when a section of the wall "suffers" certain amount of damage (put an invisible locust unit there for instance; when it's killed, the wall suffers that damage), anyone on the wall will be teleported down from it. some rubble doodads, smoke and fire would come in handy, to show that this part of wall was destroyed. entering the rubble would teleport the unit to the other side of the ruined wall. clunky, but effective.
Now, other stuff:
Gandalf
1) Make "Mount Shadowfax" a unit ability for him. It's not worth it, to use up a hero ability spot for such an epic character with such spell.
2) Ability names could be better, honestly. "Beam of Light" could be renamed "Light of Valinor", for instance, or "Light of Valar", or "Radiance" or whatever. Same for "Wizard Blast".
3) Gandalf was a fire mage. Some powerful fire spell (or maybe even two - single target and AoE) would be suitable.
4) According to book, presence of Gandalf instilled his fellow soldiers with courage and made them resistant to terror of Nazgul. Some kind of aura - Devotion-based perhaps - would be suitable.
Aragorn
1) Aragorn could have some sort of inspirational aura too. Both in book and movie he was a born leader. "Banner of Isildur" or "Heir of Isildur" would be a good name for it.
2) "Athelas" could be renamed to "Hands of the King" or rather a direct quote from the book (don't have the book near myself atm). His healing powers came from his heritage, more than from the herb.
3) "Weapon Switch" should be an unit ability for all heroes, IMO. Both versions should innately be equal.
4) "Anduril" - single-target damage bonus ability, based off Searing Arrows, melee. Becomes "Elven Bow" (yeah, lousy name) in ranged mode.
5) Aragorn was best among the Rangers. Wind-walk based ability would be suitable for him.
6) some Roar- or scroll-based AoE buff would be nice. See the part about born leader =)
8) He
wasn't Ithilien ranger. He was Arnor ranger.
9) I've missed 7)
Legolas
1) "Elven Lore" for damage boost ability is a bit meh.
2) An tricky idea - "Rival Friends" - Gimly and Legolas deal more damage when are close to each other. Even more tricky idea would be to add a kill counter to each of them and increase the damage of the one who has less kills (as if he tried to keep up with his rival)
3) add some invasion-based ability (possible with crit chance component) - "Elven Grace" or "Fleet of Foot" or something - Legolas was exteremely good at dodging enemy attacks.
4) "Elven Sight" - increases sight range and attack range with each rank. Possible adds true sight. Superriority of elven eyesight is stated numerous times in the book.
Gimli
0) There's a rather famous Gimli skin in the database (
ah, found it!)
1) "Baruk Kazad!" or "Kazad Ai-menu!" (don't rememeber the actual quote) or "For Kazad-Dum!" - based off either Howl of Terror or Taunt. also grants Gimli bonus armor based on amount enemies within the shout's range. Regular ability.
2) "Dwarf-Forged Armor" - ultimate. Based off Hardened Skin.
Theoden
X) Regarding trample: you may make it so Rohirrim have their collision reduced to 0 when they charge (although it would be tricky to make sure they won't overlap with each other) and
any unit they pass through suffers big damage and is stunned (instead of knockback)
Faramir
1) "Mount Horse" - see "Mount Shadowfax" and "Weapon Switch"
2) Ultimate - "Rangers of Ithilien" - summons a retinue of Ithilien rangers.
Boromir
1) In fact, Boromir was already dead by the time of Battle of Pelennor =/
His willpower also was a bit low - he was the first to be corrupted by the One Ring.
2) Ultimate - "Strength of Men" - men are usually a very strong race in Tolkien's writings (especially those with numenorian blood) and Boromir is by far one of the strongest.
Passively increases strength by BIG amount.
Merry
-1) Where the hell is he? >:|
Ah, noticed "More to come". =))
Ok, here's the idea:
1) Agility DPS.
2) Can mount Eovin's horse (when she's mounted), losing his own abilities, but granting her bonus damage and armor.
Eovin
1) Her damage increases when Thoden's health decreases.
2) can mount up/dismount
Eomer
1) Strength DPS. A tough one.
2) Gets great damage buff if eovin dies.
3) "Battle-Song of Rochirim" - damage boost aura
Evil heroes:
Balrog
-0) He was dead by that time. Oh, nevermind. With Boromir, Saruman and corporeal Sauron he fits right in.
Saruman
-1) "Voice of Saruman" - based off charm.
-2) "Flamestrike" - based off Frost Nova - seen is director's cut of the movie.
-3) If you follow movie more than book, "Summon Uruk'hai" could be based off Raise Dead - if he can create them from earth, creating them from flesh should be easier.
-4) "Crawling Flame of Orthank" (can't remember the actual quote) - destroyes several segments of the wall in spectacular explosion. Could be an ultimate.
Units:
1) Magic is extremely rare in Middle Earth. Having mage mercenaries is... weird.
2) It's Militia, not Malitia, Illuvatar damn it.
That's it for now. Enjoy. BTW, are you basing it more on book or on movie?
