Okay in about 1 week I’m going to be looking for some TRUSTED
players to feedback on the module (not the game that’s not ready yet) KS - any takers? If you sign up I NEED feedback please. I’m looking for players who are happy to read, digest and feedback (warts and all).
Clint
I volunteer 
As g94 is my only game ATM (while our grudge team is waiting for opposition) you can be sure there will be feedback…
I am interested in Kinstrife as well. Pretty much in the same boat as Bernd, only playing in game 94 so more than willing to provide feedback, even if you don’t like it, I will still provide it.
tim huiatt
I’m in too Clint, Alan Jeffrey. Am sure I replied to an email from you. Its all a haze… Still certain it was turn 3 mate
Count on me 
Ricard
Hmmm, whats Kinstrife all about?
Kinstrife is the reason that the Corsairs are who they are. At one point in time a younger brother ascended the throne of Gondor. (Don’t remember why, just that he did). After seeing what a mess his brother was making of things, the older brother was convinced to lead a revolt. When he finally toppled his brother and his brother’s most ardent supporters, he exiled them. The exiles intermarried with the indigenous tribes in the Umbar area, and thus the Corsairs were born.
It has also been suggested that from that time to now, there still exists some hard feeling among some of the nobles of Gondor. Many of them felt that it wasn’t a revolution, but rather an insurgency, and that the lawful government had been toppled. This differing in opinions led to more than just a division in politics, but also in territorial borders. Southern Gondor may still fall under the King, but they feel, even to this day, that terrorism should not have been rewarded. Perhaps some of them even feel guilt that their families didn’t rise up and support the true and rightful King.
Who is to say for sure? That, as they say, is history…
Wade
A childless king of Gondor ended up apointing his brothers children to 2 important posts. The southern/naval power post was more traditional, allowing local nobles control over their areas (this included Southron and Umbar areas, where the Dunedan had already migrated to much like the Phoenicians established Carthage…). The northern, land based post got caught up in Easterling and Northmen migration patterns and had to make alliances with marriages into the royal families, etc. Many were leery of the diluted blood (like, it all wasn’t diluted enough by now…!). When the northern noble Eldacar decided to try to implement new systems throughout the kingdom, the southern traditionalists rebelled under their southern noble, Castamir. Civil war resulted, Eldacar ended up solidifying power in Gondor, Castamir ended up in Umbar where an uneasy Taiwanesque truce has apparently remained to this day…or at least through the 2950 scenario…
The reason this North/South split was possible was because each position was originally held by brothers, as opposed to appointed positions under a single king. It was the descendents of the brothers who started the civil war.
As to Umbar existing before the war, it was mostly colonial country that formed a coalition that was allied with Gondor itself until various issues led it to look to Gondor for proxy rule. So it was independent, then under Gondor, until the Kin Strife many centuries later ended up tearing it out of Gondor yet again.
Kin Strife as MEGames considers it is a new module, like 1650 and 2950 are different, set in the early 3rd Age amid this civil war. They’ve gotten it pretty much put together in theory, are doing final revisions and, I believe, awaiting programming to put it to play test.
Brad
Thanks Wade and Brad. Count me in…
Don’t hold your breaths guys - we’re a way from getting it out yet. Good feedback on the list so far.
Clint
Like a lot of the ‘turn of the century’ authors (Kipling, Haggard, Doyle, etc) Toliken had some decided racial and racist views. This does not diminish their literary merit and now provides an interesting flavor to their works. If Harley was REALLY brave they would incorporate this into the Kin Strife.
Thanks for the entertaining email Ed, as usual your views are respected and I shall take them on board.
Have a great w/end…
Clint