Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor ?

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

Is the Golden Realms DLC good?

I like it.  It adds a bunch of new units, monsters, and spells.  It also adds some new quest type things like "be the first to build a grand palace" or "be the first to become totally good or evil" and you get rewards.  They also have new victory conditions based on magical shrine things.  I'm still not sure how they work though.

The halfling race is tough to play.  They're rwally weak and rely on support units to keep them in the fight. They tend to die like flies so I play them like Russians.  I make tonnes of low tier units and send them out in waves.

[JasonPratt]

^^ This is precisely why the League eventually instituted a rule that teams could only have  maximum of 16 players.

:D

[Gusington]

Yes I am finally playing a full random sandbox game of AoW III with 3 other AI factions. Playing as orc dreadnaughts. I am really impressed with the AI on the 'normal' setting too.

AoWIII combined with Shadow of Mordor will be my fantasy defaults for a while.

[Arctic Blast]

According to Steam, I've got...24 HOURS in this already?! Good grief, I had no idea!   :o

Anyway, it's good! I just killed all of the Warchiefs for a second time. And now I'm about to join somebody to go somewhere for new stuff and to learn more about my wraith buddy, who it turns out is...some guy.

Spoilers avoided.  ;D

[Gusington]

The game is quite the time stealer. I put a little something together for Halloween that's getting published tomorrow on it.

[Arctic Blast]

The game is quite the time stealer. I put a little something together for Halloween that's getting published tomorrow on it.

It's interesting how the power curve changes the way that you play. As you unlock new skills and perks, you stop sneaking around quite as much and start strutting around practically begging a band of Uruk to pick a fight with you.

Except packs of Caragors. Yikes. And that stupid Graug.  :o

[Gusington]

By hour 5 the Uruks, while scary at the beginning, are at the bottom of the player's list of worries. There's a lot going down in those shadows.

[Tpek]

I really should get back to this :)

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

I guess I should try to progress into the story more then.  I'm about 3 hours in but I've only done 2 of the story missions.  I'm too busy running around collecting stuff and offing captains.  I don't mean to.  They just keep showing up and fighting me when I'm busy trying to find runes or step on spiders.

[Gusington]

^Me too, there is no shame.

[Jarhead0331]

I guess I should try to progress into the story more then.  I'm about 3 hours in but I've only done 2 of the story missions.  I'm too busy running around collecting stuff and offing captains.  I don't mean to.  They just keep showing up and fighting me when I'm busy trying to find runes or step on spiders.

The story missions are good because some of your key powers are unlocked through them. Go ahead and do a few of the story missions, you'll unlock some of the cooler powers and then have a lot more fun just dicking around.

[Gusington]

^Did you finish the game?

[bayonetbrant]

http://grogheads.com/?p=6466

[MetalDog]

Nicely done, Gus!

[Gusington]

Thanks Dawg. Played another hour last night and it only gets more gooder.