Trolls and other special units are one of my favourite parts of the mod.
Trolls in particular are super cool. You can't play as one but evil armies regularly field one or two. They've given them unique models and enough armour that most blows from most weapons don't do any damage to them. They move really slowly and flinch periodically in daylight but the only way to actually kill them is high tier units wielding elvish or dwarvish weapons or a succesful cavalry charge, which is hard to pull off because horses are terrified of trolls. Blows from their clubs can hit send multiple units flying (without necesarily killing them) and easily batter down gates in sieges. They've also implemented ents, giant spiders and wargs in similarly cool and impactful ways as well as a lot of hero characters and special items.
The mod creators have done a really good job of taking the original M&B game as a lattice and engine and turning it into something a lot more fun and that feels uniquely LOTRy. They've tuned up the battle and campaign AI, overhauled most of the game systems and added a whole lot of new mechanics. On top of that the emergent storytelling is out of this world. I'm still kinda torn up from my first Rohan campaign I dropped 60 odd hours in three years ago after Faramir died on the Pellenor fields trying to drive the orcs back from the gates of Minas Tirith and I probably could have saved him but instead had chosen to help Theoden drive main force of Isengard into the dead marshes.
It's a treat.
If you like strategy videogames and are at all emotionally invested in the LOTR characters or setting I can strongly recommend you give it a try.
So you can’t be trolls, but can you field them? Can I play as an orc and have some troll boys with me? Because tbh most of the good factions bore me (at least in divide and conquer)
Tbh I haven’t played it. But I have been tempted to pirate warband just to play it. Does it have stuff like trolls?
It sure does :)
Trolls and other special units are one of my favourite parts of the mod.
Trolls in particular are super cool. You can't play as one but evil armies regularly field one or two. They've given them unique models and enough armour that most blows from most weapons don't do any damage to them. They move really slowly and flinch periodically in daylight but the only way to actually kill them is high tier units wielding elvish or dwarvish weapons or a succesful cavalry charge, which is hard to pull off because horses are terrified of trolls. Blows from their clubs can hit send multiple units flying (without necesarily killing them) and easily batter down gates in sieges. They've also implemented ents, giant spiders and wargs in similarly cool and impactful ways as well as a lot of hero characters and special items.
The mod creators have done a really good job of taking the original M&B game as a lattice and engine and turning it into something a lot more fun and that feels uniquely LOTRy. They've tuned up the battle and campaign AI, overhauled most of the game systems and added a whole lot of new mechanics. On top of that the emergent storytelling is out of this world. I'm still kinda torn up from my first Rohan campaign I dropped 60 odd hours in three years ago after Faramir died on the Pellenor fields trying to drive the orcs back from the gates of Minas Tirith and I probably could have saved him but instead had chosen to help Theoden drive main force of Isengard into the dead marshes.
It's a treat.
If you like strategy videogames and are at all emotionally invested in the LOTR characters or setting I can strongly recommend you give it a try.
So you can’t be trolls, but can you field them? Can I play as an orc and have some troll boys with me? Because tbh most of the good factions bore me (at least in divide and conquer)
Absolutely, if you're any of the evil aligned factions you can field trolls and wargs and occasionally attract the help of giant spiders and nazgul.
Alright you’ve convinced me to steal warband
Then my work here is done 😄
Enjoy!