lord of the rings battle for the middle earth 2

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Posted by makija on Mar-06-2006 14:15:

lord of the rings battle for the middle earth 2

good game just finished downloading it 5.44 GB but its worth it totaly

Posted by Kaidreas on Mar-06-2006 17:42:

leecher boooooooeeeeeeeee

anyways, Played it yesterday
way better then the first game.
you can build where you want, and what you want.
gandalf isn't overpowered anymore

But the thing I noticed when you play with dwarfs, it takes a while before things get started. and when they do, your opponents will prolly have lots of heroes and units with higher levels.

I'm also glad to see they have taken things from the book: glorifindel, tom bombadil.

I mostly played with men: easy to start and good fighters.

ow yeah. galadriel's tornado FTW

Posted by pkcRAISTLIN on Mar-06-2006 23:10:

Re: lord of the rings battle for the middle earth 2

quote:
Originally posted by makija
just finished downloading it

cockhead.

Posted by zokissima on Mar-07-2006 14:12:

I considered dl this game, but I htink I'm actually gonna buy it. It looks pretty nice, and I haven't played any new RTS's in a while.

Posted by washout on Mar-07-2006 16:45:

i downloaded the demo when it came out.
never played part 1.
shit annoys me is when a part of wall gets destroyed, u cant just fix it.
have to build a wall around it.
that right ??

Posted by Kaidreas on Mar-07-2006 17:42:

^don't waste your money on wall dude. when the heroes come there won't be much left of your precious wall
better invest in upgrades for the castle/units.

Posted by washout on Mar-07-2006 17:45:

lol im a lotr:bfme2 demo newb.

Posted by pkcRAISTLIN on Mar-07-2006 22:57:

quote:
Originally posted by washout
i downloaded the demo when it came out.
never played part 1.
shit annoys me is when a part of wall gets destroyed, u cant just fix it.
have to build a wall around it.
that right ??

yes and no. when something is destroyed if its not totally fvcked it will leave a plot on the ground where it can be repaired, but if that plot is destroyed you must build it again. easily done by selecting each bit of wall and pressing the delete key, that detroys the remaining sections and gives you $$.

but i agree, i hardly ever built walls and spend that money on more troops or upgrades. though having a wall can be good in some sections to stop/warn you of approaching pillaging cavalry.

the game is def worth buying, its a lot better than the 1st one, and my fave RTS since warcraft 3.

Posted by sleepydragon on Mar-09-2006 12:31:

is it just me or has some posts gone missing on this thread lol
i know mines not here anymore

Posted by Kaidreas on Mar-09-2006 18:12:

^swamper fucked it up

Posted by daves on Mar-12-2006 08:45:

just picked this up yesterday... niiiice improvement

still gettin used to it!

Posted by lacksesepsotygh on Mar-15-2006 01:40:

is it anything like the total war series?

Posted by pkcRAISTLIN on Mar-15-2006 02:17:

quote:
Originally posted by lacksesepsotygh
is it anything like the total war series?

at a superficial level perhaps. but not really.

Posted by Kaidreas on Mar-15-2006 21:20:

quote:
Originally posted by lacksesepsotygh
is it anything like the total war series?

nothing looks like the total war series
it's waaaaay better

Posted by Fir3start3r on Mar-21-2006 00:25:

What options do you have for sides?

Looks like Goblins, Elves and Men?

Is that it? Did they dump all the others from the first one??

Posted by pkcRAISTLIN on Mar-21-2006 00:50:

quote:
Originally posted by Fir3start3r
What options do you have for sides?

Looks like Goblins, Elves and Men?

Is that it? Did they dump all the others from the first one??

men (rohan & gondor)
elves
dwarves
goblins
mordor
isengaard

Posted by Fir3start3r on Mar-29-2006 05:06:

Played it for the first time tonight.

Wow, what an improvement over the last one...

It RAWKS now!

I was playin' the Goblins and my buddy was playin the Elves.
I seriously thought I was going to get punked when he started cutting me off with all his damn walls.

I defended up the wazoo with towers everywhere and basically bushwacked him by hiding most of my guys in the towers so when he started to come in and took out the towers....surprise!

After his inital attack he stopped and couldn't keep up with my unit building as I chased him all the way back to his main camp and simply overwhelmed him.

The Goblins got some serious firepower in the upper levels!

Posted by pkcRAISTLIN on Mar-29-2006 11:19:

^^ nice. see, in my house, playing as elves im unstoppable. and i live with some reasonably high-calibre nerds! so ive switched to the goblins coz no would play me with the elves, citing balance issues in the game (tbh they do have a point). dominating an elf player is good work my canadian friend

oh, if he wastes his money on walls just smash them down. walls are really weak, youre better off buying troops and upgrades dont tell him that though, make him learn the hard way

Posted by Kaidreas on Mar-29-2006 20:40:

^indeed walls are plain stupid.
I loved playing with the dwarfs, but they are expensive, and damn slow.
gondor is pretty good IMO