More powerful creatures: To make a Troll more powerful, have it pick up a tree as a
club. It is slower, but much more powerful. To make an Ent
more powerful, have it to pull boulders out of buildings or
rock piles to throw at enemies. This is a very powerful
long-range attack.
Quick Building Take Down - When Playing Isengard
and you have Lurtz with his leadership ability send him running with the
sword and about 20 beserkers they cost less command than a normal unit and
do crazy damage(Especially with lurtz's +100% to damage)
General strategies - Always close your Castle Gate and build a
Postern Gate instead.
To make a Troll more powerful, have it pick up a tree as a club. It is
slower, but much more powerful. To make an Ent more powerful, have it to
pull boulders out of buildings or rock piles to throw at enemies. This is a
very powerful long-range attack.
Darth Vader - If you are playing the Evil Campaign, press
CTRL+S+W and you will see Darth Vader appear with a battalion of Storm
Troopers. Darth Vader is almost undestructable and can finish off opponents
with his laser saber!
Cheat mode: Note: This procedure involves editing a game file; create
a backup copy of the file before proceeding. To edit stats of your skirmish
player, use a text editor to edit the "skirmishstats.ini" file in the
"c:\documents and settings\\application data\my battle for middle-earth
files" directory and edit it accordingly.
Good army spying in skirmish mode: The Evil factions of the game both
have a Spying power they can use. However, Good factions have no spying
power. Early in Skirmish mode, recruit the Hobbit available to you. Have him
run over to an enemy castle, camp, etc. He should be able to make it to the
citadel, unless the enemy is playing a Good faction and has closed the
castle gate. Once inside (or outside the gate if it has been closed),
activate his Elven Cloak. He will remain there, untouchable by the enemy. By
doing this, you will have a permanent spy. Note: If he moves, he will be
exposed until he can use his cloak again. When selecting all your units by
pressing Q, hold [Shif and deselect your spy before ordering everybody to
move or attack.
Bypassing the command point limit: If you have reached your command
point limit during a mission, send out a battalion or two (with the Banner
Carrier upgrade) of soldiers. Have them fight until there is only one or two
men remaining in the battalions/hordes. Then, send them back to your base,
near a Healing Well for the Good side. You have just freed up several
command points. Your damaged battalions can regenerate. Use this strategy to
make up to three battalions of cavalry to raid your opponent with.
Defeating Ents: Train a horde of Archers and give them the Fire Arrows
upgrade. Send them and shoot the Ent until he is on fire, then run away. He
will die in a short time.
Defeating Isengard: When you are fighting Isengard, either use Summon
Rohan Allies or start out as Rohan. Build a stable and a lot of farms. Close
the main gate and build a Postern Gate instead. Build an army of Riders Of
Rohan and walk over the Uruk-Hai's. To counter battering rams, use Yeoman or
Elven Archers. To counter Warg Riders and Siege Ladders, use Heroes or
Sentry Towers. Note: With the riders, just ride over the Uruks. It will
either kill or stun them for you to finish. With the riders, try summoning
Eomer to the field and give them a bonus or two.
Defeating Rohirrim: When Isengard, Pikeman can easily defeat Cavalry
if their numbers are similar. However, by combining a Pikeman horde with a
Crossbow horde you can have one of the most powerful anti-Cavalry groups
there are.
As Mordor, there really is no cheap way to deal with Cavalry. Trolls and
Mumaks are your best bet, considering they have heavy damage with little
harm done to them. Try getting creative and putting Orc Archers with fire
arrows inside the Mumakil. This can make for a devastating blow to even a
castle, and not just enemy soldiers.
Defeating Trolls: Make a horde/battalion of archers and give them the
Fire upgrade. Shoot the troll until it catches on fire (like Ents), then run
away. The troll will die very quickly.
Strategies: Hordes/Battalions with a Banner unit should be retreated
when only a few remain to allow the ranked unit to regenerate.
Try to grab as many of the economy/outpost plots surrounding your base.
Always close your Castle Gate and build a Postern Gate instead.
Build two economy structures per one unit production building.
Fewer upgraded units are always better than many non-upgraded units.
Build economy structures in the back of the Camp/Castle and build unit
production structures in the front.
General hints - Here are some tips for all armys.
Gondor - Train lots of archers untill your range ranks then get
them all killed and replace tham with rangers.
Rohan - If playing against isengard make lots of archers (the
mounted ones) to counter any pikemen
Mordor - Harad warriors are quite cheap for the power of their
attack also they can be mounted on a mumaks effectively
Isengard - Try to purchase the forged weapons upgrade as quickly
as possible and equip beserkers with it. (A.K.A death for your enemy). |
