Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-26371213-20150704180818/@comment-26371213-20150714211655

Sinthoniel wrote: That Mordor focusses all its power on the war while Gondor just defends itself with armies of farmers and fishermen. Mordor orcs have no other purpose than to fight, so they should be relatively good at it. Well I am going from past events of the Gondorians versus Mordor. Many battles Gondor won spectacular victories when badly outnumbered. Their tactics (use of formations, greater ranged power, and troop discipline) usually won them they day. My aim is not to make Mordor weaker but the grunts of their army to be a little bit weaker. This doesn't mean Mordor Orcs should be holding wooden swords but perhaps things like Gondorian (and other good factions) archers being able to shoot through their friendly troops thereby renacting their ranged potential (somewhat). Orcs could weker in the sunlight than they already are (the exact values could be debateable and needs testing for balance). Now to adress your point about Gondorian militia and Mordor orcs, perhaps a Gondorian Swordsman unit and a Mordor Orc Mauler could be introduced into the game with similiar stats (I imagine veteran Gondorian soldiers would be better than their Mordor Orc Mauler couterpart due to longer time lived). Now my question to you. Do orcs or men live longer? If your answer is men then they would have longer time to gain valuable experience in the field. Not to mention other activities that would possibly make them stronger and more intelligent than an orc (which results in their melee superiority to the orcs).

Now to return to my earlier point. How well do you think an orc grunt would be able to fight in broad daylight against a mildly trained Gondorian militia man? The answer already is that the Gondorian would win. Why? It is because the orc is not accustomed to sunlight and has trouble fighting at midday. But what if there were two Mordor Orcs against 1 Gondorian Militia? I think it would be a 50% that the Gondorian militiaman would win due to his resistance to normal daylight. Meanwhile the Mordor Orcs still are weakened by the sunlight and cannot fight as well since they are accustomed to darkness. Not only that but they have a physical weakness! Many grunt orcs (not talking about Urukhai or other similar half-man breeded orcs) naturally have bent backs and do not fight very well as a result. Imagine trying to sword fight while bending your back over! After all of this I have a solution to the problem. In the daylight orcs could have greater weakness than they have already. An orc would fight much better in the darkness than in the bright daylight. Second solution, the ranged units of good factions can fire past their friends and hit their enemies. Third (an addon that should go with the second), you can command units to stand their ground and hold a line (I will explain this further in another comment).

I think that is most of it. I hope you aren't annoyed too much by the long comment!