Lord Of The Rings - The Battle for Middle-Earth 2 Hints: ------ Submitted by: conner54 Ring Heroes: ------------ Every map in skirmish or multi-player mode has 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. Your Ring Hero uses no 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. Defeating 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. Defeating Giant Trolls with ease: --------------------------------- Submitted by: Unbeatable_pmf It is always a good tactic to create a custom hero with a lot of power (Say about at least a level of 15).Not only will you be able to defeat those giant trolls or summoned balrog's with ease,You will also be able to defeat other hero's in no time. I find this a great way in defeating my opponents. Grey Havens: ------------ Start 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. 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. Scope out your opponent's base before attacking with stronger units. * When attacking, use melee soldiers so attack buildings and use Bowmen and Cavalry on enemy units. The Shire: ---------- The third level of the Evil campaign is a mission where you must capture the Shire. This mission is very easy up to a 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. Upgrade 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 all them all. You will be notified when all Dunedain have perished. When 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 literally 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 lay waste to your forces in a short time, but your fully upgraded fortress should hold 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. Destroying the Ballista first is recommended. Postern Gates: -------------- 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. Glitch: Hero power transfer: ---------------------------- Use the following trick to give a hero any power(s) desired, but it requires some time and a lot of patience. First, make a hero with no powers then a second hero with the power desired (for example, an elf hero with Healing). Then, stack them together on the playfield. Click on the hero with the single power. Go to the "Powers" menu. When you click "Customize", immediately press the quick switch key to your hero with no powers. When you enter the powers menu, the "hero" using the powers from the power menu will be the hero with no powers. Next, click on the blank unit portrait (the picture of power will not be there) where the desired power is located and re-select it. You can now make other heroes with the desired powers you want and put them on your new glitched hero. Note: You cannot "pull" multiple powers from the valid hero unit; you will still need to add them one by one to the glitched unit. Glitch: Invincible Troll: ------------------------- Kill a Troll while it is still coming out of the Troll Cage. It will be invincible. It will freeze where it is, and you will still be able to shoot at it. You can still gain power points from shooting it. Eventually, it will unfreeze and attack any enemies. Glitch: Unlimited health for elves: ----------------------------------- Create an elf hero with self-heal. You can get no recharge time on it. When you want to click on it, do so but immediately move to another location. It will not recharge. You can do this as many times as desired. Glitch: Dol Guldur: Reveal entire map permanently: -------------------------------------------------- First, you must have played the map in Skirmish mode to get the feel of it. Play it at least three times and memorize the locations. When you start the level in the Good campaign, you must have the Tom Bombadil power and Elrond's Farsight power. Use Elrond's power and eyeball the Dark Shroud to find the middle section of Dol Guldur (the part with the fortress in it). Note: You can see the texture of the terrain as you move the the Farsight power's pointer. Once you have successfully revealed the fortress area, summon Tom Bombadil just in front of the fortress. Once he is in, the shroud should disappear permanently with no fog of war. You can see exactly what the enemy is doing at the moment. You can use Bombard, Flood, Earthquake, or Sunlight, to attack enemy units and buildings, and when they are weakened, launch the assault with your army. Easy experience: ---------------- Use the following trick to level your race up in Skirmish mode quickly. Create a hero that can learn the Recruit Battlions power. Set up a game against an easy AI with a handicap of -95%. As soon as the game starts, create your hero and rush into the enemy's. Use the power to summon a battalion and the skirmish will be over in two minutes. Easy win against brutal army: ----------------------------- On skirmis misions, select to fight a brutal army and then put a handicap os -95%. This will make them take longer to destroy structures and make them weaker. (This will also affect enemy structures) Glitch Heros: ------------- OK..To make a glitch hero simply choose the one you want to glitch- i.e. my troll is a wizard so i did this- select the wizard and make sure his name is close to the others name-magnar the wizard to naxus the troll-and on the wizard that starts with m's spell selection press n or whatever letter urs is at the same time you click edit on the spell selection and if it doesnt work try it again i have 9 glitch heros. Final Good Campaign(Dol Gundor): -------------------------------- Submitted by: ajitem15 If you are having difficulties in playing the last good campaign or in defeating the balrog in the final good campaign then i have a trick.First,when you start the last campaign you have Elrond and some Elves and one battalion of Dwarves(Axe thrower)First Build a base there as you have some builders and then go in an attack move order at the noth signal fire.After capturing return to the base immidiately and wait for the Erebor reinforcements to come. Then issue all of them an attak move order to the soth signal fire or if you have the earthquake power,summon it on the camp.the whole camp will be destroyed and you can easily capture the signal fire.Then you have Mirkwood reinforcements.Now the objective(BREACH THE INNER WALL OF DOL GONDUR)cames on the screen but first you will need to defeat all the catapults and arrow towers.For that send your Hero(Thrainduil)to attack the catapults and towers.Then if you have the sommon tom bombadil power,summon it inside the Dol Gundor and the objective comes you have breached the inner walls of Dol gundor.Now do not charge your army because as your army moves towards enemy fortress The balrog comes to attack you. So summon the earthquke or Bombard power again on their fortress.So now the Balrog comes out. Summon various powers for reinforcements and attack the Balrog but be careful he is much stronger. After you defeat the Balrog Charge your army and win the campaign. Heroes: ------- Complete the indicated task to unlock the corresponding hero: Avatan - Win 10 Capture And Hold games Brerthor - Complete the Good campaign Celebrim - Win 10 Resource Race games Felek - Win 10 hero vs. Hero games Fhaleen - Win 10 King Of The Hill games Hadhood - Complete the first level of the Good campaign with all bonus objectives Idrial - Complete level 8 of the Good campaign with all bonus objectives Krashnack - Complete level 1 of Evil campaign with all bonus objectives Maur - Complete level 4 of the Good campaign with all bonus objectives Mektar - Complete the good Campaign with no heroes dying Ohta - Win 10 Versus games Olog - Complete level 8 of the Evil campaign with all bonus objectives Thrugg - Complete level 4 of the Evil campaign with all bonus objectives Tumna - Complete the Evil campaign Urulooke - Complete the Evil campaign with no heroes dying Goblin Goodness: ---------------- You've heard it all before about how Goblins both have strong and weak points. Well tell you the truth the Goblins have a risk of being the strongest faction on the game if used right. Players think that goblins are meant to rush until you get money to buy stronger units like spider riders and half-troll marauders. Well truth is you need to try and balance the army. People all the time tend to say to stop making goblins when you get money for the stronger units. Not true!!! If you do that then the army loses it's balance. Goblins are the backbone of the army. Many people don't use them right and get decimated. You use the goblins to destroy the enemy units, not the buildings. They're equiped with the poison blade which is very useful against people who are stronger like the Dwarves. While goblins hold off the enemy units you can have their city nearly destroyed. Try it and you'll find that it works like a charm. Heal Glitch: ------------ While using an elven archer with the self heal ability, click self heal and then quickly tell your hero to move or attack something and it will heal, but the ability will instantly recharge. Recurring Self-Heal: -------------------- If you create a hero with the Self-Heal power, it can be used without recharging it. In a battle, select your hero, click Self-Heal, and then immediately right-click somewhere else, making a move order. The Self-Heal power will be used, but not start the recharge, allowing you to use this whenever you want. Free Rangers when playing as Men: --------------------------------- This glitch has been fixed in recent updates by EA Games, but if you have an older version of the game it will work. * First, get the power "Summon Rangers" and build a well. * Then, use the power, and let the units take casualties, but do NOT let them die. * Bring them back to the well and heal them. The healed units will not vanish when the elapsed time is up. Easy Kills: ----------- Submitted by: KeironBoii * First, Build Army On Following Maps Minis Tirith, Minis Morgul, Helms Deep, Isenguard. * Secondly, Close Gate * Thirdly, Place 3 Battalions Of ARCHERS On The Walls Both Side Of The Gate * Fourthly, When The Enemy Start Attacking Kill Them But When You Feel Like Open And Close Ur Gate. * Rapidly And U Taunt Them. * When U Open Ur Gate They Try To Enter But Ur Archers Should Take Care Of Them If They Do. Defeating large groups of enemies: ---------------------------------- 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. Upgrade them fully and then send them around the back of the enemy base. 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. Best/Fastest way to win: ------------------------ Submitted by: -SkyLoRd-Rai Firstly make your army as strong as you can get.Then build at least 10 arrow towers with fire arrows and send 2/3 units with fully armored armor just to taunt them in your terrioty and your arrow towers should take most of them out and now send half your army to destroy the barracks and resources and now send all your army to take down whats left. Unlock Eothen: -------------- All you need to do is this: 1. complete both campaigns with all bonus objectives. 2. On the good campaign, go back to the level in which you defend Dale/Erebor. 3. Go into the citadel. When you get into the main hall, turn right. It should lead you into the room with the the mine carts. Find a secret hole and go inside. You will be led to a room filled with haradrim. Kill the Haradrim and you will find a soldier. Go over to him and then he will join you. Complete the level with all bonus objectives. Make sure the soldier that you found lives. At the end, go to skirmish. Be men of the west. Go to your fortress and in the hero section you should have Eothen! How to get big army and all lvl 10 heroes and lots of money: ------------------------------------------------------------ Submitted by: Rory Email: Roryhendo@hotmail.com First of all when you go into the starting point in skirmish (you know, The place where you choose your map and stuff) and there should be a second little button up by I think where it says map in the top left corner of the screen. Where it says command point factor change it to 100x and then go starting money (or resources, whatever) and change it to 4000. Next start the game choosing whatever teams on whatever maps. Then build two resource structures. Go to your fortress and get your create-a-hero. Make him guard the resource buildings and kill the enemies that try to destroy them. Get your hero to level 10 and then build more resource structures. Buy lots of units and wait for more resources to come in. Upgrade all your units fully and just keep on doing that same routine with different heroes. Hope this helps, Good Luck!!! : ) Changing cost of values of units/structures using hexedit: ---------------------------------------------------------- Submitted by: Maha Email: maha.mahaprabhu@gmail.com For this cheat you need hexedit (Free software available in internet). Note: Before doing this you need to backup INI.BIG which available in the location C:program fileelectronic artsbattle for middle earth 2. Open hexedit software and open the file ini.big from hexedit. Now you can search any word in the file by pressing CTRL+F. For example search the word "BUILDCOST" in the string. In screen you can see the buildcost letter highlighted. Before the word buildcost you can see that which unit or structure and after the word you can see the buildcost of the structure. You can change the values of the unit or structure (I.E 5000 to 0005). But remember you shouldn't delete any values and only you should replace the values like 5000 to 0005, that it would result inside the game that the cost of the structure was changed into 5000 to 5. Now i tried only for buildcost. Similarly you can try this for the remaining as well like buildtime, hit point, range, etc., Enjoy the cheat...
