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The North rises, the cavalry gets its rules: Patch note v1.0.1.4
Arnor and Gundabad take the field, the Black Númenóreans join Mordor, every faction shares the same stats per role, and the cavalry whitelist and the lance rule arrive.
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New factions
- Arnor: Arthedain, Cardolan and Rhudaur, three northern realms with one armoury and their own colours.
- Gundabad: Snow Orcs and Pale Uruks.
- Black Númenóreans join Mordor, the only Men of the Black Land, and its first horsemen.
New weapons and shields
- The Gundabad arsenal: swords, axes, great maces, spears, javelins, and light shields for the skirmishers.
- New Gondor shields and tower shields, in faction colours.
- New orc shields: light, medium and heavy.
- Black Númenórean swords, greatswords, lance and shields.
- Caped pauldrons for Dunfearan.
Balance
- Every faction now shares the same class stats per role.
- Speed on foot: shock and skirmishers first, then infantry, archers and cavalry.
- Shields by role: infantry 300, skirmishers 250, cavalry 200.
- One-handed and two-handed weapons rebalanced to shared values.
- 30 arrows or bolts per quiver.
- Shock infantry fights without a shield.
- No two-handed weapons on horseback, the Wainrider glaive excepted.
- Archer lords no longer carry two-handed weapons.
Reserved cavalry
The server can now reserve the cavalry to a list of riders. Everyone else sees the tile dimmed and marked “Reserved”, and the server refuses it whatever you click. Want in? Ask an admin: one click on their side, no restart, no update.
The lance rule
Lances, spears, pikes, glaives and halberds are in your hand when you spawn. Switch to any other weapon and the polearm drops to the ground, mounted or on foot. Pick it back up if you want it. Throwing spears and javelins are not concerned.
Admins on the field
The admins get their own tools inside the game’s admin panel. What you will notice: announcements, kicks, bans, mutes and slays now show as the game’s admin banner with its alert sound, plus a purple [Admin] line in everyone’s chat.
Fixes
- Beards no longer clip through Dunland, Rhûn and Black Númenórean helmets.
- Arnor shields match their region colours.
- Khamûl’s barding errors fixed.
- Gondor faction colour masks fixed.
- Black Númenórean lance size and grip fixed.
Quality of life
Cleaner armour names: region, role, tier and piece, such as “Dunfearan Elite Helmet C”.