Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-34204318-20180329181925

The men of dale are a proud people, their spears are stout and their swords are long, and despite the fact that they are a trading faction, they lack alliances with the factions around them.

As you can see; the men of dale are aligned with the dwarves of durin's folk, (mainly erabor) The men of gondor, the Hobbits of the Shire and the men of Rohan.

I can entierly understand why some of the factions are aligned with Dale, (Namingly the Dwarves, Rohan and Gondor.

But as far as I know the only hobbit a man of Dale has seen, is Bilbo.

I suggest that Hobbits become neutral with Dale and so it gains 2 more allies.

First is the Woodland Realm, whitch now, in the mod is neutral with Dale. In the lore, during the events of the Hobbit etleast, the elves and men had a good partnership. Trading and barreling and wotnot. The elvenking even helped protect the men of Dale before the battle of the 5 armies. That sounds like a pretty sound alliance to me.

The other faction they could be allied with are the men and elves of Dorwinion. Seeing as the 2 factions are both of the Northmen tribe and are in good contact with eachother it seems reasonable that they have an alliance in the same way Dale has with Rohan. That is if they are'nt drunk all the time.

So in the end, I suggest Dale loses it's allinment with the Hobbits but gains the friendship of the Elves and men of Dorwinion and the Woodland Realm 