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Have you seen these two LOTR fan movies:





I watched Hunt for Gollum and I was amazed by the scenery. The story was a bit stretched or was missing content, but still very good for fan movie.

I haven't yet seen Born of Hope. Is it any good?

I recently played BFME1 through and noticed that it's just so much better game than BFME2, really.

1. Single player campaign
- The campaigns just rocks and follow the storyline very well.
- And it's non-linear. War of the ring doesn't even come to close, since it's missing all the great

2. True to Tolkin's writings
- There is less liberties taken. The ROTWK beeing the worst.

3. Ents and Entmoot
- Ents are ENTS and not walking catapults.
- I have very fond memories of building a entmoot just next to my friend's base in MP game and the poor guy attack the entmoot, end of story.

4. Unit Types
- You can actually kill a group of peasents holding a stick with army of horsemen, unlike in BFME2 where you always have to have a specific unit or you do only 1% damage.

5. More Epic
- The battles are more epic, since the units do less damage (or have more health). I remember one MP game that lasted for hours!

6. Stronger Powers
- All the powers are more stronger. Summoning a balrog makes a difference!

7. Rohan
- So wonderfully colorful faction and more interesting faction to play than any even in ROTWK.

8. No copy-paste heroes
- No copy-paste heroes, but all the heroes are unique with their abilities.

9. Building Plots
- Makes the game IMO a lot more strategic.
- Your camp has all the buildings in a small proximity and you don't need to conquer the whole map with your resource buildings.

10. Elvenstar Mod
- Just awesome mod, but there is also plenty of others to play it. IMO bfme1 has better mods than bfme2.
- Lot of bfme2 mods are also 80% ready and prolly never got finished, unfortunately. :(


What do you think? When was the last time you played THE game?

If somebody, who is able, could provide me a new texture for Drogoth, I'd be pleased.

I'd like to have Drogoth retextured to red, a dark red like this forum and some yellow for inside of the wings and the belly.

Does it require huge work?


Something like this:

The Hobbit - Campaign (BFME2: RotWK)

Now that they are making the movies, I'd really like to see The Hobbit single player campaign in BFME2: The Rise of The Witch King. It definately needs some heavy work, but there shouldn't be anything impossible to do. The campaign actually would resemble good campaign of BFME2 quite much.

Main Heroes:
Gandalf (without Shadowfax or White)
Bilbo (Frodo without Phial)
Thorin Oakenshield (CAH hero)
Thorin's Company (3xDwarven Zealot = 12)

Other Heroes:
Bard the Bowman (Prince Brand)
Thranduil
Dain Ironfoot

Villains:
Three Trolls (Tom, Bert and William)
Great Goblin (Gorkil)
Attercop the Great Spider (Shelob)
Smaug the Golden (Drogoth)
Bolg (Azog)
Bolg's Bodyguards (fully upgraded Half Troll Swordsmen)

New Powers:
Swords of Gondolin (+50% dam to heroes)
Summon Beorn (Hwaldar likeness)


1. The Map (Dol Guldur)
- Gandalf with elves to rescue Thrain II, father of Thorin
- Dol Guldur is infested with goblins
- One Black Rider as boss


2. Roast Mutton (Trollshaws)
- Troll infested forest with lot of troll lairs
- Starts with Gandalf to free Bilbo, Thorin and dwarves from a big cave
- Recruit Hobbits from Inn
- Three giant trolls (like the one in BFME1 Moria) as boss monsters


3. Over Hill (High Pass)
- Basically BFME High Pass map with dwarves
- Hill Giants and some goblin camps as enemy
- OR Hill Giants might be part of Misty Mountains mission


4. Under Hill (Misty Mountains)
- Large dungeon system (like Cirith Ungol or Moria) with few caverns for building resource buildings
- Dwarven camp (without Men of Dale) vs goblins camp (no spiders/-riders)
- Great Goblin (Goblin King) as boss monster


5. Riddles in the Dark (Gollum's Cave)
- Bilbo only. Like BFME1 Shelob's Lair with Sam.
- Starts with Bilbo escaping from Gollum.
- Must use stealth (and ring) to survive.
- Goblins as enemy.


6. Out of the Frying-pan Into the Fire (Carrock)
- Survive mission with only heroes and small group of dwarves.
- Dire wolves and Wolf Riders (from Angmar faction) as enemy
- Unlimited amount of enemies, that keep spawning again and again
- Eagles comes to help after time perioid. And wolves stop re-spawning.


7. Flies and Spiders (Mirkwood)
- BFME2 evil campaign's Mirkwood map
- Start with Bilbo only to rescue dwarves
- All 13 dwarves are in web cocoons (like soldiers in BFME1's Shelob's Lair)
- Contact elves to drive the spiders (and goblins) from Mirkwood
- Elven camp with Thranduil. No Lothlorien or Rivendell elves.
- Goblin camp with some goblins and lot of Spiders and Spider-Riders as enemy
- Attercop the Great Spider as boss monster


8. Fire and Water (Esgaroth)
- Fire drake lairs as nest of Smaug and Fire Drakes
- Smaug with fire drakes attacks the town.
- Defend the Lake-town with Men of Dale and Bard
- Destroy the fire drake nests and kill Smaug


9. The Clouds Burst (Erebor)
- Battle of Five Armies
- Player is playing with Dwarves with all heroes
- Two enemy camps; Goblin and Angmar (dire wolves+wolf riders+Gundabad orcs) factions as enemy.
- Bolg is boss monster with his bodyguards (Half Troll Swordsmen)
- Thranduil and Elves arrive to help after short time delay
- Gandalf and eagles arrive after long time period (at the end)

What say you? Did I miss something?

Hi,

I want to change the way you gain upgrades in single player campaigns of BFME1. How do I do this? I found some stuff from libraries.big (sps_initialize.map), but there isn't anything anywhere related to adding the upgrades. Where are they? :(

Initially I thought that those are defined in actual single map files, but then noticed that in good player campaign, it depends how many maps you have conquered instead of a specific map, what upgrades you get.