal art

Mordor
- Added Mordor Pikemen to the Call the Horde power
- Various string fixes
- Fixed bug that allowed old Attack troll skin to show

Misty Mountains
- Great Goblin’s song cannot be heard mapwide anymore
- Azog retains his armor after respawning

Isengard
- Manslayers no longer cause units to avoid crushing them
- Fixed Wildmen Spearmen banner placement

Gondor
- Added Optimized Anorien Soldier
- Added Optimized Anorien Pikemen/Spearmen
- Added optimized Anorien Archers
- Added Optimized Anorien Trebuchet
- Added Optimized Anorien Knights
- Added Optimized Gondor Banner Carrier
- Added Optimized Archery Range (with optimized archer models)
- Added idle variation for Gondor Farm
- Anorien Archers now attack with their swords in close combat
- Prince Imrahil has a new voice set
- Clansmen of Lamedon have a new voice set
- Lamedon Clansmen and Anorien Soldier use more attacking animations
- Aragorn now uses his Elven Dagger during Blademaster
- Gandalf has his lore string!

Mordor
- Fury of Khand has a new FX

Misty Mountains
- Golfimbul has a new voice set
- Great Goblin's song is now split into 2 variations (from one long sound effect)

Isengard
Nothing!

General
- The Balrog deals less damaged upon summon
- Sauron is slightly more vulnerable to magic damage
- Reduced Ring hero death shockwave damage
- Warg Riders (Isengard and Misty Mountains) now have more armor against cavalry damage

Gondor
- Pippin's Trollbane now has adds resistance to knockback
- Gondor Battle tower will now shoot arrows even without buying the garrison upgrade
- Armaments of the White City is now a rank 3 power for fiefdom units (from rank 5)
- Gondor Battle Tower archers do more damage
- Forlong has less health than before

Mordor
- Reduced radius of Necromancy effect from Dol Guldur Dungeon
- Decreased D0l Guldur Dungeon armor to regular unit attacks
- Drummer Trolls require Rank 2 Troll Cage now
- Mollok's Reaping Slash and Will of Sauron powers swapped in level placement
- Reduced the quality of Attack Troll per level bonuses (rank 5 trolls are less powerful now)
- Horde bonus requires 150 units to be activated (from 100)
- Sauron's Conflagaration can now only target heroes
- Misty Mountain's Frozen Wasteland no longer slows enemy units
- Improved Khamul’s armor values

Misty Mountains

- Azog now costs 4000 from 3000

Isengard
- Nothing!

Thanks,
The AotR Team

We could open up the forged blades texture and turn it bright yellow... then you can replace it and see what happens. It won't affect compatibility with others. We'll look at that together after the hotfix is released.

A step by step guide

To start off, the mod will only work on clean installation of RotWK (ie. not Forshire's editions).
Download BFME2 and RotWK from HERE. Installation instructions are included in the link.

Below is the basic installation order:

1. Patch BFME2 to patch 1.06
2. Patch RotWK to patch 2.01
3. Test to make sure RotWK runs
4. Install patch 2.02 - make sure to pick Widescreen if that's what you have, and get the new game.dat file as well (BACKUP THE ORIGINAL by moving it out of the RotWK folder first), as it fixes some issues and removes the need for a disc. 
5. Open the patch 2.02 launcher (found in RotWK's installation folder) and make sure it's enabled.
6. Download the Age of the Ring installer and run it. Either use the default path or choose another location. Do NOT install it into the RotWK installation folder. 
7. Run the Age of the Ring shortcut from your desktop and enjoy the mod.

Now, a lot of people have other patches and mods installed. To ensure patch 2.02 and AotR work with the various setups out there, read below:

• Do you have BFME patch 1.09? Make sure to switch to 1.06.
• Do you have Edain installed? Make sure to disable it from their launcher. 
• Do you want to reenable Edain? You will need to switch the 2.02 game.dat out with the original game.dat that you have previously backed up and use the 2.02 switcher to switch back to 2.01. Ensure that in the 2.02 launcher, the Original Lobby Music is enabled and not the other tracks. 

Using T3A:Online

1. Visit the T3A:Online website's setup guide and read the tutorial (note: it's an image slideshow, so make sure to press next)
2. After reading the above and installing the T3A:Online launcher, open it, go to Hook, and hook up RotWK. If the check doesn't appear, make sure you're running it as administrator.
3. Open the AotR shortcut. It should now open with the T3A:Online launcher. Press RotWK, and the mod should start. If not, your hooking didn't work, and you need to run as administrator.
4. Go into Multiplayer > Online and log in with your T3A:Online credentials. If the game tells you to update, press cancel, exit, and run the shortcut as administrator and in Windows XP SP3 compatibility mode.

COMMON ISSUES

"When launching the mod and clicking Skirmish, the game crashes."
This is related to one of two things: first is Edain CaH. Go into Application Data (type in %appdata% in the Windows search bar) > My The Lord of the Rings, The Rise of the Witch-king Files > Saves and move out or delete all files ending in the .cah suffix. If that wasn't it, go back into My The Lord of the Rings, The Rise of the Witch-king Files and delete Skirmish.ini.

"When launching the mod, I get the following game crash: "ELVEN_SILVERTHORNARROWS_BUILDCOST"." 

Disable and enable patch 2.02.

"When launching the mod, I get a game crash related to Upgrade_WildHeavyArmorNew."

Disable and enable patch 2.02.

"When launching the mod, I get a game crash related to MORDOR_WALLHUBS."

You don't have patch 1.09 disabled. Make sure to do so from their switcher.

Yep, it is.

Please post suggestions or questions in the appropriate thread - this is for support issues.

We plan to add Wulfgar, but it won't be that concept. You'll find mine a little further down the page - that's what will happen.

Age of the Ring Voice Acting

After our first release, we are now looking for voice actors to voice our new units and hero characters. It's a Lord of the Rings project, so this is an opportunity to get in character for some famous and less-famous book and film characters. It's an RTS game, so the lines will mostly be short and to the point, with occasional yelling and dying!

We are currently working on finishing all of our scripts. However, since this is very much an ongoing process, we've decided to start looking.

The way we'd like for this to work is for you to pick a number of lines (minimum of 5) from each script you'd like to voice and send them to me (PM me here). Based on this we'll decide if we like your work and give direction. If you're unsure about something and would like to discuss pronunciations, you can join our Discord and we can speak there.

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Black Gate and Elessar armor can both appear at rank 10. It's random. So your game is not bugged.