Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-27200931-20170214212507/@comment-25012056-20170218132932

Strength of numbers is completely unfeasible to replicate in game. If Mordor Orcs were cheap enough to give them the strength Mordor would have had in lore, they would be around fifteen orcs for a single coin. High Elves, on the other hand, would be so incredibly rare that finding a hiring unit for one would be near-impossible. Even if elves are made so incredibly rare, the amount of Orcs it would take to make an army of decent strength would crash the game. Furthermore, people don't seem to get that once a unit hirer is found, they can get an infinite (theoretically) number of hired units from them regardless of lore. This is why alterations to lore for balance is necessary. It's absolutely unfeasible to just make something incredibly expensive because it's incredibly easy to get silver coins. No matter how expensive you make High Elves if you buff them to hell and back, people will still have overly large armies of them. Alterations to lore to accommodate the fact that this is a game must be made.

Gen. Grievous1138 (LOTR Mod Wiki Admin) comlink 13:29, February 18, 2017 (UTC)