Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-27200931-20160429200711

''In the following decades Dol Guldur must have rebuilt some of its power until the War of the Ring, during which its forces made assaults upon the Woodland Realm and Lórien,[10] causing grievous damage to the outlying woodlands. However each time they were driven back by Thranduil and Galadriel who held the power of Nenya; which only Sauron himself could have overcome.''

Dol Guldur was finally destroyed and cleansed by the Elves of Lórien, led by Galadriel, after Sauron's fall.

When Gundabad didn't have Uruks, they're were the punching bags of the good guys, and now they passed the torch to the orcs of Dol Guldur. Well, they have trolls, but they are expensive and not your front-line troopers. Considering that they had significant influence around Mirkwood and the numbers to make seriously damage around, we can conclude that their army was formidable - for an orc based realm.

Also - I can't find a quote - Shelob was known to have orcs for breakfast, and I believe that her little children living in Mirkwood wouldn't have different taste. Let's play the imagine game: You are about to eat a living burger, and you love burgers. But then the living burger tries to tame you. Will it work? Of course not, because in the following seconds he'll be already screaming for mercy while you're devouring him, you wild and uncultured swine!

This is my suggestion:

- Add the Southern Mirkwood biome, where Dol Guldur orcs and trolls spawn, but no spiders! This biome is less forested than Northern Mirkwood, the orcs need wood.

- Remove spiders (including spider-riders and spider-pits) from the hire-able units. I doubt those beasts could be tamed.

- Spiders are now aggressive to everything that moves and will attack anyone in sight, be it human, elf or orc, and you still gain alignment with the elves of Woodland but you don't lose alignment with Dol Guldur. They spawn in Northern Mirkwood.

- Add Large Orcs of Dol Guldur. They are big but they aren't uruks, just a little bit smaller. Their gear is the same as the other orcs and their HP range between those of lesser orcs and Uruks (or maybe just scrap this idea and add Uruks to Dol Guldur too, after all, if they regained their strength, where did the orcs came from? From Mordor of course, and that includes uruks).

Thanks for reading yet another one of my suggestions and don't lose the next chapter of "How I killed the English Language" next Friday! That's all folks! 