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Copyright information 2. Version information 3. Hero's a)Good side Hero's b)Evil side Hero's c)My faverite Hero's 4.Powers 5.WALKTHROUGH a)Good Campaign b)Bad Campaign ( if you want to skip to a certain part use Ctrl + F and type it in ) ============================================================================ COPYRIGHT INFORMATION I am not personaly bothered if you use this walkthrough but if you copy it I would like you to give me credit or at least put my name on it( e.g This walkthrough was origionaly done by Tom Henderson and Adam wooding ), but other than that i am not bothered where you use or show it. ============================================================================= VERSION INFORMATION Version 0.1 >Started Walkthrough >Did some of >Did basic Good campaign up to Helms Deep ( posting next version v.v.soon hopefully including the following > bad campaign up 2 Helms deep > more hero details ) ============================================================================== HERO'S a)Good side hero's. >Gandalf First of all he is the best Hero in the game with no competition, and can wipe out hundereds of the enemy in 1 move! Gandalf starts with 1200 health and does a melee damage of 100 at level 1. When he levels he gains 60 to maximum health and 10 to melee damage. Gandalf has an array of spells and bonuses which easily change the tide of the battle. Lvl 1 Wizard Blast :- The original spell, this takes a second to prepare, then sends enemies in a certain area flying back and maybe killing them. Very useful anytime Lvl 2 Lightning Sword :- Again takes a couple of seconds to prepare, then sends bolts of lightning from his sword at the enemy. This will last for as long as there is an emeny in it's range or it runs out of time, about 5-10 seconds. Powerful, good all round Lvl 4 Leadership Bonus (Passive) :- Adds 75% to armour and 300% to combat experince. Always helpful. Lvl 5 Mount :- Whistle, get on shadowfax. Faster movement 25% more armour against melee and cavalry. 50% less armour against archers and pikes. Bloody useful if ur in troublt or need to help someone who is. Lvl 5 Istari Light :- Imits a line light from staff, line damages anything. Very good on nazgul, buildings and seige equipment. Lvl 10 Word of Power :- Best move of the game, run into the middle of the enemies, use it and everything around is blown back and dies. Extremly Powerful doing 500! damage. >Aragon Aragon may look not the best in low lvls but lvl 10 he can win a war so train him wizely. Aragon starts with 1200 health and does a melee damage of 60 at level 1. When he levels he gains 60 to maximum health and 10 to melee damage. Aragon has some useful skills which can help in tight corners. Lvl 1 Athelas :- Heal all nearby Heroes. Handy in the campaign. Lvl 2 Blade Master :- Adds 100% damage for a period of time. Helpful vs Trolls in first lvls and buildings in later. Lvl 4 Leadership Bonus (Passive) :- Adds 150% to damage and 200% to combat experince. Always helpful. Lvl 5 Elendil :- Scares all nearby enemies for a short time. Good for tight spots. Lvl 10 Oathbreakers :- Summons the army of ther dead. Can turn the tides of the battle better than any skill on the game, but use it wizely. >Legolas First of all he can take any huge army down without them notecing online which can be handy. In campaign he especialy helps when you are getting seiged. >Gimli Funny little hero who cannot realy win a battle on his own but when at a high lvl can take down buildings in seconds with >Boromir >The Hobbits ( all the same bar Frodo who has 2 extra move ) Funny little support chars that can be useful online at only 100$. >Eomer >Theoden >Eowyn >Faramir >Treebeard b)Evil side hero's >Saruman >Lurtz If you command a good army he can take down most other hero's easily. >Nazgul >Witch king >Golum Probubaly my most disliked character as he hardly does any damage and has no real use. c) My faverite Hero's TOMS 1.Gandalf 2.Aragon 3.Legolas 4.Lurtz 5.Saruman 6.Gimli 7.Boromir 8.Faramir 9.Eomer 10.Theoden =============================================================================== POWERS If you want me to put all the list of powers then E-mail me telling me so ( e-mail is at top) All i am going to put here is what i think of the powers. The most usefull powers on the good side are - Summon army of the dead, summon rohan allies, summon eagls, summon ents and summon elven allies. If used all at once The black gate forces can turn to pulp. ******************************************************************************* w w a ll k kttttttthh hhrrrrrrrooooooouu uuggggggghh hh w w a a ll k kk t hh hhrr rroo oouu uug hh hh w w w a a ll kkkk t hhhhhhhrrrrrrroo oouu uug gggghhhhhhh w www waaaaaaall k kk t hh hhrr rr oo oouuuuuuug gghh hh ww wwwa alllllllk k t hh hhrr rrooooooouuuuuuuggggggghh hh ******************************************************************************* a) Good Campaign The good campaign is the easyer of the 2. It has the best hero's which can change the tides of the war. Also you get walls around your camp which the enemy doesn't and this means you are protected from the enemy and unless the enemy has seige equipment, you cannot be breached :-) Powers of good: The way i chose worked for me but it doesnt matter that much. This is the order i put to when i got the skill points - Elven gifts, Heal, Gandalf the white, draft, Rohan riders, anduril,cloud break, Elven alies, army of the dead, eagles. Moria! + 1 power Lets put it this way. If you can't complete this in easy setting way then u mite aswell take it back to the shop. Basicly set your hobits to use rock throw and select all your hero's and send them up the corridor killing all in way. There are some level up sword and shields you can pick up, and i advise using Gandalf, aragon and legolas to pickthese up. When u get to the place where there is a left turning and a troll in that room, use gimlis axe throw and legolas's Hawk Strike to weakon it and then just send all your hero's to kill it. In theroom at the end of the corridor when the trolls come use basicaly the same tactick, DO NOT use wizard blast because u can have some fun with it in the next room. When they all come at you send all hero's bar gandalf to attack them. Then go behind your other hero's with gandal and use wizard blast. It will send 5-80 orcs flying LOL!!. For the BALROG just run around and when u can, use gandalfs lightning swrord or wizard blast and you heal power if needed. Well done you have just completed the 1st and easyest levlel on LOTR BFME!!!!! You can now pick out of 3 different places. A good idea is to pick them for what reward you get after them ( +1 power ect). I picked them in this order but it doesnt realy change the game much but i picked them because of the bonus for completing them. Rohan! + 20 command Personaly i find the rohan levels boring after a whyl because they are all the same aprt from they get better units after a whyl so it is more chalenging ( epecialy on hard mode ). First build 4 farms as quick as you can and in the meantime send Eomer (without other rohan units) all the way East ( capturing the farm outpost on the way) to save peasents for a bonus objective. Because of the weakness of these peasants send them about halfway down the map there is a goblin pit to sacrifice them on. Then when they are dead bring Eomer down to finish them off and kill the pit. When your 4 farms are built, build a archery and 1 set of archers and after they are build destroy it and build a well in its place. Send the archers south and a little bit east and put them in the tower for another extra bonus objective. If the uruk spoted you and are demolishing the tower send your horses down to help it and if they get injured send back to well. By now you should have enough money to build a Horse stable on the remaining build site. Send Eomer down a bit to fight some forces but they may overwhelm him so be careful. Build as many horses as you can and send them all the way east and capture the outpost and build a well at the bottom build site. if Eomer is at full health send all your cavelry to where he is and send them south and destroy the main camp. Lothlorien! + 1 power + 50 command This is just a defense mission, and an easy one if you play it right evan on hard mode.Advance down the path and kill all the people who attack you and when u get to a bridge on your right don't go down it but go east and kill the Lumber mill( it helps towards a bonus objective ). Then cross the bridge and send your hero's bar hobbits to just above the North-west bridge because the first 3 waves come in there. Group the 2 elven warriors near that bridge and put at the closest end or the bridge to your base. Do the same with the elven warriors in the south for later. With your hobits pick up all the money scattered about the place and build a Elvan barracks and build a few. When you have picked up all the money with the hobbits kill the 2 lubermills in the top right and center to gain a bonus objective. Whyl this is happerning your hero's will be kicking some ass but if they get low on health use aragons Athelas if in need. Use gandalfs Wizard Blast and gimli's leap attack to clear big crouds. After 3 attackes they attack from the south so sent the hero's down there and when it has finnished sent them up to the top one again and the final attack will come with 5 trolls so be careful. MAKE SURE ALL THE LUMBERMILLS ARE DESTROYED BEFFOR U KILL THE LAST OF THEM! Back to rohan, but there is a choise again. Depending on what u picked last time depends what u can pick this time. I'l do the one that i picked after the one that i picked earlyer. Eastern Rohan + 1 power You have to be quick to save the peasants at the beggining of this. Send all your cavelry + Eomer slightly east and south along the path. Build 2 farms and a well. When you see some peasants and uruk chacing them, kill them all!!! and send them back to the well, when healed send them all the way east to save the rest of thepeasents! Now build more farms and scout for outposts and farms to capture. builda stable when u can and get as many horses as u can and then build the Hourse armor upgrade. Also build an armoury and get all the upgrades and buy them for all your horses. This will take time so put them behind your base and build Battle towers and use Eomer if they get to close. It will take a whyl but when you are fully upgraded send all south with Eomer and kill the main camp and if u dont get a victory then go all the way east and finnish off the outpost there. Getiin funner? Amon hen! + 20 command points + 1 power This level is nearly as easy as the first apart from you have to "earn" your hero's.First of all you will get Gandalf, Aragon and 2 hobbits. Set the hobbits to rock throw. When you get controle send gandalf left and aragon right to stop the incoming orcs, and let the hobbits do as they want to. After the 2nd wave of them start sending all you units down. You will then see legolas and gimli "in trouble", but allyou need to do is leave them because they will survive easily. Go back to your other units and start sending them north until you see 2 trols. Use gandalfs lightning sword and if it doesnt kill both of them attack with aragon and gandalf. When all the orcs you could see are dead send everyone bar gandalf to the far right hand side of the screan ( inbetween where gandalf and Legolas started ). Whith gandalf send him west of the other hero's next to the steps .When the warg riders attack him just use wizard blast on them and kill the rest. Then you should see boromir being attacked. Send all your units to help him but send aragon down to kill Lurtz with blademaster. ( WARNING: WATCH YOUR HOBITS HEALTH AT ALL TIME FROM HERE ONWARDS ) After you have killed all of them group all your Hero's together ( bar hobits if you want ) and send north to kick ass. You mite have to use heal just befor the 3 trolls come and use legolas's hawk strike, gimlis leap attack and gandalfs moves.Then send hobbits to the boad. You now get 3 more choises but i picked a certain 1 because of the highest rewards. West Emnet! + 20 command + 10% resorses This is quite hard to win with out Losing any batalians unless your on easy setting.Medium and hard setting people prepare to lose units.Select all your units and send them all the way north as fast as you can. Whyl they are moving build 2 farms. When they are near the top send all the way east to find the Evil camp. Just to the westof the camp there should be some pike men. DO NOT ATTACK THEM YET.Dismount Eowin and send him to attack them. If they concentrate on attacking him Attack them with ALLyour horses. If you are like me at least 1horse of each batalian will survive. YOU MUST USE HEAL NOW!!! then finish off the camp. If Eowin died you can revive him now or begining of next mission. East Emnet! +20 command Same tactic as befor ( only if most of your horses survived ) Go all the way east then all the way north and when you get to the camp there will be pikemen to the left so use the same tactic as befor or just take them by suprizeand trample them befor they see you. You will lose some units here, but keep your head high and finish off the camp ( I finished with only 3 batalians ). Now do you agree that these missions are borring? Eves of fangor! + 30 command + 10% resorses You start off with 4 sets of cavelry ( 2 archer ) batalians. Go east and destroy the 1st lumbermill you see to get an ent, and send him to the far south western side of the screan to get another ent. Whyl he is moving take your cavelry right to get an out post. Build a well and whyl that is building go south east and destroy the lumbermill there. When that is done go back to your outpost and defend it till your reinforcements arive, whyl the ents wreak havock( build what u want in outpost).When the reinforcements arive send them all north to where the camp is and destroy it to stop production then send west to save hobbits and then find and destroy the rest of the lumbermills ( most on the right hand side of the map) Again another choise but again, pick the one with the best rewards for you. I personaly want the powers at the moment so guess which one I picked. Fangorn + 2 power Hard mission for horses unless you know where ents are. Move all your cavelry all the way south but send Eomer north. Buy farms and outposts when you see them.When you find the ents to the north send them west and wreak havock to anything you find. On the northmost outpost you have build an archery and 4 battalions of archers. When they are build send them to there death bt the outpost to the west,which the ents should be damaging ( especialy the pikemen) Send your archers tothe middle and you should get controle of 2 more ents ( 1 from the north 1 from west. Use these to destroy the base then send 2 cavelry units north to where Eomeris and the rest all the way west to destroy outpost there. Eomer and northern Cavelry should go north and destroy outpost there. Ents should go north west to destroy outpost there. Wern't the ents useful ;) Another choice but pick the 1 with most reward as you should know by now! East fold! + 20 command + 10% resorses This is a nice easy mission if you play it right. First mount gandalf and send all your units North west killing all in path and if you run into any pikemen then use gandalf ( on foot if possible ) or 1 of gandalfs moves. When you get to the camp destroy it, and end a very boring but quick mission. Helms deep! +2 power + 20 command This is the first "big one!!". Is it hard? Hmmmmm........ no way. By now you should have 280 command points so build a nice big archer group and you will be fine. Start off by buying farms on all the the plots availible bar 1 where you build an armory. Whyl this is happening send the 1 cavelry unit you have to get the 2 money crates ( there not hard to find, and there within your walls). When all buildings bought, build gondor archers and put them above the gate, until you can buy elven archers then scatter them all along the deeping wall ( you shouldof got the reinforcement elves ). If you get the walning that peasents are being attacked, make Theodin and Eowyn mount and send the horses with them to kill off the Wargs. Get fire arrows as the timer is at about 2 min if you havent already finished building elves. and after all archers are upgraded start buying the upgrades from the armory and use them on arches. Send Theodin and Eowyn to just outside the main gate with the rest of your hero's and dismount them, but send legolas to the middle of the deeping wall training up the archers. As soon as the the Evil side starts ariving use your power - rohan riders - STRAIGHT away and start attacking them, and they will not attack back till they get to the middle ( remember to keep upgrading archers ) Whatch your heros health and use aragons heal and your power heal, until you need to send them through the secret door. After they deal with wargs, leave them there unless injured. If ladders get too close use legolas's hawk strike. You'l be able to hold out using this tactic till your Allies come then just take out the camps. See its not that hard afterall ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- END **for now**