Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-34204318-20180104010701

One of the most popular and controversial parts of the lotr universe are the great eagles, there are countless memes about their power and how they show up every time, just in time, just when the battle looks bad, the only battles were this does not happen in the lore is in Helm's Deep and Minas Tirith were another army shows up to save the day.

They would be a great edition to the mod as it could add more flying mobs, part of the mod which is laking in development. It would also give a use to the eyrie, a large mountian in the misty mountians. The eagles would spawn around the mountian, they would fly unlike the birds who land every miniute but spend most of their time in the air. Any orcs, goblins, trolls, wargs or other servents of sauron would be swiftly hunted down the eagles, along with any player with neutral or negative alighnement. They would often hunt animals such as cows and sheep, they are predators after all. Their keen eyesight would be shown by having a large aggro range, surprassing even that of the warg as they oft need to hunt on the wing. They would spawn very rarely, to show their low numbers, even on the eyrie itself you would normaly see only 3-4 eagles at one time.

When the woodmen are added they would, like the rohirric horses, attack anything that attacked their livestock, including eagles and units from neutral factions who accidentally hit the animals with sword or arrow.



They should deal area attack because of their massive size and (this may just be wishful thinking and not very realistic) they might be able to pick smaller animals up and drop them from a high point, dashing the poor creature's brains out on the ground.  