Battle for Middle Earth 2

Men of the West Mirror: 2.4

Men of the West mirrors are difficult because everything you can throw at the opponent, they can throw at you. It is a battle of using the counter system to the fullest.Starting Build OrdersBuild order 1A good old soldier spam can be deadly. Just run with your Soldiers to your opponent's Farms...

A Statue Cancels The Horn of Gondor and Cloud Break

Something that many players may not know is that Statues, while providing leadership to nearby units, can also make units resistant to the effect of fear, such as Boromir's Horn of Gondor and Cloud Break, the 15 powerpoint.Just to be clear, both of these abilities stun your units. Boromir's only...

Men vs. Isengard: A New Master Guide

Men of the West can finally stamp Isengard out of history with these keys to victory. Understand the build-orders, heroes, and situations that you will encounter in your battle to control Middle-earth.Build Orders:Farm –> Farm –> Barracks -> Farm –> Archery Range -> -> -> -> Farm –> Forward...

Bombard

This week's tip is about the Bombard ability with ranged siege units, which has many advantages, but also disadvantages.This picture shows you where the Bombard icon is located on the Palantir.Here is a short video showing bombard being used by Dwarven Catapults.If you watch the video, you can...

Men vs. Dwarves Master Guide

Our Men of the West Strategy Specialist, Standard` has recently created a guide on how to fight the mighty Dwarven faction. This is a guide about the current state of play in this match up, opposed to the guide that already exists.There are plenty of other Men of the West guides that you can...

Tip of the Week Archive

Here you will find all the Tip of the Weeks that relate to the Battletest 2: Director's Cut patch version of the Battle for Middle Earth 2.Creeping With ArchersCreeping with Archer's is a very big part of certain faction's strategy, mainly Elves. Lorien Archer's are the backbone of the Elven army...

Orc Creeping

Everyone seems to think that the most efficient way to creep as Mordor is to use Easterlings, but there is another method that's very interesting.You are able to creep with three Orc units, which are very effective at it. What about the Warg's trample you may ask? Well, Orc's take very little...

Berserker Guide

Berserkers deal extreme amounts of damage and are almost as fast as cavalry. This makes them excellent for hero-killing and harassment. You should only attack units with Berserkers when you have other units to help protect them. Their primary use is to harass and destroy production buildings. Mix...

Goblin Defense

Goblins can defend all of their Tunnels simply with two sets of Goblin Warriors. So, how does one accomplish this you might ask? Well it's all to do with the Goblin's resource buildings, which double as a system of Tunnels.First of all, the importance of this tip. The fact that Goblins can...

Rivendell Lancer Guide

Lancers are one of the least-used units in the game. Many people write Lancers off because of their obvious inferiorities to other types of cavalry in cavalry's typical role. They have very low health, which means they lose one on one to all other factions' cavalry, and they die extremely fast...