Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-26065088-20160703100126/@comment-27831234-20160705002812

The NASIranger wrote: EliSuperHero wrote:

Gorbag12 wrote:

EliSuperHero wrote:

Dragonovith wrote: There was an element of greek culture in the byzantine empire.

KHAMULofHARDA wrote: I think they might be thinking of removing them Aye, it is time to purge the mod from lore unfriendly content! No more spider riders and warg bombardiers. In this new age the Uruks are smaller and weaker than humans (still bigger and tougher than orcs, though), the Hill-men of Rhudaur were slaughtered to the last man and don't exist in sufficient numbers anymore to make a decent presence. No more shall Gondor wear plate armor, chainmail for everyone!

I overused a humorous tone in the above paragraph, but it is still true. There are many things that this mod can make to become more lore friendly. I'm not saying to remove the Tauredain or the Moredain, please... those are great examples of how you can add new content (because there isn't any official sources about the peoples of Far Harad, there is only some info about Numenórean colonies and that's all) and still make it feel like it is part of Tolkien's work.

But this is a game, and the decision to compromise Gameplay or Lore in favor of one or another rests on the Mod Team shoulders. So far they've been doing a fantastical job. Keep up the great work guys!

Anyway, what do I mean by all this? That there are no info or source that goes against the possibility of the addition of Rhûnnic Flamethrowers! Think on this great idea when developing the Rhûnnic factions, Mevans! If anyone should have flamethrowers, it should be pelargir. Considering gondor is based off of yhe byzantine empire and the byzantines had greek fire. No flame trowers" You guys said spider-riders are lore-unfriendly, but you talk about a more unrealistic thing for middle-earth: Flame Trowers.

Also Gondor was based on many things, namely the roman empie, italy and  not only byzanz I think that the naval forces of gondor are based off of either venice or the byzantines. Considering they had quite the naval prescence and the west romans were terrible sailors. GREEECE, they have curly black hair tho, so who knows... I always found them a bit greek like and as a matter of fact, the Numenoreans are far relatives of the Rohirrim, Dorwinrim, Rhovarion people, men of the north, beornings and the woodmen. most of those are Germanic (Rohirrim is based on Saxon/Anglo-Saxon), and Greek is Hellenic, from which both are part of the Indo-European language/people family.