Middle-earth: Shadow of War
73 Achievements
44-51h
Eastern Front
Conquer the Fortress of Shindrâm as Talion.
4.7%
How to unlock the Eastern Front achievement in Middle-earth: Shadow of War - Definitive Guide
You can make this much easier on yourself in a number of ways:
1. Complete the Warchief missions first so that they won't be present during the attack and their upgrades will be disabled.
2. Create command your captains to become spy warchiefs.
3. Command your captains to be bodyguards for the overlord. They will attack him during the fight. I gave him 8 of my captains, and it was just sad to watch. This is a new feature with recent updates.
Now, the biggest reason that I am creating this guide is that this achievement is known to be incredibly buggy! Today I found a solution to work around this achievement not unlocking. It is rather labor intensive, however, so you may just want to hope and pray that Monolith will patch this...
I have no faith in game devs. Not after Mafia 3.
If this achievement is broken for you, here is how to fix it.
1. Delete your main game from within the game's main menu.
2. Manage your game from the dashboard, and delete all save data for your profile. Please note, I recommend doing all other achievements first.
3. Play through the game until you conquer Nurnen. At this point, all maps, including Lithlad, will be unlocked.
4. You will likely be underleveled. Kill all warchiefs, and build and army. I recommend using any Orcs you may have in the garrison from the many free chests you will probably have gotten.
5. BEFORE YOU CONQUER THE FORTRESS!!!! Close your game, fully shut off your console and clear the cache by unplugging the power from the back of your console, and from the wall. Wait 5 minutes before plugging it back in, then power up the console.
6. Conquer the fortress. The achievement should pop after selecting a new overlord and returning to the open world.
Good luck and I hope this helps a few people out there.
TVM
This is for capturing the fortress in the desert area in your MAIN game save file
Capturing the fortress is the usual deal, and the absolute fastest way is to start the mission as soon as you get to Lithlad but is of course easier if you turn the difficulty down and have your orcs infiltrate the hierarchy.
To unlock this achievement you need to conquer the fortress of Shindram while playing as Talion. You will need to load up your main game save to do this and make sure you are wearing the default Talion skin, if you have swapped it previously go into your inventory and press to change it, then go to the one that is currently equipped and press to remove it, this will put you in the default Talion skin.
From here you need to travel to Lithlad, go to the map and zoom out into the world map then go across to the right to find the new region and fast travel there. All you need to do now is conquer the fortress here. This is much the same as the main game, you can make it difficult and try to conquer it right away or you can take the time to remove the Warchiefs or turn them into your spies to make it easier. Either way, conquer the fortress with the default Talion skin and this achievement will unlock.