Week 1 of Tribal Wars is in the books and the Marauder tribe proved triumphant. The Captains of Bling dominated week 1, swelling their ranks with an impressive 443,430 new recruits! With a late surge, the Marauders were able to hold-off rival Terror tribe and secure victory. Terror was barely edged out, though, with 443, 055 of their own Followers added - a mere 375 Dominations off the lead.



Still, the ultimate winner (or "Uber" winner as we said confusingly last week) will be the tribe with the most weeks won throughout the entire month. In case of a tie, we’ll aggregate all four weeks results to crown our champion.

Now it's time to take those newly Dominated Followers (and old favorites) from your adopted tribe and send them on Assassination or Pit Fight missions from the Army screen. Remember, we’re counting Follower vs. Follower Pit Fights this week – online Pit Fights will be scored in week 4.

Every victory earned in either of those mission types will be tallied community-wide to determine the winning tribe.

The more you send your tribal champions out, the more you add to your tribe's final tally.

Prove your tribe is a cut above the rest.

Week 1 of Tribal Wars is in the books and the Marauder tribe proved triumphant. The Captains of Bling dominated week 1, swelling their ranks with an impressive 443,430 new recruits! With a late surge, the Marauders were able to hold-off rival Terror tribe and secure victory. Terror was barely edged out, though, with 443, 055 of their own Followers added - a mere 375 Dominations off the lead.



Still, the ultimate winner (or "Uber" winner as we said confusingly last week) will be the tribe with the most weeks won throughout the entire month. In case of a tie, we’ll aggregate all four weeks results to crown our champion.

Now it's time to take those newly Dominated Followers (and old favorites) from your adopted tribe and send them on Assassination or Pit Fight missions from the Army screen. Remember, we’re counting Follower vs. Follower Pit Fights this week – online Pit Fights will be scored in week 4.

Every victory earned in either of those mission types will be tallied community-wide to determine the winning tribe.

The more you send your tribal champions out, the more you add to your tribe's final tally.

Prove your tribe is a cut above the rest.

Everybody has a favorite tribe. Or maybe you love every pierced, scarred, horribly burned and/or mutilated, pustule-covered Captain to ever march beneath the 9 banners of Mordor. That works for us.

Because this month, we’re asking you, our community, to decide which tribe should rule the accursed roost (for a month at least).

Each week, we’ll have a new community-wide challenge which we’ll be tracking by tribe. We’ll announce the winner for each week’s challenge and the uber tribe will be crowned at the end of the month.

If you don’t have a caragor in the race, no worries! Be a free agent, sow discord, play kingmaker - just have fun.



And join us Thursdays on @MonolithLive at 3 PM Pacific/ 6 PM Eastern on Twitch, YouTube Gaming, or Mixer to hear the latest results from the War front.

See you in Mordor!

Everybody has a favorite tribe. Or maybe you love every pierced, scarred, horribly burned and/or mutilated, pustule-covered Captain to ever march beneath the 9 banners of Mordor. That works for us.

Because this month, we’re asking you, our community, to decide which tribe should rule the accursed roost (for a month at least).

Each week, we’ll have a new community-wide challenge which we’ll be tracking by tribe. We’ll announce the winner for each week’s challenge and the uber tribe will be crowned at the end of the month.

If you don’t have a caragor in the race, no worries! Be a free agent, sow discord, play kingmaker - just have fun.



And join us Thursdays on @MonolithLive at 3 PM Pacific/ 6 PM Eastern on Twitch, YouTube Gaming, or Mixer to hear the latest results from the War front.

See you in Mordor!

Cosplay takes serious talent.

It takes hard work. It takes time, dedication, and discipline to learn the skills necessary to craft a costume all your own - and many more still to hone them. That’s why this week we’re thrilled to be joined by Stef Sharp (@SharpStef), a coder by day and an overwhelmingly talented cosplayer by the-rest-of-her-day! She’ll talk us through some of the skills she used to build the latest version of her insanely detailed Eltariel cosplay.

From there, we’re going to go head-to-head with some of your strongest Fortresses, and give you a rundown on the week’s Community Challenges.

We’ll see you this Thursday at 3 PM Pacific/ 6 PM Eastern on Twitch, YouTube Gaming, and Mixer!

Cosplay takes serious talent.

It takes hard work. It takes time, dedication, and discipline to learn the skills necessary to craft a costume all your own - and many more still to hone them. That’s why this week we’re thrilled to be joined by Stef Sharp (@SharpStef), a coder by day and an overwhelmingly talented cosplayer by the-rest-of-her-day! She’ll talk us through some of the skills she used to build the latest version of her insanely detailed Eltariel cosplay.

From there, we’re going to go head-to-head with some of your strongest Fortresses, and give you a rundown on the week’s Community Challenges.

We’ll see you this Thursday at 3 PM Pacific/ 6 PM Eastern on Twitch, YouTube Gaming, and Mixer!

• Fixed a progression blocking issue where some players were encountering an infinite loading screen when trying to launch “The Etten” quest.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Blade of Galadriel DLC reward Orcs would not be given to the player upon completion of the DLC.
  
• Fixed an issue where deploying an Orc in Cirith Ungol had a chance of that Orc instantly becoming an Overlord and causing the fortress to become player owned. This would remove the fort assault mission from being accessible and would block progression.
  
• Fixed an issue in the Blade of Galadriel DLC where progression would become blocked when completing the Cirith Ungol fort defense mission if Eltariel had died at least once during the mission.
  
• Fixed an issue in the Blade of Galdriel DLC where failing the fort assault in Gorgoroth and then retrying the mission would make Captains ignore Eltariel.
  
• Fixed an issue where reassigning followers to Cirith Ungol when in a specific story state would block progression.
  
• Fixed an issue during the “Battle for Mordor” quest in the Blade of Galadriel DLC where the drake Eltariel was riding would become invisible and Eltariel would become stuck in the air.
  
• Fixed an issue where the “Gravewalker” skin was not being provided to the player.
  
• Fixed an issue where the “Kill Command” tutorial would not trigger.
  
• Fixed an inconsistent sound effect when toggling Orc levels on/off in the hierarchy screen.
  
• Fixed an issue that prevented the player from applying a training order to an Orc that was their bodyguard.
  
• Fixed in issue during the “Poisoned Ground” quest in the Blade of Galadriel DLC where the Overlord could get stuck inside the fortress, blocking progression.

• Fixed a progression blocking issue where some players were encountering an infinite loading screen when trying to launch “The Etten” quest.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Blade of Galadriel DLC reward Orcs would not be given to the player upon completion of the DLC.
  
• Fixed an issue where deploying an Orc in Cirith Ungol had a chance of that Orc instantly becoming an Overlord and causing the fortress to become player owned. This would remove the fort assault mission from being accessible and would block progression.
  
• Fixed an issue in the Blade of Galadriel DLC where progression would become blocked when completing the Cirith Ungol fort defense mission if Eltariel had died at least once during the mission.
  
• Fixed an issue in the Blade of Galdriel DLC where failing the fort assault in Gorgoroth and then retrying the mission would make Captains ignore Eltariel.
  
• Fixed an issue where reassigning followers to Cirith Ungol when in a specific story state would block progression.
  
• Fixed an issue during the “Battle for Mordor” quest in the Blade of Galadriel DLC where the drake Eltariel was riding would become invisible and Eltariel would become stuck in the air.
  
• Fixed an issue where the “Gravewalker” skin was not being provided to the player.
  
• Fixed an issue where the “Kill Command” tutorial would not trigger.
  
• Fixed an inconsistent sound effect when toggling Orc levels on/off in the hierarchy screen.
  
• Fixed an issue that prevented the player from applying a training order to an Orc that was their bodyguard.
  
• Fixed in issue during the “Poisoned Ground” quest in the Blade of Galadriel DLC where the Overlord could get stuck inside the fortress, blocking progression.

The Blade of Galadriel has arrived! A great many of you have been going hands-on with it over the past couple days, digging deep into Eltariel’s story and furthering her brand new journey within Mordor. That’s why this week, we’re going to keep our focus on everyone’s favorite centuries-old Elven Assassin.

On today’s stream we’re going to dig deep into a new build to help you and Eltariel in your journeys, then we’ll give you a full rundown of how to take advantage of the Light ability. After that, we’ve got a fresh look at the Photo Mode improvements courtesy of our UI Lead, Stephen Whetstine – and, we’ll have a brand new Elite Challenge for you to cap it all off.

We’re going live later today at 3 PM Pacific/6 PM Eastern in the usual places – Twitch, YouTube Gaming, Mixer.

We’ll see you in Chat!