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Storyline
The Elves and Men of Middle-earth have formed an alliance and are besieging Mordor. The battle has closed to the Gates of Mordor over the years and victory is almost in the Last Alliances grasp.

Gameplay
There will be two spawns for the camp of Elves and Men, which will spawn men to fight against the Black Gate. You will accompany them in battle Dynasty Warriors and AoS style. As you advance in level, harder enemies will spawn at the enemy encampments.

The objectives are to be completed as follows
- Destroy the 4 Orc Encampments outside the Black Gate
- Defend the Workers while they build construct a forward camp at the base of the Black Gate
- Destroy the Easterling, Southron, and Orc Encampments at the base of the Tower
- Destroy the Catapults beside the Tower
- Kill Sauron

Players
You will be one of four characters in the game, Elendil, Isildur, Elrond or Gil-galad.
Elendil=DT Hero
Isildur=Zealot
Elrong=Zeratul
Gil-galad=Fenix Zealot

Leveling Up
I will be using my Unlimited Level Ups system. Each level you will get some minerals with which to purchase upgrades for weapons and armor. Skills can be upgrade from level 1 (starting level) to level 4 for a hefty price. Weapons upgrades will have an increase factor of 10, whilst armor won't have any.

The formula for the level ups is
Exp Required = 300 x Level + [ (Level - 1 * 50)]
So it looks something like this
Level 1 - 300 Exp
Level 2 - 650 Exp
Level 3 - 1050 Exp
Level 4 - 1500 Exp
Level 5 - 2050 Exp

Skills
Elendil
Gore - Sets nearby enemy HP to 10%
Whirlwind - Kills nearby enemy units
Isildur
Bladestorm - Creates permaburrowed lurkers below Isildur
Rage - Makes Isildur invincible for a limited time then sets his health to 10% after.
Elrond
Multi Strike (NEED NEW NAME) - Create muta for a short period of time
Resilience - Continuously restores shields to max so he takes less damage
Gil-galad
Spear Charge - Turns Gilly into an Infested Terran, when the Inf Terran attacks a unit, Gilly will appear where it was.
Stunning Blow - Freezes enemy untis by giving them to P12 for a lil bit.

To Do List (Green = done, red = to do)
- Terrain
- Unit Spawning (outside the gates)
- Unit Ordering - Unit Spawning (inside gates)
- Unit Ordering (inside gates)
- Healing
- Unit names/stats
- Mana
- Leveling Up
- Isildur's Skills
- Elrond's Skills
- Gil-galad's Skills
- Camp Towers
- Intro
- Upgrading Skills
- Elendil's Skills
- Finish converting to Perfect Kills Counter


- Defeat Triggers
- Inside the gates messages
- Secondary Base Construction
- Sauron's Entrace
- End cinematic
- Mission Briefing
- Balancing

SCREENSHOTS

Some screenshots

The Dark Tower (I just threw in some sprites)

looks kewl, i think u should put sum iso style grass around that tower so it doesnt look all squared off around the grass

Love that Terrain!

Good god that extended terrain is hot.

Update
Finished the triggers for Spawning outside the gates.

Question: What should happen once all the orc camps outside the gates are destroyed? I was thinking of having like easterlings and southrons charge from the gates all of a sudden. That would give me an excuse to open the gates, and add some flare.

Edit: Please respond to this thread. What ideas do you like/don't like about this RPG. I really need feedback and motivation to make this good.

I wish i could somehow be part of this.

So, it's an RPG set during the battle of the Dagorlad. Cool!
It doesn't sound like your traditional RPG... why would Elendil set all nearby enemy units to 10%? Unless he does like 1/5 the damage he will be pretty rigged!

And look at your depiction of Barad-Dur. The bottom center looks like it goes inwards, but the top looks like it goes outwards. Think you could do the other parapets and stuff on Barad-Dur? That would be soo cool.

*Edit* How do I save screenshots as something I can open up, like .bmp? The PrintScreen button keeps on saving them as .PCX

You can't. Use some sort of converter program to change it afterwards.

Cool thanks. What areas of Mordor does this take place? Like Dagorlad, Udun-Vale, Plateau of Gorgoroth, Barad-Dur, and Mount Doom?

And thanks DT, I got off my lazy ass *figuratively*, looked for 5 seconds, and found one on this very website!

Felagund, it looks like you could help me. I've been looking for someone who knows alot about Lotr, and that's not me. The terrain is pretty crappy besides the gate and tower, for some reason I made it 96x128. The first part of the battle takes place right outside the gates and then you attack to the tower, where sauron will come out and kill guys then it'll be a cinematic where Elendil gets killed then Isildur kills Sauron.


of those, I think Barad-dur is saurons tower and everyone knows what Mount Doom is, what are the others.

All skills require mana (gas) so Elendil won't be constantly setting enmies to 10% health. It's kind of like a Critical Strike type thingy.

the 2nd screenshot was from Starfroge im guessing
it looks...werid

Cant wait till it comes ^_^

Update
I finished the reinforcement for the Elves and Men. I've gotten to the point where the gate opens and the men of mordor come out. I've also finalized my unit list of enemies
Baddies
Zergling=Orc Swordsman
Hydralisk=Orc Archer
Infested Kerrigan = Orc Axeman
Dragoon = Orc Rider
Gui Montag = Easterling
Jim Raynor Rine = Southron
Jim Raynor Vulture = Easterling Rider
Ultralisk = Troll

Elves and Men
Dark Templar = Elven Swordsman (Elvish?)
Sarah Kerrigan = Elven Archer
Tassadar = Elven Lord
Firebat = Human Swordsman
Marine = Human Archer
Ghost = Human Knight

Any suggestions for better names?


yes it was, so was the first. What's wierd about it?

This map going to kick somes asses! It's will be multiplayer? Dude i want to see some people saying:

Wtf??6 Dude.. Omfg How He do Thisss??!!1!

Always funny to read that

I'd love to see people say that. There aren't that many revolutionary things in this map. Most of the things people have seen before. Except for that Stunning Blow, that's all my idea . For some reason I was nubbish enought to make it 96x128 but it sill might not be too small. We'll see. It should be pretty fun though. I'm gonna have to test it alot, so that the gameply is fun. Cause that's what matterss.

EDIT: New Dark Tower
Dark Tower 1.1

I like your map, Good Luck working on it.

You could make it so when you use tripple strike it creates a few halusionation death clouds and sets 3 nearby enemys to like 5% hp. Yould have to make it cost more mana or what ever your using to cast spells/skills but it would look better than just creating a muta out of no where. or you could figure out a way to creat a cloaked muta that you cant see over your head so it looks like your using the attack.

I could cloak a muta, but all the players that attack P8 have shared vision with the player. One of elendils skills sets enemy untis to low HP, so that's already taken up.


How about a spell that just creates a science vessel for you and you can use Defensive Matrix? I don't really want to go to hardcore fancy with the spells because the heroes in this are more or less just warriors, they don't shoot fireballs and such.

how bout irradiate? you could make it like its a disease and infects others

but they deploy science vessels?

How about making it so you get a holo' copy of yourself?

sci vessel could be like in their utility belt

Small tricks here and there can really make rpgs alot better. ie: creating units under an aribtor then moving them to a location. That way they dont just appear out of nowhere... well they still apear out of nowhere... but it looks cool and more profesional.

it could be like sum kinda elvish thing like they gave frodo in the movies that stuff

Update
Finished ALL spawning. The only thing left is the fun stuff, like the leveling and skills. Oh, and then comes testing *shudder.* Check out the new version of the Dark Tower, i think it's alot better, how bout you guys?

This is LotR, not Batman, no utility belts. The science vessel is just so they can use Matrix. I could name it like "Stoneskin" or something that doesn't sound too magical.

Question:
What should I name the buildign you heal at? Like Healing Tent or something?
How about Elronds other skill be Healing? I'll call it "Tend Wounds" or something

Most (or was it all?) of your heros are toss, you could make it so you can cast a magic aura spell or some thing like that. Make the unit have like 10 or 100 or how ever much shealds you want and then set a trigger in game to set its shields to 0 unless the spell in activated.

EDIT:uh... name it "House Of Healing" or some thing