Battle for Middle Earth II (PC)

Started by nimbus0062 pages

Originally posted by pr1983
lol, basically its like a giant skirmish, but instead of taking parts of the map, you take territories... its similar to the campaign from the first game (once you finish minas tirith and move onto whatever maps you want to play), but you dont carry over your forces from each battle (with the witch king addition i think you do though). anyways, when you take a territory, you'll get buillding plots... you can build any of the normal buildings, though you need to (just like usually) build farms to increase command points, fortresses to build heroes, and barracks to build soldiers...

you need to keep either a hero or a at least one battalion in any piece of land you intend to hold on to, as if an enemy force moves into it and there are no soldiers to protect it, it'll become their territory, so you need to keep at least one battalion (though the more you have, the more you'll start each battle with).

so say i have aragorn and two battalions of knights on, say, helms deep, and isengard attacks it... i click the real time selection on the resolve options, and the mission (pretty much a skirmish) starts, but i have the bonus that at the start, i already have aragorn and the two battalions ready to go...

Awesome thanx ill will try to play it tonight. Hopefully i can understand it. 😄

Originally posted by exanda kane
Ah yes. I thought we would hit this little snag. You see, this is a Lord of the Rings product, a product made considering both the mainstream and fan following of the Lord of the Rings, Tolkien's world, or in particular Peter Jackson's WETA company, and therefore appeals to more than simply a "video game/computer forum criteria".

I would not be suprised if not too many fans of Tolkien stroll through the Video Game forums, so how better to tell them about this game than the Lord of the Rings forums themselves? Simply put, respect other peoples decisions; no need to call the hounded Mods for such a trivial case.

Now, seeing as you've dragged the thread so off-topic Kelly_Bean (so that it will probably be moved now anyway) I'll try my hand at an on-topic post.

What Elven Heroes do you get? I heard Glorfindel mentioned?

the full list of elven heroes: glorfindel, thranduil, haldir, legolas, treebeard (on account of the elves being able to build ent moots, which is their version of the barracks), elrond, arwen... i think thats all of them... and galadriel is the superpowerful ring hero for any of the free peoples, she's a frickin beast...

glorfindel is the standard hero you get at the start... he's a good all rounder...

Originally posted by Kelly_Bean
Do any of them come online more than once in a blue moon? 😬

i'll mention it to one of em...

Originally posted by nimbus006
Awesome thanx ill will try to play it tonight. Hopefully i can understand it. 😄

just practice man... honestly, i didnt have a clue at first, i learned through trial and error... atm i have everything west of mordor under my control, and i'm ready to take the last few territories...

Is The Lord Of The Rings Online: Shadows Of Angmar any good ??

Yep.

I love the expansion the Rise of the Witch-king. It's so cool to send the Witch-king out on a horse with a huge orc and troll army to summon forth wolf riders and lay siege to my opponents!!!

You couldn't do that in the 2nd one? 😐

Originally posted by coolmovies
Is The Lord Of The Rings Online: Shadows Of Angmar any good ??

Yeah, it really is. It's just whether you can be bothered to pay monthly fees for it.

Anyway, you can get a two week free trial online, check it, son.

Originally posted by chillmeistergen
Yeah, it really is. It's just whether you can be bothered to pay monthly fees for it.

Anyway, you can get a two week free trial online, check it, son.

Have you played WoW? If so, better, worse, dislikes, likes?

Originally posted by chillmeistergen
Yeah, it really is. It's just whether you can be bothered to pay monthly fees for it.

Anyway, you can get a two week free trial online, check it, son.

My friend/neighbor beta tested it. When/why did they add the 5$/month registration fee? That's actually why he didn't continue playing.

Originally posted by Robtard
Have you played WoW? If so, better, worse, dislikes, likes?

Well, I prefer LOTRO, but that's due to the fact that I really like LOTR. So it really depends on what you're looking for out of it - I could relate to LOTRO's storyline, but not WoW, it just didn't strike a chord with me.