Bypassing the command point limit
If you have reached your command point limit during a mission send out a battalion or two with the Banner Carrier upgrade of soldiers Have them fight until there is only one or two men remaining in the battalionshordes Then send them back to your base near a Healing Well for the Good side You have just freed up several command points Your damaged battalions can regenerate Use this strategy to make up to three battalions of cavalry to raid your opponent with
Command Point Loop Hole
This only works for the Light faction Build up to the command limit After doing so build a well at one of your bases because not only do they heal troops but they also replace lost units Send your units into battle and let men from each battalion die in order to have your command points go down
Before returning your men to the well build more battlions of your choice You must take down the command points low enough to build more troops Build back up to the command limit Once the command limit has been reached send the wounded battalions to the well
The well will replace the missing troops and therefore build you above the command limit Usually you can build one or two battalions above the command point limit You must keep at least one unit alive from a battalion in order to replace the units from the battalion so be careful
Defeat isenguarde in less than 5 mins
be ronhan in a skirmish and vs isenguard get heal with ur power points and as soon as u get 1 squade of horses invade isenguard and use heal
Defeating Isengard
When you are fighting Isengard either use Summon Rohan Allies or start out as Rohan Build a stable and a lot of farms Close the main gate and build a Postern Gate instead Build an army of Riders Of Rohan and walk over the UrukHais To counter battering rams use Yeoman or Elven Archers To counter Warg Riders and Siege Ladders use Heroes or Sentry Towers Note With the riders just ride over the Uruks It will either kill or stun them for you to finish With the riders try summoning Eomer to the field and give them a bonus or two
Defeating Rohirrim
When Isengard Pikeman can easily defeat Cavalry if their numbers are similar However by combining a Pikeman horde with a Crossbow horde you can have one of the most powerful antiCavalry groups there are
As Mordor there really is no cheap way to deal with Cavalry Trolls and Mumaks are your best bet considering they have heavy damage with little harm done to them Try getting creative and putting Orc Archers with fire arrows inside the Mumakil This can make for a devastating blow to even a castle and not just enemy soldiers
Defeating Trolls
Make a hordebattalion of archers and give them the Fire upgrade Shoot the troll until it catches on fire like Ents then run away The troll will die very quickly
General hints
Here are some tips for all armys
Gondor
Train lots of archers untill your range ranks then get them all killed and replace tham with rangers
Rohan
If playing against isengard make lots of archers the mounted ones to counter any pikemen
Mordor
Harad warriors are quite cheap for the power of their attack also they can be mounted on a mumaks effectively
General strategies
Always close your Castle Gate and build a Postern Gate instead
Good army spying in skirmish mode
The Evil factions of the game both have a Spying power they can use However Good factions have no spying power Early in Skirmish mode recruit the Hobbit available to you Have him run over to an enemy castle camp etc He should be able to make it to the citadel unless the enemy is playing a Good faction and has closed the castle gate Once inside or outside the gate if it has been closed activate his Elven Cloak He will remain there untouchable by the enemy By doing this you will have a permanent spy Note If he moves he will be exposed until he can use his cloak again When selecting all your units by pressing Q hold Shift and deselect your spy before ordering everybody to move or attack
Hint
To make a Troll more powerful have it pick up a tree as a club It is slower but much more powerful To make an Ent more powerful have it to pull boulders out of buildings or rock piles to throw at enemies This is a very powerful longrange attack
More powerful creatures
To make a Troll more powerful have it pick up a tree as a club It is slower but much more powerful To make an Ent more powerful have it to pull boulders out of buildings or rock piles to throw at enemies This is a very powerful longrange attack
Quick Building Take Down
When Playing Isengard and you have Lurtz with his leadership ability send him running with the sword and about 20 beserkers they cost less command than a normal unit and do crazy damageEspecially with lurtzs 100 to damage
