- General strategies
Do not just rush your opponent's territory. Either send in a camo capable unit or a very cheap, weak unit such as Orc Warriers. Check out your opponent's base before attacking with stronger units. When attacking, use melee soldiers to attack buildings and use Bowmen and Cavalry on enemy units.


When building a wall around your base in Skirmish mode, never put in gates; always put in Postern Gates. A Postern Gate is a small door in a wall that allows allies to pass through, but not enemies. It is invisible to the enemy, making passing through a wall virtually undetectable, and allies can pass through a Postern Gates as fast as they would pass through a regular gate.

- Achievements
Do the following things to obtain the corresponding Gamerscore points:

5 Points
Good Practice	Be victorious in 1 Single Player Skirmish game.
Istari Power	Purchase first player power.
15 Points
King Of The Hill!	Be victorious in one King of the Hill game.
Middle-Earth Financier	Be victorious in one Resource Race game.
Capture And Keep pushed	Be victorious in one Capture and Keep pushed game.
Sergeant	Be victorious in one Versus game.
My Heroes!!!!	Be victorious in one Hero Vs Hero game.
25 Points
Cover The Lands In Darkness	Successfully complete the Evil Campaign.
Captains Of The West	Successfully complete the Good Campaign.
30 Points
Entrepreneur Of Middle-Earth	Be victorious in 10 Resource Race games.
Capture Them All!!!	Be victorious in 10 Capture and Keep pushed games.
My Heroes Are Better Than Yours	Be victorious in 10 Hero Vs Hero games.
King Of Kings	Be victorious in 10 King of the Hill games.
50 Points
The Hobbit And The Troll	Be victorious in a game against someone 20 places higher than you.
80 Points
Servant Of The Secret Fire	Successfully complete the Good Campaign without a Hero dying.
Servant Of The Shadow	Successfully complete the Evil Campaign without a Hero dying.

- Ring Heroes
All maps in Skirmish and Multiplayer mode have Gollum cloaked on it. When you find Gollum, kill him and you will get the ring. Take it back to your fortress and have the troop that is carrying the ring enter the fortress in order to recruit a Ring Hero for 9,000 resources. The Ring Hero does not use any command points. Men, Elves, and Dwarves can recruit Galadriel. Mordor, Isengard, and Goblins can recruit Sauron. The easiest way to get the ring is to let an enemy find Gollum then kill them after they obtain the ring. The only way to stop them before they reach their base is to chase them down with a mounted unit, have a created hero teleport into their path, or to summon allies into their path using a power.

- Bonus Heros
Successfully complete the indicated task to unlock the corresponding Hero:

Mektar	Successfully complete Good Campaign without a Hero dying.
Celebrim	Be victorious in 10 Resource Race games.
Avatan	Be victorious in 10 Capture and Keep pushed games.
Olog	Successfully complete Evil Rivendell with all bonus objectives (Level 8 - Evil Campaign).
Felek	Be victorious in 10 Hero Vs Hero games.
Tumna	Successfully complete Evil Campaign.
Krashnak	Successfully complete Evil Lorien with all bonus objectives (Level 1 - Evil Campaign).
Berethor	Successfully complete Good Campaign.
Ohta	Be victorious in 10 Versus games.
Maur	Successfully complete Good Blue Mountains with all bonus objectives (Level 4 - Good Campaign).
Hadhod	Successfully complete Good Rivendell with all bonus objectives (Level 1 - Good Campaign).
Fhaleen	Be victorious in 10 King of the Hill games.
Thrugg	Successfully complete Evil Fornost with all bonus objectives (Level 4 - Evil Campaign).
Idrial	Successfully complete Good Dol Guldur with all bonus objectives (Level 8 - Good Campaign).
Urulooke	Successfully complete Evil Campaign without a Hero dying.

- Overcomeing large groups of enemies
Have a lot of defensive structures in your base and teleport the opponents to your base. The towers should kill the enemies before they can do much damage. The Convert spell will also work, because they are free men.


Use the following trick to kill armies (including brutal) easily. This strategy works best with the elves. First, get as many Mirkwoods as possible. Have them guard your fortress and make sure they get Silverthorn Arrows. Then, get Glorfindel and Arwen and three to five groups of horses. Improve them fully, then send them around the back of the enemy base and have them attack. This will work almost every time. Make sure that Glorfindel and Arwen are on their horses. It also helps to have Rally Call and Heal.

- Capturing The Shire
The third level of the Evil campaign is a mission where you must capture the Shire. This mission is quite easy up to a certain point. Play the mission until you must build a base in the Eastfarthing. Build a base with two of each building (including Fortresses). Also, build at least ten Sentry Towers. Improve your Fortress to the maximum and build all your Fortress expansions as Mountain Giants. Stay in your base and repel all Dunedain attacks until you have killed them all. You will be notified when all Dunedain have died. Once you reach the part where you must destroy the three remaining Seats of Power, only send one Goblin horde to destroy them, as there is no resistance with the Dunedain defeated. Do not destroy the Seat of Power in the bottom-left corner of the mini-map. At this point, build a large army with at least 750 command points available. Buy all available upgrades for your Goblins. Send all your units to the large, grassy field at the bottom-left corner of the mini-map, just south of the last remaining Seat of Power. Destroy the last remaining Seat of Power with as little units as possible, then retreat a short distance to the north. You must do this because a volley of arrows will kill many goblins if you remain in that grassy field. After a few seconds, quickly return to the grassy field and a large army from Isengard will emerge, led by Grima Wormtoungue. Fight this army until only two Goblin Hordes remain in your forces. Send these troops to your base, and build as many Goblin Hordes as quickly as possible. In a very short time the army will attack your base. Do not try to defend any other buildings besides one Goblin cave and your Fortress. Uruk-Hai will destroy your forces in a short time, but your fully upgraded fortress should keep pushed them back while you construct more Goblin Hordes. After awhile of relentless Uruk-Hai attacks, the flow of enemies should stop. At this time, re-build your base and construct a large army. Lead this army into the Isengard base and kill Grima. This part of the level is very difficult, as the Ballista will quickly destroy your units. It is recommended that you destroy the Ballista first.

- Grey Havens
Begin at the bottom-most part. Build as many resource collectors as possible. Then, capture the Shipright. Get Builders to build Wall Hubs where the Cave Trolls lair is found (kill it first). Build a wall, then build units and an upgrade structure. Get your units upgraded as much as possible. Put some by the wall to defend it. Send the rest to the Shipright. Build the number of transports needed. Put the units by the Shipright onto the transports. Send the transports to the enemy camp. Optionally, split your units up and surround the camp. Destroy all the structures except for the fortress. Finally, destroy the fortress.

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