The Elves’ unique Silverthorn Arrow upgrade has many players wondering if the Elves are simply too powerful. The Elves excel with bows their upgraded archers are extremely, extremely formidable and several of the Elven hero units implement bows (including the mighty Legolas) as well. Note that this chapter was written on the retail version of The Battle for Middle-earth II. You’ll find details on heroes and units and general strategies for using each group in battle. This section covers the forces of good: Elves, Men of the West, Dwarves. However, remember that rule and you’ll know how best to counter the makeup of an enemy’s army as well as how to micromanage the fight when the moment of combat approaches. There are some exceptions and, of course, other unit types to consider (such as trolls, giants, and spiders). In general, The Battle for Middle-earth II follows this logic: swordsmen beat pikemen, pikemen beat cavalry, cavalry beat archers, and archers beat swordsmen.

For example, pikemen are best used against cavalry while cavalry are best used against archers. This means that certain units are better suited to fight other specific units. One of the most important concepts in The Battle for Middle-earth II-and it’s similar to many real-time strategy games-is the rock-scissors-paper approach to combat.

War of the Ring: Complete territory bonuses list and tips for War of the Ring mode.

Multiplayer: General strategies and coverage of all Evenstar and One Ring powers are found in this multiplayer section.

Evil Campaign Walk-through: This section offers complete mission walk-throughs for the evil campaign.

Good Campaign Walk-through: Look here for solutions to all objectives and bonus objectives for the good campaign.

Forces of Evil: Goblins, Mordor, and Isengard are covered here with tips on using units and heroes in battle.

Forces of Good: This section provides tips for the Elves, Men of the West, and Dwarves, including strategies for units and heroes.

This Gamespot game guide for The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II includes: This game guide contains tips for all the new units, heroes, and abilities as well as complete walk-throughs and solutions for the two huge campaigns. The Battle for Middle-earth II refines some gameplay elements-new resource model and you can build structures anywhere on the map-and adds new playable races, the Goblins, Elves, and Dwarves (Gondor and Rohan from the first game are combined into Men of the West). But it’s a new location-the northern lands where the Elves and Dwarves held off hordes of Goblins and Orcs of Mordor. Tolkien’s books and Peter Jackson’s award-winning film adaptations (as well as the first game!).

By: Doug Radcliffe Design: Randall MontanariĮA’s real-time strategy sequel The Battle for Middle-earth II takes place during J.R.R.

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