Battle for Middle Earth

This is like the most annoying thing that I almost pull my hair out everytime it happens. Ok look, your playin as Isen & you have map control. You probaly have like 20000 of resources & he is turtling. My army is wayyyyyyyyy bigger & well equipped then his & he has couple of archers & heros. The begining of the siege is ok. You tear his walls down & your preparing to mobilze your troops to take the castle. Then boom it hit ya. You move in his base with your artillery supporting you then you get hit by fire archers from the other side of his base & his heros are killing you fast & they get to a rank which is impossible to kill them. You keep sending & they keep dieing. How can you prevent this?

guess fast siege is the solution

Give'em a well done ram rush so they won't have the time to upgrade their defenses

well if u ahve the better army and 20 000 recources u shouldnt be having trouble. even with gtw.
so lets say u send in some fully upgraded xbow men to start distractin the archers. if the hero is gtw at rank 10 who can use word of power keep half ur army out of his base 2 b reinforcments. now wether the hero is on the wall or not get lurtz 2 pin him. (if the hero is on the ground and lurtz is above lv 7 engage him ion melee with carnage but otehrwize make him run after pin).then get saruman 2 frireball him. if u have spare xbows use them on the hero - but if all ur comand limit of fully upgraded uraki r busy v elves or other heroes dnt wry. now the hero is pinned and saruman has used fb lets assumed that if it was a lv 10 gtw he had lost nearly 1/4 his health and he had go word of power and he blew up ur uraki. that ok because u still have healf ur force outside ur base 2 send in once the confusion had died dwn. anyway its simple role in the balistas. have at least 5 and get them 2 launch at the pinned hero.
now this tactic requires good micro skil and although it sounds quite long u need 2 act fast as pin wnt last forever and if he has a well lurtz's cooldown of pin will take 2 long - so be fast!

and finaly if he has mroe than 1 hero ( like lego gim ara eom theo hobbit eow) aboslutly worst case scenario lol u eneed 2 pick them off 1 by 1. it aint easy but as long as u protect ur balistas with hordes of pikes and uraki u shod be able 2 break in.

i hope this helps - gl!

This post has been edited by Warhoof: Aug 21 2005, 01:31 AM

but if u can pull that off all the better

make 400 FU xbows

gg

get rain

if you cant then send some mines in for the horses to shoot and kill their own castle

if your opponent sees through this then id reccomend going to the other side of the base and take down the walls there too