The Misty Mountains are ripe for taking and Rhun is not much of a bother with the addition of Dorwinion.Īnd some factions like Dunland just suck. AND their starting position is the best in the game. And of course there's their Vault Warden + Grapeshot combo. In Erebor, from Turn 1, they can train units with 10 attack, 10 charge, and about 5 armor (oh, and they're also effective against armor). Starting units have 6 attack, 6 charge, 9 def, and effective against armor. I've ranted several times about the Dwarves of Erebor. I don't know how much monetary cheating works in either.ĭivide and Conquer is also one heck of a lot more unbalanced. They'll also get a full stack in their homelands - just once - when they're doing really badly. Think "spear militia" in M2, but slightly better) that will disband afterwards if you lose. In DaC, all that happens is that the AI gets some pretty atrocious infantry (it's not great. And if you lose - too bad, the AI now has two 0-upkeep half stacks wandering around. And they'll usually get a free half-stack outside.
In TATW, if you attack a settlement the AI gets a free half-stack inside. The other main effect on gameplay is that the full-stack-spamming of the AI has been completely nerfed in Divide and Conquer. Of course, it's still a really useful city (16k per turn! And that's with a rubbish governor!), but it's not the be-all and end-all. Dain's Halls and Gundabad are also Huge Cities that allow elite units, so I don't need to take Moria as much. TATW has lots of useless villages, leading my brother to comment "Third Age has full stacks battling it out over a 400-pop village." I could afford to fall back all the way to Erebor if I took Moria. I practically abandoned Dain's Halls and Framsburg, as I couldn't get great units from them & they don't make much money. So, as the Dwarves, I just made a beeline with a full stack for Moria. And there's nothing special from owning it. Furthermore, it takes ages to convert so it's not useful. As the Dwarves, I knew I could try and hold Gundabad. Mordor, Gondor, and the Misty Mountains are just hotspots for them. Take Carn Dum and the Orcs of Gundabad will no longer be a threat.ĭivide and Conquer has a LOT more huge settlements. Take Moria and the Orcs of the Misty Mountains will just die off.
Third Age has what I call "Power Centres." Example: Take Rhomen as the Dwarves from Rhun and Rhun will never bother you again, because that's the one settlement that's Stone level and can get good units there. The roster of the Dwarves turns into three factions.
As a result, it has many many more factions. Third Age is a smaller map, quite frankly. I can't use a table format here, so a Wall of Text will have to work. Yes, they're both Third Age based and have a similar map. It's like playing the Grand Campaign compared to, oh, the Teutonic Expansion.
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