Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-34241117-20180513030219/@comment-33185350-20180513134646

I think Dale is my favorite faction to play. They are pretty well-balanced. Between the bakers, blacksmiths, traveling traders, and nearby Dwarven smiths, they cover a variety of trade. Their equipment is reasonably good (the only poor thing is durability) and Dwarven equipment is also accessible. You might even get away with using some Wood-Elven equipment. The Dalish Longbows are also great weapons.

It’s a nice biome with good variety, and villages are common so loot is easy to get. They don’t have very many different building blocks, but the bricks and pillars look nice and with the tiles or wood as a roof and bronze bars or stained glass for the windows you can make some pretty grand builds. There is a wide variety of build projects and building styles one can try with the given materials that fits with the faction.

The food is good as well. Cram is inexpensive to make and very useful. Since flavor doesn’t matter in the mod there’s no downside. With trade between the Lonely Mountain, Dorwinion, and the Woodland Realm, there are plenty of opportunities for diverse and enjoyable interactions with those factions. I like the look of Dale’s equipment, armour, horse armour, and shield as well.

I also like the High Elves to some extent because of the larger room for creativity in building styles. They also have better equipment (battlestaffs are awesome). However they aren’t as much fun to play as in my opinion.

The Taurethrim / Tauredain are also cool because of the Mesoamerican influences. I really like how they have been brought forward as a faction, and sometime I would like to try playing / building in their style.