The Harad arsenal: Patch note v1.0.2.3

A focused update: Harad gets its own weapons, and a few kits and rules are set straight.

The Harad arsenal

The Haradrim and the Southrons drop the borrowed placeholder shields and fight with their own gear:

• Spears: new Harad spears, 1.8 m long, light for the line, medium for the officers, heavy for the lords.
• Maces: a light Harad mace for the troops, heavier ones for officers and lords.
• Javelins: Harad javelins for the skirmishers, archer officers and archer lords.
• Large shields: light for the skirmishers, medium for the line, heavy for officers and lords, in Haradrim or Southron colours.
• Cavalry: a new Harad cavalry sword and Harad cavalry shields, with bardings by rank: light for the riders, medium for the officers, heavy for the lords.

The new models live in LotRMPCore: you need LotRMPCore 1.4.8.1 from the Steam Workshop to see them.

Lords and skirmishers

• Infantry lords no longer carry two-handed weapons: they lead with spear, sword and shield. The Wainrider cavalry lords keep their glaive.
• Théodred no longer carries the Rohan throwing spear.
• Rhûn and Dunland skirmishers now carry skirmisher shields.

The lance rule, eased

Spears, lances and pikes still drop when you switch to another weapon. Poleaxes, halberds and glaives now stay in your kit: the Arnor Northstar poleaxe, the Arthedain Northstar war spear, the Black Uruk halberds, the Harad glaive and the Mirkwood glaive.

Maps

The server now uses the same map names as your client: Mordor2 and Forest_of_Lorien2. Nothing changes on your side.

Installing this version

Let Steam update LotRMPCore to 1.4.8.1 first: without it the new Harad weapons and shields cannot load. Then install the LotRMPEvent 1.0.2.3 package as before: download the zip, extract it, close the game and double-click INSTALL-LotRMPEvent.cmd.