The Last Days Tips:You choose your faction at the start and you can't change it later. You can also choose from different races: a man, an elf, a dwarf, an uruk or an orc. Remember that both the faction and the race you choose will limit you in certain ways. Some factions provide excellent soldiers, but few of them. Some have weak troops, but you can hire many. Smaller orcs can't wear armors designed for big guys, but can ride some beasts instead. Dwarves have exceptional gear, but can't ride mounts at all.
Due to the nature of the Middle Earth setting, you can't create your own kingdom, or rebel mid-game and change sides. You choose a faction and you fight for it until your side wins the great war, or untill your faction gets wiped out. In that case you can still keep fighting for your allies.
There is no money in TLD. Instead you develop relationships with factions - represented by resources, influence and rank.
Resources are what's needed to sustain the faction in war - you can redeem looted scraps and items for it and you're also given a certain number of resources each week depending on rank.
Each faction has its own resource/influence/rank pool, remember that! They will supply you with armour, horses, soldiers for you to command and companions to follow you, but only if you bring enough resources for their pool.
Due to being true to lore, we have also disabled by default the option of crossdressing, as a Gondorian wouldn't likely ever wear looted Orc armour, and vice versa. Instead after battle, "metal scraps" are dropped, which represent salvageable equipment and can then be traded with your smiths who require resources, to get proper faction gear from them.
Influence points are awarded for finishing quests and winning tough battles. They can later be spent on special items as a reward from the rulers of factions you got the influence with.
Rank points allow you to rise up in the ranks of your faction - this will determine your max party size, weekly resource income and unlock other stuff.
At the beginning of the game the War between good and evil hasn't started yet. You'll be notified when it does. While Middle Earth might look like a pretty empty and quiet place at start, it gets filled with hostile parties very quickly once the War starts. Be prepared and use your few days of peace wisely!
You can perform quests for the lords and leaders of all allied factions, raise troops and train yourself in the barracks.
The war itself can be won, unlike in the original MnB. Every faction has a strength - which moves according to faction successes or failures in battles. With strength dropping low enough, it becomes possible for enemies to siege faction cities/camps. When a faction drops to the lowest status, it is possible to defeat it completely by storming its capital.
Note that player himself cannot initiate sieges in TLD. He can only help his faction and allies in siege battles if they decide that it is time to go storm the enemy settlement.
There are several theatres of war in TLD, defined by geography. When one side eliminates all the enemies in its current theatre, it will spawn an expeditionary force, which will build advance camp on the other theatre and help allies there. If the good forces are completely defeated, but Mordor and Isengard still stand strong, the two towers will battle each other over total dominance.
What's there for you to do in TLD, in a nutshell: raise your troops, develop your character, help your allied factions with battles and quests. Rise up in ranks, get special items, explore locations, talk to different people, maybe you would learn something useful
And of course, have fun!
THE MANUALREAD IT! WE'LL KNOW IF YOU DIDN'T!
(you can choose between an online and a pdf version even.)
In English:
http://pospabr.sweb.cz/TLD-3.0-ManualFAQ.htmlhttp://pospabr.sweb.cz/TLD-3.0-ManualFAQ.pdfIn Spanish:
http://pospabr.sweb.cz/TLD-3.0-ManualFAQ_ES.htmlIn Italian:
http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,200997.0.htmlIn Finnish:
http://goldenlions.arkku.net/TLD-ohje.htmlA bit of the manual in Turkish:
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TLD orijinal oyunu ağırca modifiye eden bir moddur. Modules/TLD bölümüne çıkarmak istendiği gibi çalışmasını sağlamaz (hatta oyun hiç çalışmaz). Oyunu çalıştırmak için farklı bir launcher kullanmanız gerekcektir, IronLauncher.exe. Ki mod dosyalarında bulunur. Bu launcher, gerekli tüm dosyaları taşıyıp, TLD introsunu oynatıp, sonra oyunu başlatacaktır. Oyundan çıktığınız zaman ise, bütün dosyaları geri alır ki başka modüller ile oynayabilesiniz.
Düzgün çalışan bir launcher ve installer ayarlayama çalıştık, ama, bu launcher ile oyunu açmakta bir sorun yaşıyorsanız (IronLauncher.exe) aşağıdakileri okuyun;
Troubleshooter:
0. Bu mod Mount&Blade Warband (şimdilik) veya Mount&Blade WFaS (hiçbir zaman) için değildir.
1. Tercihen, Mount&Blade 1.011temiz bir yükleme yapıp, sadece TLD için kullanmak üzere bırakın, yoksa ana Mount&Blade dosyalarını yükleyip, geri almak zorunda kalacaksınız, her açtığınızda.
1.1 Hatta, M&B’nin gelişmiş versiyonunu indirip yükleyin.(Bir çok düzenleme ile daha dengeli). Gelişmiş versiyonu bu linkten elde edebilirsiniz:
http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,199418.0.htmlLinki kullanın, resmi indirme sayfasını değil. Resmi indirme sayfası eski bir versiyona ait, tanrı bilir neden. mount&blade.exe dosyanız 2mb is, zaten gelişmiş versiyona sahipsiniz,
tebrikler. mount&blade.exe dosyanız 3+mb ise, eski versiyona sahipsinizdir, ve gelişmiş versiyonu indirmenizi şiddetle tavsiye ederiz. Bir çok modülde sabitlik sağlamaktadır. Temiz bir M&B yüklemesinin ardından güvenle gelişmiş versiyonu yükleyebilirsiniz.
2. Modülü Modules/TLD hedefine çıkartın. Hedefe gidin, “Data” adındaki klasöre girin. Bu klasör Ana M&B dosyalarının üstüne yazılması gereken bütün dosyaları içermektedir.
2.1 Bütün *.brf dosyalarını alın ve M&B/CommonRes/ adlı hedefe kopyalayın. Sorulduğunda üstüne yazmayı seçin.
2.2 Bütün *.txt ve *.xml dosyalarını alıp M&B/Data/ adlı hedefe kopyalayın. Sorulduğunda üstüne yazmayı seçin.
2.3 Geri kalan bütün dosyaları alıp M&B/ hedefine kopyalayın. Sorulduğunda üstüne yazmayı seçin.
2.4 Şimdi TLD’nin çalışması için gereken bütün kritik dosyalar yerinde. Bu şekilde olan bir M&B yüklemesi sadece ve sadece TLD için çalışır. Native ve diğer modlar çalışmayacaktır.
2.5 …
3. Profit! M&B’i başlatın, listeden TLD’i modülünü seçin ve keyfinize bakın.
31.10.2011 (on Halloween, because it's a monster of a mod), sometimes during the day, we suppose, when all uploading is done.
Later patches and upgrades will be announced as they near completion.
Is TLD for Warband? Asked 95 times (24.5%)No. For Mount & Blade 1.011.
A Warband port is NOT planned.
We'll see about M&B2, if it's ever made.
Is TLD a LOTR movie mod? Asked 13 times (3.4%)No. TLD is based off Tolkien's books.
Except in certain details, where movies didn't contradict books or where some solution was in our opinion handled better than in books.
Are there hobbits, Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli in the mod? Asked 80 times (20.6%)The Fellowship had their own agenda.
In TLD you play a random guy from any the many factions, so not very likely to run into anyone from the Fellowship.
We have however already included or plan to include some recognisable chracters as encounters or in missions, just to spice up your TLD enjoyment a bit more.
2. Installation poll answers after 363 votes cast:How did installing & launching the mod go for you? I followed instructions & all worked fine.
223 (61.4%) I followed instructions but IronLauncher didn't work.
18 (5%) I didn't read instructions and got "windy_flora" error.
36 (9.9%) I had to manually copy all the files, then it worked.
66 (18.2%) I can't get it to work at all.
20 (5.5%)
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