My attempt at a reconstruction of Middle Earth.
Play as Sauron, take over the world you begin with some trolls, orcs, the nine Ringwraiths and 5 Nazgul fellbeasts
find locations like..
Tom Bombadills house (with Goldberry).
The Shire, Rivendel (with Elrond).
Barliman Butterbur in Bree.
The Dead Marshes near Mordor.
Mordor (and shelobs lair).
The Iron Hills of the Dwarves.
Lorien and Gladriel.
The Mines of Moria with orcs, trolls, the "watcher" in the water and the "Balrog").
Mirkwood, with spiders and orcs (and Beorn, and the Silvan Elves of Mirkwood).
Radagast the brown
The lonely mountain and Smaug.
Bard the archer in Laketown.
Sauraman and Wormtongue in Isengard (and some hidden "crows" to search the land).
The Ents of Fangorn (ok they are giants but the best i had).
Rohan and Gondor ( and the path of the dead!).
The Fellowship of the ring will come for you, as will the rest of Middle Earth 4 theives to represent the hobbits, a tunneller for Gimli, archer for Legolas, knight for Boromir, wizard for Gandalf and avatar for Aragorn
and even Gollum is sneaking around somewhere
map as accurate as I could get
Special Shout out to Dragonlich, for the awesome Eye of Sauron dungeon heart!!!, download it here on this site (on the "other" page)
This map is gigantic, but most of it is empty. And since you pretty much have to turtle, you won't see most of it.
The player has access to everything in terms of spells and rooms and starts with a big army including 9 lvl 10 Dark Knights (new creature). After a short time (around 1 payday), a party will spawn far in the north west and then, a lot of other parties will follow from different spawn points at a rapid pace. These parties range from weak to very strong (including Avatars) and you won't have the forces to fight everything head on. The only solution I found is to turtle with lava traps and then let part of the invading forces in with bridges. Or just abuse the scavenging room.
After the second payday, nothing else happens and you have to find and destroy the enemy Heart. You could sneak outside and destroy it without fighting the huge army of heroes. It should be very easy as it is defended by a single lvl 10 Avatar who you could just free and let him wander out.
There are a lot of spelling mistakes too, it could be fixed quickly. It's not a bad map, things just happen too quickly and you have no reason to leave your base except for finding the enemy Heart. I can't give it more than 2/5
Version 4 uploaded. bug fixes, and increase of difficulty
version3 uploaded.
made it harder hopefully, less allies etc.
make sure to replace the old azconfig folders, as new stuff is happening here thanks
In my opinion, if you wanted to maintain the LOTR line you should have put Saruman as an ally in Isengard with his orcs that cannot be controlled by you who dedicated himself to Rhoan and who you, as keeper, can decide to help more massively.
A nice map. I was really pleased that you used the Eye of Sauron that I posted months ago...
Yes!, it was Perfect!
I played it now and agree with the other feedback, loads of stuff going on, but you start with such a massive army nothing could even remotely harm you. Your 10 lvl10 knights alone are enough to win. I was going to convert the avatar, but killed the heart before he converted.
And you get to convert everything too. Perhaps simply change the story so that your army is away at helms deep so the player starts without an army. Now everything goes by really fast.
appreciate the feedback :)
the 9 knights are means to represent the 9 ringwraiths, but perhaps I should make them lower level.? and lower the amount of "allies" you can get. (moria, mirkwood)
I had an original version where you had to go get the portal at Isengard, instead of already being claimed, perhaps I will go back to that as well...
I see you made a screenshot of unearth, but in new unearth versions there is also an export function to make make screenshots. 'File - Export Preview'.
I would also rename your map to
Middle Earthinstead of `Middle Earth 2023.12.30 map'.Just played the 2nd version and i completed it like Ben_lp. maximum 10 mins .
Really liked the custom heart! really cool! think it needs some kind of tweaking cuz it was really easy map. like the concept of it and its a cool map.
uploaded 2nd version, with faster enemy spawn time
it took me about 10 minutes to conquer this realm. the map layout is very pretty and i really felt like sauron himself :P your objects are working and the custom heart is nice, the new creatures too. i had 2 Reveal boxes next to my heart ? idk if that was intended. the avatar was a bit stronger than usual but still no competition. i killed heart and i won :)
Thanks!, although if you beat it that quick, you may have missed a few waves of heroes spawning. :)
watch out now you have two versions uploaded and PPL can't compare