Battle for Middle Earth

Tip of the Week - How to Prevent Gandalf Laming

This tip by KaiTo`KiD and with a video by EV1L shows how to prevent Gandalf from leveling up too fast from killing your horses.As we are all aware, when Gandalf the White comes out it can be a pain in the neck, especially when you are trying to harass farms. So doing this one sneaky move you...

Tip of the Week - Saving your Mills against Warchant

Maia made this tip about how to save your lumber mills against Warchant when he was a Strategy Specialist. It has now been updated with a video by EV1L.This tip is mainly for the 1vs1 match-up Mordor vs Isengard. Isengard can be extremely annoying because of the amount of times they can keep...

Tip of the Week - Hiding Units

This Tip of the Week is an old tip by Strategy Specialist StGeorgeEngland alias Grishnakha about scouting with hidden units. The tip has now been updated and a video has been added by Senior Strategy Specialist EV1L.Please study these two pictures for a few seconds:You may be thinking what are...

Gondor Pathways Guide

Having the right pathways is a very important aspect, if you want to be successful in quickmatch. Wrong pathways can lead you on a bad way so that you will lose. However, sometimes its not easy to decide which are the best pathways. Thats why I made this guide. Hopefully it will help you to...

Tip of The Week-Laborer Repair

It's a common misconception that the use of laborers to repair buildings is "bugged" and most people find that it doesn't work. Well this edition of the Tip of the Week is here to tell you it is not bugged. Repairing with a laborer works 100% of the time, however, the one requirement is the...

Rohan vs Isengard Guide

I have found that Rohan vs. Isengard is one of the hardest matchups to play, especially if your opponent knows what he's doing.As with most of Rohan's other matchups, you will want to try your best to end the game as early as possible so as to avoid the late game stage and face the leadership...

Tip of The Week-Maximizing Rank Sharing Experience

The tip uses the ability of rank sharing, but is all about how to maximize this and put it to good use, especially when creeping goblins with Soldiers and a Hobbit.Did you ever wonder why your Pippin is sometimes rank 2 and sometimes rank 3 after rank sharing with soldiers who kill a goblin...

Tip of The Week-Creeping With Mordor

This weeks tip is brought to us by our Mordor Strategy Moderator Grishnakha. It is a rather extensive guide on creeping with the Mordor faction. This sort of information is invaluable to Mordor players in early game.Warg LairsOne HaradrimApproach and wait until the wargs go to the other side...

Tip of The Week-Release The Prisoners

This appropriately named tip of the week focuses on the alternative ammunition available on Mordor's catapults. Many players often forget that catapults are capable of firing skulls which will strike fear into rank one enemy units.The following screenshots demonstrate this ability used on an...

Mordor Vs. Rohan Masterguide

Mordor Vs. Rohan was, and still is one of the hardest matchups. Rohan has many ways to totally destroy Mordor, either by using the large mobile horse-archer army, heroes, or a normal elven summon rush. In this guide all of the counters for those strategies will be explained with text screenshots...