Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-34241117-20180226021950/@comment-30303386-20180306202903

Gen. Grievous1138 wrote: 198.180.129.13 wrote: but still, the orcs having bombs techniclly means they are the most technologicly advanced faction in middle earth, that makes absolutly no sence Tolkien himself said that the Orcs were the most advanced even without the bombs, and that they invented many of the weapons of war that trouble today's world (The Hobbit, Chapter 4).

As for the original topic: no. Outright. When bombs were used in LOTR at Helm's Deep and the Rammas Echor, the Gondorians and Rohirrim present very obviously had no clue what they were, ruling out just about any possibility that they had them themselves, nevermind knew how to make more. Orcs are the ones who are said to have minds for explosives and torture devices and the rest, meant by Tolkien to essentially villify this sort of technology. You can't villify something if both sides have it.

Anyway, the mod team has made clear that not everything will always have an equivalent on the other side. For example, only Elves will get Elven-quality bows, only Orcs will get bombs, and only Southrons will get Mumakil. There might be things to counter them, but no direct equivalents.

Gen. Grievous1138 (LOTR Mod Wiki Admin) comlink 11:36, March 6, 2018 (UTC) Thats what i said!...well, the middle thing.