The Gulfing khopesh is a weird weapon. It looks like a billhook. Except you reap gondorians instead wheat. I thought first that kind of weapon is really called a khopesh because the mod called it a khopesh.

You know, I'm french, not english (that explains why my english is not always perfect but wathever). I asked how we call a khopesh in french and google trad said khopesh didn't come from english, but hindi. And in hindi, "khopesh" means "flail". But the gulfing khopesh doesn't look like a flail; it looks like a billhook.

So I've made some research on this weapon once known to be used by the armies of african kingdoms in reality during the Antiquity and Middle-Age.

These billhook-shaped swords are actually called "shotel". They were invented and used by abyssinians (the ancestors of the ethiopians). The particularity of this weapon is to hook the enemy. The shotelai (as we called the shotel users) used the shape of their swords to dodge the shield and poke the enemies on the side with the point of the blade. (I hold it from wikipedia)

It gave me some ideas.

First, I suggest we name it the gulfing shotel instead khopesh for a better accuracy of this kind of weapon and history. It's a better name. The teammod take a lot of attention to the name-accuracy. I saw them struggle for many updates to find a more accurate name for sarlluin and sarngaran (now called luigon and cargon). So I don't see why it'd pose a problem for them to review the name of this weapon, don't you think?

Second, I suggest we make this weapon unique. In renewed, the shotel would work exactly like a sword, except it ignores the shield. It doesn't break the shield like the vanilla axe but ignores it, exactly like the piercing enchant of the arbalest except it's for a melee weapon and only ignores the shield (not the armour. It'd be OP if it does)

I finished. What do you think?

Some NPCs have an interaction selection menu, such as warlord. We can hire someone from him or talk to him. But the functionality for the conversation button is almost absent, of course, the NPC when you click on it tells us something, but who actually reads their phrases? I suggest also adding the ability to issue a quest from this NPC, depending on its type and with a certain chance, namely:

blacksmith - quests to collect resources (bring ore, wood)

warlord-quests related to killing enemies of the faction, as well as quests to collect equipment (armor, weapons)

city merchants-collect resources related to their profession (for example, a woodcutter will need axes or food)

Write to me if you have any questions, I will explain.

P. s. The chance of whether the npc will give the quest and whether to add a chance at all is already at your discretion. I just think there should be a chance, but very high (60%), that NPCs don't give quests all the time, but do it often.

1. The ability to marry. This will allow players to use the gameplay for better role-playing. It would also be possible to add this feature to two players on Lotr servers.

2. The ability for players to create faction outposts for a more flexible conquest system. And the ability to occupy enemy forts.

3. The ability to find a crafting recipe scroll that is not available for the selected equipment or item faction. For the balance of each item or item type, you can arrange a separate receipt each.

4. The ability to initially select the player's race (but not the faction!). Each race can have its own advantages and disadvantages. Choosing a race will not only allow you to immerse yourself in the game, but also allow each player to fully play for their favorite faction. And someone may want to play for the dark faction, while playing a representative of the forces of light.

5. Add the cities of the factions marked with dots on the map. This is possible with random generation for the first time. This will not only give the world scale, but also make it more alive. But it will also give you flexibility for battles, especially on game servers.

It would be nice to add a new type of quest when we belong to Gondor, then we can be ordered to go to Rohan and help fight their enemies. And the same with other alliances.

Also, I would like to add that if Gundabad has an alliance with the Erebor Dwarves then you do not get tasks to kill your own allies. I and some of my colleagues have just such a problem. It's not that annoying but it would be nice to change this detail.

So as we all know uruk-hai and black uruks are VERY powerful, and I think they are too powerful. Tolkiens gateway states "They were faster than normal Orcs and could travel during the day without being weakened. They were not only faster but smarter, stronger and larger, though most were still shorter than Men."

Usually shorter means not as strong, at least when it comes to orcs. (sry dwarves I didn't mean to insult you) Uruk-hai in the mod right now are usually more powerful then Elves, and that is not right. Elves should be the best Soldiers in middle earth not some orcs that are shorter on average to humans.

I just think that Uruks are a little too strong, Even if we don't change how strong the Uruk-hai are maybe make Snaga spawn more often compared to them, or something like that because walking into nan curunir is a death trap, and even rohan at night is probably not good Idea.

Now, the mod, as it currently stands, has very few large underground structures. The nearest would be the Dwarven Mines. Orc "dungeons" are the same as vanilla spawners, and incredibly difficult to find, with little reward. I am simply proposing more dungeon-like structures. Doesn't need to be an actual dungeon, but perhaps generated in the same way as other dungeon mods-piece by piece. The best thing about them, is that there is absolutely no exterior work to be done, and the rooms can generate mostly independently, only limited by how they fit with other rooms. They also are not carbon copies of other structures because they each generate randomly.

Most factions should be able to have at least some form of larger underground structure. Anything from tombs, to eating halls, to barracks, to goblin-cities.

Change it so you need to kill the player in a set amount of time or the quest will go away

While it being crafted on the Mordor CT makes sense as Sauron created The Nine, I think it makes sense for the Morgul Armor and Morgul Blade to be crafted on the Angmar Crafting Table as well. It's always felt weird to me that an armor set modeled after the Witch-king of Angmar couldn't be crafted on the Angmar CT.

A case could also be made for adding it to the Dol Guldur CT as well, as the ringwraith Khamul was Lieutenant of Dol Guldur during the War of the Ring, but either way it definitely should be on the Angmar CT.

I just thought about this like yesterday said in my mind why not add a marriage system where you can marry an npc and get an achievement on it just saying i dont think this is actually relevant in the game only to those who probably do Roleplay just a thought and just going to say this been loving the mod and i hope more stuff gets added in this and you guys keep updating it keep up the great work

As I've been making a build for Thranduil's Halls, I've noticed something that honestly surprised me: there's no mossy stone. Sure, we have the vanilla mossy cobblestone, as well as mossy stone bricks, and mossy variants to different factions' bricks. But what about all other stone/rocks?

I suggest the addition of adding a Mossy Stone, Mossy Gondor Rock, Mossy Luigon, etc., as it will allow for more building potential. Bringing it back to my building of Thranduil's Halls, it is most certainly an overgrown structure. It is not something that has clean cut stone, and adding mossy cobblestone is a total eye sore. However mossy stone would act as a perfect transition! These stone/rock variants would simply open up more doors for building more structures, and logically should already have been implemented!

Each of these races would have its own city as a structure

For example: Isengard industrial mines in gorges with bridges, sawmills and various buildings as shown in the film adaptation

the same can be done with orcs or taken a step further, making them more special.

In Mordor the city can be something like a large number of orc pits or charred domes as shown in movies or other ruined castles.

Dol Guldur something like stone ruins with trees on which there would be bridges with other buildings and towers.

Gundabad may have underground orc cities and tunnels.

Likewise the dwarves. Entrance outside but the city itself is an underground city as shown in Erebor, Moria etc.

Angmar can be linked by fortified villages and cities, and catacombs in the orc and Rhudaur style.

I was inspired by Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War games with this idea.

For each orc faction there will be a new Arena structure where we can earn money and reputation. We get money for defeating a group of orcs and reputation for defeating a really strong opponent, or you can still gain reputation and money for defeating a group of orcs with their strong champion. If the player agrees to the fight and runs away or fails to take part, the fight is canceled and the player gets a reputation penalty. If a player dies in combat, he loses a significant amount of money or reputation.

Wood elves various outposts shown in The Hobbit and Cities also modeled on the movies

Lorien - A city mostly in trees and a little bit on the ground

New units for the dwarves.

Riding goats for dwarves that can ram even a few opponents if they speed up, or you could attach them to the machine known from the hobbit, i.e. the dwarven ballista. In order to be able to buy them, you have to be sworn in in a given faction of dwarves

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Units for Orcs (For other orcish factions they might be, but personally I think they are best suited to Gundabad or Dol Guldur).

Brute-Troll, which you can personally direct and kill enemies, but if we die or get off him during a fight with opponents, he can then attack even allies, including the player, without hesitation, until we get on him again. Of course, this would be a unit only under oath.

Large monster bats that can be grouped from one individual to a maximum of 20. They would attack the enemy in flight, and their main purpose is to cause fear among enemies.

Berserkers who are not quite resistant to damage, but can quickly reach the enemy, and charging at a group of enemy units, flips them sideways, dealing damage.

Unfortunately for the elves, I have no ideas for new units, but we can give them something else,

that is, new skills for them.

Someone has suggested something like this before, but will suggest it again.

Elf jump, attacking enemies, dealing critical damage

Counterattack - An Elf using something like a sword defense would take minimal attack damage and then could attack with double damage, but only once in a while.

Piercing Arrows - Elves can sometimes fire bows to make their arrows pierce their opponent, causing the arrow to strike the enemy and deal critical damage.

If you have any ideas or changes to these suggestions, I am happy to read it.

I think they would be a great addition like they would be an expensive unit to buy and you would have to pledge to get them. the reason i think you should go through al the trouble to get them is because they are a big and powerful unit to have and the fact you can have archers on the back of them or a base is reason enough to make them hard to get. this juts an idea i think the mod would be a little better if we had them because we did see them in the movies. i hope you take my idea into some consideration

It would be nice to add were-worms in the Last Desert

The Uruk are some of the most strongest Units in the game. This is by design, no problem there. The problem is that their crossbow units are easily 10 times as strong as some of their other units. Their impossable aim, and fast draw make it impossable not to tank a few hits when fighting against a crossbow unit.

If i want to use a crossbow as a player, and get hit while trying to draw a new bolt, the crossbow gets reset, forcing me to flee to draw a new bolt, or attack using a different weapon.

The crossbow units should suffer the same drawback. It would make killing them a lot more skillbased.

Dodge the first bolt, and keep comboing him to keep the unit from drawing another bolt.

In the renewed version of the mod it should be easier to have the unit show the drawing process aswell, since vanilla skeletons draw arrows in 1.9+ versions of minecraft, so the code already exists.

These changes should make it feel like crossbow units are a bit fairer to fight against.

You can also add a crossbow unique modifier that reduces amount of draw progress lost on getting hit, or adds a chance to ignore it. This way player's can still give their units crossbows that don't reset

To be completely honest, i can't believe this isn't in the mod. The prices would be high, but they would sell ale (normal and dwarven), and dwarven tonic, and possibly other alcohols as well, and buy dwarfwort, mithril, wheat, and brewing supplies. maybe they'd even spawn in a dwarven tavern.

I was just wondering what the name for mithril equipment and armour in a command because I was going to do a command to give myself an overpowered mithril battle-axe but I do not know its command name.

Thanks in advance

Horus

I think a great diversion would be adding siege engines for all factions and some would be machines like trebuchet only for Gondor. Isengard would have his strong ballistae, and each faction could have siege towers, battering rams, catapults, or whatever you wish. And it would be nice to better adapt the gates of all factions if they had their own special strength so that it would have to be destroyed with a battering ram, not that any better goblin comes, clicks the right button with his hand on the gate of Gondor and the entire evil army is let into the city. I recommend taking inspiration from various movies, especially from the Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit as trolls who wear siege machines with goblins or a brick troll. You can also get a lot of inspiration from Battle for Middle Earth 2 Witch King.

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(I know, I know, Shepherds specifically herd sheep. I just can't think of a better name)

Shepherds would be Merchants that allow you to purchase domesticated farm animals such as pigs, cows, sheep, chickens, etc (not the "wild" versions like aurochs, elk, boars, and such) for a good amount of money. The purchased animals wouldn't follow you, so you'd need leads or their desired food at hand if you wanted to herd them somewhere.

I could see The Shire, Bree, the Dunedain, the Rhudaur Hillmen(?), the Dunlendings, Rohan, Dale(?), Gondor, Dorwinion, and Rhudel having Shepherds.

Thoughts?