The Last Days (of the Third Age of Middle Earth): Difference between revisions

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It features three sides (Good, Sauron, Saruman - Sauron and Saruman begin as allies) divided in several smaller factions (Gondor, Rohan, Mirkwood, Harad, Rhun, Mordor, Moria, etc). The player creates a character and begins alone near a camp / town of the mini faction that he chose, already attached to it (lowest rank), and equiped with bad quality gear and a few food. Then, like in the original ''[[Mount and Blade]]'', the character will have to hire soldiers, buy gears, and do quests to gain fame with the factions of his side. When he reachs the level 8, the War of the Ring begins.

* [[Affably Evil]]: Some parts of dialogs (especially all which is related to quests common to all sides) are the same for every factions. It makes some conversations sounding a bit [[Out of Character]], when the leader of an evil faction asks the player politely to do a random quest and nearly apologizes when the player answers that he won't be able to do it.

* [[Alien Blood]]: Averted. Although Orc blood is described as black in the books, all the blood in the game is red.

* [[Animal Theme Naming]]: Harad, Rhun, and Dunlendings use this trope.

* [[Arbitrary Headcount Limit]]: Averted, like in the original game the maximal size of an army based on charisma, fame<ref>Each faction have a hierarchy, doing quests for one or winning a battle near one of its party or settlement grants rank points, gaining enough of them makes the player climb in the hierarchy. It is possible to climb in the ranks of several armies. Each time the player climbs in the hierarchy in any faction, it increases his total [[Arbitrary Headcount Limit]]</ref>, and one the leadership skill ; to allow the formation of larger hordes for the evil factions, each Orc unit hired makes the cap a bit hight (something like "two more units for three Orcs").

** Or at least it should. Infortunatly, some different factions have very similar color. The worst are all those which have a shade of white / very light grey as official color. They are: Gondor, Erebor, Dale, all the wandering always-hostile parties, the player party (whatever side he is)

* [[Dangerous Deserter]]: After the beginning of the War of the Ring, there is a lot of deserters from the armies of evil factions, which are hostile against all the sides.

* [[Elaborate Underground Base]]:

** Mines of Moria, the capitale city of the Moria's Orc faction

** The caves under Orthanc

** Erebor capitale city

** Henneth Annun, the hidden settlement which serves as headquarter for the Ithilien rangers of Gondor

* [[Elves Versus Dwarves]]: Dialogs of the Dwarf companion Kili Goldfinger shows he does not like Elves. He especially does not like the Elve companion Luevanna (and vice-versa).

* [[Evil Counterpart Race]]: Dunedains and Black Numenoreans. [[All There in the Manual|According to the lore]], there both descend from the [[wikipedia:N%C3%BAmenor|Numenor]] people<ref>Dunedains are descendants of Numenor survivors who remained in the Good side, Black Numenoreans descend from the Numenoreans who followed Sauron and eventually provoked the destruction of their island by the gods</ref>. In the game, Dunedains and Black Numenoreans are both Human troops and commanders attached to a non-Human faction, the former being linked to Imladris and the latter to Mordor; same thing when a player choose to be a character from one of those races.

* [[Evil Versus Evil]]: {{spoiler|If all the Good factions are defeated, Sauron and Saruman will fight against each other until one crushs the other.}}

** The mod is set in the Middle Earth and allows to take part in the big war which was the end of the Third Age

** The Troll cave settlement is a small Orc camp built next to a cave where a troll is standing

** Mordor and Dol Guldur are red

** Considering the field itself instead of the map, Orcs have a dark grey skin and wears black armors (as Black Numenoreans)

* [[Have a Gay Old Time]]: Beornings refer themselves as the "[[wikipedia:Bear chr(28)gay culturechr(29)|Bear people]]".

* [[High Fantasy]]

** The faction leaders who lead themselves armies on the battlefield are Lord Elrond (Imladris), King Thranduil (Mirkwood), King Brand (Dale), King Dain II Ironfoot (Erebor), King Theoden (Rohan), Chief Grimbeorn the Old (Beornings), Master Burza Krual (Mt Gundabad), Master Bolg the Lesser (Moria), Jarl Elcaroth (Rhun), Shibh Krukmahur (Khand), Admiral Tumlir (Umbar), Chief Ul-Ulcari (Harad), and Master Fuinur (Dol Guldur).

** The faction leaders who stay in there capitale city are Steward Denethor (Gondor), Lady Galadriel (Lothlorien), Saruman (Isengard), and the Mouth of Sauron (Mordor)

* [[Shown Their Work]]: The mod features ''a lot'' of factions, places, and NPC from the Middle-Earth, including very minor ones.

* [[The Siege]]: Taking towns and castles by force is necessary to win. Contrary to the original game, the player cannot do it himself, he can only join sieges which have been begun by his allies.

* [[Storming the Castle]]

* [[Suicidal Overconfidence]]: From time to time, a commander tries to break a siege (of several hundred units) by charging the enemy when leading a few dozen units.

{{quote| '''Q''': Why aren’t there any spider riding orcs?<br />

'''A''': Because punch yourself. }}

* [[Unfortunate Names]]: One of the Beornings NPC is called "Pierre Woodman". It is also the name of [[wikipedia:Pierre Woodman|a French porn moviemaker]]...

* [[Unusable Enemy Equipment]]: Opposite to the original game, Good faction characters can't use gear from the evil ones and vice-versa (Sauron and Saruman factions can share their gear). Weapons of the enemy can be picked up on the battlefied but not kept after the fight. In fact, after a battle, most of the loot consists in metallic pieces only useful for selling, food, and mounts. There are exceptions: in battles between an evil party and a deserter / wandering Orcs party, both are non-aligned Orcs or Men from evil factions, with the same weapons and armors.

* [[Vendor Trash]]: The most common loot is made of several kinds of "metal scraps", which are items totally useless apart for being sold.

* [[Victory Pose]]