Thursday, April 19, 2012

Looking for an old LOTR map.

Years ago I recall having loads of fun playing a Warcraft III custom map involving the battle for Middle Earth. Basically, the map involved 12 (I believe) factions battling against one another on a fairly-accurate rendition of the Tolkien's own map of Middle Earth. Unit production happened via spawns which were automatically deployed around certain buildings. Over time, these buildings could be upgraded, and the unit spawns would become more numerous and battle-ready.

There were various hero units prowling the map, and amongst these was Frodo (one faction was just 9 heroes of the Fellowship of the Ring), and the shade of Sauron. If Frodo kicked it and Sauron (or Saruman) got the One Ring, he would become a ridiculously powerful killing machine and, under most circumstances, this would mark the end of the game. Alternatively, Frodo could travel into the guarded regions of Mordor and plunk the ring into Mt. Doom, similarly destroying almost all hope for the forces of evil. Few games ever ended this way - Frodo was typically well-hidden, and to risk bringing him into Mordor usually meant that the Alliance forces had utter domination already, so the issue was null.

Physically, the map looked very close to Middle Earth, although in the SW corner was 'Moria,' which players could teleport to from opposite ends of the Misty Mountains. Factions (as I recall) were: The Fellowship, the Shire, The Dwarves, Rohan, Gondor, and the Elves vs. Mordor, Haradrim, Easterlings, Moria, Isengard and Southerons.

Regardless, I realize that there are very new versions of this map (mostly remakes) floating around out there, but what I'm looking for is an old (and we're talking like 5-6 years old at least) version of this custom game.

If you have a few minutes, and don't mind peering through your custom map folders and seeing if you have an old LOTR map that fits my description, I'd be much obliged.|||Wrong forum. Topic moved.

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