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Lord of the Rings - Isengard

Bring Saruman the White in the helms of Isengard into the roster of civilization!

Saruman heads Isengard, a powerful production civilization with strong early to midgame production bonuses and a useful infantry unit to boot.

Trait - The Rising Tower

Starts with Mining, and gain an extra spy when spies are first unlocked. Gains 2 additional unique buildings on top of his unique units, namely the River Dam and the Furnace.

Unique Unit 1 - Uruk-Hai

Replaces the Longswordsman. Slightly stronger and faster, and doesn't use movement points when pillaging.

Unique Unit 2 - Lumberjack

A unique laboring unit independent of the Worker. May only chop forests and jungles, but provides more production and grants the nearest city a unit of lumber resource.

Unique Building 1 - Furnace

Replaces the Forge. In addition to the regular restrictions and bonuses of the Forge, Furnaces also grant additional base production, while also granting 15 experience to siege units produced in the city. Furnaces also allow Isengard to use lumber resources harvested by Lumberjacks to get bursts of production, which is increased significantly based on the amount of iron resource worked by the city.

Unique Building 2 - River Dam

Replaces the Hydro Plant. It retains the benefits of a Hydro Plant, but unlocked much sooner at Engineering, and costs much less to build and maintain.

Saruman is much more aloof than most of my other leaders, and while Saruman is not an overt warmonger, he is definitely a schemer who is quite conscious of the competition near him. He is more than willing to settle disputes with a fight, often with a large army he's able to raise thanks to his powerful production bonuses.

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Lord of the Rings and any respective characters, icons, etc are intellectual properties of J.R.R. Tolkien, while the movie based on it is the property of WingNut Films and The Saul Zaentz Company. No profit is sought and should be sought from the creation of this mod: this mod is for enjoyment only. Credits to [SSU]yenyang (and whoever provided that user with the assets) for the original Middle Earth Civilization Modpack from which I gleaned some pieces such as the Dawn of Man Image.