UK cover art for Joe Abercrombie's THE HEROES.Brandon Sanderson on the release schedule for A ME.The Old, Bold Knight and the Captain of the Guard.A ton of supporting actors for THRONES.Steven Erikson completes THE MALAZAN BOOK OF THE F.New Gollancz covers: FENRIR and THE COLD COMMANDS.Four more for THRONES plus recasting news.It's not all good news, however, as the Orcs also get an additional faction (the Orcs of Gundabad and the Grey Mountains) and a new, possibly familiar general unit: How on Earth it does this given the limitations of the Total War engine is unknown (I'm still downloading the thing), but it'll be interesting to see how it works. More intriguingly, the new version features a 'Fellowship' mechanic which allows you to follow the Fellowship of the Ring's route and adventures.
Arnor is a much more formidable faction with units more comparable to Gondor's, making them a more viable playable faction. The new version allows an 'Arnor emergence' mechanic, where Aragorn, instead of claiming the throne of Gondor as in The Lord of the Rings, instead re-founds the Dunedain North Kingdom of Arnor to replace Eriador. True to the books, Eriador was a hodgepodge faction consisting of disparate forces (the Hobbits of the Shire, the Rangers, the townsfolk of Breeland and so on) and as such did not field a particularly formidable army (despite the terror-inducing sight of its, er, Halfling Archers). People were disappointed with Eriador in the previous version of the game. Version 2.0 introduces several new features to the game. The game, as with the previous editions, allows you to refight the War of the Ring playing as one of the sides of 'good' (Gondor, Rohan, Dale, the Silvan Elves, the High Elves, the Dwarves or Eriador/Arnor) or 'evil' (Mordor, Hard, Rhun, Isengard, Orcs of the Misty Mountains, Orcs of Gundabad) across a gorgeously 3D-rendered map of Middle-earth. Owners of Medieval II and Kingdoms can download Third Age (all 2.9 GB of it) for free. Tolkien starting to write The Hobbit (now probably not coming to a movie screen near you soon). Appropriate timing, as we are close to the eightieth anniversary of J.R.R. The Third Age Development Team have released Version 2.0 of Third Age: Total War, their total conversion of Medieval II: Total War and its expansion Kingdoms.
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