Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-31507215-20170913032806

""Halt!" cried Gandalf, who appeared suddenly, and stood alone, with arms uplifted, between the advancing dwarves and the ranks awaiting them. "Halt!" he called in a voice like thunder, and his staff blazed forth with a flash like the lightning. "Dread has come upon you all! Alas! it has come more swiftly than I guessed. The Goblins are upon you! Bolg of the North is coming, O Dain! whose father you slew in Moria. Behold! the bats are above his army like a sea of locusts. They ride upon wolves and Wargs are in their train!""

- The Hobbit

As this quote says, towards the end of The Hobbit, when the Goblins of the Misty Mountains arrive at the Battle of the Five Armies, a large swarm of bats is flying above them. I do know that this was a very large event, but I think that it would be great if Gundabad Invasions spawned Bats as well as the Orcs, Wargs, etc.

The bats in the invasion would either be a bunch of Bat-shaped particles or Vanilla bats.

If the first option is used, I would suggest that a cloud of particles would generate over the Invasion Spawner. I would say that anywhere from 30-70 would generate. They would move in different directions, would only last a short time before disappearing, and would reappear above the spawner after they disappear. Once the invasion spawner is destroyed, no more particles will generate, and the rest will dissipate after a short time.

If you decide to use the second option (which I prefer, but that's just me) it would actually spawn Vanilla Bat mobs. In this case, 6-12 bat mobs would spawn along with the Orcs every time the horn blows. These bats would have a limited time to live on Middle-earth (say, 3 minutes?) before disappearing. They would not need to be killed for the invasion spawner to be destroyed, and would not provide any alignment bonuses.

However you might do it, the Bats should be toggleable in the mod config, due to potential lag on older servers/computers.

Thanks for reading! If you have any thoughts, please post them below!

(I will add a particle texture soon!) 