0.8.5 follows the previous update in adding more custom generals, an iconic and thematic land map (Warg Ambush), and, finally, the pièce de résistance! THE WARGS! An entire new custom creature, fully animated, and sorely needed for many rosters. You can follow the guide here to learn how to install the mod.

0.8.5 COMPLETE CHANGELOG

MAPS
- Land Battle: Wargs Ambush (from the movies)

FACTIONS AND UNITS

MORDOR
- Added Warg Riders (melee cavalry) (Unit model is Wargs of Isengard as a temporary placeholder)
- Othrod shield entry changed from rectangle to tower (less melee defense, more block chance)
- Orc pillagers are now a raider unit.

GONDOR
- Sword militia armour entry from light mail to cloth (reduced armour and reduced cost)
- Spear militia armour entry from light mail to cloth (reduced armour and reduced cost)
- Bow militia armour entry from light mail to cloth (reduced armour and reduced cost)

ROHAN
- Rohan scouts now have guerrilla deployment.
- All rohan cavalry cost reduced by 100.

HARADRIM
- Added Mahud Spearmen (spear infantry)
- Added Umbar Guards (polearm infantry)
- Added Corsair Marines (skirmisher hybrid infantry)
- Given Ar-Karbakhôrî unit to Ar-Bêlzagar instead of Adunakhori (melee cav instead of shock infantry)

EASTERLINGS
- Clan Raiders are now a raider unit
- Rhunic savages are now a raider unit

WOODLAND REALM
- Updated Legolas model

ISENGARD
- Added Wargs of Isengard (melee cavalry)
- Added Ugluk as custom general (Ugluk’s retinue as bodyguard, a new sword infantry)
- Rescaled Isengard goblin-men units to look smaller

EREBOR
- Fixed several bugs for Erebor units with crossbows including: wrong reload time and wrong range.
- Erebor Spear Guards shield entry changed from medium kite to tower (less melee defense, more block chance)
- Added Thorin III custom general (Ered Mithrim Veterans unit as bodyguard)

DALE
- Shipmen become a melee with missile unit with 2 precursor javelins.
- Vineland guard shield entry changed from large round to medium round (more melee defense, less block chance)

GOBLINS
- Added Gundabad Wargs (melee cavalry)
- Added Warg Scouts (missile cavalry)
- Added Goblin Marauders (shock infantry)
- Added Scavenged Crossbows (crossbow infantry)
- Added Goblin Bodyguards (shock infantry)

DUNLAND
- Dunhird Chosen capped at 3 in multiplayer.

LOTHLÓRIEN
- Added custom model animation for Nimrodel patrollers now using proper Galadrim bow instead of vanilla ones.

UNITS MISCELLANEA
- Increased modifiers that set the melee attack and defense of T1 and T2 units improving their performance respectively of around 10% and 5%.
- Nerfed precursor Javelin damage (this is not the one used by full skirmisher units)
- Slightly increased melee stats for pikes and half-pike weapons.
- Decreased cost of all spears by 50.
- Increased cost for all Teleri, Noldor, Avari and House of Durin units by 50.
- Improved accuracy for all crossbows
- Increase damage vs beasts (Oliphant and trolls) of spears and polearms.
- Reworked Chevron system. Now chevrons cost based on the original unit cost, therefore the more expensive the unit, the more expensive the chevrons.
- Implementation of the spot & hide system. Visibility is greatly reduced overall and scouts and rangers units now play a very important role.

Hiding scalar changed for all units (1 = 100%, a higher number means more easily spottable, a lower number means the unit is harder to spot):
- Goblins 0.8
- Rangers 0.8 (unless on horse where horse value is applied)
- Elves 0.9
- Men/Orcs 1 
- Horses/wargs 1.25
- Trolls 1.5
- Mûmaks 2.5

Spotting categories created:
- not_a_scout (all units)
- poor_scouting (orcs/goblin scouts)
- good_scouting (men/dwarven scouts)
- excellent_scouting (rangers)
- elven unit (all elves and its on par with good_scouting)
- elven_excellent_scouting (elven scout/rangers)

- Created a new attribute called “dexterous” and given to unit with light or very light weight. This allows no to have movement penalties in forests and scrub.

Ground types changes: 
- Adjusted stats for several terrain categories.- Added stats for several missing terrain categories.
- Added UI icon for several missing terrain categories.

Ground categories right now:
- Sand (75% speed, 75% charge bonus) units with resist heat are immune
- Road (120% speed, 120% charge bonus)- Mud (65% speed, 65% charge bonus)
- Forest (80% speed, 80% charge bonus) units with Dexterous are immune
- Deep water (10% speed, 10% charge bonus)
- Rock (65% speed, 65% charge bonus)
- Scrub (90% speed, 90% charge bonus) units with Dexterous are immune
- Shallow Water (45% speed, 45% charge bonus)
- Sharp Stones (25% speed, 25% charge bonus)
- Snow (75% speed, 75% charge bonus) units with Resist Cold are immune

Several Unit info panel fixes, including:
- Replaced the Tier Icon near the unit’s name with the Unit Type Icon divided into “Infantry Unit”, “Mounted Unit” and “Beast”;
- Unit tier is now displayed below the unit’s name where the weight is also displayed;
- Created passive ability for training levels, now displaying text that explain that the training level does;
- Reorganized stats in Unit Cards in order to be displayed always in the same order for all units except missile units where block chance is replaced by Range and Ammo;
- Remove the Accuracy stat from the info panel as its not representative of the real performance and accuracy of the unit.

ARTILLERY
- Further improvement to artillery accuracy

TROLLS
- Radious slightly increased (more difficult to push through);
- Olog-hai armour reduced from 85 to 75;
- Melee defense reduced;

FIXES
- Fixed the normal onagers shooting 4 projectiles instead of one
- Fixed one man army Haldir
- Corsair Raider unit fixed.
- Fixed stamina class descriptions.
- Fixed Dol Guldur Nazgul wrong melee defense stat
- Fixed Haldir missing sword and wrong animation.
- Fixed DG artillery crew being invisible
- Fixed Nazgul sword not having proper textures
- Fixed Mordor Large Onager now shooting correct rocks and all 4 of the expected flammable rocks
- Fixed some inconsistency in bow animations for several units and some units missing arrow’s models.